Books with author Christine Webster

Did you know that a mosquito can smell people and animals from up to 100 feet (30 meters) away? Using their senses, these insects find sources of blood to feed on. A female mosquito may lay between 1,000 and 3,000 eggs in her lifetime. Discover more fascinating facts in Mosquitoes, a Bugs That Bite book. This is an AV2 media enhanced book. A unique book code printed on page 2 unlocks multimedia content. This book comes alive with embedded weblinks, audio and video clips, activities, and other features, such as a slide show, matching word activity, and quiz.

Enrich students' understanding of their favorite holidays and introduce them to new religions with the newest addition to Rosen's step-by-step guides to drawing. Each book focuses on a different holiday and eight of its most common symbols. Chapters detail the history of the holiday and interesting facts about how different holiday traditions came to be, while the drawing allows the student to tap into his or her creative side and discover that learning can be fun. Students will be fascinated by the incredible story of Passover that is detailed in this book Beginning with the Israelites' slavery in Egypt, this book takes students through the parting of the Red Sea, the ten plagues, and the traditions of the Passover seder. Students will not only enjoy drawing these symbols, but they will enrich their knowledge of Judaism with interesting details on the origin of the holiday's Hebrew name and how matzah is made!