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"Some things are so huge or so old that it's hard to wrap your mind around them. But what if we took these big, hard-to-imagine objects and events and compared them to things we can see, feel and touch? Instantly, we'd see our world in a whole new way." So begins this endlessly intriguing guide to better understanding all those really big ideas and numbers children come across on a regular basis. Author David J. Smith has found clever devices to scale down everything from time lines (the history of Earth compressed into one year), to quantities (all the wealth in the world divided into one...

Hay ciertas palabras que son, ay, un dolor de cabeza. ¿Has o haz? ¿Tubo o tuvo? ¿Vallas o vayas? ¿Ves o vez? La maestra Evita E. Rores te da el remedio para que siempre, lo que se dice siempre, sepas cómo se escriben las cosas. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------There are certain words that, ouch, can be a real headache. Miss Evita E. Rores (aka Miss Write) gives you the everlasting cure so that you will always and forever remember how words are spelled.

What keeps objects from floating out of your hand? What if your feet drifted away from the ground? What stops everything from floating into space? Gravity. As in his previous books, Redwoods, Coral Reefs, and Island, Jason Chin has taken a complex subject and made it brilliantly accessible to young readers in this unusual, innovative, and very beautiful book.

Retells Bible stories in simple language, from the genesis of our world to the revelation of a world that is to come.