Books with author Crabtree Publishing Company

Yellow Bananas are captivating chapter books designed to help young readers make the transition from storybooks to text-based books. The next level up from Blue Bananas, each book features short chapters, engaging full-color illustrations, and a strong story about interesting characters. As their reading abilities develop, kids will want to make the jump from Blue to Yellow Bananas!

This book is suitable for ages 6 to 12 years. Every day, up to 100 species of animals become extinct, and each year this number grows. The focus of these series is to help children to gain an appreciation of each animal's important role on Earth. Set includes: "Endangered Bats"; "Endangered Bears"; "Endangered Butterflies"; "Endangered Chimpanzees"; "Endangered Elephants"; "Endangered Frogs"; "Endangered Komodo Dragons"; "Endangered Leopards"; "Endangered Manatees"; "Endangered Monk Seals"; "Endangered Monkeys"; "Endangered Mountain Gorillas"; "Endangered Pandas"; "Endangered Penguins"; "Endangered Rhinoceros"; "Endangered Sea Turtles"; "Endangered Tigers"; "Endangered Wolves"; and, "Endangered Zebras".

This exciting new series puts young readers in the driver's seat and takes them for a thrilling ride through the wildly popular sport of NASCAR. Each book in this high interest series explores an element of the sport in spectacular detail through engaging text and colorful photos designed to inform and entertain. The series recounts the origins of NASCAR, profiles great champions, teams, and famous tracks, and highlights some of the greatest races in the history of the sport.

Travel back thousands of years and explore the first great civilizations of the world. Timelines, maps, illustrations, and artwork from ancient sources combine with simple text to show how civilizations between 3000 B.C. and 500 A.D. were governed, how people lived, and the arts and technology they developed that are still with us today. Each book features: - illustrated timelines highlighting important events, inventions, and people- full-color maps showing the location and geographic boundaries of each civilization- special sections on an important city, site, or ritual, such as embalming mummies in Egypt- how people lived, what they ate, whether they went to school, and what games they played- why the ancient knowledge is still important today