Earth

With Smithsonian Discover: Earth, kids can take a tour of Earth’s fiery core, scale Mount Everest, scuba-dive in the Great Barrier Reef, and hunker down during a hurricane, all without ever leaving the safety of their living rooms. A must-have for any kid who calls Earth home, this engaging book contains three sections: Amazing Earth (all about the inside and outside of the planet), the Blue Planet (covering awesome oceans, raging rivers, and great lakes), and Wild Weather (which explains the science of weather and goes inside natural disasters). Each page contains science presented simply, and facts backed by the museum professionals of the Smithsonian.

The compelling content is only the tip of the iceberg (only a tenth of which floats above the ocean’s surface, as you’ll learn). This engaging title also delivers hands-on activities like you would find at the Smithsonian. Bound right into the book are 12 Earth fact cards, a large double-sided map of the world, and materials to construct a three-dimensional paper globe. Though we walk its surface every day, Smithsonian Discover: Earth will surely teach kids that Earth is one fascinating planet!

Best-selling author Dorothea DePrisco writes for kids, for the moments in their days. She is the creator of over one hundred books for children, including Bluebird’s Nest, Eight Silly Monkeys, Ocean Wonders, All the Ways I Love You and Beetle Bug’s Party. She is also a publishing professional who has developed over 500 children’s titles. With a B.A. degree in both English Writing Arts and Literature from the State University of New York at Oswego, DePrisco began her career at Scholastic Inc. After her tenure at Scholastic, she taught high school English in Hawai’i. In 2001, she took on the role of Executive Vice President and Publisher of Intervisual Books, Inc., the Los Angeles-based company most famous for the invention of the pop-up book. There she created an evergreen list that brought the company to become a leading mass-market publisher. DePrisco continues to publish children’s books for publishers worldwide and provided a creative services arm to publishers in need of preschool and elementary school books. Her client list includes Simon and Schuster, Scholastic Inc., Teacher Created Materials, Tribune Publishing, Weldon Owen Publishing, Tormont Publications, Andrews McMeel, Quarto Books, Top That! Kids and Tide Mill Press.