Books in 3-D Close Up series

Read Kerry Madden's posts on the Penguin Blog.Nelle Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird was published in 1960 and became an instant bestseller. Two years later it was an Academy Award– winning film. Today, it remains standard—and beloved—reading in English classes. But Lee never wanted “the book” to define who she was, which explains her aversion to any kind of publicity. Kerry Madden conducted extensive research for this Up Close biography, which reveals Lee to be a down-to-earth Southern woman who prefers to live simply, like her neighbors do, despite the fact that she is a treasured literary legend. Madden’s in-depth biography is now more relevant than ever: 2015’s historic release of Go Set a Watchman—written by Lee before To Kill a Mockingbird and lost for decades—has thrust Lee and her work back into the spotlight.A Booklist Top Ten Biography of 2009 A Kirkus Best Book of 2009

3-D Close Up: The Human Body gives children a unique opportunity to go beneath the skin, where they can explore the amazing hidden workings of their bodies. Kids will explore the honeycomb-like structure of bones, and will follow a bite of apple through the digestive system. Filled with cool scientific photos, detailed anatomical illustrations, kid-friendly text, and four spectacular 3-D pop-up views, 3-D Close Up: The Human Body is designed in a vertical format to best showcase the body's primary systems. The perfect gift for future scientists and doctors, ages five and older.

Discover your amazing world through curious and fascinating up-close photography!Transform the ordinary into something extraordinary with exciting micro and macro photography! Fur & Feathers explores the fascinating textures of birds and animals, pairing extreme, hyper-detailed images of unique and colorful feathers and patterned fur coats with fun facts, activities, and brainteasers. So let's turn up the ZOOM and discover a whole new way of seeing the world.

Thurgood Marshall changed American history by challenging it. In the first half of the twentieth century, African Americans were often treated as second-class citizens and subject to Jim Crow laws, which promoted both racism and segregation. This is the world that Marshall grew up in, and he became a lawyer to change it. As the head counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), he helped take the famous Brown v. Board of Education all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. And in an outcome surprising even to him, the court unanimously ruled to end segregation in schools. Thurgood Marshall had become a hero.

People want their homes to be comfortable and secure, a place where they can happily raise their children and one day retire. It's no different in the animal world! There are animal architects, animal builders, and even animal squatters — meet them all in 3-D Close Up: Animal Homes! With four awesome pop-up cross sections, this fascinating new book gives young readers a chance to do in-depth investigations of some dazzling dwellings — in the trees, in the water, and underground — and meet the amazing animals that live inside. Kids will love exploring intricate insect cities, squirrels' treetop dreys, a beaver lodge, and the underground burrow of a meerkat family. Every page is bursting with engaging information, cool close-up photographs, and dramatic, highly detailed illustrations that bring the animal homes vividly to life.

Discover your amazing world through curious and fascinating up-close photography!Transform the ordinary into something extraordinary with exciting micro and macro photography! Reptiles & Amphibiansexplores all things cold-blooded, pairing extreme, hyper-detailed images of scaly skin, snake eyes, and webbed feet with fun facts, activities, and brainteasers. So let’s turn up the ZOOM and discover a whole new way of seeing the world.

Babe Ruth is still regarded as perhaps the greatest baseball player ever to step on a diamond. Born into a poor family in Baltimore, George Herman Ruth Jr. was sent to a Catholic reform school at age seven, where he learned how to play baseball. Initially a talented southpaw, the Babe went on to shatter every home-run record on the books?and when fewer games were played in a season and a heavier ball was used. In this engaging and fast-paced biography, award-winning author Wilborn Hampton shares with readers The Babe was also a man of big heart, temper, and appetite.

When people put on disguises, it might involve wigs, false moustaches and sunglasses. Not in the animal world! Get up close and personal with awesome animal disguises in the exciting new book, 3-D Close Up: Animal Camouflage. Filled with amazing close-up photographs, dramatic artwork and engaging, insightful text, this book also includes four spectacular 3-D pop-up cross sections starring amazing animals in and out of disguise! Learn why some animals need to hide (so they don't get eaten!) and how they do it (zebras have stripes to blend in with the tall grasses of the African plains). Kids will love exploring this book and trying to spot all of the masters of disguise on its pages, including clever cuttlefish that can change color in less than a second, and clouded leopards whose spots keep them hidden among the rainforest trees.

?Elvis left no one indifferent to rock and roll??so begins award-winning author Wilborn Hampton?s thoughtful account of the beloved and controversial Elvis Presley. When Elvis shook his hips and sang his soulful songs, teenagers screamed and parents fretted. Fans, record executives, movie producers, and even the army wanted a piece of this enigmatic performer and shy boy from Tupelo, Mississippi. What Elvis gave them changed music forever. This latest addition to Viking?s ongoing biography series, Up Close, includes gorgeous black-and-white photographs and introduces readers to the complicated life of the king of rock and roll.

Up Close: Jane Goodall by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen Up Close: Thurgood Marshall by Chris Crowe A trailblazing scientist made famous by her favorite primates. Jane Goodall will forever be linked with the chimpanzees that she?s studied for over fifty years. A pioneer in scientific research, she revolutionized longstanding views about chimps, forest conservation, and women in scientific fields. This Up Close biography tells the story of how a demure young woman from London went to Africa and changed the world.

Discover your amazing world through curious and fascinating up-close photography!Transform the ordinary into something extraordinary with exciting micro and macro photography! Bugs & Butterfliesexplores all things creepy and crawly, pairing extreme, hyper-detailed images of butterfly wings, honeybee eyes, and spider legs with fun facts, activities, and brainteasers. So let’s turn up the ZOOM and discover a whole new way of seeing the world.