Kulling, Monica

In 1903, when Mr. Tweedle decides to buy a car, he chooses a big, green, electric model that the people who drive cars powered by gas and by steam make fun of, until one day, when the Tweedles' reliable electric car saves the day.

Text and illustrations offer an introduction to the life and inventions of nineteenth-century Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of wireless communication.

Alexander Graham Bell invents a talking machine he calls the telephone and demonstrates it at the World's Fair in Philadelphia in 1876.

A Hawaiian girl's new dog is actually an alien, and two strange creatures have come to earth to catch him and take him to jail.

Describes the physical characteristics, habitat, family life, and eating habits of both African and Asian elephants.

Madame Croissant opens a bakery and must fill the order for five hundred cupcakes for the Mayor, but with her granddaughter Daphne's "help" they may be in trouble, will Mister Dash, Madame Croissant's well-mannered dog, be able to save the day?.

Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition when, after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, their ship, Endurance, was finally crushed, forcing Shackleton and his men to make a very long and perilous journey across ice and stormy seas to reach inhabited land.

Presents an illustrated, biographical discussion of photographer George Eastman, who invented dry plates, film, and the Brownie camera in the late nineteenth century.