Wonder Child

Springtime weather can bring big storms. Lyrical, rhyming text takes young listeners on a journey with furry and feathery friends to experience springtime hail.

Next to a continent or in the middle of the ocean, all islands are surrounded by water. These landforms can be rock, sand, or even coral. Listen to Islands to learn about life on these isolated places.

When Leah and her friends are magically transported to Egypt, they realize they've also been taken back in time – they're stuck in the year 1900! And, even worse, school bully has somehow travelled back with them! But when they meet Khalid and his aunt Amina, an Egyptian archaeologist who's on an expedition to discover a mythical amulet, Leah and her friends are excited to join the hunt. With a mysterious figure working to sabotage Amina, The Wonder Team will have to work together to uncover the clues and dodge booby traps as they search for the pharaoh’s treasure.

La storia della civiltà è segnata da enigmi per i quali non abbiamo ancora trovato una spiegazione sicura e razionale: i 50.000 soldati di re Cambise svaniti nel deserto, le teste dell'Isola di Pasqua costruite con tecniche apparentemente impossibili, i due stranissimi bambini verdi apparsi dal nulla in una città della Bretagna... In questi casi si sprecano le teorie che chiamano in causa mostri, extraterrestri, magia. È la forza della fantasia e delle leggende, ed è ciò che ci rende umani. Ma c'è una cosa altrettanto tipica dell'essere umano, più potente di ogni leggenda: la curiosità.

Our book is packed with fascinating information on a wide range of topics, designed to help your child learn and explore in a way that's both entertaining and enlightening.

Hache lleva poco menos de un año en su nuevo colegio —masculino, religioso— y se hace amigo de los chicos más rudos, fiesteros y altaneros del lugar. Como cualquier adolescente en busca de aceptación, logra encajar sin saber qué quiere decir eso para su destino ni el de su familia. En su primera novela, María del Mar Ramón explora los vericuetos de los ataques en manada.

When Leah unearths a mysterious time capsule in her local park with her two best friends Mimi and George, she opens up a whole new world of adventure. Transported a hundred years back in time, she finds a women's football team in crisis. Can she and her friends lead them back to victory? The odds are against them, but time is on their side!

During an ordinary visit to the library, a young girl pulls out a not-so-ordinary book from the shelves. As she turns the pages in this book about coral reefs, the city around her slips away, and she finds herself surrounded by the coral cities of the sea and the mysterious plants and animals that live, hunt, and hide there.

Ogres have towered over us in popular fairy tales for years. Have you ever wondered what ogres smell like? Do you know where ogres live? Stomp through the chapters of this book to find out the truth about ogres.

They're flying saucers or glowing balls of light. Some people say they have seen UFOs in the sky. Are the legends true?

Pirates were thieves and murderers. But even these criminals had to follow certain rules. And if they broke the rules, they faced severe punishments. Listen to learn about the pirate code and how it guided everyday life on a pirate ship.

I Wonder: Exploring God’s Grand Story, by critically acclaimed author Glenys Nellist, is an inspirational Bible that encourages children to ponder the truths God has placed in their hearts by asking thought-provoking, open-ended questions after each story.

Carla Funk grew up in a place of logging trucks and God, pellet guns and parables. Every Sunday, she sat with her mother and brother in the same pew at the Mennonite church while her dad stayed home with his cigarettes and a fridge full of whiskey. In these tender, humorous stories, Funk stitches together the wondrous and the mundane: making snow angels and carrying sacks of potatoes, tossing pig bladders like footballs, and vying for the Christmas pageant spotlight.

Pando is an inspiring tribute to a Utah grove of quaking Aspen trees connected by their roots to form one of the world's oldest and largest living things. Author Kate Allen Fox engages listeners’ senses to help convey the vastness of Pando, the challenges it faces, and how we all can be part of the solution. With lyrical poetry, Fox summarizes the science, action, and compassion needed to save this wonder of nature.

Did dinosaurs land on the moon 66 million years before us? Is the Loch Ness monster really a ghost? Should cats be in charge of protecting countries from Earthquakes? Are imaginary friends mysteriously turning into real people? Investigate the weird, the wacky and the downright weird questions you've always wanted to know the answers too (and some you hadn't even thought of!) with podcaster and fact-detective Dan Schreiber.

When her dad is kidnapped, Bitsy and best friend Kosh are swept into a secret world of ancient meteorites and strange beasts called magicores, each conjured using a different emotion. Using a powerful beastiary called Magicalia, the friends must quickly become conjurors themselves, before following a trail of clues that will take them from London to India to Paris, in a race to rescue Bitsy's dad from a mysterious villain…

Si no fuera una bruja, Tommy tendría las mismas preocupaciones que cualquier chico de su edad: un corazón roto, un mejor amigo del que cada vez se siente más distanciado y fiestas a las que acudir. Entonces se cruza con Diego Medina, el líder del aquelarre de Manhattan, quien, tras una noche de flirteo, lo invita a unirse a ellos. Según una serie de profecías, Tommy es la pieza clave para hacer frente a un mal que amenaza no solo a las brujas de Nueva York, sino a otros seres sobrenaturales.

Have you ever struggled to concentrate because there are SO many questions buzzing around your brain? Here are answers to seventy-one of the most bamboozling questions and curious queries that you can think of. How many stars are in the night sky? Why don't animals wear clothes? Do plants have feelings? This book will define, debunk, and demystify the trickiest of questions and open your eyes to amazing facts you have never even thought of!

As a neurodivergent child in a hundred-year-old house, Zaji Cox collects grammar books, second-hand toys, and sightings of feral cats. She dances and cartwheels through self-discovery and doubt, guided by her big sister and their devoted single mother. Through short essays that evoke the abundant imagination of childhood, Plums for Months explores the challenges of growing up mixed race and low-income on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon.

Frankenstein's Monster was dreamt up over 200 years ago, and the story still haunts people today. Learn more about how this creepy monster was made in a science lab.