juvenile nonfiction / curiosities & wonders

Text and photographs provide a collection of facts about deserts, rainbows, sleep, and other topics.

Text and photographs provide a collection of facts about deserts, rainbows, sleep, and other topics.

"Follows a little boy traveling alone in an open landscape, asking questions about loss, love, friendship, language, magic, and what it means to be a human being"-- Provided by publisher.

Offering suspicious stories, fishy facts, and dubious lists, encourages readers to determine which facts are true and which are false.

Text and photographs provide a collection of facts about desserts, caves, castles, and other topics.

Describes the isolated Nevada air base known as Area 51, covering its use for testing top-secret aircraft, and discusses speculation about a connection to unidentified flying objects.

Offering suspicious stories, fishy facts, and dubious lists, encourages readers to determine which facts are true and which are false.

"This fun book of quirky failures and famous flops will keep kids laughing while they learn the importance of messing up in order to get it right. Science, architecture, technology, entertainment--there are epic fails and hilarious goof-ups from every important field. Silly side features help to analyze the failures: Lesson Learned, It Could Be Worse, Losing Combinations, and a Fail Scale help readers navigate the different kinds and scopes of the mistakes made. Read to learn what went wrong, what went right, and what kids can learn from each failed attempt"--Provided by publisher.

Text and illustrations provide information on monarch butterflies and their migration to Mexico in the winter.

A collection of 300 weird facts with color photos and illustrations.