Ganeri, Anita

Provides information about William Shakespeare's family life and work as a playwright and actor, summaries of his works, and details and challenges of staging Shakespearean productions. Includes a CD with performances from selected Shakespearean plays and sonnets by Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company.

Discusses the Norse mythology and its gods, goddesses, and legends.

Provides information about the life cycles of rabbits, looks at their physical characteristics, and offers advice on how to care for the animals, covering housing, food, and exercise.

Photographs and simple text describe what a typical day is like for a lemur living in the rain forest.

Kitty the Cat explains how to care for a new pet cat.

Describes earth shattering events that range from the Cretaceous-Tertiary exctinction event to 9/11. These occurrences proved the power of man, either for good or corruptive means, and altered our universal understanding. Readers will be astonished at the events that were felt across the golobe.

Presents a children's study of animal hibernation and discusses where different animals hibernate and for how long, as well as the various animals who sleep through the winter such as bears, marmots, snakes, woodchucks, and others.

An illustrated biography of thirteenth-century explorer Marco Polo, telling of his many adventures through a series of questions and answers.

An illustrated biography of American astronaut Neil Armstrong, telling of his life and experiences as the first man to walk on the moon through a series of questions and answers.

A biography of the famous woman pilot who set many records before she was mysteriously lost over the Pacific Ocean in 1937, emphasizing her belief that women could and should do anything they set their minds to.