Apples for Everyone is a new picture book in the Picture the Seasons series that the whole family can enjoy. This attractive and educational companion to the best-selling titles A Tree for All Seasons and Pilgrims of Plymouth features stunning National Geographic photography and a stimulating, accessible text. Apples! The very word conjures up images of fall: ripe red apples falling off the tree as the leaves begin their glorious extravaganza of color change; baskets of gathered fruits at the foot of laddered orchards; the rich aroma of an apple-pie cooling. As school starts again, an apple for the teacher is a time-honored tradition. Apples are coated in candy or caramel to celebrate the end-of-year holidays. They are crushed into cider to keep us warm around a fire as summer slips away and the first hint of frost chills the darkening nights. In this beautifully produced book, apples are more than just fruit, they are iconic of everything fall. Apples for Everyone is a seasonal treasure that will help to shape a National Geographic view of the world for young readers. This delightful look at the fruit of fall is sure to inspire a rich appreciation of all things autumnal.

Splish, splash! Prepare to experience the forces of physics at work. It’s time for Baby’s bath . . . Ooh! We made a waterfall . . . Invite your tubby-time friends to join in. Even Einstein started somewhere, so who’s to say your little genius-to-be won’t find inspiration in the bath? Gather up your gear: floating toys, fluffy towels, warm tub, favorite little lab partner (may take multiple attempts). Place tiny tot in the tub (note water displacement), and proceed to explore buoyancy, gravity, and evaporation. Now it’s time to make waves and see that third law of motion in action. Go, baby, go! Wait, hold on . . . Stop, baby, stop! In a bright, graphic board book leavened with dry humor, photos of happy tykes and a tongue-in-cheek running dialogue are sprinkled with factual asides that define basic concepts of physics. So don your protective goggles—with a bathtub as a lab bench, your precocious little one can master physics every day!

This lively STEAM picture book is about the life of Gene Stratton-Porter, a pioneering wildlife photographer and popular children’s book author from the late 19th and early 20th century, who showed the world the beauty of nature, especially birds, and why it was worth preserving. Gene Stratton-Porter was a farm girl who fell in love with birds, from the chickens whose eggs she collected to the hawks that preyed on them. When she grew up, Gene wanted nothing more than to share her love of birds with the world. She wrote stories about birds, but when a magazine wanted to publish them next to awkward photos of stuffed birds, she knew she had to take matters into her own hands. Teaching herself photography, Gene began to take photos of birds in the wild. Her knowledge of birds and how to approach them allowed her to get so close you could count the feathers of the birds in her photos. Her work was unlike anything Americans had ever seen before—she captured the true lives of animals in their natural habitat. One of the pioneers of wildlife photography and a wildly popular author of children’s books in her day, this bird girl showed the world the beauty of nature and why it was worth preserving.

Curious kids ages 3 to 7 will be excited to learn about nighttime and all its mysteries, from the stars to hooting owls. These engaging Explore My World picture books on subjects kids care about combine simple stories with unforgettable photography. They invite little kids to take their first big steps toward understanding the world around them and are just the thing for parents and kids to curl up with and read aloud.

Secure your bib, open wide, and get ready to unpack the properties of matter. Chemistry is all around us—starting with Baby’s high chair . . . Are you hungry? . . . Let’s experiment. Why wait for college when you can teach your toddler advanced science right now? After sterilizing your workstation, prepare to explore solids, which can be combined with liquids to form an optimal mixture. Now test your mixture. Eureka! Isn’t feeding time a total . . . gas? In a bright, graphic board book loaded with dry humor and comic timing, photos of happy, outrageously messy toddlers (and exhausted parents) complement a tongue-in-cheek running dialogue, interspersed with factual asides that define basic concepts of chemistry. So rest assured, with a high chair tray as a lab bench, your precocious little one can master chemistry multiple times a day!

See below for English description. Dandinez-vous dans le monde des manchots en lisant le nouveau livre de la série J'explore le monde de National Geographic Kids! Du manchot empereur au manchot du Cap, en passant par le manchot pygmée et le manchot papou, cet album rempli de photographies magnifi ques vous fera plonger dans l'univers de ces créatures fascinantes. Les lecteurs découvriront ce que ces manchots mangent, comment ils mangent et où ils trouvent leur nourriture, ainsi que leur façon de marcher, de grandir et de nager. This engaging book combines simple text with unforgettable photography. It invites kids to take their first big steps toward understanding the world around them and is just the thing for parents and kids to read aloud. Original title: National Geographic Kids: Explore My World: Penguins

High-flying history is brought to life in this suspenseful story of an unknown and daring pilot named Jack Knight, who in 1921 flew his biplane straight into a blizzard over America's heartland and saved the US Air Mail Service in the process. When Jack Knight takes off in his biplane from North Platte, Nebraska, in 1921, hundreds of people crowd the airstrip. Is Jack transporting a famous passenger? Is he ferrying medicine for a sick child? Nope--Jack has six sacks of mail. For the past few years, biplanes like Jack's have been flying the mail only during daylight hours. Flying after dark is risky and crashes are too common, so lawmakers decide to cut funding for the US Air Mail Service. Outraged officials and pilots want to prove that flying the mail is best, so they concoct a plan--a coast-to-coast race. But when a crash, exhaustion, and a snowstorm ground three of the planes, Jack Knight becomes the race's only hope. All he has to do is fly all night long, leaning out of the plane to see, and navigate a blizzard over land he's never covered with an empty fuel tank. Will Jack pull it off and save the Air Mail Service?

See below for English description. Parmi les 7 milliards d'êtres humains qui peuplent la Terre se trouvent d'intéressantes personnalités. Et si on prend également en compte tous les individus qui étaient là avant nous, cela fait beaucoup de gens inspirants et valant la peine d'être découverts. Grâce à National Geographic Kids, vous pouvez maintenant lire les incroyables histoires de certaines des personnalités les plus fascinantes du passé et d'aujourd'hui, comme Martin Luther King Jr., Amelia Earhart, Malala Yousafzai et bien d'autres. Ce livre est rempli de faits amusants et de photographies en couleurs sur la vie incroyable de plus de 50 célébrités. With over 7 billion people on earth, there are bound to be quite a few interesting ones. And what if we think about all the people who came before us? Thanks to National Geographic Kids, you can now read the amazing stories of some of the most fascinating and remarkable people of past and present day. Martin Luther King Jr., Amelia Earhart, and Malala Yousafzai are just a few of the amazing individuals featured in this book full of fun facts and colourful pictures. Readers will have the pleasure of immersing themselves in the lives of over fifty notable people and be inspired to make their own mark. Original title: National Geographic Kids: My First Big Book of Who

  See below for English description. Des étoiles de mer aux hippocampes en passant par les requins, les jeunes lecteurs seront stupéfaits par la diversité des espèces habitant les récifs de coraux. Cette série d'albums fascinants présente de simples histoires et des photographies tout à fait époustouflantes! Parfaits pour la lecture à haute voix, ces livres pousseront les lecteurs débutants vers une meilleure compréhension du monde qui les entoure.   From sea stars to seahorses to sharks, young readers will be amazed by the diversity of life in coral reefs and by the wonders of our natural world. This engaging picture book series combines simple stories with unforgettable photography. It invites little kids to take their first big steps toward understanding the world around them and are just the thing for parents and kids to read aloud. Original title: Coral Reefs

See below for English description. Où se trouve le plus grand désert du monde? Où se trouve le monument Stonehenge? Où peut-on apercevoir les aurores boréales? Obtenez les réponses à toutes ces questions et à plusieurs autres dans National Geographic Kids: Mon grand livre des où. Présentant une foule d'informations au sujet de divers endroits fascinants du monde entier, ce livre deviendra rapidement un favori des jeunes lecteurs à l'heure du conte! The world is your oyster! Where is the world's biggest desert? Where is Stonehenge? Where do the northern lights come from? Get the answers to all these questions and more in National Geographic Kids: Mon grand livre des où. Introducing a delightful, age-appropriate introduction to places around the world in this new title in the popular Mon grand livre series. This book will quickly become a favorite at storytime, bedtime, and any time. Original title: National Geographic Kids: My First Big Book of Where

See below for English description. Petits ou grands, rapides ou lents, lisses ou bosselés... ça n'a pas d'importance: on adore les bébés animaux! Dans cet album charmant, vous trouverez d'adorables photos de bébés animaux accompagnées de phrases simples. Quoi demander de mieux? Ce livre plaira aux lecteurs débutants, qui auront un aperçu saisissant de la vie de toutes sortes de jeunes animaux. Big or tiny, fast or slow, smooth or bumpy, it doesn't matter; we love babies! It doesn't get much better than adorable photographs of baby animals, accompanied by simple, rhyming text. Budding readers will be thrilled by this charming picture book that gives us a look into the lives of all kinds of young animals. Original title: We Love Babies!

Grab a play mat, blocks, and your favorite baby engineer. It's time to build something--and see science at work! Oh, my. You've gathered lots of materials. What will you build? With blocks at the ready, watch as your baby uses their hands to bear weight and the couch for support while experimenting with setting up a sturdy base, stacking a tower, spanning a space with an arch--and applying force, of course. Bash! Smash! Crash! Babies and toddlers are naturally curious explorers--now help them discover that science is fun! In this bright, graphic board book, photos of busy little ones offset a lively running dialogue sprinkled with factual asides that define basic engineering terms.

Seed, Sprout, Pumpkin, Pie follows Apples for Everyone in the Picture the Seasons series. This beautifully photographed picture book about everybody’s favorite fall treat is sure to please kids both young and old. The glossy, festive images and lively text are sure to get your family in the mood to celebrate the season. Pumpkins! Who can resist the sight of big, round, orange pumpkins ripening in a field? Children piling off school buses to pick one out. Carving out funny faces, smiles, or scary frowns to illuminate Halloween doorsteps. Making room for that last piece of pumpkin pie after a delicious Thanksgiving feast. In this book, pumpkins aren’t just a fruit, they’re a symbol, a scent, a flavor of the entire season. Celebrate the flavor of fall on every page of this beautifully photographed picture book. Follow along as National Geographic takes you from seed to sprout, pumpkin to pie. Envelope yourself, your family, or your class in the season by reading and learning all about pumpkins.

Ready to roll with your little ecologist? Head to the park to engage all the senses and discover new things--living things! Shh. If we're really quiet, what can we hear? Did you know your nearby park is its own ecosystem? There, your baby can smell some flowers that use sunshine to grow, watch a bird reuse twigs for a nest, listen to ducklings peep, and touch the rough bark of a squirrel's habitat. Babies and toddlers are naturally curious explorers--now help them discover that science is fun! In this bright, graphic board book, photos of wide-eyed little ones offset a lively running dialogue sprinkled with factual asides that define basic ecology terms.

Two unlikely dinosaur friends get out of a sticky situation in the third book in the Thunder and Cluck Level 1 Ready-to-Read Graphics series! Thunder is strong. Cluck is smart. Thunder is stuck in quicksand! Can Cluck think of a way to get him out? Ready-to-Read Graphics books give readers the perfect introduction to the graphic novel format with easy-to-follow panels, speech bubbles with accessible vocabulary, and sequential storytelling that is spot-on for beginning readers. There’s even a how-to guide for reading graphic novels at the beginning of each book.

Fans of Thunder and Cluck will love this shrink-wrapped collectible paperback boxed set of the first three Level 1 Ready-to-Read Graphics starring their favorite silly dinosaurs! Meet Thunder and Cluck, two unlikely friends who have plenty of fun and adventures together! Together, they navigate their unusual friendship, venture into a dark cave, and outsmart a tricky trap! Come along for three hilarious stories starring these two dinosaurs with larger-than-life personalities! Ready-to-Read Graphics books give readers the perfect introduction to the graphic novel format with easy-to-follow panels, speech bubbles with accessible vocabulary, and sequential storytelling that is spot-on for beginning readers. There’s even a how-to guide for reading graphic novels at the beginning of each book. This funny paperback boxed set includes: Friends Do Not Eat Friends The Brave Friend Leads the Way! Smart vs. Strong

Two unlikely dinosaur friends brave the way in the second book in the Thunder and Cluck Level 1 Ready-to-Read Graphics series! It is a hot day. Thunder and Cluck find a dark, cool cave. But which friend is brave enough to lead the way in? Ready-to-Read Graphics books give readers the perfect introduction to the graphic novel format with easy-to-follow panels, speech bubbles with accessible vocabulary, and sequential storytelling that is spot-on for beginning readers. There’s even how-to a guide for reading graphic novels at the beginning of each book.

When Big Al the little dog gets separated from his trucker friend, Jo, at a roadside rest area, he patiently waits, resisting the attention of other drivers, knowing that Jo will return and find him.