Chicago Review Press: 838 books
More Than Moccasins
A Kid's Activity Guide to Traditional North American Indian Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1994
Kids discover traditions and skills from the people who first settled this continent, including gardening, making useful pottery, and communicating through Navajo codes.
Marine Science for Kids
Exploring and Protecting Our Watery World, Includes Cool Careers and 21 Activities
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Do you ever dream of being a marine explorer or adventurer? Are you a fan of cool, cute, or creepy creatures? Then here's some good news: some of the coolest, cutest, and creepiest creatures live in Earth's oceans and other watery places.
Marine Science for Kids is a colorful, fun, photo-filled...
Storybook Art
Hands-On Art for Children in the Styles of 100 Great Picture Book Illustrators
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
Children can enjoy their favorite storybook illustrators in a new way by imitating their art with the 100 engaging and simple art projects included in this celebration of children's book illustrators. Featured are famous and award-winning storybook illustrators from the 1930s to present—Good Night...
by Claudia Zaslavsky
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2003
Math, history, art, and world cultures come together in this delightful book for kids, even for those who find traditional math lessons boring. More than 70 games, puzzles, and projects encourage kids to hone their math skills as they calculate, measure, and solve problems. The games span the globe,...
Awesome Snake Science!
40 Activities for Learning About Snakes
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
From cobras and copperheads to pythons and boas, all types of snakes are covered in this book of 40 science experiments, art projects, and games that help budding herpetologists gain a greater appreciation for these slithering reptiles. Activities include making foldable fangs to learn how snakes’...
Insectigations
40 Hands-on Activities to Explore the Insect World
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
From butterflies and beetles to crickets and katydids, these experiments, art projects, and games will bring out the entomologist in every kid. Activities include collecting and sketching insects, making a terrarium for observation, raising mealworms, using math to measure bug strength, gardening...
Krysia
A Polish Girl's Stolen Childhood During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Few people are aware that in the aftermath of German and Soviet invasions and division of Poland, more than 1.5 million people were deported from their homes in Eastern Poland to remote parts of Russia. Half of them died in labor camps and prisons or simply vanished, some were drafted into the Russian...
Art Is Every Day
Activities for the Home, Park, Museum, and City
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Art isn’t just what you find in a museum, a sculpture park, or a one-period-a-week elementary school curriculum-art is every day. Author and educator Eileen Prince offers projects for parents, grandparents, teachers, and others who want to bring meaningful, rich, and fun art experiences into children’s...
New York City History for Kids
From New Amsterdam to the Big Apple with 21 Activities
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
In this lively 400-year history, kids will read about Peter Stuyvesant and the enterprising Dutch colonists, follow the spirited patriots as they rebel against the British during the American Revolution, learn about the crimes of the infamous Tweed Ring, journey through the notorious Five Points slum...
Ancient Egyptians and Their Neighbors
An Activity Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Want to speak Hittite? Hold out a glass and ask for wa-tar.” This unique activity book for children ages nine and up shows what life was like among the Nubians, Mesopotamians, Hittites, and their neighbors the Egyptians from around 3100 B.C., when Upper and Lower Egypt became one kingdom, to the...
Engineering the City
How Infrastructure Works
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2000
How does a city obtain water, gas, and electricity? Where do these services come from? How are they transported? The answer is infrastructure, or the inner, and sometimes invisible, workings of the city. Roads, railroads, bridges, telephone wires, and power lines are visible elements of the infrastructure;...
Mudworks Bilingual Edition–Edición bilingüe
Experiencias creativas con arcilla, masa y modelado
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2001
From award-winning author Mary Ann Kohl comes this Spanish/English bilingual edition of one of her favorite and best-selling titles. Over 100 delightfully squishy kid-tested projects capture the imagination of children, parents, teachers, and child-care professionals with English and Spanish translations...
Making Make-Believe
Hands-on Projects for Play and Pretend
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Unlock the imagination of young children! With over 125 activities and projects, Making Make-Believe offers storybook play, games, cooking, mini-plays, dress-up costumes and masks, imagination spaces, puppet ideas, and more to enrich children's imaginative play.
Mudworks
Creative Clay, Dough, and Modeling Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1989
Categorized by art media, this book offers a delightfully messy range of creative activities for children to explore and experience.