Ash and Smoke: What a Volcano Actually Drops on You
Ash is not smoke and it is not soot. It is rock, milled to powder, and once it lands on the grass the animals that eat the grass are the...
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Hurricane Katrina Rescue: The Levees, Not the Rain
You remember August 2005. Your child does not, and this is a hundred pages with a golden retriever on the cover. Both of those facts matter before you buy it.
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Escape from the Great Earthquake: The Fire Did the Damage
Most of San Francisco did not fall down in 1906. It burned, over three days, because the same shove that cracked the buildings cracked the water mains under the street.
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Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt: Go Dig It Up
Four books in this series put their second world somewhere you cannot get to. This one puts it four inches down in your own yard, and that changes what you...
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Over and Under the Snow: Start the Series Here
Snow is not a lid on a dead world. There is a warmer gap underneath it, animals are awake and busy in there all winter, and this is the picture...
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Over and Under the Rainforest: It Is Central America
Most rainforest books for young children are about a rainforest that does not exist anywhere. This one is about Central America, names its animals, and puts each of them on...
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