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This simple, engaging series for beginning readers illuminates the basic properties of light and sound, from colours, shadows, and vibrations to ways we use light and sound to communicate. Bright photos, accessible text, and curricular features such as chapter headings and photo captions enforce science concepts while improving students' reading skills.
An enchanting picture book about the joyful, mysterious, awe-inspiring messages of light, whether emanating from a firefly or the sun, fireworks or the Big Bang, boats at sea or a bolt of lightning, a movie projector or a rainbow. Luciana Navarro Powell's illustrations follow a group of kids through a magical day and evening in a seacoast town, while Christine Layton's lyrical text explores the natural history of light. Backmatter provides further adventures in the science of light.
Fireflies (or lightning bugs) are some the world's most fascinating--and illuminating!--insects. And one many children can find right in their backyards! With a simple story, perfect for read-alouds, and colourful illustrations, this scientific look at a firefly's life-cycle will captivate little entomologists. Informative sidebars are included that let children learn even more about these amazing insects.
In a world marred by light pollution, this quest for true darkness is a clarion call to turn out the lights-so that all may see.
Each Like a Pro title introduces young readers to a sport, how they can play it, and how professional athletes take part in it.
Each of us has a unique and powerful voice, whether we speak loudly or softly, sing or sign, or without any words at all. What matters is how we use that voice--because voices are meant to be used. Some of us use it to express ourselves through art. And some use their voices to vote and make big changes. Others use their voice to inspire or lift up others, helping other voices to be heard. Your voice is yours along--and the world needs a voice like yours.
Follow the thrilling true stories of people who faced isolation in extreme environments and lived to tell the tale. Bold graphic nonfiction brings life to the dramatic narrative while a feature on how to survive in each location takes the reader to the limits right alongside these incredible survivors. From the rain forest to the Antarctic, would you make it out alive?
Le corps humain est absolument incroyable. Ses organes le font vivre, ses os lui servent de support et ses muscles le font bouger. Les textes à la fois éducatifs et faciles à lire et les schémas explicatifs clairs te font découvrir tout le corps humain... sans oublier quelques détails bien dégoûtants!
Each title focuses on one of Canada’s main industries and explores the impact that industry has had on the communities that depend on it to thrive and survive. Using informative text, detailed maps, and first-hand accounts, this series takes the reader on a journey into the mines, forests, fishing boats, factories, and farms of Canada.
This is Richard Turere's own story: Richard grew up in Kenya as a Maasai boy, herding his family's cattle, which represented their wealth and livelihood. Richard's challenge was to protect their cattle from the lions who prowled the night just outside the barrier of acacia branches that surrounded the farm's boma or stockade. Though not well-educated, 12-year-old Richard loved tinkering with electronics. Using salvaged components, spending $10, he surrounded the boma with blinking lights, and th