Books published by publisher New York: Scholastic Reference

Teeny tiny animals that are totally adorable!Everyone knows kids love animals. Kids also love tiny things. So an adorable book about tiny animals is a perfect combination! There are all sorts of itty bitty animals out there: dogs, pigs, frogs, lizards, and more! Each one is small enough to fit into the palm of your hand and cute enough to melt your heart.

The #1 choice in children's dictionaries is brand new for 2010!The bestselling Scholastic Children’s Dictionary is brand new for 2010! Some of the outstanding new features include: brand new cover and interior design, MORE THAN 1,000 ALL NEW PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS. AND DOUBLE THE CURRENT NUMBER OF word histories and sample sentences. NEW entries and definitionst have been written by PROMINENT lexicographerS and reviewed by an advisory board of educators and librarians. BONUS material includiES a thesaurus and SPECIALLY COMMISSIONED ENDPAPER MAPS.

Being a kid is full of what ifs, but the biggest and worst question remains: Which is Worse? Finally, here's a hilarious book chock-full of creative, daring, gross, and terrible questions that reveal you and your friends' innermost thoughts on just what would be the worst thing ever! From gross meals (eat a spider or eat a cockroach?) to fantastically horrifying worst case scenarios (trapped in a box with a scorpion or chained to a wild tiger?), this is an awfully perfect solution to the usual boring this or that questions. Do you think you know which is worse?

From simple questions like "What color are tornado funnels?" to more complex ones like "How is a hurricane born?" this book delivers the answers kids want.Whether children hear about tornadoes and hurricanes on television, live in vulnerable areas or learn about severe weather at school, they are fascinated with and terrified by powerful storms. Kids want to know more about them, both to satisfy their curiosity and to ease their fears. This book explains everything about these storms, from how hurricanes get their names to what a tornado looks like from a distance.

Caldecott Honor winner Steve Jenkins presents a fascinating look at the bones of the human body as compared to the bones of animals, and shows them off!This book is far from skinny -- it's the definitive nonfiction title about human and animal bones, delivered with in-your-face accuracy and intrigue. In this visually driven volume, kids come face-to-face with some head-to-toe boney comparisons, many of them shown at actual size. Here you'll find the differences between a man's hand and that of a spider monkey; the great weight of an elephant's leg, paired with the feather-light femur of a stork; and rib-tickling info about snakes and sloths. How many bones are in the whole human body?

Chock-full of lists of the wacky facts that kids love, the Scholastic Book of Lists includes everything from "10 Gross Things People Really Eat" to helpful school info like "The US Presidents."Kids (and parents) will marvel at the enormous amount of fascinating trivia and useful information packed into the Scholastic Book of Lists.Each page contains a list that covers a specific aspect of world history, US history, social studies, geography, climate, math, science, language arts, pop culture, animals, or the arts.A fresh, kid-friendly design and humorous illustrations will appeal to children whether they are browsing for their own entertainment or using the index to get some quick homework help.(cont'd)

Fun, photographic nonfiction at its best from the authors of the successful Scholastic Question and Answer series.Scholastic True or False is a science series aimed at second and third graders in a fun question-and-answer format. Each book contains 22 true or false questions with a full-color photograph of butterflies and caterpillars on every page. Kids will read the question on the right and turn the page to see the answer on the left. Every answer also includes a bonus fact related to the question.

The next wave of titles in the re-launch of the highly popular First Discovery series. Big, colorful illustrations and simple, direct text show kids the wonders of automobiles.Scholastic First Discovery: Cars & Trucks, with its fresh cover design, kid-friendly paperback format, and larger trim size offers young readers an easy-to-use, easy-to-understand introduction to automobiles. Full-color, highlighted illustrations are accompanied by brief, simple text full of fun facts. Four transparent acetate pages in this title add a fun visual kick.

The successful author/illustrator team from "Dinosaurs to Dodos" now presents the most comprehensive and complete reference on dinosaurs available anywhere.Scholastic Dinosaurs A to Z presents an enormous amount of dinosaur information for budding paleontologists and amateur fossil hunters.Arranged alphabetically, this book contains more than 700 entries of every creature that has scientifically been deemed a dinosaur as well as those that are commonly mistaken for dinosaurs. This easy-to-navigate organization allows readers of all ages to glean as much or as little information about each animal as they need.(cont'd)

Discover the secrets of the animal kingdom!It's definitely not a secret that kids can't get enough of animals! In 101 Animal Secrets they'll discover tons of fun and wacky facts like:· A giraffe can lick its ear with its tongue.· Mosquitoes don't bite.· Fish sleep with their eyes open.· Mice don't love cheese.· You can't escape a lion by climbing up a tree.Each secret is numbered, and every page has a full-color, full-paged photograph with a short block of text in a kid-friendly font.