Books with title Pocket Genius: Rocks and Minerals: Facts at Your Fingertips

Destined to be toted in school backpacks everywhere, DK's new encyclopedia series for young readers contains on-the-spot information in children's favorite subject areas. Kids love facts: they want to know about the biggest, fastest, tallest, and oldest everything. Full of instant information, these books feature a fresh and striking design that is sure to appeal to the middle-grade audience. These single-subject guides offer a unique catalog-style presentation, which clearly lays out individual subcategories with concise and punchy text covering all of the essential information on whatever topic is at hand. Featuring almost 200 profiles of individual species as well as informative spreads on anatomy, behavior, and classification, Pocket Genius: Mammals looks at humans, whales, wallabies, camels and more and their place in the natural world.

Learn all about dogs in a child-friendly format that combines engaging photography with clear text in bite-sized chunks that will encourage and inform even reluctant readers. DK's Pocket Genius books feature distinct spread styles that add interest and variety to the books, from catalogs and thematic spreads to exciting full-page splash images.The convenient and economical format is ideal for children to use at home or school. Punchy bullet-point facts provide at-a-glance information, while size, shape, or locator icons are immediately recognizable references that children can easily understand. Additional genius gem facts provide extra wows. Fact files round off the book with fascinating facts such as record breakers and timelines, as well as a glossary.

Pocket Genius: Ancient Rome is filled with bite-sized chunks of information that make learning about the Roman Empire even more fun. Find out what Romans ate at their banquets and what bloody spectacles they watched at the arena. Read about cruel emperors and brave gladiators and how Romans built their roads, aqueducts, palaces, and temples, and use the catalog entries to find out fast facts about everything to do with the Romans — from their gods and goddesses to their toys, games, and musical instruments. Packed with amazing encyclopedic stats, engaging photographs and facts, Pocket Genius: Ancient Rome explores the empire that dominated Europe and the Middle East for more than 500 years. Full of instant information, the Pocket Genius series features a fresh and striking design that is sure to appeal to the middle grade audience. Supports the Common Core State Standards.

Discover the world of Ancient Rome in a child-friendly format that combines engaging photography with clear text in bite-sized chunks that will encourage and inform even reluctant readers. DK's Pocket Genius books feature distinct spread styles that add interest and variety to the books, from catalogs and thematic spreads to exciting full-page splash images.The convenient and economical format is ideal for children to use at home or school. Punchy bullet-point facts provide at-a-glance information, while size, shape, or locator icons are immediately recognizable references that children can easily understand. Additional genius gem facts provide extra wows. Fact files round off the book with fascinating facts such as record breakers and timelines, as well as a glossary.

Destined to be toted in school backpacks everywhere, DK's new encyclopedia series for young readers contains on-the-spot information in children's favorite subject areas. Kids love facts: they want to know about the biggest, fastest, tallest, and oldest everything. Full of instant information, these books feature a fresh and striking design that is sure to appeal to the middle-grade audience. These single-subject guides offer a unique catalog-style presentation, which clearly lays out individual subcategories with concise and punchy text covering all of the essential information on whatever topic is at hand. Arranged into chapters on bones and joints, blood and heart, lungs and breathing, digestion and waste, brain, nerves and senses, and the life cycle, Pocket Genius: Human Body is a look at the body from head to toe, from the outer skin to the tiniest cells.

This new and exciting series of pocket encyclopedias is full of instant information and fits in a backpack or back pocket. Featuring a fresh and striking design sure to appeal to the middle-grade audience, these guides offer a unique catalog-style presentation, which clearly lays out individual species with concise and punchy text covering all of the essential information. Full color.