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The Wright Brothers: Nose-Diving Into History (Epic Fails #1)
By Ben Thompson, Erik Slader. 2018
A hilarious nonfiction look at two of history's most epic "failures": the Wright brothers, whose countless crashes ultimately led to…
groundbreaking success. Although Orville and Wilbur Wright are celebrated today as heroes for their revolutionary contributions to science and engineering?they are acknowledged as the first men to successfully achieve powered, piloted flight?their success was hard-earned. (Spoiler alert: there were a lot of nosedives involved.) In fact, it took the self-taught engineers years of work and dozens of crashes before they managed a single twelve-second flight! In this first installment of the brand new Epic Fails series, Ben Thompson and Erik Slader take readers through the Wright brothers' many mishaps and misadventures as they paved the way for modern aviation. The Epic Fails series takes a humorous and unexpected view of history, exploring the surprising stories behind a variety of groundbreaking discoveries, voyages, experiments, and innovations, illustrating how many of mankind's biggest successes are in fact the result of some pretty epic failures.Biographie en images : Voici Chris Hadfield (Biographies en Images)
By Mike Deas, Elizabeth MacLeod. 2018
See below for English description.Faites la connaissance du colonel Chris Hadfield, le premier Canadien à effectuer une sortie dans l'espace……
et le premier à enregistrer un vidéoclip en orbite!Lorsque Chris Hadfield était un jeune garçon, vivant sur une ferme à Milton, en Ontario, le Canada n'avait pas de programme spatial. Cependant, le jour où il vit le premier homme marcher sur la Lune, le jeune Chris décide qu'il se rendra, lui aussi, dans l'espace. À partir de ce jour, tout ce qu'il entreprend, que ce soit apprendre à réparer la machinerie agricole, rejoindre les cadets de l'air pour piloter des avions de chasse et devenir un pilote d'essai, le prépare à atteindre cet objectif.Chris Hadfield a été propulsé à trois reprises dans l'espace, il a également fait deux sorties dans l'espace, en plus d'être le premier Canadien à prendre les commandes de la Station spatiale internationale. Et lorsqu'il est question de jouer de la guitare dans l'espace ou de porter une moustache avec panache, il n'y en a pas deux comme lui! Meet Colonel Chris Hadfield, the first canadian to walk in space!When Chris Hadfield was a boy, growing up on a farm in Milton, Ontario, Canada didn't have a space program. But from the moment he saw a man first walk on the moon, young Chris decided he would somehow get to space. And with everything Chris did, from learning to fix farm machinery and joining the Air Cadets to flying fighter planes and becoming a test pilot, he prepared himself to get there. Chris Hadfield has rocketed into space three times, been on two space walks and was the first Canadian to command the International Space Station. And nobody plays a guitar in space or rocks a mustache better!Original title: Scholastic Canada Biography: Meet Chris HadfieldAll in a drop: how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world
By Lori Alexander. 2019
By building his own microscope, Antony van Leeuwenhoek advanced humanity's understanding of the oft-invisible world around us. Microbes are everywhere:…
in the soil and oceans, in snow, and inside our bodies. But in Antony van Leeuwenhoek's time, people believed that what they saw with their own eyes was all that existed in the world. How did a simple tradesman-who didn't go to college or speak English or Latin like all the other scientists-change everyone's minds? Proving that remarkable discoveries can come from the most unexpected people and places, this eye-opening biography celebrates the power of curiosity, ingenuity, and persistenceCounting the stars: The Story Of Katherine Johnson, Nasa Mathematician
By Lesa Cline-Ransome. 2019
Before John Glenn orbited the Earth or astronauts walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as…
"human computers" used their knowledge, pencils, adding machines, and writing paper to calculate the orbital mechanics needed to launch spacecraft. Katherine Johnson was one of these mathematicians who used trajectories and complex equations to chart the space program. Even as Virginia's Jim Crow laws were in place in the early 1950s, Katherine worked analyzing data at the NACA (later NASA) Langley laboratory. In 1962, as NASA prepared for the orbital mission of John Glenn, Katherine Johnson was called upon, and John Glenn said "get the girl" (Katherine Johnson) to run the numbers by hand to chart the complexity of the orbital flight. He knew that his flight couldn't work without her unique skills. President Barack Obama awarded Katherine Johnson the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015, and her incredible life inspired the Oscar-nominated film Hidden FiguresStarstruck: the cosmic journey of Neil deGrasse Tyson
By Kathleen Krull. 2020
Young Neil deGrasse Tyson was starstruck when he first visited the sky theater at the Hayden Planetarium in New York…
City. He couldn't believe the crowded, glittering night sky at the planetarium was real-until a visit to the country years later revealed the impossible. That discovery was like rocket fuel for Neil's passion about space. His quest for knowledge took him from the roof of his apartment building to a science expedition in northwest Africa, to a summer astronomy camp beneath a desert sky, and finally back home to become the director of the Hayden Planetarium, where it all began. Before long, Neil became America's favorite guide to the cosmos. This story of how one boy's quest for knowledge about space led him to become a star scientist is perfect for young children who are fascinated by the universe, aspiring scientists, and the dreamer in all of us. It will ignite your own sense of wonderDueling dinosaurs and other real dino stories (Highlights Stories)
By Highlights For Children. 2019
Real dinosaurs! Read about Triceratops' horns and their purpose. Did you know that there are animals alive today that move…
similarly to dinosaurs? Sometimes museums display copies of dinosaur fossils instead of the real thing. Learn how the Smithsonian made an exact copy of a dinosaur skeleton. A dinosaur fan's dreams came true as he watched a dinosaur skeleton being rebuilt. Stories by Sharon Pochron, Cheryl M. Reifsnyder, Ph.D., Suzanne McIntire, and Don Lessem, Dinosaur EditorWhen planet Earth was new
By James Gladstone, Katherine Diemert. 2017
It has taken billions of years for Earth to become the planet it is today. 'When planet Earth was new'…
looks back to the very beginning, using a poetic approach grounded in scientific fact to give an overview of how the planet has changed over time: from hot lava to the formation of oceans to the evolution of living things in water and on land. The book also includes the relatively recent evolution of humans - who are just a tiny speck in the sweep of Earth's history. Grades K-3 and older readers. 2017.Why does the sun set? (Nature's super secrets)
By Violet Miller. 2013
For centuries, people have delighted in watching the sun rise and set; scientists have dedicated many hours to researching Earth's…
rotation and what makes the sky change. Now, readers can share in this mystery with diagrams of the sun and Earth that help readers visualize Earth's rotation, while approachable language makes the complex topic easy to understand. Grades K-3. 2014.Dinosaurs live on!: and other fun facts
By Laura Lyn DiSiena, Hannah Eliot, Aaron Spurgeon. 2015
Go back in time with this dino-mite book of fun facts about fossils, pterodactyls, the T. rex, and more! Did…
you know that the Tyrannosaurus rex was up to forty-two feet in length? How about that the Triceratops had between 400 and 800 teeth? Or that some scientists believe that chickens are descendants of dinosaurs? Filled with tons of facts about dinosaurs, this book is sure to be a prehistoric hit! Grades K-3 and older readers. 2015.Tiny creatures: the world of microbes
By Nicola Davies, Emily Sutton. 2014
All around the world – in the sea, in the soil, in the air, and in your body! – there…
are living things so tiny that millions could fit on the period at the end of this sentence. And they’re busy doing all sorts of things, from giving you a cold to making yogurt to eroding mountains and helping make the air we breathe. Grades K-3. 2014.Saturn could sail
By Laura Lyn DiSiena, Pete Oswald, Aaron Spurgeon. 2014
Blast off with this book of fun facts about spacecraft, planets, the Milky Way, and more! Did you know that…
Saturn is the least dense planet in the solar system? If there were a body of water large enough to hold it, Saturn would float! Or that Earth could fit inside Jupiter more than 1,000 times? Filled with tons of cool facts about outer space, this book is out of this world! Grades K-3. 2014.Things that float and things that don't
By David A Adler, Anna Raff. 2013
It can be surprising which objects float and which don't. An apple floats, but a ball of aluminum foil does…
not. If that same ball of foil is shaped into a boat, it floats! Why? And how is it possible that a huge ship made of steel can float? This book answers these questions about density and flotation, and includes activities that demonstrate the properties of flotation. Grades K-3. 2013.Ankylosaur attack (Tales of prehistoric life)
By Valerie Wyatt, Daniel Loxton, Jim W. W Smith. 2011
What did dinosaurs look like in their natural environment? Find out in this story of a young ankylosaur (a plant-eating,…
heavy-plated dinosaur) living along the banks of a grassy lake. When he encounters an old ankylosaur, he tries to make contact, only to be rebuffed. Then a T. rex attacks, and the youngster knows the old dinosaur is in grave danger. Can he come to the rescue in time? Grades K-3. 2011. (Tales of prehistoric life)If I were an astronaut (Dream big!)
By Eric Braun, Sharon Harmer. 2010
If I were an astronaut, I would zoom into outer space! I would help build the International Space Station, take…
a spacewalk, and do cool science experiments. Dream big, and see what fun it is to be an astronaut. Grades K-3. 2010. (Dream big!)The mangrove tree: planting trees to feed families
By Cindy Trumbore, Susan L Roth. 2011
For a long time, the people of Hargigo, a village in the tiny African country of Eritrea, were living without…
enough food for themselves and their animals. The families were hungry, and their goats and sheep were hungry too. Then along came a scientist, Dr. Gordon Sato, who helped change their lives for the better. And it all started with some special trees. Grades K-3. 2011.Victoria's day
By Maria de Fatima Campos. 2007
Follows a day in the life of a child who has Down's syndrome, showing her with family and friends in…
day-to-day situations, including eating breakfast, going to school, and cooking. Grades K-3. 2007.My plane book
By Ellen Kirk. 2006
Two eyes, a nose, and a mouth
By Roberta Grobel Intrater. 1995
There's a barnyard in my bedroom
By Eugenie Fernandes, David T Suzuki. 2008
From their sheets and pillows to their books, fruit, and furniture, nearly everything in Jamie's and Megan's lives has come…
from nature. Learning to truly understand what surrounds them, they discover that the air they breathe includes water and life-giving gases and that the seeds they find will grow into vegetables. Grades K-3 and older readers. 2008.Objectif Mars (Bayard poche #2)
By Joanna Cole. 2005
Carlos est ravi : il va pouvoir utiliser Rocco, son chien-robot télécommandé pour collecter des pierres sur Mars. Toute la…
classe va visiter le système solaire à bord du bus magique transformé en vaisseau spatial. Au cours de l'expédition, Carlos provoque une catastrophe : il déclenche les fusées de Rocco, qui disparaît dans l'espace et se met en orbite autour de Mercure.