Products

• Earth Science
• Environment & Ecology
• Story / Adventure

Why it works: Hurricane Katrina Rescue sends a time-traveling rescue dog into New Orleans as wind, rain, a levee breach, and rising floodwater separate Clare from her family. The storm and flood-control failure keep changing the route to safety, so the hazard mechanics carry the rescue plot.

• Life Science
• Environment & Ecology
• Nature Narrative / Field Discovery

Why it works: Hush Up and Hibernate turns a black bear cub's bedtime stalling into a seasonal argument with Mama Bear as leaves fall, wind cools, and geese depart. Facts about preparation and hibernating animals are woven through the familiar parent-child comedy instead of separated into a lesson.

• Life Science
• Maker / Problem-Solving

Why it works: Hyena Versus Honey Badger turns a comparison of two mammals into a prediction about an imaginary contest. Anatomy and behavior matter because readers must use each animal's evidence before deciding which strengths would control the outcome.

• Life Science
• Environment & Ecology
• Lyrical / Visual Picture Book

Why it works: I See a Kookaburra hides animals inside six illustrated habitats and asks children to find them before learning how each creature fits its surroundings. The search game makes camouflage, location, and habitat diversity part of looking closely rather than a list to memorize.

• Earth Science
• Environment & Ecology
• Comics / Graphic Narrative

Why it works: I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 places Barry inside a storm that becomes catastrophic when levees fail and floodwater tears him away from his family. The graphic panels and factual backmatter connect hurricane conditions, engineered protection, and rapidly changing survival choices.

• Life Science
• Environment & Ecology
• Expedition / Survival

Why it works: I Survived the Attack of the Grizzlies, 1967 places Melody inside the real season that changed how Glacier National Park understood human-bear encounters. Grizzly behavior, visitor choices, and the problem of sharing wild habitat determine both her danger and the historical lesson.

• Life Science
• Environment & Ecology
• Comics / Graphic Narrative

Why it works: The graphic edition of I Survived the Attack of the Grizzlies, 1967 makes Melody read a bear's position and movement while fear pushes her toward the wrong response. Visualized safety decisions and nonfiction backmatter link the attack to the larger history of human-bear coexistence in Glacier.

• Life Science
• Human Body & Health
• Expedition / Survival

Why it works: I Survived the Black Death, 1348 follows Elsie as plague reaches England and transforms a treasure adventure into survival amid mass illness and grief. The disease's spread and the limits of medieval understanding shape the danger, while nonfiction backmatter separates the historical story from current knowledge.

• Earth Science
• Environment & Ecology
• Expedition / Survival

Why it works: I Survived the California Wildfires, 2018 traps Josh and Holly in a fast-moving firestorm that crosses forest and town. Dry landscape, wind-driven flames, extreme heat, smoke, and evacuation choices make wildfire behavior the force controlling every stage of their escape.

• Earth Science
• Environment & Ecology
• Comics / Graphic Narrative

Why it works: The graphic edition of I Survived the California Wildfires, 2018 shows Josh and Holly surrounded by a firestorm whose smoke, heat, fuel, and changing path erase safe options panel by panel. The visual escape and nonfiction backmatter make wildfire behavior and hazard response inseparable from the historical story.

• Earth Science
• Comics / Graphic Narrative

Why it works: I Survived the Destruction of Pompeii, AD 79 gives Marcus and his science-minded father warning signs that their neighbors explain as a sleeping beast beneath Vesuvius. Tremors, eruption, ash, and falling rock become visible evidence the characters must interpret quickly enough to escape.