Sciences et technologies

As a young boy, Charles Darwin hated school and was often scolded for conducting “useless” experiments. Yet his passion for the natural world was so strong that he suffered through terrible seasickness during his five-year voyage aboard The Beagle....

A young listeners edition of the New York Times best seller The Disappearing Spoon, chronicling the extraordinary stories behind one of the greatest scientific tools in existence: the periodic table....

On this adventure, we're learning about incredible inventors. We'll travel through time to see how humans first discovered fire-making, all the way through to the modern scientific research of today....

Identify the accomplishments of Louis Braille, who invented the Braille system that the blind use today. Hear about his childhood, education, and how he came to develop the Braille system....

This book explores the world of Sigmund Freud, who, making it into the author's highly popular series due to his creation of a brand-new branch of medicine called psychoanalysis, introduced the world to such controversial theories as Oedipal complexes, the id, and the ego....

Before Carl Linnaeus began classifying organisms, before John James Audubon drew birds from the wild, before Charles Darwin proposed his theory of evolution, there lived a 13-year-old girl named Maria Merian who loved to draw bugs....

Thomas Edison wasn't just an inventor. He was also a physicist and businessman. Young listeners will discover how he became a great scientist whose inventions made a better life for most everyone....

Gene Grossman decided to write plain-English explanations that even kids above the age of eight should be able to easily follow - and explain to their parents.... And it goes the other way, too....

Both Thomas Edison and Henry Ford started off as insatiably curious tinkerers. That curiosity led them to become inventors - with very different results....

Born in 1860s Missouri, nobody expected George Washington Carver to succeed. Slaves were not allowed to be educated. After the Civil War, Carver enrolled in classes and proved to be a star student. He became the first black student at Iowa State Agricultural College and later its first black professor. He went on to the Tuskegee Institute where he specialized in botany (the study of plants) and developed techniques to grow crops better.

One day, George the Supersnail was watching the birds fly, tree to tree, from his bedroom window. He was wondering why he could not fly, so he went and asked his mother. His mother told him he needed wings to fly. George had no wings, only a shell. He knew normal snails could not fly like birds. He said to himself, "I am George the Supersnail. I can do anything!"

The first book of the Burp, Hip, and Twist series, written more than 30 years ago with an old typewriter that belonged to the author's father. This book series is about three characters and their mildly amusing antics; the various episodes employ a newer aspect of children's lives. Burp, Hip, and Twist reflects the author's own amusement at being a grown-up child!

The Kind Panda is a heartwarming tale of how small acts of kindness can make a positive change in the world. The magical illustrations and Kimmy’s cheerful songs will lead your child through this journey, as they learn the generosity of putting others before ourselves and that even the hardest hearts can be softened with genuine kindness that asks nothing in return.

Embark on a magical journey by learning how to love books with the greatest adventures from your favorite fairy tales. Spend time with Benjamin Bunny and Chicken Little, follow the Pied Piper through the streets of Hamelin, help the frog prince remove an evil spell, and more!  

With the possible exception of Martin Luther King, Jr., no African American has been more instrumental in the fight for minorities' civil rights in the United States than Frederick Douglass 1818 - 1895), an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. His list of accomplishments would be impressive enough even without taking into account the fact that he was born into slavery. Douglass' father was a white man, even perhaps his master Aaron Anthony. When Douglass was about 12, his slaveowner's wife, Sophia Auld, began teaching him the alphabet in defiance of the South's laws against teaching slaves how to read. When her husband Hugh found out, he was furious, reminding her that if the slave learned to read, he would become dissatisfied with his condition and desire freedom. Those words would prove prophetic.

Patricia Polacco is now one of America's most loved children's book creators, but once upon a time she was a little girl named Trisha starting school. Trisha could paint and draw beautifully, but when she looked at words on a page, all she could see was jumble. It took a very special teacher to recognize little Trisha's dyslexia: Mr. Falker, who encouraged her to overcome her reading disability. Patricia Polacco will never forget him, and neither will we.