“Here is his jacket, / with zippered-up hood, / that covers his face / just the way it should,” a little boy narrates while helping his beekeeper grandfather, known around town as the Beeman. The boy continues the invitingly rhyming... Read More

Like counting rings on a tree stump, looking at a cross section of a black bear’s tooth will reveal its age. A 200-pound black bear begins life at a mere of a pound, and can be brown, cinnamon, blue-gray, or even white. Children... Read More

For millions of years life has depended on the wonderful gifts that trees provide, but how often does one reflect on the value of trees? Hosta pays homage to this important aspect of nature by highlighting its riches. Colorful mixed... Read More

Medically minded children and those who worry about what may go wrong in an unfamiliar setting will love Tommi Lance, a young ambulance who delights in rushing the injured to the hospital. In the latest installment of this educational... Read More

In 1889 when American architect Frank O. Gehry created the Guggenheim Museum in Spain, he proved that art isn’t always inside the museum, sometimes art is the museum! Similar fun facts from A to Z are shared with readers through clever... Read More

These three mice are anything but blind. They find a postcard in their humans’ house and borrow it for a while to examine it. The postcard depicts an elegantly dressed lady—the Portrait of Lady Clopton, painted around 1600 by Robert... Read More

In this twist on a nineteenth-century version of the three little pigs story, Mama Pig notices that her children have grown too big for their cave. She tells Tommy he must leave, and stuffs a wheelbarrow with items he’ll need for the... Read More

Sharks have had a bum rap. If they need a public relations spokesperson, however, they have one in this author. She explains that they are not as dangerous to people as movies and the media make them out to be. Despite their negative... Read More