A Child's first library of learning

Provides answers to questions about bikes, cars, trucks, trains, ships, submarines, planes, and rockets, including how they are built, why they work, and how to operate them safely. An activities section is included.

Instructions for making such challenging projects as seashell mobiles, peanut puppets, paper airplanes, and vegetable animals, presented in a question and answer format.

Questions and answers, photographs, drawings, cartoon characterizations, charts, and diagrams provide information on physical properties and behavior of animals.

Presents, in question and answer format, information about the behavior, food-gathering, defenses, anatomy, and surprising habits of all kinds of insects.

Questions and answers present information about such aspects of our body as senses, emotions, growing, fitness, dental care, babies, and sexuality.

Presents information about the weather in an illustrated question and answer format.

Presents in question and answer format information about how all kinds of plants live, breathe, and reproduce. An activities section is included.

Answers questions about such marvels as the Pyramids, Taj Mahal, Grand Canyon, and Stonehenge, describing how they were made and what makes them great. An activities section is included.

Questions and answers present information about such aspects of our body as senses, emotions, growing, fitness, dental care, babies, and sexuality.

Provides answers to questions on a variety of topics, including "How are sneakers made?" "Where do pictures on TV come from?" "Are seashells alive?" "How are toys invented?" and "What are clouds?"

Questions and answers provide information about what a mirage is, why milk turns sour, how a lunar eclipse occurs, and other scientific phenomena. Includes charts, diagrams, and an activities section.

Answers such questions as "Why are there seven days in a week?" and "Where did chewing gum come from?"

Questions and answers present the achievements of historic explorers and modern-day adventurers and explain such things as why people were afraid to go south of the equator and how the early explorers traveled.

Explains why there are rules for behavior and examines common feelings and values by answering such questions as: "Why do I have to share my toys," "Why do people argue," and "What is playing fair?"

Questions and answers present some of life's everyday mysteries, such as why steel rusts, why soap gets things clean, and how plants grow.

Provides answers to questions about the seasons, rivers, deserts, volcanoes, oceans, icebergs, moon, stars, planets, and space. An activities section is included.