A Lerner natural science book

Text and photographs describe the growth of a sunflower from a seed to a full-grown plant.

Explains the life cycle of wheat, its varieties, its cultivation, its harvesting, and its importance in feeding millions of people all over the world.

Describes how chirping insects such as crickets, katydids, and grasshoppers produce their songs and use them to send messages to other members of their species.

An introduction to the structure and ways of life of some of the 40,000 kinds of snails, with an emphasis on land snails.

Discusses the Ad?lie and emperor penguins that make their homes in Antarctica.

Discusses the largest land animal on earth, which now lives only in Africa and Asia.

Describes the macaque monkeys of Japan and explains how they have learned to survive the cold, snowy winters on the northern island of Honshu.

An introduction to the domesticated silkworm moth, raised on farms in Japan and elsewhere for the sake of the silk thread from which its cocoons are constructed.