Discusses the importance of trees as sources of food, oxygen, and other essential things

Describes the 1994 discovery made in Chauvet, France, of a cave with Stone Age rock paintings, and discusses the significance of cave art to people living in prehistoric as well as modern times

Recreates life among the dinosaurs living in North America seventy-five million years ago

Spaceship Earth has everything we need to survive.

Tells how hurricanes form, how scientists study them, and how they have affected the United States throughout this century

You make your bed in the morning. At times in the past, people really made their beds -- and at night they stuffed straw into a sack, making a bed to lie on. Nightclothes were first worn in the 1500s. Before that, people slept in their day clothes, their underwear, or nothing at all. In Ancient Rome, bedrooms were small. A servant guarded the doorway by sleeping across it. Learn these facts and more in this true but funny account as Newbery Honor...