Most Popular Books by Rita Golden Gelman

Explains how viruses and bacteria can make people sick, shows how the body keeps them out, and suggests ways to help your body avoid illness

Explains how each of the senses provides the brain with different kinds of information about the surrounding world, and tells how they work

Discusses the characteristics, habitats, and behavior of different kinds of monkeys and apes around the world.

Two children are joined by a funny man who builds the biggest sandwich in the world.

A young boy learns the joys of fishing from his Scottish uncle and a legendary fish, both named Uncle Hugh.

A girl tries to convince a grumpy cat to wear a variety of hats, including a top hat, a baseball cap, a knight''s armored helmet, and a cowboy hat.

A rhyming text describes the different kinds of scientists, what they do, and the kind of people they are.

Thinking that the zoo animals look "as bored as bored could be," a boy takes them all home with him.

Illustrations and brief text depict twelve giant sea creatures, some prehistoric and some modern.

This beautifully illustrated children''s book begins at morning on the Indonesian island of Bali. Farmers head out to the sawah, or rice field, to plant seeds. While they work, eels slip through the mud around their feet, & dragonflies flutter overhead. Rains come & the rice stalks grow steadily. Mice crawl over the stems, munching as they go. As the sun sets each night, bats dart & swoop, looking for mosquitoes to eat. When the rice is ready to be harvested, the farmers cut, thresh, & pack the grain. After they are done, they give thanks. For in Bali, as in many countries around the world, everyone knows that rice is life.

Always in the way when his brother and friends try to play, Joey finally proves he can be useful.

Text and photographs explore the vast array of unusual creatures still to be found in the Galapagos Islands.

Two painters run amuck and begin painting everything in sight, including windows, beds, grass, animals, and children.

The animals in these stories are laugh-out-loud funny! 4 easy-to-read stories for beginning readers.

Presents general information about dinosaurs, briefly describes 12 species, and presents reasons for the disappearance of the "terrible lizards."

Bo the sheep is finding his field of grass too quiet, too safe. So Bo takes Jo, they say sayonara, and go off to the beach and the seas, and then on to the city in a bus. The delights of the Yummycafe prove overwhelming, but they move on to the airport, and parachuting, and float down into a lovely field... It''ll be a jungle next time! Illustrated with full-page colour drawings.

This book introduces children to the natural defensive weapons in their bodies, including earwax, skin, stomach acid and more.

Introduces readers to the harmful substances that can invade the human body and desccribes the body''s defense strategies.

Minnie the monkey is too busy eating spaghetti--all day, in all ways--to play with her friend Freddie.