Best Selling Books by Giulio Maestro

"Written for the youngest audience...the text is very simple yet manages to convey all the major events in Liberty's creation....The full-color watercolors show amazing detail and are extremely rich."--Horn Book.

Words for and pictures of the clothing worn by a well-dressed man, woman, and elephant for daytime and nighttime activities.

The reader is introduced to such typical city words as "theater, ""museum," "office building," and "train station" as a taxi travels through a hectic workday in and around the city.

Presents a detailed discussion of the four outermost planets in our solar system.

Text and illustrations introduce words with opposite meanings such as over and under, big and little, and front and back.

Describes the activity on freighters, tankers, ocean liners, tugboats, fireboats, and the other ships in a busy port.

A collection of sixty-one riddles based on different kinds of word plays such as puns, homonyms, and homographs.

Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science Stage 2.

A collection of original riddles designed to increase vocabulary.

Thirty popular expressions such as "straight from the horse's mouth" and "white elephant" are amusingly explained and illustrated.

Rhyming riddles answer questions about a variety of animals at school.

Sixty-one original riddles created and illustrated by the author.

Discusses what temperature is and how it is measured.

Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science Stage 2.

A collection of sixty riddles making use of homophones, or homonyms, words that are pronounced the same but have different spellings.

Trace the origins of more than 100 eponymous words—words derived from the names of people and places. What food was first cooked up in Hamburg, Germany? Hamburgers What country is named after the Italian sailor Amerigo Vespucci? America What do you call people and places whose names become words? Eponyms! Meet the people and places behind more than 100 eponymous words and read the fascinating stories of why words were created for them. What would be the meaning of a word named after you?

A collection of humorous riddles on a Halloween theme including "Why did the ghost's car stop dead? It ran out of gasps."

Harriet's search for her friend introduces a number of location words.

A collection of riddles about witches, vampires, skeletons, and other scary Halloween creatures.

Answers such questions as "What do trees drink at a party?" and "What games do eggs play?"

When Leopard gets sick, his friends offer their remedy to cure his sniffles.

Every October Americans celebrate the discovery of their hemisphere by Christopher Columbus. But the navigator from Genoa was not the first to find his way to these shores. From the Stone Age through the 16th century, America was "discovered" again and again. "An outstanding achievement in both history and art."--"School Library Journal, " starred review. 1991 ALA Notable Book. Full-color illustrations.

Describes how the Constitution was drafted and ratified.

Now reillustrated with colorful, kid-friendly art, this book explains to young readers how the sun makes the seasons and how its light affects life on the earth for all living things.

A collection of original riddles making use of homographs, words that are spelled the same but have different meanings.

Labeled illustrations present such activities of camping as packing, fishing, chopping, singing, rowing, hiking, and dreaming.

Depicts Harriet and her activities at each hour of the day.

Birds and animals joining and leaving the group introduce basic principles of adding and subtracting.

Activities surrounding a day at the circus illustrate such action words as pulling, marching, waving, laughing, and washing.

By using her wits, Monkey manages literally to get herself out of a hole.