How Many Licks?: Or, How to Estimate Damn Near Anything
10 best books like How Many Licks?: Or, How to Estimate Damn Near Anything (Aaron Santos): Frindle, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions, The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales, Brain Rules for Baby: How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five, Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School, Peter and the Starcatchers: Peter and the Starcatchers/Peter and the Shadow Thieves/Peter and the Secret of Rundoon, Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark, Molly's Surprise: A Christmas Story, I Hope You Dance [With I Hope You Dance CD], Masters of Deception: Escher, Dali, and the Artists of Optical Illusion
| Author | Andrew Clements |
| ISBN | 0689818769 |
From bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Clements, a quirky, imaginative tale about creative thought and the power of words that will have readers inventing their own words.
Is Nick Allen a troublemaker? He really just likes to liven things up at school -- and he's always had plenty...
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
| Author | Randall Munroe |
| ISBN | 0544272994 |
Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular site XKCD 'a web comic of romance, sarcasm, math and language' which offers a witty take on the world of science and geeks. It now has 600,000 to a million page hits daily. Every now and then, Munroe would get emails asking him to arbitrate a science...
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
For almost two centuries, the stories of magic and myth gathered by the Brothers Grimm have been part of the way children — and adults — learn about the vagaries of the real world.
Cinderella, Rapunzel, Snow-White, Hänsel and Gretel, Little Red-Cap (a.k.a. Little Red Riding Hood), and...
Brain Rules for Baby: How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five
| Author | John Medina |
| ISBN | 0979777763 |
What’s the single most important thing you can do during pregnancy? What does watching TV do to a child’s brain? What’s the best way to handle temper tantrums? Scientists know.
In his New York Times bestseller Brain Rules, Dr. John Medina showed us how our brains really work—and why...
Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School
| Author | John Medina |
| ISBN | 0979777704 |
Most of us have no idea what’s really going on inside our heads. Yet brain scientists have uncovered details every business leader, parent, and teacher should know—like the need for physical activity to get your brain working its best.
How do we learn? What exactly do sleep and stress do...
Peter and the Starcatchers: Peter and the Starcatchers/Peter and the Shadow Thieves/Peter and the Secret of Rundoon
| Author | Dave Barry |
| ISBN | 1423117476 |
Follow the adventures of Peter, Molly, Tinker Bell, and the Lost Boys in all three Peter Pan prequels: Peter and the Starcatchers, Peter and the Shadow Thieves, and Peter and the Secret of Rundoon. Don't even "think" of starting this trilogy unless you're sitting in a comfortable chair and have lots...
Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark
| Author | Cecelia Watson |
| ISBN | 0062917935 |
A page-turning, existential romp through the life and times of the world’s most polarizing punctuation mark
The semicolon. Stephen King, Hemingway, Vonnegut, and Orwell detest it. Herman Melville, Henry James, and Rebecca Solnit love it. But why? When is it effective? Have we been misusing...
Molly's Surprise: A Christmas Story
| Author | Valerie Tripp |
| ISBN | 0937295876 |
Molly is a lively, lovable schemer and dreamer growing up in 1944. Her stories describe her life on the home front during World War Two. Molly doesn't like many of the changes the war has brought, and she especially misses her father, who is away caring for wounded soldiers. But Molly learns the importance...
| Author | Mark D. Sanders |
| ISBN | 1558538445 |
Named the CMA song of the year, "I Hope You Dance" is a challenge to make the most out of life: "And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance."
This beautiful gift book by the Nashville team that wrote the song includes a CD with an acoustic version recorded especially for this...
Masters of Deception: Escher, Dali, and the Artists of Optical Illusion
| Author | Al Seckel |
| ISBN | 1402705778 |
Astonishing creations by masters of the art, such as Escher, Dali, and Archimbolo; amazing visual trickery; and an illuminating foreword by the Pulitzer Prize--winning author Douglas R. Hofstadter make this 320-page, breathtaking collection the definitive book of optical illusions.
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| Author | Thomas Eaton |
| ISBN | 0740755617 |
"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead."
Did you know Pope John VIII was actually a woman? Or that the U.S. Government smashed a bacteria-laden lightbulb in a New York subway station in 1966 to see how long it would take to travel throughout the entire system? You will after reading the...
Bushcraft: Outdoor Skills and Wilderness Survival
| Author | Mors Kochanski |
| ISBN | 1551051222 |
Longtime wilderness educator Mors Kochanski has dedicated his life to learning and teaching about the lore of the forest. With clear instructions, extensive use of diagrams and a color photo supplement, this comprehensive reference includes all the practical skills and knowledge essential for...
Inheritance Cycle 4-Book Hard Cover Boxed Set (Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance)
| Author | Christopher Paolini |
I made the mistake of watching the movie "Eragon" before I read any of the books. After reading just the first book you really realize what a hack job they did on the movie. Aside from special effects that really were quite good, the rest of the movie could have been put together in a much better way. I was captivated...
| Author | James Buckley Jr. |
| ISBN | 0439419050 |
Chock-full of lists of the wacky facts that kids love, the Scholastic Book of Lists includes everything from "10 Gross Things People Really Eat" to helpful school info like "The US Presidents."
Kids (and parents) will marvel at the enormous amount of fascinating trivia and useful information...
| Author | Robert A. Wallace |
| ISBN | 0688087183 |
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Popular Science: Almanac for Kids
| Author | Popular Science |
| ISBN | 1931933693 |
I think this was a great book for people who like facts and information because it is very interesting. I chose this book because it looked interesting I like facts and I needed a non fiction book for my project. My favorite part was the part about space just because space is very interesting to me. Some...
| Author | David McCandless |
| ISBN | 0007294662 |
I usually don't use the star system unless I can give four or five stars, but in this case I am making an exception in order to counter-balance the trend I see in the data about this book. Scroll through the reviews and you will see that people who know how information visualization is supposed to be done are...
Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to (X)HTML, StyleSheets, and Web Graphics
| Author | Jennifer Niederst Robbins |
| ISBN | 0596527527 |
Everything you need to know to create professional web sites is right here. Learning Web Design starts from the beginning -- defining how the Web and web pages work -- and builds from there. By the end of the book, you'll have the skills to create multi-column CSS layouts with optimized graphic files,...
The Shark and the Goldfish: Positive Ways to Thrive During Waves of Change
| Author | Jon Gordon |
| ISBN | 0470503602 |
An illustrated business fable that gives you the faith, courage and confidence to win in today's tough economic climate Fear and uncertainty are staples of daily life in today's struggling economy. As bad as things can be, economic downturns also lead to new opportunities. It's easy to worry, give...
The Happiest Baby Guide to Great Sleep: Simple Solutions for Kids from Birth to 5 Years
| Author | Harvey Karp |
| ISBN | 0062113313 |
America’s favorite pediatrician, Dr. Harvey Karp, now focuses his unparalleled knowledge, experience, and insight on solving the #1 concern of parents everywhere: sleep. With The Happiest Baby Guide to Great Sleep, Dr. Karp—arguably the world’s foremost parenting expert and bestselling...
The Happiest Baby on the Block and The Happiest Toddler on the Block 2-Book Bundle
| Author | Harvey Karp |
| ISBN | 0345536940 |
Attention parents and grandparents, nurses and nannies: If the child in your life is under five, this convenient eBook bundle is for you. From respected pediatrician and child development expert Dr. Harvey Karp, national bestsellers The Happiest Baby on the Block and The Happiest Toddler on the Block...
