Curiosities Wonders category: 913 books

Does your child love dinosaurs? Then this lively, fast-paced and informative book will enchant them! Filled with rich and vibrant photographs, it will appeal to children of all ages! Dinosaurs are endlessly fascinating. Their ferocity, size and speed, and the fact that they once roamed...

Spinosaurus was one of the strangest looking dinosaurs to ever be discovered. What was this strange animal with huge bones sticking up from its spine? After many years of studying spinosaurus, here are some things that scientists have discovered. How tall was the sail on spinosaurus? Was spinosaurus...

The Complete Book of Scoutmaster's Minutes is a continuation of the beloved Scoutmaster's Minutes series. This book includes a combination of the stories from Scoutmaster's Minutes and Scoutmaster's Minutes II. This edition includes quotes from famous sports heroes, impactful stories from veterans, scout spirit, the building of character, as well as morals and values.

Astrological guide to love, life and relationships for teenager girls. Each chapter presents information on one of the 12 signs including personality, finance, compatibility with other signs and passions.

STINKY FACTS FOR STINKY KIDS is a fun and funny book about things that smell. Some of them smell OK, but most of them smell bad. Awesomely bad. Epically bad. STINK-fically bad! Here are hundreds of strange, weird and downright stink-arooney facts to entertain and delight...

La storia come non te l’hanno mai raccontata! Come si mummifica una testa in otto semplici mosse? Come fai a sapere se la tua casa è infestata? E qual è la creatura più letale al mondo? Queste e tante altre macabre curiosità ti aspettano fra le raccapriccianti pagine di questo libro!

La matematica come non te l’hanno mai spiegata! Perché lo zero è un numero importantissimo? Come si calcola la distanza Terra-Luna con un triangolo? E come si usano numeri e lettere per criptare un messaggio? Queste e tante altre ingegnose curiosità ti aspettano fra le divertenti pagine di questo libro!

Theaters are fun places to visit—most of the time. These beautiful buildings are usually filled with funny comedies, dramatic tragedies, and exciting musicals. Yet what happens when the most exciting and dramatic events aren’t happening on the stage? Many theaters have been the scenes of unusual...

Places that are filled with history are also thought to be filled with ghosts. If that is true, then Washington, D.C.—a city that dates back to the earliest days of the United States of America—is surely one of the most haunted cities in the country. In A Haunted Capital, children visit eleven...

Most days, schools are filled with students learning in classrooms, studying in libraries, and eating in lunchrooms. Yet what about the reports that something more unusual has been spotted in these buildings? Are they true? According to some, ghostly figures and creepy spirits haunt the hallways of...

To most people, an inn is a place for weary travelers who are hungry and tired to get a bite to eat and rest for a while. After a few days, guests usually check out and return home or continue on their journey. Some people, however, check into an inn and never check out. Their ghosts stay on, sharing...

Most people stop at stations for a brief time when they travel by train or subway. As passengers come and go, the stations are filled with happy greetings and sad good-byes. But are the stations also filled with something more out of the ordinary? According to some, spooky ghosts and mischievous spirits...

A big, beautiful mansion sounds like a great place to live. But what if its many rooms hold only memories of pain and suffering? What if sad spirits haunt the hallways and ghostly screams echo out the large windows? No amount of money can stop a house like that from becoming a nightmare. Among the...

Morgues, funeral homes, and mortuaries are all places where the dead are kept before they reach their final resting place—the grave. Here, corpses are prepared for funerals or autopsied to find out the cause of death. According to some people, morgues are also places where ghosts reside long after...