City Kids in China

Children's Books

Thomson, Peggy

Literature & Fiction

Harpercollins Childrens Books

A behind-the-scenes look at the National Gallery of Art including its private spaces, workshops, offices, and labs where visitors rarely enter.

The Nine-Ton Cat and Other True Tales of an Art Museum

MOORE, BARBARA

Arts, Music & Photography

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

It's never an ordinary day for art. Hanging on the wall of a large museum like the National Gallery in Washington, a painting cannot know what to expect. One day you might be a famous portrait by Leonardo da Vinci, comfortable in a glass case with admirers all around, and the next you might be carted away for a bath. In a museum, the staff is busy night and day. Guards patrol around the clock to make sure that each work of art is safely in its place. During the day, staff members study works of art, move them from one place to another, and plan shows of paintings and sculpture from around the world. The Nine-Ton Cat takes you along on a day's journey inside the National Gallery, from dawn to dusk, revealing everything from why a museum needs eight hundred keys to how to hoist a nine-ton cat.

The Nine-Ton Cat Behind the Scenes at an Art Museum

Arts & Photography

A photographic depiction of Navajo life in New Mexico details the daily existence of Katie Henio, an elderly shepherd, as she tends her sheep, collects plants for dyes and medicines, lives with her family, and much more.

Katie Henio Navajo Sheepherder

Photography & Video

Dutton Juvenile

Siggy explains how spaghetti is made in the factory and introduces different kinds of pasta

Siggy's Spaghetti Works

Tambourine

Siggy loves to make spaghetti--one hundred tons a day of it--in his factory. Children will love this guided factory tour of how the spaghetti is made, while Siggy serves up bits of macaroni history. "Illustrations are bright and lively, while the text is informative."--Booklist.

Harpercollins

Reveals the inner workings of the Museum of Natural History through historical anecdotes and descriptions of how exhibits are researched, prepared, and maintained.

Auks, Rocks, and the Odd Dinosaur: Inside Stories from the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

T.Y. Crowell Junior Books

Reveals the inner workings of the Museum of Natural History through historical anecdotes and descriptions of how exhibits are researched, prepared, and maintained.

Describes, in text and illustrations, the many different tasks performed by keepers at the National Zoo and the interrelationship between them and the animals they care for.

Keepers and Creatures at the National Zoo

Ty Crowell Co.

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City Kids in China

The Nine-Ton Cat and Other True Tales of an Art Museum

The Nine-Ton Cat Behind the Scenes at an Art Museum

Katie Henio Navajo Sheepherder

Siggy's Spaghetti Works

Siggy's Spaghetti Works

Auks, Rocks, and the Odd Dinosaur: Inside Stories from the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History

Auks, Rocks, and the Odd Dinosaur: Inside Stories from the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History

Keepers and Creatures at the National Zoo

Keepers and Creatures at the National Zoo