On the Bookshelf

If you could have any animal's hair, whose would you choose?If you had a polar bear's double coat, you would never have to wear a hat when pl...

If you could have any dinosaur body part, which would you choose? What if you woke up one morning and you had sprouted a dinosaur body part overn...

This revised edition (updated for the 2024 election) explains American presidential campaigns and includes stickers, activities, and a color-your-o...

Learn more about what climate change means and how it's affecting our planet.The earth is definitely getting warmer. There's no argument about that...

Find out all about NASA in this out-of-this-world addition to the What Was? series. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, better known...

We the people at Who HQ bring readers the full story--arguments and all--of how the United States Constitution came into being. Signed on September...

Hear ye, hear ye! Get ready to learn all about the most powerful court in the United States.Ever since it was established in 1789, the United State...

From the creative parents who brought us the web sensation "Dinovember," comes photographic proof of what mischief toy dinosaurs can get up to at s...

How did a spontaneous protest outside of a New York City bar fifty years ago spark a social movement across America? Find out about the history of ...

Travel back to the time when the mighty dinosaurs ruled the earth.The Age of Dinosaurs began about 250 million years ago. In the beginning they wer...

A thoughtful and age-appropriate introduction to an unimaginable event—the Holocaust.The Holocaust was a genocide on a scale never before seen, wit...

A mesmerizing overview of the world as it was when glaciers covered the earth and long-extinct creatures like the woolly mammoths and saber-toothed...

For more than one hundred years, people have been captivated by the disastrous sinking of the Titanic that claimed over 1,500 lives. Now young read...

Saddle up and get ready for a ride back into the wild and wooly past of the American West.The west was at its wildest from 1865 to 1895, when terri...

Something wicked was brewing in the small town of Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. It started when two girls, Betty Parris and Abigail Williams, began...

During the coldest season, when the world feels scary—what do you remember about being warm? Baked potatoes.Trust.A kettle on the stove.Blankets. A...

Do you like challenges? Then you'll certainly love this little puzzle book. Twenty-seven sets of brain teasers ask you to identify the differences ...

Come and hitch a ride in vehicles of every shape and size —from family cars to double-decker buses, chugging tractors to speedy supercars, and giga...

Every single day holds so many possibilities—how do you choose what to do when you wake up? Award-winning author Seth Fishman and acclaimed illustr...

The Grinch meets Snowmen at Christmas in this rollicking, rhyming picture book that answers the question, Why can't Christmas last all year? What h...

From #1 New York Times bestselling creator Peter H. Reynolds and talented debut author Marc Colagiovanni comes an inspirational story about optimi...

When you joined our family, I knew you were just who I'd waited and wished for. A picture book celebrating all kinds of adoption, and all kinds of ...

For the very first time--a Leo Lionni's Friends lift-the-flap book! This new board book, about a little fish named Swimmy and his underwater friend...

Readers will want to grab a telescope and explore the night skies after finishing this overview of our solar system.Our solar system consists of ei...