Author: Jorge Cham
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1525312022
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Elinor and her friends solve a “sticky” mystery, in this latest title in the series. Ari’s cool new watch makes a skrrrrtch sound when he opens the strap, and then he can just press it closed again. Neither part of the strap is sticky, so how does it work? Elinor, Ari and Olive decide to investigate, starting with determining what else the material sticks to. While they’re searching outside, some spiky seeds get stuck on Ari’s sweater. Hmm, they make the same sound as the watch strap when Elinor pulls them off! Could they be a clue to unraveling the mystery? Curious minds will be hooked, as they learn that nature has given us some great ideas!
Elinor Wonders Why: The Seed of an Idea
Author: Jorge Cham
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1525312022
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Elinor and her friends solve a “sticky” mystery, in this latest title in the series. Ari’s cool new watch makes a skrrrrtch sound when he opens the strap, and then he can just press it closed again. Neither part of the strap is sticky, so how does it work? Elinor, Ari and Olive decide to investigate, starting with determining what else the material sticks to. While they’re searching outside, some spiky seeds get stuck on Ari’s sweater. Hmm, they make the same sound as the watch strap when Elinor pulls them off! Could they be a clue to unraveling the mystery? Curious minds will be hooked, as they learn that nature has given us some great ideas!
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1525312022
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Elinor and her friends solve a “sticky” mystery, in this latest title in the series. Ari’s cool new watch makes a skrrrrtch sound when he opens the strap, and then he can just press it closed again. Neither part of the strap is sticky, so how does it work? Elinor, Ari and Olive decide to investigate, starting with determining what else the material sticks to. While they’re searching outside, some spiky seeds get stuck on Ari’s sweater. Hmm, they make the same sound as the watch strap when Elinor pulls them off! Could they be a clue to unraveling the mystery? Curious minds will be hooked, as they learn that nature has given us some great ideas!
Elinor Wonders Why: The Seed of an Idea
Author: Jorge Cham
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1525306243
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Elinor and her friends solve a “sticky” mystery, in this latest title in the series. Ari’s cool new watch makes a skrrrrtch sound when he opens the strap, and then he can just press it closed again. Neither part of the strap is sticky, so how does it work? Elinor, Ari and Olive decide to investigate, starting with determining what else the material sticks to. While they’re searching outside, some spiky seeds get stuck on Ari’s sweater. Hmm, they make the same sound as the watch strap when Elinor pulls them off! Could they be a clue to unraveling the mystery? Curious minds will be hooked, as they learn that nature has given us some great ideas!
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1525306243
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Elinor and her friends solve a “sticky” mystery, in this latest title in the series. Ari’s cool new watch makes a skrrrrtch sound when he opens the strap, and then he can just press it closed again. Neither part of the strap is sticky, so how does it work? Elinor, Ari and Olive decide to investigate, starting with determining what else the material sticks to. While they’re searching outside, some spiky seeds get stuck on Ari’s sweater. Hmm, they make the same sound as the watch strap when Elinor pulls them off! Could they be a clue to unraveling the mystery? Curious minds will be hooked, as they learn that nature has given us some great ideas!
Elinor Wonders Why: The Mystery of the Zigzag Plant
Author: Jorge Cham
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1525306235
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Elinor and her friends become plant detectives in this first Elinor Wonders Why picture book! When Elinor and Olive check on their class plants before leaving school for the weekend, everything looks good. But when the friends get back on Monday, they discover one of the plants has grown in a zigzag - up, then to the side, then up again. Their teacher said most plants only grow up, toward the sun. So, what happened to this one? Could it have something to do with how Ari knocked into the table - and shook the plants - when practicing his backflips? Science sleuths will love following the plant clues that grow right before their eyes!
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1525306235
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Elinor and her friends become plant detectives in this first Elinor Wonders Why picture book! When Elinor and Olive check on their class plants before leaving school for the weekend, everything looks good. But when the friends get back on Monday, they discover one of the plants has grown in a zigzag - up, then to the side, then up again. Their teacher said most plants only grow up, toward the sun. So, what happened to this one? Could it have something to do with how Ari knocked into the table - and shook the plants - when practicing his backflips? Science sleuths will love following the plant clues that grow right before their eyes!
Elinor Wonders Why: Hiding in Plain Sight
Author: Jorge Cham
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1525311018
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
A brand-new early reader graphic novel series based on the acclaimed PBS Kids TV show. Elinor the rabbit is curious about everything. She loves to “follow her curiosity,” make observations and test her ideas as she explores nature’s mysteries. One day, Elinor’s curiosity is piqued when she and her friends Olive (an elephant) and Ari (a bat) are playing hide-and-seek. Though the friends keep choosing perfect hiding spots, the goat twins keep finding them! And quickly! How can they make themselves harder to find? Is the solution hiding in plain sight? Kids will be thrilled to discover how animals use camouflage: it’s been right in front of their noses the whole time!
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1525311018
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
A brand-new early reader graphic novel series based on the acclaimed PBS Kids TV show. Elinor the rabbit is curious about everything. She loves to “follow her curiosity,” make observations and test her ideas as she explores nature’s mysteries. One day, Elinor’s curiosity is piqued when she and her friends Olive (an elephant) and Ari (a bat) are playing hide-and-seek. Though the friends keep choosing perfect hiding spots, the goat twins keep finding them! And quickly! How can they make themselves harder to find? Is the solution hiding in plain sight? Kids will be thrilled to discover how animals use camouflage: it’s been right in front of their noses the whole time!
Year of Wonders
Author: Geraldine Brooks
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101079193
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
“Plague stories remind us that we cannot manage without community . . . Year of Wonders is a testament to that very notion.” – The Washington Post An unforgettable tale, set in 17th century England, of a village that quarantines itself to arrest the spread of the plague, from the author The Secret Chord and of March, winner of the Pulitzer Prize When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated village, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. Through Anna's eyes we follow the story of the fateful year of 1666, as she and her fellow villagers confront the spread of disease and superstition. As death reaches into every household and villagers turn from prayers to murderous witch-hunting, Anna must find the strength to confront the disintegration of her community and the lure of illicit love. As she struggles to survive and grow, a year of catastrophe becomes instead annus mirabilis, a "year of wonders." Inspired by the true story of Eyam, a village in the rugged hill country of England, Year of Wonders is a richly detailed evocation of a singular moment in history. Written with stunning emotional intelligence and introducing "an inspiring heroine" (The Wall Street Journal), Brooks blends love and learning, loss and renewal into a spellbinding and unforgettable read.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101079193
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
“Plague stories remind us that we cannot manage without community . . . Year of Wonders is a testament to that very notion.” – The Washington Post An unforgettable tale, set in 17th century England, of a village that quarantines itself to arrest the spread of the plague, from the author The Secret Chord and of March, winner of the Pulitzer Prize When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated village, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. Through Anna's eyes we follow the story of the fateful year of 1666, as she and her fellow villagers confront the spread of disease and superstition. As death reaches into every household and villagers turn from prayers to murderous witch-hunting, Anna must find the strength to confront the disintegration of her community and the lure of illicit love. As she struggles to survive and grow, a year of catastrophe becomes instead annus mirabilis, a "year of wonders." Inspired by the true story of Eyam, a village in the rugged hill country of England, Year of Wonders is a richly detailed evocation of a singular moment in history. Written with stunning emotional intelligence and introducing "an inspiring heroine" (The Wall Street Journal), Brooks blends love and learning, loss and renewal into a spellbinding and unforgettable read.
We Have No Idea
Author: Jorge Cham
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735211523
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Prepare to learn everything we still don’t know about our strange and mysterious universe Humanity's understanding of the physical world is full of gaps. Not tiny little gaps you can safely ignore —there are huge yawning voids in our basic notions of how the world works. PHD Comics creator Jorge Cham and particle physicist Daniel Whiteson have teamed up to explore everything we don't know about the universe: the enormous holes in our knowledge of the cosmos. Armed with their popular infographics, cartoons, and unusually entertaining and lucid explanations of science, they give us the best answers currently available for a lot of questions that are still perplexing scientists, including: * Why does the universe have a speed limit? * Why aren't we all made of antimatter? * What (or who) is attacking Earth with tiny, superfast particles? * What is dark matter, and why does it keep ignoring us? It turns out the universe is full of weird things that don't make any sense. But Cham and Whiteson make a compelling case that the questions we can't answer are as interesting as the ones we can. This fully illustrated introduction to the biggest mysteries in physics also helpfully demystifies many complicated things we do know about, from quarks and neutrinos to gravitational waves and exploding black holes. With equal doses of humor and delight, Cham and Whiteson invite us to see the universe as a possibly boundless expanse of uncharted territory that's still ours to explore.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735211523
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Prepare to learn everything we still don’t know about our strange and mysterious universe Humanity's understanding of the physical world is full of gaps. Not tiny little gaps you can safely ignore —there are huge yawning voids in our basic notions of how the world works. PHD Comics creator Jorge Cham and particle physicist Daniel Whiteson have teamed up to explore everything we don't know about the universe: the enormous holes in our knowledge of the cosmos. Armed with their popular infographics, cartoons, and unusually entertaining and lucid explanations of science, they give us the best answers currently available for a lot of questions that are still perplexing scientists, including: * Why does the universe have a speed limit? * Why aren't we all made of antimatter? * What (or who) is attacking Earth with tiny, superfast particles? * What is dark matter, and why does it keep ignoring us? It turns out the universe is full of weird things that don't make any sense. But Cham and Whiteson make a compelling case that the questions we can't answer are as interesting as the ones we can. This fully illustrated introduction to the biggest mysteries in physics also helpfully demystifies many complicated things we do know about, from quarks and neutrinos to gravitational waves and exploding black holes. With equal doses of humor and delight, Cham and Whiteson invite us to see the universe as a possibly boundless expanse of uncharted territory that's still ours to explore.
Franklin’s School Play
Author: Paulette Bourgeois
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1554539358
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
In this Franklin Classic Storybook, our hero deals with stage fright!
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1554539358
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
In this Franklin Classic Storybook, our hero deals with stage fright!
Life Class
Author: Pat Barker
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307472442
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In the spring of 1914, a group of students at the Slade School of Art have gathered for a life-drawing class. Paul Tarrant is easily distracted by an intriguing fellow student, Elinor Brooke, but watches from afar when a well-known painter catches her eye. After World War I begins, Paul tends to the dying soldiers from the front line as a Belgian Red Cross volunteer, but the longer he remains, the greater the distance between him and home becomes. By the time he returns, Paul must confront not only the overwhelming, perhaps impossible challenge of how to express all that he has seen and experienced, but also the fact that life, and love, will never be the same for him again.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307472442
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In the spring of 1914, a group of students at the Slade School of Art have gathered for a life-drawing class. Paul Tarrant is easily distracted by an intriguing fellow student, Elinor Brooke, but watches from afar when a well-known painter catches her eye. After World War I begins, Paul tends to the dying soldiers from the front line as a Belgian Red Cross volunteer, but the longer he remains, the greater the distance between him and home becomes. By the time he returns, Paul must confront not only the overwhelming, perhaps impossible challenge of how to express all that he has seen and experienced, but also the fact that life, and love, will never be the same for him again.
The Lab
Author: David Edwards
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674058461
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The Lab explains the idea of the “culture lab,” Edwards’ concept for experimental art and design centers like those he recently founded in Paris and at Harvard. He presents the lab as a new kind of educational art studio based on a contemporary science lab model, and he shows how students learn by translating ideas alongside experienced creators by exhibiting risky experimental processes in gallery settings.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674058461
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The Lab explains the idea of the “culture lab,” Edwards’ concept for experimental art and design centers like those he recently founded in Paris and at Harvard. He presents the lab as a new kind of educational art studio based on a contemporary science lab model, and he shows how students learn by translating ideas alongside experienced creators by exhibiting risky experimental processes in gallery settings.
The Sense of an Ending
Author: Julian Barnes
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307957330
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307957330
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.