Paul Meisel

The life cycle of a praying mantis. --

Features Mr. Whiskers and his class performing seven different activities involving playing with and learning about matter in its liquid, solid, and gaseous forms, with materials lists allowing readers to duplicate these experiments.

Describes how cats communicate with people through their behavior and sounds and explains how to talk back to them using sounds, behavior, and body language.

Simple language and humorous illustrations show how energy comes originally from the sun and can be transferred from one thing to another.

A collection of twenty-three humorous poems about school including such titles as "Math my Way, " "Clockwatching, " and "School Daze Rap."

Explains how magnets work and includes simple experiments to perform with the magnet included in the back of the book.

Tells about the greenhouse effect, recycling, and what you can do to help fight global warming.

Includes an assortment of wordsearches, crossword puzzles, and word games, tricks, mazes, number games, and more.

Simple language and humorous illustrations show how forces make things move, prevent them from starting to move, and stop them from moving.

Promotes development of the fundamental skills of soccer through thirty games, drills, exercises, sets of instruction, and professional tips. Includes a size 4 regulation soccer ball.