Fresh and cold, foaming from a carton or bottle, milk is one of nature's most nutritious foods. For this, we must thank the milk makers. In The Milk Makers, Gail Gibbons begins with the cow, describing its four-stomach method of producing milk, how it is milked on a modern dairy farm, and then how milk is transported to a dairy plant, processed, and loaded onto refrigerated trucks -- with other dairy products -- for delivery to stores. Step by step, Gail Gibbons's clear, carefully researched text and crisply colorful pictures tell the wonderful story of milk.

The Milk Makers

Children's Books

Gibbons, Gail

Animals

Atheneum Books for Young Readers

This fun and educational picture book describes forecasters at work in a weather station as they track and gauge the constant changes in the weather. Will I need my umbrella? Is it a good day for the beach? Will school close because of snow? These are the questions weather forecasters answer every day. They can tell us what the weather is doing at any time of the day or night. But how do they do it? Weather Forecasting tells how. With straightforward text and colorful pictures, this behind-the-scenes look at a modern weather station answers basic questions kids ask most, and makes weather forecasting more fun and accessible than ever.

Weather Forecasting

Science, Nature & How It Works

It happens every year, in the spring. After months of living on the open sea, far away from land, puffins return to the rocky coast of Maine. These colorful birds come back to shore for only a short time, to mate and to raise their young.
Not too long ago, the arrival of spring brought fewer and fewer puffins back to Maine. So many birds had been hunted for their meat and feathers that the puffin was in danger of dying out.
In 1969, scientists from the National Audubon Society worked out a plan they hoped would insure the survival of Maine's puffin population. No one was certain the plan would work. It would involve many people and many puffins, and it would be years before anyone could say for sure if the project had been successful.
Today it seems clear that the plan has worked very well. Every year more and more puffins return to Maine in the spring. There's great excitement in the air when the call goes out -- The puffins are back!
 Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1991 (NSTA/CBC)

The Puffins Are Back!

Harpercollins

A simple introduction to the physical characteristics, life cycle, and natural environment of the puffins living off the coast of Maine.

The Puffins Are Back

Literature & Fiction

Learn where our mail goes and how it gets there in this classic nonfiction picture book by Washington Post/Children’s Book Guild Award winner Gail Gibbons.
Do you ever mail a letter and wonder what happens to it after you drop it in the box? 
Read all about the post office and learn how letters are weighed, sorted, transported, culled, canceled, coded, binned, boxed, and sorted once again. 
Find out how people and machines work together to deliver the letters you send.

The Post Office Book: Mail and How It Moves

Describes a busy day at a gas station, with cars coming in for gas or repairs.

Fill It Up: All about Service Stations

HarperCollins, Publishers

Learn how fire fighters battle flames in this classic nonfiction picture book by Washington Post/Children’s Book Guild Award winner Gail Gibbons.
The alarm sounds. FIRE! FIRE! Big trucks roll out of the firehouse and race to the scene. Out come the soft hoses and aerial ladders. 
Whether the fire is in the city or in the country, on the waterfront or in a deep forest, fire fighters are on the scene in moments, ready to attack the blaze.
Fire! Fire! teaches beginning readers about the important job of fire fighters in the community. The book includes a glossary in the back with fire-fighting equipment keywords as well as a list of ways to prevent a fire and what to do if there is a fire.

Fire! Fire!

Education & Reference

A step-by-step description of how a movie is made, including writing the script, casting, rehearsing, creating the scenery and costumes, editing the film, and attending the premier.

Lights! Camera! Action!: How a Movie Is Made (Reading Rainbow)

Trophy Pr

‘Before the zoo opens each day a small army of keepers, vendors, and maintenance workers perform the daily tasks of cleaning and setting up. Then the crowds flock in. . . . The busy pictures are filled with details and action. The writing is crisp, clear, and informative.’ —SLJ. 
 Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1987 (NSTA/CBC)

A rotting hull of a ship...lost gold...coins...gems...Sunken Treasure!
Today treasure hunting is a big business. Searchers use metal detectors and sonar to locate treasure on the ocean floor. Divers use high-powered machinery to uncover objects buried in the sand and to raise them to the surface. And more than just treasures are discovered. A whole window into the past is opened up. A salvage can take months or even years. But it's worth it!

Sunken Treasure (Rise and Shine) (Reading Rainbow Books)

History

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