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What are UFOs—are they military aircraft, tricks of the light, or are they alien spacecrafts visiting Earth? For hundreds of years, people have been trying to make sense of many UFO sightings. This book discusses that exploration with a combination of logical scientific explanation and the sense...

History is full of unsolved crimes, mysterious disappearances, and strange sightings. Readers will discover some of the most well-known mysteries in history--including Amelia Earhart, Big Foot, and the Salem Witch Trials--in this fascinating nonfiction book. Featuring detailed images, intriguing facts,...

Really Big Stuff is loaded with mind-boggling facts, super cool images, lively down-to-earth text, laugh-out-loud bad jokes, and copious quantities of quirky information about just about everything that is astonishingly BIG! This is just the thing to capture the curiosity and imagination of kids and...

This title will introduce eight unique and shocking animals! Each spread devotes itself to one animal, an interesting fact about them, and a beautiful, full-bleed photograph. These titles will definitely attract those reluctant readers. Complete with a table of contents, glossary, index, and even more facts! Abdo Kids is a division of ABDO.

Take a look at the world's weirdest cures--from snake oil to maggots. These stories are too strange to be made up! Written with a high interest level to appeal to a more mature audience and a lower level of complexity with clear visuals to help struggling readers along. Considerate text includes tons...

Ned the Nuclear Submarine is a story about overcoming fears, both real and imagined, to enable discovery and growth. Seldom featured in a children's book, the fascinating world of a submarine is introduced in a way that is both realistic and yet accessible, drawing upon my personal experiences as...

Do you have a compulsive desire to know something about everything? Then you have infomania, and Uncle John has the cure! Infomania is the compulsive desire to gobble up information, and kids growing up in the information age have it bad. Young infomaniacs are hungry, hungry, hungry for information....

Who made us and everything around us? God Made Everything gives whimsical and joyful answers to questions that children ask every day. The happy rhyming words will keep their attention and fulfill their curiosity.  

The glowing moon peeks from behind a massive stone house. The front door slowly creaks open. A feeling of gloom swells from inside the home. There’s an ear-splitting shriek! What horror has overtaken this ghastly gothic mansion? In the 11 gothic mansions in this book, you will explore a mansion...

There are cornfields as far as the eye can see. An old farmhouse looms in the distance. It glows an eerie white in the moonlight. It sounds as if someone is wailing in the backyard. You turn, but all you see is more land and more darkness. You notice a scarecrow hanging on a wood post. Its face has...

Thrilling, and possibly true, tales including haunted hotels and ghostly sightings are recounted in this terrifying volume. The author allows readers to imagine the possibility of the existence of ghosts while explaining how these phenomena can occur without the help of the supernatural world. The...

Un día como cualquier otro, dos amigos inseparables, Bruno y Teo, se topan con Pux, un camionero del espacio que acababa de estrellar su nave. Pux es el encargado de trasladar a un animal enorme del Parque Intergaláctico, el wochuga, que tras el impacto de la nave se escapó. Si no encuentran pronto...

Em "Curiosidades IV", Elefante Letrado seleciona uma série de coisas curiosas que acontecem no mundo. Por exemplo: Você sabia que pode comprar meias feitas com bambu? Leia e descubra.