world records

Describes some of the world's most shocking people, strangest plants, and weirdest animals.

Presents over one thousand Top 10 lists covering a wide variety of topics in the categories of millennium milestones, the universe and the Earth, life on Earth, the human world, town and country, culture and learning, music, stage and screen, the commercial world, on the move, and sports.

Everyone in second grade seems set on breaking a world record and friends Ivy and Bean are no exception, deciding to become the youngest people ever to discover a dinosaur skeleton.

Profiles three Soviet cosmonauts and four American astronauts who accomplished "firsts" for their nations: Yuri Gagarin, Valentina Tereshkova, Alexei Leonov, Wally Schirra, Neil Armstrong, John Young, and Eileen Collins.

Contains questions about various items in top ten lists.

Describes over one thousand years of human achievements, arranged by topic, such as exploration, sports, culture, science, and technology; and includes more than six hundred detailed picture icons.

Young explorers get to take a peek at some of the worlds tallest, smallest, busiest, and most magnificent buildings. From Grand Central Station to the ancient pyramids at Giza, readers will tour the world and come away in awe of the many amazing buildings that people have constructed.

Organized by types of breakthrough--medical, technical, sports, communication, entertainment--this book reveals who did what first, covering everything from the first pizza delivery to the first submarine.