Cc cycle 2

5 stars

Meet Sun: He's a star! And not just any star--he's one in a billion. He lights up our solar system and makes life possible.

Presents profiles and illustrations of ten legendary kings who used their power to change the course of history, including Hammurabi, David, Kublai Khan, and others. Profiles ten kings that changed the course of history, including Peter the Great, and Hammurabi, ruler of the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia.

DK findout! Vikings is packed with surprising facts and amazing pictures of these medieval adventurers.

3 stars

Presents a history of world art from cave paintings to present day through seventy tales about artists and the way they created their work.

4.3 stars

I was born at the beginning of it all, on the Red side - the Communist side - of the Iron Curtain. Through annotated illustrations, journals, maps, and dreamscapes, Peter Sis shows what life was like for a child who loved to draw, proudly wore the red scarf of a Young Pioneer, stood guard at the giant statue of Stalin, and believed whatever he was told to believe. But adolescence brought questions. Cracks began to appear in the Iron Curtain, and news...

Introduces the five major biomes--aquatic, desert, forest, grassland, and tundra--with examples of animals that live in each.

4 stars

Tells the story of the famous Leonardo Da Vinci portrait known as the Mona Lisa, including its 1911 theft from the Louvre in Paris, from the point of view of the subject of the painting. Includes an author's note with facts about the painting.

Examines the archaeological evidence that various explorers such as the Vikings and the Chinese came to America long before Columbus.

Shakespeare loved words. He picked up phrases; he made up new words-- and then he put them together in extraordinary ways and used them in his plays. We bump into his words all the time, four hundred years later, and we don't even know it! Discover the ways that his words changed the way we talk.

5 stars

Provides information on World War II.