Mundo Insecto

This collection of sayings is entertaining and educational for a wide variety of readers. The author explores the origins and contemporary usage of these expressions.

Describes where fossil fuels come from, their uses and forms, the harm they cause to the environment, and sources of renewable energy.

"In this title, children explore the reasons why they may feel embarrassed, how to recognize feelings of embarrassment, and appropriate action to take when they feel embarrassed."

"Some things are so huge or so old that it's hard to wrap your mind around them. But what if we took these big, hard-to-imagine objects and events and compared them to things we can see, feel and touch? Instantly, we'd see our world in a whole new way." So begins this endlessly intriguing guide to better understanding all those really big ideas and numbers children come across on a regular basis. Author David J. Smith has found clever devices to scale down everything from time lines (the history of Earth compressed into one year), to quantities (all the wealth in the world divided into one...

Uncovers the secret codes that different animal species use to relate to each other, revealing that communication among certain animals is not different from human communication.