West Routt Library District

Charlie Brown and the rest of the Peanuts gang help present hundreds of scientific facts about the animal kingdom in a question and answer format.

"Where do inventors find inspiration? Sometimes they look to animals! Author Sandra Markle presents twelve animal adaptations and the amazing inventions they've inspired"--

"From anatomy to zoology, the ABCs of Biology is a colorfully simple introduction for babies--and grownups--to a new biology concept for every letter of the alphabet."--

Easily understood answers for dozens of everyday mysteries.

Children come into the world biologically designed to educate themselves. Their natural curiosity, playfulness, sociability, willfulness, adventurousness, tendency to look ahead, and desire to do well in the world were all shaped, by natural selection, to serve the function of education. In this collection of essays, developmental psychologist Peter Gray describes, with research evidence, how these natural tendencies play themselves out in children...

"Why is blood red? What exactly is a belly button for? Why don't your eyeballs fall out? answers all these intriguing questions about the science of the human body, and much more."--

Uses a question-and-answer format to present information about life cycles, including those of the butterfly, lobster, mosquito, and angelfish.