Janice VanCleave's Science Around the Year
Did you know? City lights trick trees into keeping their leaves longer!  Birds learn their songs! Sugar is a natural antifreeze!Prolific and popular author Janice VanCleave's hands-on, highly informative  books make learning about science fun any time of the year. InScience Around  the Year, readers select a season to study, or just browse through the 52  chapters (one for each week of the year). Each of the four seasons has 13  chapters dealing with biology, chemistry, astronomy, physics, or earth science.  The clear, logical format starts with "Did You Know?", a fun fact that  identifies the focus of the chapter, with an explanation of the science behind  the fact. "Fun Time!" is a discovery experiment related to the fun fact. "More  Fun with...!" is an additional activity relating to the topic, and every chapter  also has a book list for supplemental fiction and nonfiction reading.Readers will be intrigued by such amazing facts as these: Frogs have teeth. An  eight-inch snowflake once fell in Siberia. Fish have rained from the sky. But  this is no collection of obscure, wacky facts. Based on solid science,  VanCleave's book gracefully walks the fine line between serious scientific  education and truly entertaining activities. Be sure to check out VanCleave's  many other lively science books, includingJanice VanCleave's 203 Icy, Freezing,  Frosty, Cool & Wild ExperimentsandJanice VanCleave's Play and Find Out  about Science. (Ages 5 to 9)--Emilie Coulter