Most Popular Books by Joe Rhatigan

Little Genius . . . where curious kids can learn and laugh while being captivated by the world around them. With super-simple explanations about rain, wind, humidity, storms, the seasons, and more, Little Genius: Weather presents just the right amount of information for little learners. Children will love following along as a cute, smiling cloud guides them through simple weather events and explains what causes them using simple, rhyming text. Each spread also features a fun fact for kids who are ready to learn even more! It’s the perfect gift for budding climatologists and meteorologists!

A wacky activity book to keep kids ages 10 to 100 amused for hours. Contents include entertaining and educational puzzles, riddles, brain teasers, geometric doodles, and memory games. Get out your pencil and eraser and be ready for a wacky workout for your brain. This enjoyably weird workbook is super-packed with number challenges, riddles to solve, limericks to finish, doodles to draw, word problems, stump ‘em situations, backward crossword puzzles, Sudoku and other number puzzles, crazy word searches, brain teasers, geometric doodles, and memory games. Positively guaranteed to de-clog an underused noggin.

"All the children are hiding! Can you find them before their mommies do?" -- back of book

Veterinarians need to have the expert knowledge, skills, and tools to keep the world''s animals healthy. The Career Expert Files series covers professionals who are experts in their fields. These career experts know things we never thought they''d need to know, but we''re glad they do.

This kit contains everything you need to start your own garden of ginormous pumpkins! This kit includes everything you need to begin your perfect pumpkin patch. * Approximately 10 seeds * Seed starter * And a full-color manual that includes instructions for growing your plant/pet successfully. These materials and instructions will give you larger than life results, helping you feed and tend a GIANT pumpkin. Impress all of your neighbors and friends this Halloween with the biggest jack-o-lantern ever, or simply watch the miracle of the garden take this pumpkin beyond the outer limits!

Farmers need to have the expert knowledge, skills, and tools to keep the world fed. The Career Expert Files series covers professionals who are experts in their fields. These career experts know things we never thought they''d need to know, but we''re glad they do.

Build advanced reading skills with 180 Days of Reading, a workbook of engaging and meaningful daily practice activities. This easy-to-use seventh grade workbook is great for at-home learning or classroom instruction. Push students to read and write more confidently with these standards-based learning activities. This activity book incorporates thematic units and a combination of fiction, nonfiction, and nontraditional texts. The learning activities reinforce the connection between reading and writing by having students write about what they read. Parents appreciate the grade-appropriate reading passages and fascinating topics that children will love. The daily reading practice is perfect for homeschool, to reinforce learning at school, or to prevent learning loss over summer. Teachers rely on these workbooks to save them valuable time and address learning gaps.

This is NOT your typical $3.95 bargain activity book. There are no crossword puzzles or dot-to-dots, no mazes or coloring in the lines. Instead, it’s a book designed to compete against the big doodle books on the market and come out winning. The activities are attention-grabbing and creative, and kids love them. Sophisticated, slightly irreverent, hip (without being condescending), and attention grabbing, kids will be able to flip open to any page of this book and start writing, drawing, playing...whatever. There are activities for one palyer, games for two or more, doodle prompts that make you go "huh"?, games to play with digital cameras, science experiments you can do in the car, tricks you can learn using a dollar bill, and up to 150 more fun and engrosssing things to do that will keep parents from having to threaten to turn the car around. Sample activity pages include "I''ve Got My Eye on You," where kids draw the look their parents give them in the rearview mirror depending on what''s happening in the car- like "Dad got cutt off by a minivan", and Travel Back in Time with Slang Game, " where kids have to match the expression with the decade in which it was popular-and much more!

Animal teams have been trying to collect seven hidden gems in the Amazing Animal Challenge. So far, no one has done it. Team World includes one animal from each continent. Will they be able to work together? Will they be the first to win the grand prize?Young learners will love this imaginative story about animals from around the world competing in an epic sporting event! The book also provides fun facts about the real-life “superpowers” of the animal kingdom along with discussion questions for readers to show what they’ve learned.

Describes a variety of scientific projects to make and show at a science fair.

Provides ideas for exploring nature to learn the answers to such questions as when a chrysalis will open, why a wolf howls, or how the tide goes out, and gives advice about equipment and safety.

Share this classic character and his quintessential stories about adventure, daring, and cleverness with a whole new generation of adventurers, with Read-Aloud Classic: Peter Pan. Introduce your children to the characters of J. M. Barrie''s timeless classic Peter Pan. Join Peter, Tinkerbell, Captain Hook, Wendy, and many more in this age-appropriate picture book. Barrie''s novel is presented in a way that children will understand and enjoy, and provides a faithful retelling they will recall when they are older and ready for the original text. Peter Pan has been a children''s favorite since its original publication, and this edition adapts the classic into a story young children will love. The modern world is bursting at the seams with technological games and distracting screens for kids to occupy themselves with. The Read-Aloud Classics series is the perfect thing to shows them that you can go on incredible adventures without a controller and experience wonderful stories without a touch screen. Best of all, you will create memories as you read the stories together.

Ow, yuck, EEW, ack! From blisters, bruises, and bleeding to stings, sprains, and broken bones, there are so many things that bother the body. And whether a child has a crummy cold, a ferocious fever, a nasty bite, or a burn from touching a hot stove, pain is confusing and distressing. Why does it feel so bad? Can something make it stop? For all those kids who want to be doctors, scientists, or medical professionals, here’s their first introduction to the way the body works. OUCH! comforts hurting kids by explaining all the different ways they get injured and sick, how their body works, and what parents and doctors can do to make it all better again. It covers all the familiar childhood ailments—upset tummies, sore throats, earaches, allergies, infections, and even poison ivy. Youngsters can explore the armor (like skin) that keeps the bad stuff out, the warriors that attack the stuff that does get in, and the "maintenance crew" that cleans up the mess and heals them. Whether they want to understand what’s wrong and learn what they can expect, or get ready for a future career in medicine, this information—and the accompanying photos and fun illustrations—will take them there.

Little Genius . . . where curious kids can learn and laugh while being captivated by the world around them. A fantastic and age-appropriate journey around the world for our youngest explorers! With super-simple concepts about continents, animals, oceans, countries, the world’s natural wonders, and man-made marvels, Little Genius World Atlas delights as it entertains. With Earth as your guide, little learners are introduced to the oceans, each continent, and even ecosystems with wonderful illustrations and gentle, rhyming text. Each continent features a fact or two along with fun illustrations of the animals and attractions that make the continents distinctive.

Press the button to hear Whirly the Helicopter''s wild whoosh whosh.

This stunning new version of a classic is the best way to enter Wonderland ... without actually falling down the rabbit hole. On its 150th anniversary in 2015, Lewis Carrolls tale of a world gone topsy-turvy gets a unique picture-book retelling of the beginning of Alices journey: the first ever, with elegantly simplified text that keeps all of the astonishing adventures and wide-eyed amazement of the original. Includes many of the classic Carroll characters Alice and the White Rabbit, the Blue Caterpillar, Bill the Lizard and more.

Animal teams have been trying to collect seven hidden gems in the Amazing Animal Challenge. So far, no one has done it. Team World includes one animal from each continent. Will they be able to work together? Will they be the first to win the grand prize? Young learners will love this imaginative story about animals from around the world competing in an epic sporting event! The book also provides fun facts about the real-life u0093superpowersu0094 of the animal kingdom along with discussion questions for readers to show what theyu0092ve learned.

Provides experiments intented to reinforce the learning of geography.

Press the button to hear Tilly the Train''s chugging choo choo

An expanded version of the traditional nursery rhyme presents even more silly situations, including a fish and a noodle climbing a tree, a giraffe in a cradle crying for soup, and a movie star monkey riding in a wagon.

Provides step-by-step instructions for creating fifty objects from paper, as well as an explanation of the various tools required to make these and many other decorative or fun paper products.

Press the button to hear Speedy the Race Car''s valiant vroom vroom!

"¿Sabías que un estornudo viaja a 160 kilómetros por hora? ¿O que una persona promedio arroja hasta 500 millones de células de piel por."--Elsotano.com.

Embarque-toi pour un voyage inoubliable dans l''espace ! Il te suffit de sortir de chez toi et de regarder le ciel. Tu découvriras notre vaste et mystérieux Univers et tu apprendras plein d''infos passionnantes sur les planètes, les astéroïdes, les comètes, les étoiles, les nébuleuses et les trous noirs. Tu apprendras à construire un four solaire pour cuire des biscuits, à chercher les mers sur la Lune ou à calculer ton âge sur Jupiter. Ce voyage-là, tu n''es pas près de l''oublier !

Uitleg van de vijftig leukste scheikundige proefjes, die sissen, bubbelen en spetteren. Zo leer je o.a. hoe je een waterbom kunt maken en onzichtbare inkt. Met informatie over chemie, reacties, e.d. en grappige kleurentekeningen. Vanaf ca. 11 jaar.