Most Popular Books by Melvin Berger

Read and discover all about living things.

Postulates what life would be like living in a colony on Mars and presents up-to-date scientific knowledge of that planet.

In an easy-to-follow conversational style, this book explores basic questions about this endearing, and endangered, species. Illustrations.

Through simplified scientific explanations and colorful pictures, a child can learn how to read a weather map on the nightly news, how rain is formed, and how to sort the different kinds of clouds. Full color throughout.

Find out which creatures in the animal kingdom have the coolest superpowers in this new book in the 101 Animal series! Discover some of the most extraordinary creatures in nature! This book takes a close look at 101 of the coolest tricks and superpowers in the animal kingdom. Find out how these animals'' superpowers work and what they use them for--both to hunt and to protect themselves! Organized from A to Z, meet insects, reptiles, mammals, birds, and fish, all that have amazing super-abilities!

This is the first book in a brand-new series featuring TONS of awesomely incredible, weird, and crazy facts! Did you know crickets have ears on their knees? That snakes never close their eyes? Or that no plant has black flowers? Discover these incredible facts and more in the first Fact Attack book, all about plants and animalsFact Attack is an exploration of the most amazing and awe-inspiring plant and animal facts. Heavily designed with different approaches on each page, the style is dynamic, fresh, and in your face. Whether you flip to a page to learn a digestible fact or read it from beginning to end, this is a book a reader will return to time and again.

Explains how the postal system works by following a letter on its way to its destination.

Describes the characteristics of spiders and the methods they use to trap their prey in webs.

An introduction to cancer, cancer research, and associated career opportunities. Discusses the particular activities of some leading scientists in their research laboratories.

This account explores the world of killer bees, fire ants, & other such bugs.

Discusses the history of the clarinet and saxophone, how they are made, music that has been composed for them, outstanding performers on these instruments, and advice for the would-be student.

Discusses the daily activities of oceanographers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and some of the current problems in oceanographic research.

Autumn has warm days and cool nights.

Jokes with a Halloween theme.

Asks readers a true-or-false question about the physical characteristics, diet, or behavior of dangerous animals that the reader can find the answer to by turning the page.

The 4th book in the popular 101 ANIMALS series! Did you know that sea turtle mothers leave their babies to hatch from their eggs completely on their own? Or that baby gorilla black-backs are carried around for as long as three years after they are born? In 101 Animal Babies, readers will learn about penguins and sea-horse fathers that guard and hatch their eggs, birds that teach their chicks to fly, kangaroos that keep their joeys safe in pouches, and wolves that teach their pups to hunt.Filled with fascinating facts and adorable full-color photos on every page, 101 Animal Babies is sure to be an instant favorite for kids, parents, and teachers alike!

Did you know that an oil spill occurs somewhere in the world almost every day of the year? Berger and Mirocha focus on one of the worst spills in history-the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil tanker spill-to explain in simple terms and with bold, full color illustrations why oils spills happen, how experts clean up after them, and what effect spilled oil has on ocean plants and wildlife. "A good introduction to the subject."--BL. 1994 "Pick of the Lists" (ABA) Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1995 (NSTA/CBC)

Fall is pumpkin time.

Student Book

Wintertime survival strategies of several different animals.

Using the various sensory organs, people can see, hear, touch, taste and smell.

Describes in simple scientific detail how the body heals itself when cuts, scratches, and scrapes occur.

Describes various tools and methods used by scientists in studying biology.

Book about metamorphosis.

An introduction to the flute from the first lessons to career opportunities and from the scientific principles of the instrument to its history.

Introduction to owls and where they live.

Discusses the first quarter-century of our space program, what is happening now, and what is planned for the future.

Some animals hibernate in fall.

Introduction to robins and where they live.

Cool charts, fascinating facts, an fantastic full-color photographs and illustrations.

Discusses the uses of computers in such areas as crime fighting, space flight, and medicine.

Student Book

Explains the process of making a jar of peanut butter from peanuts growing in the field to processing to table.

Discusses how the various musical instruments produce sound and describes how records, tapes, and disks are made and how the playback equipment for them generates sound waves.

Animals live in many different places. Learn about the homes of bees, birds, rabbits, alligators and more.