Jane Drake

The America at Work series introduces young children to the people, machines and environmental concerns involved in two leading resource-based industries. Fishing explains how fish farmers in Maine raise salmon and halibut, and traces the fascinating life journey of a wild salmon in Alaska. In Mining, kids explore an underground mine, a surface coal mine and an oil drilling site. Combining fact and fiction with colorful illustrations, these stories...

Provides instructions for playing a variety of outdoor and indoor games, including activities for one or two, information on making equipment, advice on water safety and water games, and plans for a "warm weather olympics" competition.

A treasury of outdoor-themed games and activities for each season offers scientific and historical trivia to accompany instructions for such ideas as building a sundial, making a kite, playing Spud, and observing the sky at night.

Discusses the spread of infectious diseases and their impact on human populations, from the Black Death in medieval Europe to such modern diseases as AIDS and West Nile virues, as well as the efforts to stop the spread of these diseases.

Offers ideas for children on how to celebrate the millennium, takes a look at life in 1000 A.D. and 3000 A.D.,and includes a timeline that provides information about interesting people, inventions, and events from the last two thousand years.