Murphy, Patricia J.

Meet horses from myths and legends, learn how to groom a horse, and get a recipe to bake sweet pony cupcakes.

Simple text and photographs present a visit to a police station.

Olivia Clark, a young girl who is moving with her family from Missouri to Oregon Territory during the middle of the nineteenth century, describes her five month journey traveling westward.

Explains how simple machines such as wheels, levers, and inclined planes work, discussing the forces they use and ways that people utilize them.

Provides information about the North and South Poles, explaining what they are, how they were formed, and why they are so cold, and looking at the types of plants and animals that live at the poles.

Photographs and easy-to-follow text introduces young readers to bugs that are helpful to us.

Photographs and easy-to-follow text introduces young readers to bugs that are helpful to us.

A brief history of time keeping and clock making.

Uses a timeline of a frog's life cycle to teach children sequential order and about frogs.

Explores the sense of touch made possible by the body's largest organ, the skin.