I can see! I can hear! I can smell! I can touch! Children love to explore. Each day brings new sights and sounds, new things to smell and taste and touch. Aliki's simple text and colorful art introduce young children to the wonder of the five senses and what they reveal about the world around us.

A simple explanation of the structure of the heart and how it works.

Describes mushrooms, molds, and other fungi and their function in the cycle of growing things.

Briefly describes how a cow produces milk, how the milk is processed in a dairy, and how various other dairy products are made from milk.

A simple description of how corn was discovered and used by the Indians and how it came to be an important food throughout the world.

As the seasons change, there are fatter caterpillars, thicker corn husks, and brighter fall leaves predicting a hard, cold winter.

"Long ago, dinosaurs ruled the Earth. Then, suddenly, they died out. For thousands of years, no one knew these giant creatures had ever existed. Then people began finding fossils -- bones and teeth and footprints that had turned to stone. Today, teams of experts work together to dig dinosaur fossils out of the ground, bone by fragile bone. Then they put the skeletons together again inside museums, to look just like the dinosaurs of millions of years...

Introduces the muscles of the human body and describes how they enable the parts of the body to move.

Explains what comets are, how they are formed, and how their unusual orbits bring them into earth's view at predictable intervals, with a special focus on Halley's comet.

Explains how and why a thunderstorm occurs and gives safety steps to follow when lightning is flashing.