'Investigate' encourages geographical enquiry with an interactive, investigative, and visual approach to a wide range of core curriculum topics. Each book uses a fun, interactive puzzle approach that gives children a chance to consider knowledge they already have and build on it.
- Less familiar topic concepts strengthen reading and comprehension skills and strategies - Provides a moderate level of text support with engaging, full-page photographs - Uses context to predict challenging vocabulary - Uses greater variety of vocabulary including more multisyllable words in more complex sentences - Reflects multicultural diversity - Includes "Did You Know?" fact page an…
Question and answer format is used to explore the diversity of races, ethnic groups, nationalities, and cultures of man in many settings around the world.
Describes the various people who live in each region of the world, and briefly discusses their religion, food, festivals, ways of making a living, and other things that make them different.
The Oxford First Encyclopedia is the ideal starting point for a child's early learning, now updated in these new editions. It takes young readers on a fascinating journey of discovery through the world of knowledge. The five books in the series - Animals and Plants, Earth and the Universe, My Body, People and Places and Science and Technology - have the answers to all a child's early questions …
Artists Leo and Diane Dillon won their second consecutive Caldecott Medal for this stunning ABC of African culture. "Another virtuoso performance. . . . Such an astute blend of aesthetics and information is admirable, the child's eye will be rewarded many times over."--Booklist. ALA Notable Book; Caldecott Medal.