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Meet Ibn Sina (also known as Avicenna), the curious Persian boy who couldnt stop asking questions especially Why do people get sick? and How can we make them better? By the time he was just seventeen, he helped cure a ruler and earned the keys to a royal library!This fun, fact-filled childrens...

Meet James Clerk Maxwell, the curious Scottish boy who couldnt stop asking Whats the go of that? about everything he saw. While other children played, James was busy puzzling over colors, magnets, and the invisible forces hiding all around us!This fun, fact-filled childrens book brings one of...

Meet Galileo Galilei The Man Who Spied on the Stars!This fun, laugh-out-loud story introduces kids to the curious boy who couldnt stop looking up. From dropping balls off towers to discovering moons around Jupiter, Galileos wild imagination changed how we see the universe.Told with humor and...

Meet Aristotle, the curious boy from Ancient Greece who couldnt stop asking Why? and Whats it for? From poking around fish guts to studying the stars, Aristotle turned wonder into wisdom and questions into science.This fun, fact-filled childrens book brings historys greatest thinker to life with...

Welcome to the Great Scientists Series!These are the stories of real people who used their brains, curiosity, and a bit of luck to change the world!Todays story is about Isaac Newton, the kid who couldnt stop asking Why? and once got hit on the head by an apple (sort of)...

The Great Scientists Series introduces young readers to real-life heroes of discovery and imagination.In this first story, Ada Lovelace dreams in numbers and sees the poetry in logic. Growing up in a world that doubted her, she dares to imagine a thinking machine becoming the worlds first...

Meet the curious boy who changed the world!Albert Einstein wasnt born a genius he just loved asking Why? From watching stars to imagining riding on beams of light, this fun and kid-friendly story shows how curiosity can lead to amazing discoveries.Full of humor, simple explanations, and...

John Maynard ist eine der bekanntesten Balladen von Theodor Fontane. Sie wurde erstmals 1886 in Berliner Bunte Mappe. Originalbeiträge Berliner Künstler und Schriftsteller (Verlagsanstalt für Kunst und Wissenschaft vormals Friedrich Bruckmann, München) veröffentlicht. Die Ballade preist John Maynard, Steuermann des Passagierschiffs Schwalbe auf dem Eriesee, auf dem gegen Ende einer Fahrt von Detroit nach Buffalo Feuer ausbricht. John Maynard bleibt „in Qualm und Brand“ auf seinem Posten, bis das Schiff das Ufer erreicht, und rettet so alle um den Preis seines eigenen Lebens.

What if the wildest stories you've ever heard weren't made up at all?A teenage girl falls two miles from an exploding plane — and survives 11 days alone in the Amazon jungle. A park ranger gets struck by lightning seven separate times and lives through every one. A 12-year-old lies his way...

What if history was not just a list of dates, names, and dry facts, but a collection of wild adventures, ancient mysteries, strange mistakes, brave choices, and surprising discoveries?In Hidden History for Curious Kids, young readers ages 9 to 12 travel from ancient times to the modern era...

Anita Yasuda’s evocative biography about Junko Tabei, the first woman to summit Everest, is equal parts grit and grace. “An inspiring biography of a trailblazing woman, lyrically told... This important story reminds us that pursuing our dreams can not only empower us but others as well.”...

"Taking flight has never been more fun."—Nicholas Day, author of The Mona Lisa Vanishes The unbelievable true story of pilot Douglas Corrigan, who took off from New York to fly to California, but landed in Ireland instead. On July 17, 1938, American pilot Douglas Corrigan took off from New...