Cobb, Vicki

Focuses on the land, animals, plants, and climate of Alaska, presenting it as an example of a place where it is so cold your hair can freeze and break off.

Describes how special effects such as fog, rain, snow, and blood are created in films and theater in order to make it look real.

Outlines the ingredients and making of ice cream and the role played by the manufacturers, retailers, and suppliers of this popular dessert. Includes a taste test and recipe for the homemade variety.

Describes how soap and water, toothpaste and toothbrush, and comb and brush were invented and how they keep us clean and healthy.

Demonstrations accompanied by explanations illustrate how and why the senses can be fooled.

Experiments with food demonstrate various scientific principles and produce eatable results. Includes beef jerky cottage cheese, synthetic cola, and pudding.

Presents Australia as a possible place to live, mentioning that though you may "go to school" by radio, it has other good features.

Describes more than sixty tricks based on scientific experiments featured in the text.

Presents nine questions on different kinds of energy, such as heat, kinetic, and chemical energy, and their relation to matter.

Describes how knives, forks, spoons, and chopsticks came to be invented and how they are used today in eating.