Pluckrose, Henry Arthur

Detailed photographs with interesting facts explore the underground world of animals, insects, plants, and people who work underground.

Simple text and photos show how to sort items according to particular characteristics, presenting examples sorted by size, pattern, shape, and use.

Introduces children to various common insects, spiders, worms, snails, and slugs.

Introduces children to what air is, its uses, and how to keep it from being polluted.

Introduces children to plants and flowers and how they are grown and taken care of.

A guided tour through the world of trees relating many interesting facts about them accompanied by full-color photographs.

Discusses many types of walls and the reasons why they are built.

Presents the concept of holes from a child's viewpoint, and looks at their good and bad appearances in objects like buckets, teeth, and doughnuts.

Photographs and simple text present some of the different machines used on farms, including tractors, cultivators, balers, and combine harvesters.

Discusses the characteristics and habits of African and Indian elephants and traces the elephant family back to prehistoric times.