Best Selling Books by Peter Roop

Udvikling. Diversitet. Læring. Motivation og ledelse af klassen . Effektiv instruktion. Evaluering.

A biography of the noted statesman and inventor, featuring excerpts from his letters, pamphlets, essays, scientific papers, and autobiography.

Uses primary sources, photographs, and other information to detail the life and accomplishments of Sojourner Truth, a former slave from New York who became an abolitionist and women''s rights leader.

Introduces a diverse range of admirable men and women, in a fact-filled volume that includes coverage of such historic individuals as Nelson Mandela, Neil Armstrong, and Jane Goodall.

Shares the story of how Philadelphian wife, mother, businesswoman, and patriot Betsy Ross sewed the first American flag.

Recounts the life story of the noted explorer, including excerpts from his own writings.

Fourteen essays on animals and their habitats, accompanied by cartoons, riddles, and jokes.

"Up high, down low, in freezing temperatures, and in boiling hot places--animals and plants can survive in the most extreme environments!"--

Introduces the country of Japan, land, landmarks, homes, food, clothes, work, transportation, language, school, sports, free time, celebrations, and the arts.

Sacagawea describes how, at the age of sixteen, she becomes part of the Lewis and Clark Expedition and serves as their interpreter and guide, surviving many dangerous adventures on their trek through the wilderness.

Introduces the country of India, including the land, landmarks, homes, food, clothes, work, transportation, language, school, sports, celebrations, and the arts.

Follows a baby calf gray whale and its mother on their long, four-month migration from Mexico to Alaska. Includes a brief biography of Nancy Simmons, curator of the Department of Mammology at the American Museum of Natural History.

Reconstructs a possible mission of the fourteen-year-old spy who carried messages to George Washington''s camp in the buttons of his coat during the Revolutionary War.

Describes the history and customs connected with Halloween and includes riddles, activities, and instructions for making some masks and costumes.

Children learn many things about the octopus, such as where they live, what they eat, and what they do to survive.

Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition when, after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, their ship, Endurance, was finally crushed, forcing Shackleton and his men to make a very long and perilous journey across ice and stormy seas to reach inhabited land.

Text and pictures present the names of families of different kinds of animals.

Help young learners understand the differences and similarities among lifestyles in various communities with the Walk Around series. Each title focuses on a real community and its residents by exploring the homes, stores, work opportunities, transportation, schools, and other topics of keen interest to primary readers. Each book features a map, glossary, and index.

Text, photographs, and illustrations identify and trace patterns of change and continuity in American farms during the past 150 years, covering such topics as types of farms, farm buildings, farm life, and the effects of weather on farming.

Describes the transportation, schools, housing, shopping, working, recreation, and other aspects of life in a typical American town, using Elkton, Maryland, as an example.

As he practices for a competition, a Hawaiian boy unknowingly breaks a kapu, or taboo, invoked by an evil high priest, and as the traditional punishment is death, he must flee to safety.

Discusses possible reasons for the extinction of the dinosaurs.

Text, photographs, and illustrations identify and trace patterns of change and continuity in American schools, covering such topics as travel to school, subjects studied, and the nature of the classrooms.

Describes the transportation, schools, housing, shopping, working, recreation, and other aspects of life in a large city, using Chicago, Illinois, as an example.

The story is about a young boy named Erich Weiss from Appleton, Wisconsin. He learn to do circus tricks and later became known as Harry Houdini.

Describes the transportation, schools, housing, shopping, working, recreation, and other aspects of life in a typical American town, using Elkton, Maryland, as an example.

Uses the words of Audubon himself, selected from various sources, to present an account of the life and work of this nineteenth-century naturalist.

Follows a family of whooping cranes through a year, in a world increasingly hostile to their existence.

Describes many aspects of the largest country in South America, including its land, landmarks, homes, food, clothes, schools, sports, celebrations, and arts.

A collection of jokes about doctors and patients, such as "Why did the man laugh during his operation? The doctor had him in stitches."

A selection of jokes about food, cooking, baking, and eating.

Chronicles Farragut''s early naval career, from his commission as a midshipman through early exploits aboard his first ship, the Essex.

In the winter of 1856, Abby, a lighthouse keeper''s daughter off the coast of Maine, keeps the lights burning when her father is delayed returning from a trip.

This text is designed to introduce young researchers to Egypt. The country is considered in terms of its location, weather, shelter, food, landmarks, transport, schools, clothing, recreation, celebrations and culture. The A Visit To... series uses simple text and photography to present the facts. Simple maps help young readers to locate each country''s place in the world and to identify places and geographical features mentioned in the text.

Artifacts are a powerful tool for teaching social studies. The Long Ago and Today series uses photographic artifacts to help primary readers explore life and lifestyles by comparing today''s world with that of a hundred years ago. Each book offers a series of old photographs, which are paired with a similar photo taken today -- perhaps a picture of a city as it looked in 1897 and as it looks on that same spot in 1998. Through these engaging photographs, primary learners investigate such basic topics as working, playing, sleeping, cooking, and doing household chores.