Kategoria BISAC: Juvenile Nonfiction >> Curiosities & Wonders

Although many adults believe they have had encounters with strange creatures from alien spaceships, not everyone has actually reported their experiences to official investigators. But if you're a young person it's even less likely that people will believe you and more likely that your story will never be officially recorded. After all, who would believe a kid?

I Saw It Too is the first collection of stories told by children, documenting what they saw and when they saw it. These accounts are real cases of UFOs they've seen or alien creatures they've encountered that were...

• About the Gold Rush ghost who still haunts Room 23 at the Golden North Hotel in Skagway, Alaska?
• About the Winchester mystery house in San Jose, California, with 13 bathrooms,13 steps on the grand staircase, and 13 palm trees lining the driveway?...

Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has honored the world's great geniuses in the most important fields: physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, economics, and world peace. What if children could ask these creative thinkers about some of life's most intriguing mysteries, such as "Why can't I live on french fries?" and "What is love?" The answers from the Dalai Lama, Mikhail Gorbachev, Shimon Peres, Desmond Tutu, and seventeen other Nobel Prize laureates are rich with surprise, humor, and of course, wisdom. Every single answer...

For children (and grownups) of all ages, Have You Ever Wondered? is a fun filled, intriguingly magical exploration into the questions of who am I, where did I come from and how do I want to contribute to the world? With creative rhyme and engaging ideas it is a poetic exploration into metaphysical questions of existence that invoke an organic sense of curiosity in adults and children alike. As a parent, sharing Have You Ever Wondered? with a child will provide an opportunity to delve into these esoteric topics. As an adult the book makes a wonderful gift for a graduation or...

What are your eight favorite inventions, and who were the persevering minds behind them? In a style as vivacious and accessible as ever, Marcia Williams honors the fine folks who brought us the printing press, the steam condenser, the steam train, the electric light, all of them stepping stones to ever more awesome inventions to come. Interspersed are brief snapshots of more than a hundred other inventions, from...