New Children's Nonfiction Books

Contains interesting facts about bats.

Provides fun facts about penguins and photographs of penguins in their natural habitats.

Provides information about composting, covering such topics as what can and cannot be composted, building a pile, and keeping the animals within alive.

Explains how to use such organic fertilizers as compost, green sand, mulch, bone meal, and green manure to keep soil healthy.

Teaches how to prepare soil for gardening, including choosing a site for a bed, building a frame, and creating a blanket of leaves or grass.

Describing various examples, the author provides an intriguing look at turtles, at the ecosystems that support their survival, and at the efforts of some people to save them.

Explains how flight works, looks at the history of human attempts at flight, and describes the different roles and responsibilities of aerospace engineers.

Presents information about Aikido, including its history, equipment, safety, and technique.

Highlights the life and accomplishments of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose ideas about light changed scientists' understanding of the universe.