New Releases by Sherry Gerstein

Eye-catching illustrations and clever use of acetate overlays illuminate bugs, both outside and in! • See-Thru Books provide a fresh take on illustrated nonfiction with their unique acetate pages printed on both sides. • Hidden spiral binding allows the book to lie flat for easy, unencumbered reading. • Kids love bugs--they are a perennially popular high-interest topic, both at home and in classrooms.

Eye-catching illustrations and clever use of acetate overlays illuminate bats, both outside and in! • See-Thru Books provide a fresh take on illustrated nonfiction with their unique format using acetate pages printed on both sides. • Hidden spiral binding allows the book to lie flat for easy, unencumbered reading. • Kids are fascinated by bats--they are a perennially popular high-interest topic, both at home and in classrooms.

Learn all about frogs, from their anatomy to habitats.

Discover what''s on the inside and outside of a shark''s body with see-through illustrations and engaging facts.

Create classic origami projects with and for your children! Turn off the television. Unplug the game systems. And get back to basics for an afternoon with some classic origami projects. Create several projects using the bright, colorful papers included in the set: all the letters of the alphabet, mobiles, pinwheels, gift boxes, pop-up greeting cards, accordion photo frames, party favors baskets, snack containers, fortune tellers, paper airplanes, envelopes for the tooth fairy, flowers, hearts and stars, jewelry, birds, butterflies, and bugs. * Gain a whole new perspective on geometry and the world of origami. * Great fun for the entire family--or for your local homeroom mom. Mommy-Gami provides hours of fun for families with classic origami and paper crafting.

Presents quizzes based on trivia taken from the first two seasons of the animated television show "Avatar, the Last Airbender."

Based on the ANIMAL PLANET television series, this book counts down the top ten animals in some crazy categories, from the most extreme fighters, biters, and stinkers to the most extreme eaters, survivors, and thinkers.

Science projects have never been so exciting! Every year, 6,000 middle schoolstudents are nominated for the Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge, the only competition of its kind for students in grades 5 to 8. Of those 6,000 students, 40 finalists are chosen and brought to Washington, D.C., for a week of intense science "challenges" in various science disciplines. The challenges are televised on the Discovery Channel, and the winning teams and individuals are presented with science awards and prizes. This book follows some of the students selected for the Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge and includes colorful descriptions of how the teams solved the challenges, inspiring profiles of the winners, tips on preparing science projects, and dozens of winning project ideas that kids can use to inspire their own awesome science projects! Taking Science to the Extreme! shows kids how they can be part of the Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge and learn to think and have fun like a real scientist. Rosanna Hansen is the author of many books for children and young adults and a former publisher at Troll and Reader’s Digest.

When their planned day at the park is cancelled due to rain, Hideki, Shu-Shu, Bonaparte, Nut and Bolt, and Abby all imagine vacations featuring shapes and colors. On board pages.

Yao and Rico bake Oppenheimer the dog a cake for his birthday, and readers can help count the ingredients as they use them.

Spike the elephant and Jango the giraffe visit a farm where the animals give rhyming clues as to who they are using the sounds they make, and readers can lift the flap to find out the name of that domestic animal.

"Want to play a guessing game? Help Hideki the frog with an alphabet of rhyming clues. Find items for every letter of the alphabet hidden beneath the multiple flaps on each page! Can you follow along from A-Z? Featuring a lift-a-flap for every letter and a guide for the parent or caregiver to follow."--[P] 4, cover.

This is the story of how a piece of lost treasure made an amazing journey. It found its way from a pirate, to a parrot, to a shark and more. But the best part of this book is that it comes with a shiny gold coin for young readers to keep! Just open the special holder inside the book to take out the coin. Then find the openings on every page and push the coin through to the next part of the story.

A nighttime journey through the Amazon Rain Forest. Nightwatch transports you deep into the jungle, to roam the forests as the animals do. With the turn of each see-through page, you''ll meet the fascinating creatures that inhabit the nitht from dusk until dawn.