Synopsis: Discover that earthworms aren't just yucky, but are necessary to keeping soil healthy.Nature Up close series uses beautiful watercolors to depict each creature's world from its unique perspective. Simple text describes the creatures' movements and activities.

Synopsis: Who made tracks in the soft mud by the stream? Whose tracks are curving lines in the mud around the puddle? With simple text and a guessing-game format, children can explore the animal community in the forest. Directions for making plaster casts, track tracings, and track "traps" enable children to become track detectives in their own backyards.

Synopsis: Everybody agrees that mold is just disgusting, until the class goes on a field trip inside a rotting log. They discover that all the dead-looking stuff is actually alive...and it's pretty neat after all. Join the class on their "rotten" adventure, and learn about how nature recycles through decomposition.

Synopsis: For use in schools and libraries only. Describes the physical characteristics, behavior, and life cycle of the common earthworm.

Synopsis: Easy-to-grasp explanation of three forms of energy: sound, heat, and light.

Synopsis: A boy baking cookies introduces the senses of sight, touch, sound, smell, and taste.

Synopsis: Look! Up there! In the tree! Is it a bird, a mammal, an insect? From the highest part of the rain forest to the deepest part of the ocean and the various places in between, this series explores the world's ecosystems and the fascinating and bizarre creatures and plants that live there. This book features facts from freaky to fascinating, and photos of creatures rare and wonderful. You'll learn about the dangers each environment faces from humans…