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This is an enhanced ebook with a read-along function. Ducks and frogs, swallows and dragonflies, beaver lodges and lily pads—a multitude of wonders enchant the child narrator in this tender, beautifully illustrated picture book. A tribute to those fragile, wild places that still exist, In the Red...

Anchors aweigh! World War II is raging in the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans. You're at sea, fighting for your country as a sailor. Will you: Serve in the German Navy and attempt to survive the sinking of the Bismarck? Experience the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor as a U.S. Marine? Storm Omaha Beach in an American Navy landing craft on D-Day?

Can you imagine having to drive long distances in a car, train, or bus? Airplane travel changed all that, making travel much quicker, easier, and less stressful. This book addresses the four factors that make it possible for an airplane to fly: weight, lift, thrust, and drag, and details what each...

In einer Schulklasse sind einige Kinder spurlos verschwunden. Lehrer und Schüler rätseln, was mit ihnen geschehen sein mag. Gemunkelt wird, der Teufel habe die Kinder geholt - der Verkehrsteufel. Ob man sie befreien kann? Aber da ist auch die Rede von einem geheimnisvollen Schatz... Ein unterhaltsames...

It all begins when a tiny engineer mouse rolls into town with his rusty, old steam engine. It's not long before the engineer mouse loses his seat and the rusty steam engine begins flying down the rickety train tracks taking two children on the ride of their life. They meet up with purple cows, are sent on quadruple loop-de-loops, ride down steep, slippery slides and more!

This fourth book in the Cascade Mountain Railroad Mysteries series, based on a page from American history, follows a trio of mischievous and determined young crime solvers. It is 1926 in the remote camp town of Scenic, Washington, and ten-year-old Billy Cole is excited about the upcoming Fall Fish...

In the year and a half since the flight of the first manned balloon in 1783, an Italian has flown, a Scot has flown, a woman has flown, even a sheep has flown. But no one has flown from one country to another. John Jeffries, an Englishman, and his pilot, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, a Frenchman, want to...

Hop in! This title will take you where you want to go. Early readers will gather basic information about spaceships through simple, easy-to-read text. And they will love the colorful full-bleed photographs, bolded glossary terms, and More Facts section. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids is a division of ABDO.

For young makers and explorers comes Tomo Explores the World! On a tiny island far to the north, there lives a young boy named Tomo whose life is filled with fish, fish, and more fish. Tomo was born into a family of the world’s strongest, wisest, and bravest fishermen. But Tomo has a secret—he...

Hop in! This title will take you where you want to go. Early readers will gather basic information about trains through simple, easy-to-read text. And they will love the colorful full-bleed photographs, bolded glossary terms, and More Facts section. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids is a division of ABDO.

Blaze and Starla discover a map that leads to a bouncing bull racetrack, and race through the desert to find it! Boys and girls ages 3 to 7 will love this storybook based on an exciting episode of Nickelodeon’s Blaze and the Monster Machines. This Nickelodeon read-along contains audio narration.

Journeys can be life-changing, whether they are literal—traveling from one place to another—or personal, like the quest for self-discovery. This meditative picture book explores both, following a young child on a train ride from the city to the country. As the landscape transforms from a bustling...

Oil is one of Earth’s most coveted resources, and transporting massive quantities of this product requires mammoth machinery. This information-rich book introduces readers to the different types of oil tankers, from crude tankers to supertankers. Detailed photographs allow readers to explore gigantic...

The perfect introduction to Thomas the Tank Engine! All aboard for an engine adventure! This story is about Thomas the Tank Engine, Sodor’s Number 1 Engine. Read about his jobs, his carriages and the time he went fishing!