A community has many buildings and outdoor places. Children will be fascinated by this book, which identifies the places where people live, work, learn, and shop. Action-oriented photos also feature places that provide different services to the community such as police and fire stations, hospitals, and museums. Young readers will be able to connect these places to those in their own livesespecially the parks and playgrounds!

This clear, simple book introduces children to the concept that living things need energy, and energy comes from food. Starting with an introduction to photosynthesis, children will follow along the food chain as the energy flows to herbivores and carnivores. A diagram, using photos of plants, a rabbit, and a fox, demonstrates a food chain. A detailed illustration of a forest food web follows.

This intriguing book asks children to identify objects made from different materialsmetals, wool, rubber, glass, wood, and paper. Simples explanations follow each object describing where these materials come frommetals come from the ground, wool comes from sheep, glass is made from sand, rubber comes from rubber-tree sap, and wood and paper come from trees. An activity asks children to match objects with the materials from which they are made.