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Books in Find Out About Food series

  • Find Out About Food

    Tea Benduhn

    Paperback (Weekly Reader/Gareth Stevens Pub, July 15, 2007)
    Find Out About Food teaches readers that eating many different types of foods every day helps them to be healthy and strong. Featuring the government’s new, updated food pyramid, each book explains how one of the six different types of foods fits into the pyramid and describes the ways that certain foods contribute to health and fitness.
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  • Oils

    Tea Benduhn, Susan Nations

    Library Binding (Weekly Reader/Gareth Stevens Pub, July 15, 2007)
    Presents information about oils, and how eating a variety of them in moderation every day can keep children strong and keep their skin healthy.
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  • Find Out About Flight: With 18 projects and more than 240 pictures

    Peter Mellett

    Hardcover (Armadillo, June 15, 2013)
    A fascinating fact file and learn-it-yourself project book. Features 18 hands-on experiments to help you really find out - make a miniature plane and a hot-air balloon, construct a kite, and build models that demonstrate how birds fly and how jets engines work. Ideal for 8-12 year-olds for home and school use.
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  • Fruit

    Tea Benduhn, Susan Nations

    Library Binding (Weekly Reader/Gareth Stevens Pub, July 15, 2007)
    Presents information about fruit, and how eating a wide variety of it every day provides energy and keeps children healthy.
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  • Ancient Japan

    Fiona Macdonald

    Paperback (Anness, March 1, 2001)
    Marvel at the secrets of Japan--a land of emperors and shoguns, tea ceremonies and martial arts.
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  • The Roman Empire: What Life was Like in the Ancient World

    Philip Steele

    Paperback (Anness, Jan. 1, 2000)
    Packed with more than 200 photographs, cross-sections, maps, and a pictorial timeline. Fact boxes provide extra insights and highlight links with the present.
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  • Find Out About Insects: With 18 projects and more than 260 pictures

    Jen Green

    Hardcover (Armadillo, June 15, 2013)
    Find out about butterflies, moths, ants, termites, bees, wasps, dragonflies and other fascinating minibeasts in this accessible and lively book. Combining facts, pictures and practical projects, children can learn how to make a pond net and a pooter to collect specimens, rear stick insects and watch a tortoiseshell butterfly emerge from its chrysalis.
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  • Find Out About Machines: With 19 projects and more than 260 pictures

    Chris Oxlade

    Hardcover (Armadillo, June 15, 2013)
    Discover what machines are, how they work, and how they have developed through history, in this fascinating fact file and learn-it-yourself project book. Includes 19 practical experiments - make a windmill, a hydraulic lifter and even a vacuum cleaner! An accessible and lively introduction to machines, ideal for home or school use for 8 to 12 year olds.
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  • Find Out About The Sea: With 20 projects and more than 260 pictures

    Robin Kerrod

    Hardcover (Armadillo, June 15, 2013)
    Explore the murky and mysterious ocean depths, the sweeping tides and currents, icy polar waters and warm, bright coral reefs with this fascinating fact file and learn-it-yourself book. 20 amazing projects and experiments investigate the secrets of the sea - make waves in a tank, construct a rock-pool viewer, and build a sea-bird hide. Ideal for home or school use for 8 to 12 year-olds.
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  • Ancient Egypt

    Miriam Stead, Angus McBride, Eric Thomas

    Hardcover (Trafalgar Square Books, March 1, 1992)
    Discusses the history, rulers, and culture of ancient Egypt.
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  • Find Out About Weather: With 15 projects and more than 260 pictures

    Robin Kerrod

    Hardcover (Armadillo, June 15, 2013)
    Weather is all around us. This fact-file and practical book tells you all about climates and seasons, why temperatures rise and fall, how clouds, snow and ice form, and how people are able to forecast the weather. The hands-on projects make it easy to learn for yourself: find out how to measure wind, make your own weather vane, and test air pressure using a balloon, baking soda and vinegar!
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  • Ancient Egypt

    Philip Steele

    Paperback (Anness, Jan. 1, 2000)
    A 15 step-by-step projects enable you to recreate the past. Fact boxes provide extra insights and highlights links with the present.
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