Books in Dover Children's Science Books series

This charming book shows you how to have fun with a pastime that has delighted children and adults for generations: making shadow pictures on the wall with your hands and fingers.Selected from the pages of two clever 19th-century picture books, 28 hand-shadow illustrations demonstrate how to create marvelous images of a goose, deer (with antlers), birds, a bunny, a dog, an elephant, a tortoise, and a host of other familiar creatures. For extra enjoyment, the illustrations are accompanied by lively, often hilarious verses by Frank Jacobs, whose zany humor and wacky parodies have appeared in numerous publications.With this book and a bit of practice , you'll soon be delighting friends and relatives with an entertaining performance of shadow art.

The most popular hobby in the world, stamp collecting has millions of fans in the United States alone. Many are adults who have turned a childhood interest in philately into a pleasurable (and often profitable) lifetime avocation. This volume has everything needed to start a personal stamp collection: Entries for nearly 200 countries; Spaces for more than 2,600 stamps; Over 1,100 black-and-white illustrations of stamps; Easy-to-use Stamp Identifier Table and Index.Clear instructions for using the album and the Stamp Identifier Table are included, along with many useful hints and tips on building a collection. An entertaining, inexpensive way to learn about faraway people and places, stamp collecting brings a sense of excitement and adventure with each new acquisition. This book offers would-be collectors that ticket to discovery.

Head south of the border to explore a sunny world of puzzles and fun facts! Welcome to Mexico, land of tropical rain forests, volcanoes, deserts, and beaches — and a vibrant array of ancient and modern traditions. This book introduces kids ages 6 to 10 to fascinating aspects of Mexican geography, language, food, arts, sports, and festivals. Puzzles and activities range from dot-to-dots, crosswords, and spot-the-differences to easy directions for making piñatas and maracas. Cute illustrations offer plenty of opportunities for coloring.

With this easy-to-read book, children will discover the facts behind the seemingly magical conversions that transform a wooly caterpillar into a graceful butterfly and a swimming tadpole into a leaping frog. Far from being supernatural, these changes involve a fascinating natural process, and this book presents a well-illustrated look at how some baby animals develop from a larval stage into adults that bear little resemblance to their former selves.The authors, seasoned writers of popular science books for children, examine the metamorphoses of moths, honeybees, dragonflies, starfish, and eels. Their imaginative analogies, phrased in simple language, offer a memorable introduction to a fundamental natural process. Ideal for school use, this book offers fascinating facts that will capture young readers outside the classroom as well.

Winner of a Bronze 2018 Moonbeam Children's Book Award! Your brain uses our five senses — sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch — to figure out what's going on in the world around you. This book shows how your senses work by combining easy-to-understand explanations with detailed illustrations for you to color. You'll also find out about similarities and differences between human and animal sensory perception. Discover the nervous system, the pathway of sensory information, and how neurons receive and send data. Read about synesthesia, an extreme form of perception that enables people to hear sounds in response to smell, feel something in response to sight, and experience other unusual sensory combinations. Learn about special animal senses that detect heat, provide night vision, and alert birds, fish, and mammals to when it's time to migrate. These and other fascinating aspects of the senses are described and illustrated with 46 full-page illustrations to color.

What better way is there to learn than by doing? This unusual book enables children to carry out more than 103 different experiments and demonstrations, carefully planned to illustrate principles of modern science. Clear step-by-step instructions, frequent diagrams, and clear statements of conclusions all enable the young student to carry through these experiments with minimal supervision, yet full success.The science projects included demonstrate what things are made of and how substances are affected by the different forms of energy, heat, light, sound, mechanical energy, electricity, and magnetism. The experiments show how a thermometer measures temperature, how an electric bulb gives light, how shadows are formed, how a stethoscope works, how to make a periscope, how to make a rainbow, how straws work, how water changes size, and many other fascinating facts. Little is required in the way of equipment other than simple materials found at home, such as bottles, cardboard, wire, nails, cork, paper, and magnets.This volume offers upper grade school, junior high school, and high school students a very entertaining way to enrich their background in science and its applications. It is also a very valuable aid to parents, teachers, and others who wish to make clear, forceful demonstrations to children.

What bird can lift the heaviest weight?What is worse than finding a worm in an apple?What animal doesn't play fair?These and about 600 other howlers and teeth-gritters will be found in this entertaining collection. You'll find rib-tickling riddles on all sorts of subjects, from animals, plants, fruits and people, to love and courtship, and eating and drinking.You'll have loads of fun baffling friends and relatives with this nearly inexhaustible treasury of favorite riddles that have puzzled people for generations. Parents and teachers will remember the fun times they had when they endlessly recited these humorous stumpers in their own younger days. Ready to tickle the funny bones and challenge the wits of riddle lovers of all ages, these brain-teasers, puns, and puzzles are perfect for enjoying by yourself or to liven up parties, family gatherings and other group occasions.Answers: The crane. Finding half a worm. The Cheetah.

Add up the money in a wallet full of yen, fold an origami hat, and follow a maze through the sights of Kyoto! These and other playful activities for children ages 6 to 10 offer a warm welcome to the Land of the Rising Sun. A host of crosswords, jumbles, cryptograms, spot-the-differences, and other puzzles acquaint kids with Japanese geography, language, food, arts, sports, and festivals.

At first glance, the scene looks like any other cozy camping spot. But look closer and you'll see it has all the trappings of an enchanted forest. This and 23 other delightfully drawn tableaux challenge sharp-eyed sleuths to ferret out cleverly concealed objects in artist Joe Boddy's immensely entertaining hidden picture puzzle book.Puzzlists of all ages will enjoy grappling with such pictorial bafflers as helping a young boy deep in a jungle find a fishing pole, hiking boots, compass, and other survival equipment; finding tools for an absent-minded tree-house builder; locating good things for a little lad to eat in an apparently foodless kitchen, and much more.Solutions are provided for the optically frustrated; and for coloring book fans, these intriguing pictures also offer hours of coloring pleasure.

Won't you help George Washington find his false teeth? And guide Barack Obama to his lost basketball? Perhaps you'd like to seek out Van Buren's bag of gold, discover Harding's teapot, and locate Taft's gavel? More than 30 mazes, search-and-find puzzles, and spot-the-differences activities feature playful illustrations and intriguing tidbits about all our nation's leaders, including Donald J. Trump, from their nicknames and birthdays to their hobbies and pets.

Follow the numbers for holiday coloring fun! Kids will get into the Christmas spirit with these 30 charming color-by-number pictures. Illustrations of jolly carolers, busy elves, window shoppers, and other seasonal scenes feature numbered color guides on each page. Great fun for home or school, this book will provide hours of entertainment for children ages 4 to 7.