Reproduction of the original: Four Young Explorers by Oliver Optic

Learn about the world around you with the Smithsonian! Smithsonian First Discoveries: Young Explorer engages young children with new concepts, bright illustrations, and lively photographs with simple labels. Children will recognize places around the world, learn the planets, choose their favorite dinosaurs, and get to know animals around the world. With words to learn, pictures to identify, and extra facts to inspire conversations, the four included board books are ideal for teaching babies and toddlers about our amazing world.

Space Kids is a a poetic introduction to space that is aimed to inspire wonder in the littlest of scientists.

From Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winner Katherine Rundell comes an exciting new novel about a group of kids who must survive in the Amazon after their plane crashes. Fred, Con, Lila, and Max are on their way back to England from Manaus when the plane they’re on crashes and the pilot dies upon landing. For days they survive alone, until Fred finds a map that leads them to a ruined city, and to a secret.

"Mountaineers, seafarers, astronauts, cyclists, hikers, divers, gliders, aviators--even the most famous and daring explorers of all time began with small-scale adventures that gave them the courage and the ideas to pursue their greatest achievements."--

Elementary level study of anatomy and physiology written from a Christian perspective.