Real Science

Sometimes you want the science to be the book. This shelf is for field guides, fact books, experiments, encyclopedias, and straight explanations of how the world works. No disguise required.

How to use it: let the question choose the book. Keep a field guide near the window, an experiment book where it can get messy, and the big fact books somewhere a child can pull one down without asking.

Want the learning tucked inside a story instead? Stealth Science is the other door.
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Why I Sneeze, Shiver, Hiccup, & Yawn (Newly Illustrated)

Melvin Berger
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Why Do Leaves Change Color?

Betsy Maestro
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Where Do Chicks Come From?

Amy E Sklansky
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Where Does the Garbage Go?

Paul Showers
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What's Inside a Flower? (Hardcover)

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Who Would Win?: Fiercest Feuds

Jerry Pallotta
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Where Do Polar Bears Live?

Sarah L Thomson
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Where Are the Night Animals?

Mary Ann Fraser
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What's Inside a Caterpillar Cocoon?: And Other Questions about Moths & Butterflies

Rachel Ignotofsky
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What's It Like to Be a Fish?

Wendy Pfeffer
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What Makes a Magnet?

Franklyn M Branley
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What Makes Day and Night

Franklyn M Branley
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What's Inside a Bird's Nest?: And Other Questions about Nature & Life Cycles

Rachel Ignotofsky
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Wheels Make the World Go Round: Simple Machines for Kids

Andi Diehn
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What's Inside a Flower? (Paperback)

Rachel Ignotofsky
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What Will the Weather Be?

Lynda DeWitt
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What the Moon Is Like

Franklyn M Branley
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What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

Randall Munroe