Louise Spilsbury

Explores the diets of many kinds of animals and explains how food chains and food webs work in the earth's different environments.

Discusses how the Wright brothers invented the airplane, from an idea developed into a design, and as that design was constructed, tested, and improved, as well as how the airplane affected the world and how it still impacts us today.

Presents information on various bodies of water, including rivers, lakes, and oceans, as well as how humans depend on and use water.

Presents information about the water cycle, including evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and more.

"Key biological terms are defined in a way that all readers can understand in this book that explains the essential concepts of life processes and how living and nonliving things relate to each other. The basics of feeding, respiration, waste, and reproduction, among other important activities that sustain living things, are explained in clear, simple language, with colorful photographs to illustrate them. Non-living things are defined and described,...

Presents information on various landforms, including mountains, hills, glaciers, caves, islands, and more.

Learn about sea otters, the smallest sea mammals in the world. See where they live, how and what they eat, and discover their life cycle and how we need to protect them.

What is a glacier? Who has lived along the Arctic coast for 4,000 years? When did explorers first reach the North Pole?

"Earth--it's a disaster zone! For thousands of years, Earth has been battered by horrific hurricanes that rage across its surface, wreaking devastation as they move. But what causes these awesome forces of nature and where in the world are they most likely to occur? Discover the science behind hurricane horrors, the world's worst-ever hurricane disasters, and the technology that scientists are using to help prevent devastating hurricanes of the future"--...

"Earth--it's a disaster zone! For thousands of years, Earth has been awash with fearsome floods that race across its surface, destroying everything in their paths. But what causes these awesome forces of nature and where in the world are they most likely to occur? Discover the science behind super floods, the world's worst-ever super flood disasters, and the technology that scientists are using to help prevent devastating floods of the future"--