Who's nicknamed "Gretzky of the Fjords"? Who invented the slapshot? Who said, "I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out"? These, and dozens more fun trivia questions, will test young fans' stores of hockey lore. As they answer quizzes, play games, solve puzzles, and match pictures, kids will be entertained by this collection of heroic--and not so heroic--facts about the sport's most extraordinary and colorful characters. Questions offer a range of difficulty and lots of multiple choice to allow both devoted stats collectors and interested rookies a chance to score big points. There are not only facts about players and records here, but also rules, plays and gear, so kids can learn more about the game as they work through the book. Illustrations and jokes provide comic time-out between games. A flip-book feature depicts a hockey play in motion--and readers get bonus points if they know its name. This will score a goal with kids who want to know everything about hockey--even what Philly Flyer Ed Hospodar said to Montreal's Claude Lemieux just before clobbering him! 64 pages, 64 b/w illus., 6 x 9.

Hockey Challenge: Puzzles, Quizzes, Games and Other Cool Stuff for Young Sports Fans

Vanderlinden, Kathy

Children's Books

Sterling Pub. Co., Inc.

Explores our natural connection to the earth and its four elements, air, water, soil, and fire, underlining the importance of biodiversity and respect for the environment

You Are the Earth: From Dinosaur Breath to Pizza from Dirt

SUZUKI, David

Science, Nature & How It Works

Douglas & McIntyre, Ltd

Do you know what hot hand and pine brother mean? If not, you will! Filled with multiple-choice questions, true-or-false quizzes, crosswords, word scrambles, and drawing games, this will test every young basketball fan's knowledge. Questions cover a wide range, allowing devoted hoopsters and curious rookies to earn big points while learning the difference between a lay-up and an alley-oop. Lively line drawings illustrate the text, and fun facts, jokes, and strange tales from the basketball world provide extra amusement.

Basketball Challenge

Sports & Outdoors

Greystone Books

The earth they walk on, the air they breathe, the water they drink, the sun that gives them energy--not to mention animals and their very own selves: everything about our world excites children. And, with these 50 fun-filled, science-based environmental experiments, kids will discover more about how our planet works and how to make it better. Divided into five themes (earth, air, energy, water, and biodiversity), these activities show how each element operates alone and in connection with the others--and what effect it has on us and the environment. Here are real-life ecology projects to do at school or at home, and for the community. Helped by an abundance of lively illustrations, youngsters will become "supermarket sleuths," finding out where food comes from. They can build a solar panel, make recycled paper, construct a worm composter, and create a forest ecosystem in a jar. And when they're done with each section, they'll take an entertaining quiz or complete a puzzle. There's no better way to develop a child's intimate connection with nature.

Eco-Fun: Great Projects, Experiments, and Games for a Greener Earth (David Suzuki Institute)

Suzuki, David T.

Douglas&McIntyre

Did you know thousands of microscopic parasites live on your forehead? That you're breathing dinosaur breath? Through fascinating facts and fables, colorful cartoons, lively photographs, and dynamic illustrations, youngsters learn about our connection to Earth. They'll find out that we and every other living thing are swimming in "air soup," and that the human body is almost 70 percent water. A discussion of "fire power" explains the importance of the sun and how energy continuously cycles from plants to animals. From the tragedy of extinction to practical ways kids can help the environment, this fun and informative guide will change forever how children think about Planet Earth.

You Are the Earth: Know the Planet So You Can Make It Better

Swanson, Diane

Kathy Vanderlinden has collected a closetful of fascinating information about the physical foot, foot fashion, foot fetishism, and other aspects of that part of the body so many of us hate. Physically, our feet are unsung heroes, absorbing some five million pounds of pressure per day as they do their job of carting us around. Then there is the giddy pleasure, the lust, the allure, the therapeutic value of shoes for the shoe lover, from the stiltlike chopine of 15th -century France and the outlandishly wide duckbill of 16th-century England to the gorgeous Manolo Blahniks of today. Vanderlinden also offers tantalizing tidbits about foot afflictions (bunions, corns, and calluses), foot rituals and symbolism (from foot washing to sipping champagne from a lover’s shoe), foot fairytales and folklore (Cinderella being the pre-eminent example), and foot beauty treatments (Cleopatra had a slew of them). Throughout, photos of beautiful, grotesque, and sexy shoes; the foot in paintings and other works of art; famous feet; and foot ornamentation illustrate the many faces of the foot. This eclectic and enchanting compendium will delight all those who have despaired of their feet, been seduced by a pair of shoes, or spent time having a pedicure.

Foot: A Playful Biography

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

This lively collection of fascinating facts and fables, colorful cartoons, and dynamic illustrations explains how everything on Earth is connected. Since its original publication, concern for the environment has grown, and although environmental damage has increased, so too have "green" strategies. This new edition reflects these changes, with expanded discussion of environmental issues and new technologies, as well as many more activities. New sidebars offer extra facts, tips, and real-life examples of things other budding ecologists have done to make the world a better place.

You Are the Earth: Know Your World So You Can Help Make It Better (David Suzuki Institute)

Greystone Kids

Biographies & Memoirs

Mainstream Publishing

Explores humans' natural connection to the earth and its four elements--air, water, soil, and fire--underlining the importance of biodiversity and respect for the environment.

Tu eres la tierra / You Are the Earth: Mejora El Planeta Del Que Formas Partes / Know the Planet So You Can Make it Better (Spanish Edition)

Oniro

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Books by Vanderlinden, Kathy

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Hockey Challenge: Puzzles, Quizzes, Games and Other Cool Stuff for Young Sports Fans

You Are the Earth: From Dinosaur Breath to Pizza from Dirt

Basketball Challenge

Eco-Fun: Great Projects, Experiments, and Games for a Greener Earth (David Suzuki Institute)

You Are the Earth: Know the Planet So You Can Make It Better

Foot: A Playful Biography

You Are the Earth: Know Your World So You Can Help Make It Better (David Suzuki Institute)

Foot: A Playful Biography

Tu eres la tierra / You Are the Earth: Mejora El Planeta Del Que Formas Partes / Know the Planet So You Can Make it Better (Spanish Edition)