Science & Nature - Weights & Measures
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Faster Than a Jet, Bigger Than a Whale: An Illustrated Guide to Measuring Our World
$22.95 Add to cartA lavishly-illustrated guide to real-life wonders large and small! Dive into the biggest, the fastest and the strongest, from nature to technology to the miracles of the human body.
A gorilla is strong
- Author: Minoglio, Andrea
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 3039641018
- Language: English
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Up in the Blue Sky: Journey from the Earth’s Surface to Outer Space
$29.95 Add to cartDiscover a world that can’t be touched.
Beginning on Earth’s surface, start your ascent into the blue and fly alongside butterflies, birds, drones, aircraft and more. Watch as the scale maps the altit
- Series: Orca Up and Down
- Author: Accinelli, Gianumberto
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1459843282
- Language: English
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I’m Longer Than You!: An Epic Contest of Measurement
$19.99 Add to cartA funny, smart and delightfully original way to teach kids about units of measure.
When Supersaurus claims to be the longest animal, Blue Whale begs to differ. The two animals debate who is longer unti
- Author: Fisher, Carolyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1525312944
- Language: English
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Measuring Up: How Oliver Smoot Became a Standard Unit of Measurement
$18.99 Add to cartCould you be the next smoot? One MIT student’s diminutive height becomes his mathematical superpower–and claim to fame–in a true story that’s entertaining and inspiring in equal measure.
When the f- Author: Lacika, Jenny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 153623012X
- Language: English
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The Universe in You: A Microscopic Journey
$8.99 Add to cartJason Chin, winner of the Caldecott Medal for Watercress, dives into the microscopic building blocks of life in this companion to the award-winning Your Place in the Universe.
In Your Place in the Uni- Author: Chin, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0823459977
- Language: English
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Things That Float and Things That Don’t
$8.99 Read moreIt can be surprising which objects float and which don’t. An apple floats, but a ball of aluminum foil does not. If that same ball of foil is shaped into a boat, it floats Why? And how is it possible… [more below]
- Author: Adler, David A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 31 2014
- ISBN10: 0823431762
- Language: English
