Junior adventure

Illustrations and simple text introduce young readers to the world's most dangerous animals, including information on hunters, defenders, poisonous insects, and disease-ridden rodents.

Provides information about some of the many different games that are played with balls, including football, badminton, tennis, soccer, volleyball, and others.

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

Illustrations and text teach young readers about snakes, describing how they move, why they shed their skin, how snakes protect themselves, what they eat, and how they have evolved.

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 how everyday inventions like the telephone, cars, televisions, vacuum cleaners, and cameras work.

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.

Illustrations help offer an inside look at how the human body works, describing how the brain works to control the other body systems, how nails and hair grow, why bones break and how they mend, and how the heart and lungs transport oxygen to the rest of the body.