Explains how leaves change their colors in autumn and then separate from the tree as the tree prepares for winter.

Even though Mount Everest measures 29,028 feet high, it may be growing about two inches a year. A mountain might be thousands of feet high, but it can still grow taller or shorter each year. Mountains are created when the huge plates that make up the earth's outer shell very slowly pull and push against one another. Read and find out about all the different kinds of mountains. The earth's continents rest on plates that move slowly across our planet's...

A pygmy shrew is small - it's among the littlest mammals! A ladybug is even smaller, but it hardly seems tiny when you compare it to a protozoa! And there are many things smaller still-so small that we can see them only with a microscope. Would you believe there are particles that are so tiny that we can't measure their exact size? Explore the huge world of the very small!

Provides basic facts about the behavior of bats and describes how they benefit the environment.

Introduces the world of birds, discussing such aspects s flight, migration, courtship, habitats, and bird rehabilitation.

Describes various kinds of train cars including the boxcar, livestock car, and flatcar.

Examines the habitats, behavior, and life cycles of various insects, identifying insects, and the problem of pesticides.

A hero on a quest to gather magical stones battles an evil sorcerer and learns the benefits of a potato diet in Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell (1988). Tom and Crow put on a Renaissance Fair for Mike and Crow reads a trashy romance novel to Pearl.