McMillan, Bruce

Adjectives are used visually and grammatically to demonstrate the three degrees of comparison: positive, comparative, and superlative.

Text and photographs present baby zoo animals, with maps showing where each animal comes from.

A counting book with photographs of wildflowers illustrating the numbers one through twenty.

Presents pairs of photographs depicting everyday sights that, when put together, take on a new and humorous meaning.

Photographs illustrate the concept of pairs through such examples as two hands, two skates, and two twins.

Photographic puzzles follow an escaped pet mouse through a school while depicting such common school items as scissors, paper, books, and chalk. Readers are challenged to identify the objects as seen from the mouse's point of view.

Shows how children on a tiny Icelandic island work to rescue puffin offspring by helping them take their first flight.

Describes how a young girl living fifty miles from the Arctic Circle gets her horse ready to participate in the annual r?ttir, or gathering of sheep, in their farming community in Iceland.

Photographs of various parts of a fire engine depict different geometrical shapes.

A concept game presented in both English and Spanish in which young readers will discover what's pictured in the mysterious photographs as well as figure out which senses they are most likely to use as two island youngsters take them on a sunny Caribbean sense-adventure.