Rissman, Rebecca

Presents a discussion, with simple text and photographs, of various landforms, including islands, caves, mountains, volcanoes, and valleys, with side by side comparisons of different features to aid in reader exploration.

Photographs and simple text introduce early readers to the many ways that people can be different, with and without disabilities, and discuss playing, moving, reading, learning, respect, and more.

Teaches children the differences between living and nonliving things in habitats around the world and explains how they can determine if something is living through a series of simple questions.

Photographs and simple text introduce young readers to the different shapes found in art.

Simple text and photographs introduce young readers to the ways people had of traveling in the past compared to how we get around today.

Simple text and photographs explore the kinds of games children played in the past compared to the kinds of games children play today.

Simple text and photographs show young readers how hospitals and medical care used to be like in the past versus how they are today.

Discusses how present-day education is different from early education including classes taught, school supplies needed, and transportation used.

Describes the differences between cooking in the past and cooking in the present day. Explores the conveniences that are available in the present day compared to the past.

Compares how household cleaning tasks of the present differ from the past. Includes a picture glossary and an index.