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A Drop Of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder

10 best books like A Drop Of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder (Walter Wick): Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11, A Seed Is Sleepy, Redwoods, Water Dance, Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon, How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning, Frogs, If the World Were a Village: A Book about the World's People, The Tree of Life: Charles Darwin, Where in the Wild?: Camouflaged Creatures Concealed... and Revealed

Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11
AuthorBrian Floca
Simply told, grandly shown, here is the flight of Apollo 11. Here for a new generation of readers and explorers are the steady astronauts, clicking themselves into gloves and helmets, strapping themselves into sideways seats. Here are their great machines in all their detail and monumentality, the...
A Seed Is Sleepy
AuthorDianna Hutts Aston
ISBN0811855201
The illustrations are glorious. They’re also accurate and very educational. This is an outstanding science book about seeds and the plants that come from them. The text is convincing about just how amazing seeds are. At first I didn’t like the adjective headings, but I quickly changed my mind because...
Redwoods
AuthorJason Chin
ISBN1596434309
An ordinary train ride becomes and extraordinary trip to the great ancient forests

A subway trip is transformed when a young boy happens upon a book about redwood forests. As he reads the information unfolds, and with each new bit of knowledge, he travels--all the way to California to climb...
Water Dance
AuthorThomas Locker
ISBN0152163964
This novel in verse does an excellent job of explaining the water cycle to a reader. The word choice and usage takes something quite ordinary and lifts it to an extraordinary level. Explaining how water is one thing yet many things all at the same time really paints a picture in the reader’s mind. The...
Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon
AuthorCatherine Thimmesh
ISBN0618507574
Here is a rare perspective on a story we only thought we knew. For Apollo 11, the first moon landing, is a story that belongs to many, not just the few and famous. It belongs to the seamstress who put together twenty-two layers of fabric for each space suit. To the engineers who created a special heat shield...
How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning
AuthorRosalyn Schanzer
ISBN0688169937
Ben Franklin was the most famous American in the entire world during colonial times. No wonder! After all, the man could do just about anything. Why, he was an author and an athlete and a patriot and a scientist and an inventor to boot. He even found a way to steal the lightning right out of the sky.

Is...
Frogs
AuthorNic Bishop
ISBN0439877555
For the first- to third-grade set, frogs are an endless source of fascination, especially when looked at VERY close up. See tiny poison dart frogs and mammoth bullfrogs, as Nic Bishop's amazing images show the beauty and diversity of frogs from around the globe. And simple, engaging text conveys basic...
If the World Were a Village: A Book about the World's People
AuthorDavid J. Smith
ISBN1550747797
The 2nd Edition of the best-selling book which has sold over 400 000 copies in 17 languages -- updated with new content and insights about the world's people. First published to wide acclaim in 2002, this eye-opening book has since become a classic, promoting "world-mindedness" by imagining the world's...
The Tree of Life: Charles Darwin
AuthorPeter Sís
ISBN0374456283
As far as I can judge, I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men . . .

Charles Darwin was, above all else, an independent thinker who continues even now to influence the way we look at the natural world. His endless curiosity and passion for detail resulted in a wealth of notebooks, diaries,...
Where in the Wild?: Camouflaged Creatures Concealed... and Revealed
AuthorDavid M. Schwartz
ISBN1582462070
Ten creatures await, camouflaged in artful, full-page photographs, while playful poems offer clues about each animal's identity and whereabouts. Think you've spotted one? Lift one of ten gatefolds to find out. A full page of fascinating information accompanies each animal so readers can learn...
Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion
AuthorLoree Griffin Burns
ISBN0618581316
Aided by an army of beachcombers, oceanographer Dr. Curtis Ebbesmeyer tracks trash in the name of science. From sneakers to hockey gloves, Curt monitors the watery fate of human-made cargo that has spilled into the ocean. The information he collects is much more than casual news; it is important scientific...
The Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea
AuthorSy Montgomery
ISBN0618496416

Travel with the scientists as they trek deep into the New Guinea wilderness to locate the elusive Matschie's tree kangaroo.

The photography featured in this book is nothing short of stunning. The full color photographs include both scenic pieces, which
capture the beauty of the...
Yucky Worms
AuthorVivian French
ISBN0763644463
Here’s to nature’s recyclers! Kids will burrow right into this book about the industrious — and danger-filled — life of the delightfully yucky earthworm.

Who would want to be friends with a wiggly, slimy worm? You can’t even tell which end is which! But there’s more to these lowly...
What Makes a Magnet?
AuthorFranklyn Mansfield Branley
ISBN0064451488
Will a magnet pick up a paper clip or a feather? The answer is, just the paper clip. Magnets only pick up things that contain bits of iron. In this new addition to the Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science series, veteran author Franklyn Branley explains the properties and behavior of magnets. True Kelley's...
Wild Tracks!: A Guide to Nature's Footprints
AuthorJim Arnosky
ISBN1402739850
When children learn to recognize and read animal tracks they’re actually mastering an ancient language of shapes and patterns—and gaining knowledge of the natural world. Acclaimed artist and naturalist Jim Arnosky has created a breathtaking and informative reference on the subject, filled...
Neo Leo: The Ageless Ideas of Leonardo Da Vinci
AuthorGene Barretta
ISBN0805087036
In 1781, Thomas Paine came up with a model for a single-span bridge; in 1887, Adolf Eugen Fick made the first pair of contact lenses; and in 1907, Paul Cornu built the first helicopter. But Leonardo da Vinci thought of all these ideas more than five hundred years ago! At once an artist, inventor, engineer,...
Just a Second
AuthorSteve Jenkins
ISBN0618708960
What can happen in just a second,
a minute, or an hour? How can we measure time?
The flap of a vulture’s wing.
A crocodile’s heartbeat.
The weight of a baby blue whale.
The life of a mayfly.
These increments of time may sound a bit strange, but they are all fascinating ways...
The Moon Book
AuthorGail Gibbons
ISBN0823413640
A kid-friendly introduction to the biggest, brightest light in our night sky.

Shining light on all kinds of fascinating facts about our moon, this simple, introductory book includes information on how the moon affects the oceans' tides, why the same side of the moon always faces earth, why...
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