Rodney, a robot who loves to invent, wants to pursue a career at Bigweld Industries, but when he arrives, he finds that the company has been taken over by an evil executive who wants to get rid of all rusted and dented robots.
Paperback
(Random House Books for Young Readers, May 23, 2006)
Jeff’s Uncle Roy runs a museum and is always zooming off to strange places. Now Uncle Roy is taking Jeff with him to the steamy Amazon jungle. Maybe they’ll track down crocodiles or poisonous snakes or jaguars for Uncle Roy’s museum. Wrong! On this trip, Uncle Roy is looking for . . . butterflies. Butterflies?
Did you ever walk through a wall? Drink a glass of blocks? Have you ever played with a lemonade doll, or put on milk for socks? This latest addition to the Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science series introduces the youngest readers to an important science concept: the differences between solids, liquids, and gases. Any child who wants to know why he can't walk through a wall will enjoy Kathleen Zoehfeld's simple text and Paul Meisel's playful illustrations.
Watch a tiny tadpole turn into an adult frog! The Scholastic Science Readers series was created especially to bring exciting nonfiction to beginning readers. Illustrated with full-color photos.A simple explanation of how a tadpole becomes an adult frog. First, watch a tiny jelly egg become a tadpole with a tail. See the tadpole hatch and grow four legs, two at a time. Watch the tadpole's tail shrink, page by page...Finally, you'll see a full-grown frog! Full-color photographs show every stage of development.