Melissa Stewart

Examines the animals and other living things that share a habitat with cocoa trees and keep the plants growing and thriving.

Discusses the Titanic, including its design, how the ship sank, the passengers onboard, and why the ship's legacy lives on.

This book looks at dolphins as wild mammals and discusses the need to preserve their natural environment.

How are polar bears related to pandas? For thousands of years, philosophers and scientists have tried to organize and understand, or classify, the relationships among Earth's animals and plants. Early classification systems were cumbersome and inconsistent. In the late 1720s, Carl Linnaeus began developing a classification system to describe relationships among all living things, including animals, plants, fungi, and bacteria. This organization, called...

Discusses the varieties of tyrannosaurs and their characteristics, including the Qianzhousaurus Rex, or Pinocchio Rex, which was discovered in 2014 and gained its nickname due to its pointy nose.

Explore 12 species that you hope you'll never come across, from sharks, snakes, jellyfish, bears, tigers and mosquitoes.

Your mouth contains more bacteria than a dog's. Money is covered with germs that can make you sick. The germs in a sneeze travel only an arm's length. You may have heard these common sayings or beliefs before. But are they really true? Can they be proven through research? Let's investigate seventeen statements about the microscopic world and find out which ones are right, which ones are wrong, and which ones stump even the experts! Find out whether...

"Superhero and comic book force? Sure, but also a real-life animal! Find out in this Level 3 Reader how fierce wolverines, who are expert survivors, can be even more fantastic than those in movies and graphic novels. Journey through harsh cold and ruggedmountain ranges to see how wolverines take down prey, raise their young, and live in one of the world's harshest environments. Learn how their bodies adapt for survival and about its challenges in...

¡AHORA EN ESPAÑOL! Las hormigas se encuentran en todas partes. Y ya que los niños están siempre cerca de la tierra, muchas veces son ellas el primer animal que observan y estudian - ¡a veces con la intensidad de científicos profesionales! Con este libro, los niños las conocerán de cerca. Las hormigas pueden ser de diferentes tamaños y colores, y tienen distintas maneras de prosperar en los lugares donde viven. Y sí que prosperan, y a veces...

Have your readers ever seen a dragonfly up-close? Readers will be treated to bright, colorful close-up images that demystify this fast flying insect. Readers will learn about antennae, wings, life cycles, and habitats.