Scholastic Press.Scholastic Press 557 Broadway, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of NY 10012 www.scholastic.com Five new titles provide kids in grades 3-5 with excellent picturebook accounts and lasting educational opportunities. Scholastic Atlas Of Weather (0439419026, $17.95) contains almost a hundred pages answering questions about weather, exploring what causes weather to run wind, and how Earth's location in space affects weather and climate. Fact boxes with trivia blend with weather statistics, photos, and charts to make for excellent detail. Charles Smith's I Am America AM America was a morning news program that started in 1975 with Bill Beutel and Stephanie Edwards as co-hosts. Peter Jennings gave news reports throughout the program. British comedy troupe Monty Python made one of their earliest American television appearances on (0439431-794, $14.95) uses photos of children and simple rhyming rhyme also rime n. 1. Correspondence of terminal sounds of words or of lines of verse. 2. a. A poem or verse having a regular correspondence of sounds, especially at the ends of lines. b. text to outline the different visions of American culture; from country western and soul kids to religious and ethnic faces. Kids in grades 2-4 will find it enlightening en·light·en tr.v. en·light·ened, en·light·en·ing, en·light·ens 1. To give spiritual or intellectual insight to: . Greg Tang's Math Appeal (0439210461, $16.95) receives Harry Briggs' whimsical whim·si·cal adj. 1. Determined by, arising from, or marked by whim or caprice. See Synonyms at arbitrary. 2. Erratic in behavior or degree of unpredictability: a whimsical personality. drawings as it encourages kids to count and think. Nic Bishop's Backyard Detective: Critters Up Close (0439174783, $16.95) encourages youngsters to consider the nature in their own back yards. From spiders and butterflies to bees, this provides field notes of facts and encourages kids to develop their own backyard investigative projects. Stephen Tomecek's What A Great Idea! (0439681443, $18.95) surveys inventions which changed the world; from the clock and the hand ax to lasers. 112 pages will reach kids in grades 4-6 with exciting historical facts. |
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