Questa autrice è un leader riconosciuto nella saggistica per bambini, con opere pubblicate in 28 lingue che raggiungono circa 85 milioni di bambini all'anno. Fornisce testi informativi di alta qualità che supportano l'educazione K-12 nelle arti linguistiche inglesi, nelle scienze sociali e nelle scienze. La sua scrittura è in linea con i Common Core State Standards, offrendo risorse adatte per le aule della scuola primaria, elementare superiore e media.
A Complete Encyclopedia of the U.S. Presidency, 2024 Edition
224pagine
8 ore di lettura
Featuring a wealth of photographs and up-to-date information, this comprehensive reference book provides essential insights into the 2024 presidential election, including the newly elected president. Its revised and updated content ensures that readers have access to the latest facts and figures, making it an invaluable resource for understanding contemporary political dynamics.
Featuring essential travel information and stunning photography, this guidebook offers insider tips and expert advice for must-visit destinations worldwide. It provides unique insights that go beyond typical online resources, making it an invaluable tool for planning unforgettable trips.
Explore the enchanting realm of fungi through a curated collection of 50 stunning mushroom postcards. Each postcard showcases vibrant images sourced from National Geographic's esteemed Image Collection, making this set a perfect keepsake for nature lovers and enthusiasts of mycology.
Featuring essential travel information, the guidebook offers inspiring photography and insider tips for must-visit destinations globally. With expert advice that goes beyond online resources, it serves as a comprehensive tool for planning unforgettable trips and exploring bucket-list locations.
Featuring essential travel information, this guidebook offers inspiring photography and insider tips for exploring bucket-list destinations globally. It provides expert advice that goes beyond typical online resources, ensuring travelers have the knowledge needed for memorable experiences.
Featuring stunning imagery, this postcard collection showcases all 63 national parks in the U.S., appealing to fans of National Geographic and nature enthusiasts alike. Each postcard captures the unique beauty and diversity of these protected areas, making it a perfect keepsake or gift for those who appreciate the great outdoors.
Featuring essential travel information and expert insights, this guidebook offers a wealth of insider tips and stunning photography for top global destinations. It aims to inspire travelers by providing unique advice and details that go beyond typical online resources, making it an invaluable companion for those seeking to explore bucket-list locations.
Featuring essential travel information and expert advice, this guidebook offers inspiring photography and insider tips for must-visit destinations globally. It provides unique insights that go beyond what is available online, making it a valuable resource for travelers looking to explore bucket-list locations.
Featuring essential travel information, this guidebook offers inspiring photography and insider tips for must-visit destinations globally. It provides expert advice that goes beyond typical online resources, making it an invaluable tool for planning unforgettable trips.
500 of the World's Most Peaceful and Powerful Destinations
400pagine
14 ore di lettura
Exploring 500 of the world's most spiritual destinations, this guide offers insights into unique histories and practical travel tips. From Peru's Sacred Valley of the Inca to Egypt's Mount Sinai, it inspires readers to discover profound places that resonate with spiritual significance, making it an essential resource for travelers seeking meaningful experiences.
Featuring essential travel information, the guidebook offers inspiring photography and insider tips for exploring bucket-list destinations globally. It provides expert advice that goes beyond online resources, ensuring travelers have a comprehensive and enriching experience.
Featuring 100 new excursions, this updated guidebook showcases premier adventures throughout the U.S. National Park System. It offers a wealth of ideas for exploring diverse landscapes and unique experiences, making it an essential resource for outdoor enthusiasts and nature lovers.
Featuring essential travel information and stunning photography, this guidebook offers insider tips and expert advice for top global destinations. It provides unique insights and practical guidance that go beyond what is available online, making it an invaluable resource for planning unforgettable trips.
Filled with captivating trivia, this collection offers a wealth of intriguing facts about the United States, catering to trivia enthusiasts, history aficionados, and curious minds alike. It serves as an entertaining resource for anyone looking to expand their knowledge about the nation's rich tapestry of information.
National Geographic's Vancouver Island Adventure Map is a durable, waterproof, and tear-resistant travel tool that offers detailed city and town indexes, a comprehensive road network, and highlights hundreds of points of interest, including parks, heritage sites, and beaches. Perfect for both urban exploration and off-the-beaten-path adventures.
Get up close to a toothy shark. Leap into the air with a dolphin. Venture into
the deep with some funny-looking sea monsters, mosey along with a manatee, and
ooh and ahh over the cutest baby sea turtles! Kids will love diving into the
world of their favorite marine animals in these engaging books written
especially for new readers. Packed with fun facts, dazzling photography, and a
quiz to reinforce the content of the book, each of the five titles in this
collection will help beginning readers develop ease and confidence in their
reading as they discover where these animals live, what they eat, and the
fascinating traits that make them unique.
This 2025 children's annual is loaded with all-new jaw-dropping, eye-popping,
brain-bending facts and bright, bold photography! Combining the planet's
weirdest facts with the coolest and strangest true storiesFrom from peculiar
plants and curious caterpillars to accidental inventions, marvellous metals
and strange superstitions.Explores animals, geography, science, the
environment, human achievement and lots moreThe perfect book for fans of
Guinness World Records and Ripley's Believe It or Not! Whether it's weird
wildlife, strange sculptures, bizarre sports or out of this world discoveries,
this 2025 children's annual is sure to entertain!
Kids who want to know everything about everything need the National Geographic
Kids Almanac, International Edition. This latest edition is packed with
incredible photos, tons of fun facts, crafts, activities, and fascinating
features about animals, science, nature, technology, conservation, and more.
Practical reference material, including fast facts and maps of every country,
has been fully updated. Homework help on key topics is sprinkled throughout
the book. A must-have book for curious kids!
Kids who want to know everything about everything need the National Geographic
Kids Almanac. This latest edition is packed with incredible photos, tons of
fun facts, crafts, activities, and fascinating features about animals,
science, nature, technology, conservation, and more. Practical reference
material, including fast facts and maps of every country, has been fully
updated. Homework help on key topics is sprinkled throughout the book. A must-
have book for curious kids!
The perfect boredom buster for kids who love our planet Journey through fun
activities and things to colour with this fact-packed National Geographic Kids
book of puzzles.
The perfect boredom buster for kids who love the ocean Splash your way through
fun activities and things to colour with this fact-packed National Geographic
Kids book of puzzles.
This dazzling culinary guide will reveal the tastiest treats and best food
experiences across all 50 states (and Canada), featuring thousands of expert
travel tips and hundreds of mouthwatering images from National Geographic.
The perfect boredom buster for kids who love vehicles Speed off through fun
activities and things to colour with this fact-packed National Geographic Kids
book of puzzles.
Spark your child’s love of reading and help them build key skills with this five-book collection of Level 1 readers featuring kid-favorite animals! Hop along as a tadpole transforms into a frog. Play in the ocean waves with a family of sea otters. Climb trees with koalas, snuggle up for a nap with a red panda, and join snack time with a hedgehog. Kids will love exploring the worlds of these beloved animals in these engaging books written especially for new readers. Packed with fun facts, dazzling photography, and a hands-on activity to reinforce the content of the book, each of the five titles in this bind-up will help beginning readers develop ease and confidence in their reading as they discover where these animals live, what they eat, and the fascinating traits that make them unique!
The perfect boredom buster for kids who love safari animals Go wild with fun
activities and things to colour with this fact-packed National Geographic Kids
book of puzzles.
The perfect boredom buster for kids who love dinos Stomp your way through fun
activities and things to colour with this fact-packed National Geographic Kids
book of puzzles.
Mach dich auf die Suche nach über 250 versteckten Bildern in diesem total abgefahrenen Such- und Finde-Abenteuer unter dem Meer! Halte die Augen offen nach Haien, Narwalen, Meeresschildkröten, versunkenen Schätzen … In diesem prall gefüllten Erkundungs- und Suchbuch kannst du in unglaubliche Meereslandschaften eintauchen, von tropischen Korallenriffen über antarktische Pinguinkolonien bis hin in die Wunderwelt der Tiefsee. Es gibt geheimnisvolle Meerestiere und Objekte zu entdecken. Mit jedem Umblättern findest du atemberaubende Farbfotografien von Kreaturen und Lebensräumen, die man erst kürzlich aufgespürt hat sowie tolle Informationen darüber.
The perfect boredom buster for kids who love space Blast off with fun
activities and things to colour with this fact-packed National Geographic Kids
book of puzzles.
Featuring a rich combination of maps, photographs, and illustrations, this book offers an informative exploration of the various regions and states of the United States. It provides a visual and textual journey, highlighting the unique characteristics and landscapes that define each area. Ideal for both educational purposes and casual reading, it serves as a comprehensive resource for understanding the diversity of the nation.
Celebrating two decades of National Geographic's renowned photo camp program, this coffee table book features stunning photography that captures the essence of the initiative. It highlights the transformative experiences of young photographers who have honed their skills and shared their unique perspectives through captivating images. The book serves as a visual tribute to creativity, exploration, and the power of storytelling through photography.
Packed with fascinating facts and astonishing tidbits, this book from National Geographic Kids is designed to amaze and entertain. It offers a wealth of information that will impress friends and family, making it a perfect resource for curious young minds eager to learn and share.
Featuring over 75 detailed maps and more than 350 vibrant images, this book showcases the grandeur and diversity of America. Each state is represented with easy-to-read maps, accompanied by concise essays that provide essential facts such as population, capital, statehood date, and symbols like the flag, bird, and flower. Unique highlights specific to each state further enrich the exploration, making it an informative and visually captivating resource.
The world’s great cities are showcased in this exciting National Geographic series presenting must-do neighborhood itineraries, insider tips for visiting recommended sights, and indispensable information for the most enjoyable urban adventure imaginable.National Geographic Walking Guide New York shows you the most important destinations to visit, the most popular places of interest, and the best restaurants you don’t want to miss. Visit the island of Manhattan and its five neighborhoods, each with its own personalities and attractions. If you’re passionate about history, the southern tip of the island recalls the preeminent role of the city as a commercial port and destination for European immigrants. Retrace the literary splendor of the past by strolling through the quiet streets of Greenwich Village or follow in the footsteps of the alternative spirit of the East Village. Don’t miss the elite Upper East Side, home to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Central Park, the vast green area featured in more than 200 films, and the residential Upper West Side. Heights and Harlem are the best examples of urban redevelopment, while dynamic Brooklyn is the neighborhood that inspires Woody Allen. Pop into Brooklyn’s magnificent museums, Prospect Park, and the Botanical Garden, stopping at cozy bars and restaurants along the way.
The blockbuster kid-favorite series Weird But True! is back with another annual volume of new, true, mind-blowing oddities for 2024 ... and beyond!Discover Earth’s strangest natural wonders, animals, festivals, ancient architecture, news, and more in this annual compendium of everything Weird But True! fans love ... and then some. Readers will journey across the seven continents, dive into the ocean, and even blast off into space to discover a whole wide world of weird. From volcano-surfing in Nicaragua to a beach in Japan where the "sand" is shaped like stars to extreme ironing competitions in the United Kingdom, Weird But True! World offers an unparalleled adventure-filled exploration of our world’s amazing uniqueness.This BIG, BOLD annual extravaganza is updated each year with NEW “world's weirdest” winners from around the globe, weird news, fresh facts, and strange sites, animals, and events for every continent.Inside, you’ll This book is perfect for any curious kid—or kid at heart—willing to embrace the quirky side of life.
Whale sharks have tiny teeth covering their eyeballs! It’s Weird But True! And this fin-tastic, photo- and fact-packed book in the best-selling series is the most jaw-some yet! Sink your chompers into these wild facts: Great white sharks can detect a single drop of blood in the water from one-third of a mile away. Fossilized dino poop has been found with ancient shark bites in it. Ninja lantern sharks glow in the dark. They’re all weird, and they’re all true. And there’s A LOT more where that came from! From bizarre creatures in the ocean today to gigantic prehistoric sharks and even some pop culture shark weirdness, this portable, browsable, supercool book is full of incredible facts, amazing photos, and fun illustrations about everything sharks. It’s the perfect book for shark superfans, trivia buffs, reluctant readers, and animal-loving kids of all kinds. Hungry for more unbelievable facts? Check out Weird But True! Dinosaurs, Weird But True! Oceans, and the rest of the kid-favorite Weird But True! series.
Silly scenarios and questions for guaranteed family fun! Have fun with family
and friends with this interactive game book, bursting with 200 side-
splittingly funny scenarios, silly choices and thought-provoking questions all
about the world. With no right or wrong answers, it's the game that everyone
will enjoy!
The awesome gift the whole-family can enjoy! This 2024 children's annual is
loaded with all-new jaw-dropping, eye-popping, brain-bending facts and bright,
bold photography!
Dive into amazing true tales about baby sharks, surprising shark friendships, daring shark rescues, swimming with sharks, and more about these fierce and fascinating fish. These 12 fin-tastic true tales about sharks are all the ideal length to be read aloud in five minutes, making them perfect for bedtime, story time, or any time. Kids come face-to-face with great white sharks, hammerhead sharks, whale sharks, and more as each 5-minute story takes them into the wild world of these incredible creatures. Join National Geographic underwater photographer Brian Skerry as he meets sharks with surprising personalities, and learn all about the king of the sea—the great white shark! Illustrated with colorful photographs of one of the planet’s top predators, these awe-inspiring true stories are perfect for any time you’re ready for a jaw-some reading adventure. Shark-crazy kids and other animal lovers will want to dip into this collection of true stories again and again! For more true animal stories from National Geographic Kids, check out: 5-Minute Baby Animal Stories, A Friend for Lakota, National Geographic Kids, 125 True Stories of Amazing Animals And don’t miss: • The Ultimate Book of Sharks • National Geographic Kids Can’t Get Enough Shark Stuff • National Geographic Kids Chapters: Diving With Sharks!
National Geographic Traveler guidebooks are focused on experiential travel.
Each book provides inspiring photography, insider tips, and expert advice for
a more authentic, enriching experience of the destination. These books serve a
readership of active, discerning travelers and supply information, historical
context, and cultural interpretation not available on the Internet.
National Geographic Kids serves up tons of incredible facts and mind-boggling tidbits to wow your friends and family! Did you know that a giraffe’s eye is as big as a Ping-Pong ball? Or that about 19 million hot dogs are sold at major league baseball games every year? Or that there is only one bone in your body that’s not connected to another one? There's a lot to know, and National Geographic Kids is here to help. Based on favorites from the National Geographic Kids magazine, this book is chock-full of fascinating facts, silly stats, and catchy little knowledge nuggets in all kinds of awesome categories, from amphibians to black holes to the gold rush. Special features include Extreme Weirdness, Strange Places, What's the Difference, and more. Bold, colorful photographs in a supersize format and spectacular information create a winning combination for curious kids who can't wait to learn more about the world.
Combine the beloved, super-powered Disney brand with Nat Geo Kids’ most popular book series Weird But True! and you have a magical, whimsical fan-favorite book.This delightful addition to National Geographic Kids' best-selling Weird But True! series uncovers surprising secrets and mind-boggling facts behind your favorite Disney movies, TV shows, park attractions, and more!Did you know it took 70,000 pencils to draw the artwork for The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)? Or that Donald Duck has an asteroid named after him?Discover the mystery at the top of Disneyland’s Matterhorn, what Goofy's original name was, how much food employees prepare each day for the animals at Disney's Animal Kingdom, how many balloons it would really take to lift Carl’s house from the movie Up (2009), and more.Packed with 300 awesome facts and loads of cool pictures, this fun-filled book is perfect for fans of Disney, National Geographic, Weird But True!, and all things wacky, weird, and wonderful!Complete your collection with other Weird But True! fan Weird But True! Animals, Weird But True! USA, Weird But True! Dinosaurs, Weird But True! Sports, and more!
The National Geographic Traveler guidebooks are focused on experiential travel. Each book provides inspiring photography, insider tips, and expert advice for a more authentic, enriching experience of the destination. These books serve a readership of active, discerning travelers and supply information, historical context, and cultural interpretation not available on the Internet. National Geographic Traveler: Florence and Tuscany offers the best of Florence and Tuscany. Illustrations, history, and practical information allow you to learn much about the monuments of Florence, from the Duomo to Piazza della Signoria, museums and galleries, Renaissance palaces, and churches. After Florence, you can move toward Siena and San Gimignano, visit the Chianti region if you are a wine lover or the Apuan Alps for some excursions, or head to the south of the region to learn about the history and culture of the Etruscans on a beach holiday. In central-southern Tuscany, you can appreciate the abbeys, historic villages, and the sublime countryside, stopping in Pienza or Montalcino for excursions. Witness historical re-enactments and events and enjoy the pleasure of cooking, including wines are an inseparable part of the trip. Indulge in shopping for fashion, art, and antiques.
Our New York Times best-selling Almanac is packed with incredible photos, tons of fun facts, National Geographic exclusives, games, activities, and fascinating features about animals, science, nature, technology, and more. This new edition features: EXCLUSIVE National Geographic Explorer interviews and features EXCLUSIVE Interactive Almanac Challenge 2024, plus the results of the Almanac Challenge 2023 BONUS SECTION of sidesplitting jokes and riddles NEW fun-tastic things to see and do in 2024 NEW cutest animal superlatives and animal rescue stories NEW science and dinosaur discoveries NEW fun games, quizzes, and activities NEW weird and wacky places around the world NEW experiments to do, places to explore, and ways to change the world UPDATED reference material, including fast facts and maps of every country Whether you're looking for homework help, want to learn more about another country, or just need a cute animal fix, the National Geographic Kids Almanac 2024 has you covered!
The fun-filled quiz book that kids and the whole family will enjoy Quiz your
family and friends with this ultimate Big Quiz Book 2 from National Geographic
Kids, bursting with even more questions that will keep everyone guessing and
give you hours of fun.
Discover your next great adventure in this beautifully illustrated guide to
the world's best travel destinations. From the ultimate hiking trails to the
most scenic train rides, the most stunning coral reefs to the most epic
mountain retreats, you'll find 1,000 exceptional destinations to add to your
travel bucket list!