New Releases by Shelley Tanaka

Seven-year-old Kai-ming Wong is wide-eyed over the big North American city where he and his parents have gone to live. It is a far cry from the hills and countryside of South China, the only home Kai-ming has ever known. The glass towers and shiny cars are as foreign to the boy as the English spoken by the children playing in the streets. So Kai-ming stays inside his house while his parents search for work.

I WAS THERE is an innovative, award-winning series that brings history''s most fascinating stories to life for young readers. Engrossing narrative is woven through colourfully illustrated andinformative spreads, maps, diagrams and sidebars.

Recounts the discovery and examination of a 5,300-year-old man whose remains were found by hikers in the Alps in 1991 and explores how this discovery provides clues about the everyday life of our ancestors.

The story of Bill Lishman, who raised a flock of Canada geese and taught them to migrate south for the winter. Grades 2-4.

Describes the last voyage of the zeppelin, or airship, Hindenburg, which crashed in flames on a New Jersey airfield in 1937, and examines some possible causes for the disaster.

Se examina el hado trágico y misterioso de la expedición de John Franklin que fracasó en encontrar el Paso del Noroeste en 1845.

Probes the tragic and mysterious fate of Sir John Franklin''s failed expedition to find the Northwest Passage in 1845.

These seasonal Make-and-Do Activities require little preparation, simple and easily available materials, and minimal adult guidance.

Describes pollution and environmental issues, with particular regard to the life and habitat of birds.

By "reading" the bones of people killed in the town of Herculaneum by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, an anthropologist reconstructs their lives.