Author: Alexander Zelenyj
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Keywords: footsteps, explorers, china, overland, polo, marco
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2006-01-30
List price: $26.60
ISBN-10: 0778724174
ISBN-13: 9780778724179

Ages 8 to 14 years. Relive Italian voyager Marco Polo’s adventures in China in 1275, including his legendary meeting with Kublai Khan, emperor of the powerful Mongol Empire. This exciting book separates fact from myth using excerpts from Polo’s actual journals.

Author: Anne Rosenberg
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Keywords: cultures, peoples, lands, land, nigeria
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2000-10-01
List price: $25.27
ISBN-10: 0865052476
ISBN-13: 9780865052475

Nigeria’s varied environments are featured from its tropical forests, lagoons, and swamps to the grassy plains of the savannah. Fascinating text describes the country’s weather, including the powerful Harmattan Wind, farming rubber trees, the exotic wildlife, and how endangered rainforests are being protected.

Author: Anne Rosenberg
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Keywords: cultures, peoples, lands, culture, nigeria
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2000-10-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0865053294
ISBN-13: 9780865053298

A strong connection between people and nature is at the heart of traditional beliefs in Nigeria. This exciting new book introduces children to the religions, festivals, clothing, music, language, arts, and crafts of this culturally diverse nation.

Author: Anne Rosenberg
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Keywords: cultures, peoples, lands, people, nigeria
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2000-10-01
List price: $25.27
ISBN-10: 0865052484
ISBN-13: 9780865052482

Archaeologists have traced the long history of the people of Nigeria back 2000 years. This new book details its people from the early powerful kingdoms to enslavement and colonization by the Europeans to independence. Candid photographs help show what life is like today at home, at school, in the workplace, and in the cities and villages.

Author: Carolyn Andrew
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Keywords: action, economics, services, goods
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2008-09-30
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 0778742601
ISBN-13: 9780778742609

Children are consumers, too, though they often do not realise it. This strikingly illustrated book helps youngsters understand the concepts of goods and services so that they recognise their role in the cycle of commerce.

Author: Niki Walker
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Keywords: revolution, energy, water, running, hydrogen
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2007-02-28
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 077872929X
ISBN-13: 9780778729297

Ages 9 to 12 years. In this important book, children will discover not only what hydrogen is, but also how this simple element can create clean energy, as well exploring it’s past dealings with hot air balloons and airships, its present, space shuttles and fuel cells.

Authors:Bobbie Kalman, Hadley Dyer,
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Keywords: endangered, animals, leopards, earth
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2005-04-01
List price: $25.27
ISBN-10: 0778718565
ISBN-13: 9780778718567

Ages 6 to 12 years. Recognised for their spotted coats, leopards are beautiful and muscular cats. Unfortunately, leopards are in danger of becoming extinct! The stunning photography in Endangered Leopards shows these animals in their natural habitats, and reveals: their superior hunting skills; what they eat; how mothers care for their cubs; how people are trying to protect leopards in nature preserves.