Coupe, Robert

This book describes the ancient people and cultures of China, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and the Americas.

Enter the world of bugs, from head-banging beetles to flying spiders, and learn how they hunt for food, how they build their homes, and how they survive.

Learn how man built flying machines by studying how birds, bats, and other animals fly.

Explores the travels of early traders and explorers, including the Vikings, Marco Polo and Spanish conquistadors.

Explores a variety of sports, including archery, horse-riding, skating, and surfing.

Photographs, illustrations, and simple text describe the different mammals which live in the world's oceans.

Illustrations and simple text explain how to read and understand maps, and discuss what children can learn from maps about the world's population, geography, countries, climates, plants, animals, and resources.

Photographs and simple text introduce young readers to the attack and defense methods used by different animals in the wild.

Explains how people first came to America over ten thousand years ago, looks at how Native Americans settled throughout North America, and provides information about their way of life.

Illustrations and simple text teach young readers about the solar system, including information on the sun, the planets and their many moons, and the asteroids and comets.