Books in Dover Children's Science Books series

This coloring book is a fun-to-follow guide for every family that owns a cat or is considering adopting one. Simple pictures and clear, concise captions teach smart, safe ways for children to interact and bond with their pets. Tips include the importance of vaccinations, fresh water and food, and litter-box cleanliness, as well as suggestions for grooming and training.

This fact-filled guide will transport you into the vast ocean habitats of leatherback turtles, dolphins, manta rays, and other creatures. Explore a coral reef, trace a sea turtle's path from egg to ocean, and discover an exciting array of other marine animals. Along with fascinating tidbits of information about these ocean dwellers, you'll find loads of activities, including: • Coloring pages• Word searches• Spot-the-differences• Drawing exercises• Mazes & more!

Here's a bonanza of 93 stimulating brainteasers, ideal for limbering and strengthening young mental muscles. Many of the puzzles are classics, while others are presented here for the first time. Ridiculous riddles, tantalizing teasers, intricate mazes, deceptive illusions, tricky questions, and a host of unusual word and picture puzzles offer young readers hours of challenging fun. Youngsters will love such intriguing mind-builders as The Maze of Minotaur, the Dime-and-Penny Switcheroo, Mr. Bushyhead's Problems, Knock, Knock…Who's There?, Mrs. Windbag's Gift, Find the Duck, Bee on the Nose, The Flatz Beer Goof, and many more.Compiled by noted puzzle expert Martin Gardner, this collection combines two books in one, providing a double helping of puzzle fun in one convenient volume. Richly illustrated with diagrams and hilarious drawings by Laszlo Kubinyi, this curious and comic collection is the perfect companion for car trips, parties and picnics, or long rainy days. Solutions are at the back of the book — but don't peek until you've given the puzzles a try!

Kids will have fun creating hilarious animal faces with this mix and match sticker book. The colorful collection of creatures includes a slithering snake, a friendly pony, a frisky penguin, a squeaking mouse, and dozens more. More than 200 reusable stickers include eyes, noses, mouths, and other funny facial features that can be used to make hundreds of crazy combinations.

Discover the fascination of astronomy with 100 easy, inexpensive projects that promise loads of fun for sky watchers of all ages. Geared toward beginning astronomers from junior high school level and up, this entertaining guide was written in direct, nontechnical terms by an experienced astronomer and well-known author. Daylight and nighttime activities include sightings of comets, meteors, stars, and planets as well as phases of the Moon, halos, twilights, and many other intriguing phenomena.These interesting, instructive activities and projects require just the naked eye and ordinary household materials. In addition to a wealth of activities for families to enjoy together, Seeing the Sky also offers a fine resource for classrooms, astronomy clubs, nature societies, and other groups. This updated edition features a new Preface, two new tables, and a revised Sources of Information list that includes current websites.

When you teach a child to designate each finger while he recites "This little piggy went to market," etc., you are introducing him to Finger Play, an immemorial delight of children everywhere. If you make the rhyme longer, to encompass a little story, set it to a catchy tune, and show him Finger Plays for each part of the story, he will not only enjoy it, but learn, develop his understanding, dexterity, and even graphic sense with it. That is precisely the purpose of the 18 classic Finger Plays in this book.There are Finger Plays here for children from less than one to seven or eight years old, to be enjoyed individually or in groups, at home or kindergarten. Some teach counting, some nature lore, some home activities. Each involves imitation of the shapes of objects and of movement. There is a simple song for each (the music is for voice and piano), and illustrations by the noted L. J. Bridgman that show the finger positions while they decorate charmingly. Titles of the Finger Plays include "The Little Men" (who are the five fingers), "All for Baby," "A Little Boy's Walk," "The Counting Lesson," "Making Bread," "The Lambs," and so forth.This famous volume went through edition after edition before the turn of the twentieth century, remaining so popular that it was re-copyrighted by the author in 1921. Emilie Poulsson, very well known for her children's books and kindergarten work, composed these rhymes especially for Finger Play, and in the process created, with Miss Roeske, little songs so endearing to children that they may, with their present republication, be justly called perennial.

Written by the dean of children's science books, this colossal resource is a must-have for young scientists ages 9 and up. Revitalized with more than 175 new and revised entries plus 260 freshly colorized illustrations, the book now features more than 2,100 entries that cover all branches of science from astronomy to zoology.Fascinating features include the origins of hundreds of terms and biographies of prominent scientists. Informative tables cover units of measurement, the periodic table, basic equations, symbols, and scientific suffixes and prefixes. Detailed charts include weather maps and illustrations of the solar system, star magnitudes, the interior of the Earth, atmospheric layers, basic taxonomy, the geological timescale, and many other subjects. Written in lively, straightforward terms, this user-friendly volume answers a myriad of intriguing questions and provides a springboard for a better grasp of our planet and its place in the universe.

Things are out of place in these pictures — can you find them?This fun-filled picture puzzle book contains 30 large, ready-to-color illustrations of boys and girls involved in a variety of activities: doing farm chores, working in a garden, and more. But look closely at the pictures and you'll find something's definitely wrong! There's a cow on a skateboard and another one flying through the air; a little girl is digging with a broom; and not far away, an ice cream cone is sprouting in the flower bed.Each illustration includes a number of things that just don't belong there. How many can you find in each picture? You'll have fun finding "what's wrong," coloring the pictures, and building up your thinking power all at the same time!

Learn about Adams' pet alligator, Taft's nickname, and more! Fun facts about 41 different presidents are the clues to these hidden-word puzzles. Names of family members, hobbies, pets, and other related terms appear within each puzzle — backward, forward, diagonally, vertically, and horizontally — and in a separate list of clues. Kids will have hours of presidential amusement! Solutions are included.

This book of crossword puzzles will help youngsters improve spelling skills and learn new words — all while having fun!Thirty easy-to-work crosswords, each with spaces for four or five words, come with numbered pictures that match the numbers on the puzzle grid. Each puzzle has a theme: weather-related words, types of transportation, fruit, animals, birds, numbers, flowers, musical instruments, and so on. Best of all, the puzzles are accompanied by large, colorable pictures so children can have even more fun while they build word skills.

Find the bridges between islands, follow a trail with no left turns, guide a pinball against a series of bumpers — and don't break any of the rules! This colorful compilation features over 100 original puzzle mazes of 18 different types by maze expert Dave Phillips. Each puzzle maze cites particular stipulations that make its solution far more challenging than that of any ordinary maze. Geared toward puzzlists ages 12 and up, the mazes are grouped by type and include clues and solutions.