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Gooaal! Soccer fans, get your game on with this book about one of the biggest tournaments in women's sports.The first international women's soccer match was in 1881, but the Women's World Cup didn't become official until 1991 -- 110 years later! Read about the courageous, soccer-loving women who worked hard to have a World Cup of their own in this addition to the Who HQ series. Young readers will learn about the history of women's soccer, star...

Gooaal! Soccer fans, get your game on with this book about one of the biggest tournaments in women's sports.The first international women's soccer match was in 1881, but the Women's World Cup didn't become official until 1991 -- 110 years later! Read about the courageous, soccer-loving women who worked hard to have a World Cup of their own in this addition to the Who HQ series. Young readers will learn about the history of women's soccer, star...

The game is on! Get your hands on this book about one of the most influential companies in the video game industry.Founded in 1889, Nintendo started out as a small playing card company in Japan. Though the cards sold well, Nintendo really became popular when it began creating toys in the 1960s, and then became internationally renowned after developing video games and consoles in the 1970s and '80s. After introducing the world to some of the be...

Sometimes it is hard to solve a problem when none of the choices are good. Ms. Futzy always seems to get into these predicaments. Find out what happens when Ms. Futzy finds ants in her plants (and everywhere else too).

Inspired by the extraordinary, innovative world of Transformers, More Than Meets The Eye: A Year With Transformers is filled with exciting, new ways to chase boredom away and "transform" those ordinary, lame afternoons into Cybertronian-style challenges that will leave you feeling like Wheeljack on a bad day. So team up with Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, and all your favorite Autobots, and get ready to dig in and roll on with some seriously cool a...

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To begin with, "feral" means wild, untamed, don't touch. And of course, "feline" means in the cat family. So Freddy was a wild cat who decided to live in Miss Futzy's house.Now Miss Futzy loved animals…but not wild ones in her house.But I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's go back to the beginning and see how this all got started.

What time is it . . . and how do you know?This fact- and photo-filled Smithsonian Penguin Young Reader will fill you in on how people first began measuring time and why knowing "when" is important.Time is when things happen and how long they take to happen--but how long is all that? The history of telling time is the history of inventions and communication, from hour glasses to atomic clocks, from calendars to chronometers. Tick-Tock is a fun ...

What time is it . . . and how do you know?This fact- and photo-filled Smithsonian Penguin Young Reader will fill you in on how people first began measuring time and why knowing "when" is important.Time is when things happen and how long they take to happen--but how long is all that? The history of telling time is the history of inventions and communication, from hour glasses to atomic clocks, from calendars to chronometers. Tick-Tock is a fun ...

Primate Power! What's got long red hair, toes that work like thumbs, arms longer than its legs, swings from tree branch to tree branch, and can even use an iPad? The amazing orangutan! Smithsonian's National Zoo is actively working to help save this endangered primate. Curious about how? Check out this 8 x 8 filled with full-color photos and lively text about how orangutans live and how the Zoo provides for their enrichment and survival.

Snowflakes are falling-and this cool new 8 x 8 in the Smithsonian nonfiction line tells young readers why!When does it snow? Why is snow white? How do we know no two snowflakes are alike? (Hint: the proof is in the photographs, first made in the 1890s!) With full-color photographs and the Smithsonian's famous Wilson Bentley snowflake photos, this new Curious About title looks at the science behind snow, and the history of record-setting blizza...

We share our world with all kinds of flying, crawling, buzzing, even biting insects–in fact there are more of them than us! Drawing on material from the Smithonian’s Insect Zoo, with its live insect exhibits, this lively, accessible reader uses exciting photographs and reader-friendly text to explore insect life all around us.

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Who's Looking After the Zoo?How do you weigh a panda? Or check a sea lion's tooth? Or figure out why a llama is limping? These are just some of the many tasks veterinarians, technicians, and animal keepers at the Smithsonian's National Zoo are trained in. With full-color photos and lively, accessible text, this new title looks at the very busy "to do” list of zoo workers as they take care of their creatures large and small.

There's Something New at the National Zoo Is there anything cuter than a baby panda? Bao Bao, the National Zoo's new cub, was officially introduced to the world in January 2014, after a formal naming ceremony-and this photo- and fact-filled book will introduce kids to Bao Bao's world! The lively and accessible reader looks at the zoo's panda habitat, the panda parents and their newest little cub, and how Bao Bao is cared for by the zoo handlers.

There's Something New at the National Zoo Is there anything cuter than a baby panda? Bao Bao, the National Zoo's new cub, was officially introduced to the world in January 2014, after a formal naming ceremony-and this photo- and fact-filled book will introduce kids to Bao Bao's world! The lively and accessible reader looks at the zoo's panda habitat, the panda parents and their newest little cub, and how Bao Bao is cared for by the zoo handlers.

The world of insects is buzzing all around us! Learn more in this new easy Level 3 Smithsonian reader. We share our world with all kinds of flying, crawling, buzzing, even biting insects--in fact there are more of them than us! Drawing on material from the Smithonian's Insect Zoo, with its live insect exhibits, this lively, accessible reader uses exciting photographs and reader-friendly text to explore insect life all around us.

The scoop on animal poop! Animals poop, that's a given. But what does this natural output say about what's going on inside an animal? Ask Sarah Putnam, the "Poop Sleuth" at Smithsonian's National Zoo. Sarah and the other scientists and assistants in her lab study animal scat-what it looks like, smells like, is made of-to learn about the health and well-being of the animals under their care and to help with the conversation of endangered animal...

Sometimes it is hard to solve a problem when none of the choices are good. Miss Futzy always seems to get into these predicaments. Find out what Miss Futzy decides when she suspects there is a mouse living in her oven.