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Growing to an incredible 18 feet in length, the king cobra is the longest venomous snake in the world. When confronted, this deadly animal stands up by raising up to one-third of its body off the ground and emitting a bone-chilling hiss. In this position the snake can stare a person in the faceeye to eye. The intimidating display is more than enough to scare off most would-be attackers! In King Cobras: The Biggest Venomous Snakes of All!, larg...

The black mamba is one of the most dangerous snakes in the world. It is big, fast, and very aggressive when threatened. It is also highly poisonous: a black mambas potent venom can kill a person within 20 minutes. A single bite has enough venom to kill 20-40 grown men! Needless to say, without treatment a black mamba bite is 100% fatal. Packed with fascinating facts and large, colorful photos, Black Mambas: Sudden Death! introduces emergent re...

If you hear a loud, rattling noise coming from a snake, watch out! You may be standing near one of Americas most venomous snakes. The diamondback rattler makes a buzzing noise by rattling its tail. The sound warns predators to back off or face a venomous attack. Some kinds of diamondbacks are the heaviest venomous snakes in the Americas, and their bites can be truly life-threatening to humansoften causing severe pain and tissue destruction, ev...

Death adders cant move very fast from place to place, so how do these venomous snakes catch their prey? They have the quickest strike of any snake in the world! These crafty killers can strike, bite, and curl up again in less than one tenth of one second. Thats about as long as it takes to blink! In that fraction of a second, the snakes two-inch long fangs can inject a venom that is one and a half times more toxic than the Indian cobra! In Dea...

The fer-de-lance is one of the largest and most poisonous snakes in the world. In fact, it causes more human deaths than any other American reptile. This fierce killer has a special feature that helps it catch prey: a sensor located on its head allows it to detect heat given off by warm-blooded animals so the snake is able to strike its victims with near 100% accuracyeven in total darkness! Packed with fascinating facts and large, colorful pho...

A coral snake may be small, but dont be fooled. This colorful little reptile carries a lethal weaponone of the deadliest snake venoms in the world! The coral snakes magnificent colors serve as a warning to other animals to stay away or risk being attacked by a poisonous killer. Certain folk rhymes, in fact, were invented to help people learn to identify these snakes. For example, Red and yellow, kill a fellow, red and black, venom lack. Packed...

How does a land snail move from one place to the next? The snail oozes a thick, slippery slime that it uses to slide over rough objects. Even with their special slime, however, these invertebrates cant move very fast. In fact, some land snails can only creep along at a speed of about two inches per minute! These are just some of the fascinating facts children will discover as they explore the strange and unusual world of these creepy crawlers....

Can we meet todays energy challenges with clean, cheap, renewable sources of energy? Yes! And one of the solutions is right under our feet. Using Earths Underground Heat uses clear, simple text to explain how people around the world are harnessing geothermal heat to meet our 21st-century energy needs in agriculture, industry, and residential heating. Kids will also discover ways they can help make their planet greener.

Which dinosaur was as long as two dump trucks? Answer: Giganotosaurus (jig-ah-not-oh-SOR-uhss). At 49 feet (15 m) long, this giant creature may have been the biggest meat-eating dinosaur to ever roam the earth. This is just one of the many fascinating facts kids will discover as they learn all about the largest animals of the dinosaur age. Giant-o-saurs uses an engaging question-and-answer format that makes reading fun for emergent and early r...

Garden spiders spin webs to trap insects they want to eat. What happens when the web gets torn? If the damage is minor, the spider may repair the web, using more silk. If the damage is more serious, it eats the web and builds a new one. These are just some of the surprising facts that young readers will discover as they explore the unusual world of these crafty spiders. Large, eye-popping photographs and fascinating, grade-appropriate text wil...

Poetry. Second Edition. Winner of the 1992 Word Works Washington Prize. Of SUN, MOON, SALT Thomas Lux writes "These poems are tough, funny, wise, sensuous, wild and almost celebratory." Alan Dugan observes, "Nancy White's poems are written in a voice that is fully conscious of the modern horrors yet asks, What good can happen?'" Cover art by Anastasia Nute.

The Maine coon is one of the largest breeds of domestic cats in the world. While most adult cats weigh 8-11 pounds, many Maine coons weigh as much as 18 pounds. Maine coons are also taller and longer than most other kinds of cats. Plus, their long fur and big, fluffy tails make them look even bigger than they really are! Maine coons are so good-natured and affectionate, though, that they are known as the gentle giants of the cat world. Their p...

The first Siamese cats were probably bred around 500 years ago in Siam, the country that is now called Thailand. Some legends say that the cats lived in temples and were owned only by royalty. Today, the Siamese is one of the most popular cat breeds in the United States. Siamese cats are known as good communicators with an unusually loud meow. Theyre also smart and can be trained to obey commands such as sit and stay. Some Siamese cats will ev...

Everything parents need to help their kids succeed in social studies. . The only comprehensive social studies skill-building series available, the Get Ready! For Social Studies series equips proactive parents with the tools they need to help their children develop the core skills required to perform at grade level in social studies-related subjects.. . Organized chronologically from pre-history to the present, this guide illustrates the deve...

Everything parents need to help their kids succeed in social studies The only comprehensive social studies skill-building series available, the Get Ready! For Social Studies series equips proactive parents with the tools they need to help their children develop the core skills required to perform at grade level in social studies-related subjects. "Book Reports, Essays, and Research Papers" provides step-by-step instruction, models, and practic...

This volume documents the lives and work of pioneering women archaeologists in the southeastern United States, from the 1920s through the 1960s, portraying their professional accomplishments in the context of their personal lives. Some of the women are working today, and they either wrote their own stories or were interviewed. Others are no longer living, their biographies are gleaned from archival research. Rich with humor, tragedy, and impor...