Books with author John Clark Pratt

"Plants & Animals" is one of four titles in the Mad About Science series. This is a bright, colourful series designed to help Key Stage 2 children (7-11s) develop their scientific skills and knowledge, mainly by learning at home in support of their National Curriculum classroom studies.Each book is packed full of easy-to-perform experiments illustrating basic scientific theories and processes. No special equipment is needed for the experiments; everything required can easily be found in the average home. As well as the experiments there are lots of Amazing Facts and Did You Know? boxes to intrigue and amaze.The books are fun and stimulating and make science truly accessible and enjoyable.

When a great storm ravages his tropical island, the young dragon, Paradigm, is forced from the safety of his cave into the wide world he fears so much. But when he discovers that he is not the only dragon on the island his fate is set in motion, and he is swept into an adventure that will take him across the ocean and back again. But Paradigm is more than just a dragon, he is a Dream Dragon and his fate is linked with that of mankind. He must quickly learn to use his powers before a dark and terrible force can steal his soul and encase the entire world in eternal fear.

Excerpt from The Jester: Containing Nearly One Thousand Anecdotes, Conundrums, and WitticismsIndustry must prosper, as the man said when holding the baby, while his wife chopped wood.A wag hearing that in 1830 the brewers eon sumed seven hundred thousand quarters of barley less than were used in 1730, and yet made a mil lion barrels more beer, asked very pertinently which had grown smaller, the barrels or the beer.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.