specimens

Eggs are laid by various creatures that turn into chicks, mosquitoes, butterflies, frogs, lizards, hummingbirds, turtles, and snakes.

The little red hen finds that while none of her lazy friends willing to help her plant, harvest, or grind wheat into flour, all of them are eager to eat the bread she makes from it.

Learn about camouflage and adaptation as you try to find the animals in hiding in the full-color photographs. Discover why some animals attempt to "blend in" to their surroundings, and when they want to stand out.

Introduces dinosaurs to the young reader. Includes overlay illustrations.

A counting rhyme in which three friends take to the sky in a hot air balloon and count all the wonderful things they see.

The reader is asked to measure, by manipulating a string of movable beads, the height, width, and length of various objects. On board pages.

The reader can participate in the adventures of Cap'n Bones and his pirate crew by using a pop-up pirate ship model, Cap'n Bones' diary, stand-up figures of the crew, and other pirate paraphernalia.