Illustrations and simple text describe the characteristics and functions of the human body's major organs.The reader is taken on a trip into the body through holes in the illustrations.
Presents a geological, biological, and social history of the earth by focusing on the same four locales--New York, southwestern France, the Nile Valley, and northern China--through thirteen time periods covering more then 550 million years.
Tells the story of an earthquake, featuring illustrations and descriptions of the same location as it may have appeared at different intervals of time, from 1000 B.C. to the early twenty-first century; focusing on events in Japan.
Tells the story of Mt. Vesuvius, featuring illustrations and descriptions of the same location as it appeared at different intervals of time, from 25,000 years ago to the early twenty-first century; focusing on the eruption that destroyed the city of Pompeii.
Presents a series of illustrations, with captions describing some of the action, of an intersection and variety of buildings in a city where people live their daily lives.
Text and bird's-eye-view illustrations follow the action on a farm throughout the year, from clearing away winter snow, to spring planting, a summer festival, autumn harvest, and back to winter again. Includes challenges for readers.
Double-page illustrations and simple text feature dinosaurs that lived in North America thousands of years ago and the animals that live in the same area now.