Best Selling Books by Giulio Maestro

Describes the creation of the huge statue given by France to the United States and its erection in New York Harbor as a symbol of liberty.

The reader is introduced to such typical city words as "theater, ""museum," "office building," and "train station" as a taxi travels through a hectic workday in and around the city.

A collection of sixty-one riddles based on different kinds of word plays such as puns, homonyms, and homographs.

Words for and pictures of the clothing worn by a well-dressed man, woman, and elephant for daytime and nighttime activities.

A collection of original riddles designed to increase vocabulary.

Text and illustrations introduce words with opposite meanings such as over and under, big and little, and front and back.

Sixty-one original riddles created and illustrated by the author.

Describes the activity on freighters, tankers, ocean liners, tugboats, fireboats, and the other ships in a busy port.

Rhyming riddles answer questions about a variety of animals at school.

Thirty popular expressions such as "straight from the horse''s mouth" and "white elephant" are amusingly explained and illustrated.

Discusses what temperature is and how it is measured.

Trace the origins of more than 100 eponymous words—words derived from the names of people and places. What food was first cooked up in Hamburg, Germany? Hamburgers What country is named after the Italian sailor Amerigo Vespucci? America What do you call people and places whose names become words? Eponyms! Meet the people and places behind more than 100 eponymous words and read the fascinating stories of why words were created for them. What would be the meaning of a word named after you?

A collection of humorous riddles on a Halloween theme including "Why did the ghost''s car stop dead? It ran out of gasps."

Harriet''s search for her friend introduces a number of location words.

A collection of riddles about witches, vampires, skeletons, and other scary Halloween creatures.

Describes how the Constitution was drafted and ratified.