Most Popular Books by Joe Rhatigan

In order to win at the science fair, go to the experts: these blue-ribbon science experiments are based on those from real students, and they're smart, imaginative, fun to do, and sure to be a hit with the judges! Youngsters will find over 50 exciting and challenging choices in all the major categories. Using easily found materials, they'll test such things as whether people who play video games have a different reaction time than those who don't, or if sound travels better underwater than through air. Easier projects come first, more difficult ones after, and many include a section called "Take a Closer Look" with research suggestions and additional information.

Creatively embellishing unfinished, ready-made frames is fun and easy. Sometimes it is hard to find just the right frame for a special photograph or piece of artwork, but using today's hottest techniques, you can personalise a wide variety of plain and old-fashioned frames with paint, fabric, wire, beads, paper, costume jewellery and other household leftovers.

Provides ideas for exploring nature to learn the answers to such questions as when a chrysalis will open, why a wolf howls, or how the tide goes out, and gives advice about equipment and safety.

It’s the night before Christmas … but something is definitely stirring in this beautifully illustrated story of a fantastical holiday miracle! Neigh, baa, oink, cluckety cluck, and moo! Merry Barnyard Christmas from all of us to you. It’s Christmas Eve at the farm, and all the barnyard animals are taking turns sneaking out of the barn. At the old pine tree, they make an animal ladder. But why? The delightful answer to that question makes this an instant classic that parents and children alike will love reading during the holidays and all year round. Featuring an amazing vertical spread of all the animals teetering next to a giant pine tree, simple counting fun, and delightful rhyming text, Barnyard Christmas will warm readers’ hearts as they giggle all the way!

Press the button to hear Whirly the Helicopter's wild whoosh whosh.

This stunning new version of a classic is the best way to enter Wonderland ... without actually falling down the rabbit hole. On its 150th anniversary in 2015, Lewis Carrolls tale of a world gone topsy-turvy gets a unique picture-book retelling of the beginning of Alices journey: the first ever, with elegantly simplified text that keeps all of the astonishing adventures and wide-eyed amazement of the original. Includes many of the classic Carroll characters Alice and the White Rabbit, the Blue Caterpillar, Bill the Lizard and more.

This Sixth Grade 4-Book set provides 180 days of practice activities to build students' reading, writing, spelling and language skills. Teachers and parents can help students gain regular practice with these quick, diagnostic-based activities that are easy to prepare and implement as part of a classroom routine, as intervention, or as homework.

New! Build advanced reading skills with engaging and meaningful daily practice activities designed for seventh grade students. 180 Days™: Reading for Seventh Grade: Offers learning activities that boost confidence with reading and writing, Incorporates thematic units and a combination of fiction, nonfiction, and nontraditional texts, Makes at-home learning, whole class instruction, or small group support quick and easy, Includes a complete answer key to assess and diagnose student understanding, Parents appreciate the grade-appropriate reading passages and fascinating topics that children will love. The daily reading practice in this activity book is great for homeschool, to reinforce learning at school, or to prevent learning loss over summer. Teachers rely on these daily practice workbooks to save them valuable time. The standards-based activities are perfect for classroom or at-home learning. The activities can also be used for differentiation and to address learning gaps.

Press the button to hear Tilly the Train's chugging choo choo

An expanded version of the traditional nursery rhyme presents even more silly situations, including a fish and a noodle climbing a tree, a giraffe in a cradle crying for soup, and a movie star monkey riding in a wagon.

The Career Expert Files series covers professionals who are experts in their fields. These career experts know things we never thought they'd need to know, but we're glad they do. From auto mechanics to nurse practitioners, the expert knowledge these professionals employ is indispensable.