National Geographic kids readers. Level 1

Looks at all the big storms created by Mother Nature run amuk--from lightning and thunder to monsoons, hurricanes, and tornadoes. Features superlatives, jokes, and best of all, the incredible photographs available only from National Geographic.

Ants are everywhere. They creep, they crawl, they climb, and they fall. But they get up and they keep on working. Ants come in all different shapes, different sizes, and different colors. And they do a lot of different jobs. These hard-working little creatures thrive wherever they go, making whatever adaptations necessary in their ever-changing world.

"There's nothing more fascinating than dinosaurs. In this Level 1 reader, youngsters learn all about the terrifying giants that once roamed the Earth--maybe even as close as their own backyard!"--Amazon.com.

Introduces readers to butterflies and the process by which they go from being an egg, to a caterpillar, to a chrysalis, and finally to a butterfly.

Amelia Earhart is one of the first of many National Geographic Readers that highlight important historical figures. This Level 1 Reader brings an understanding of Amelia Earhart's historical significance to a whole new audience. Young readers will learn about the fascinating life and legacy of this pioneering pilot and adventurer, whose disappearance over the Pacific in 1937 has intrigued audiences for decades (Level 1).

Presents an introduction to polar bears, describing their habitat, physical characteristics, life cycle, eating habits, and behaviors, and looks at the life of a polar bear cub.

An introduction to koalas covers where they live, what they eat, and how they communicate, and follows the animal's development from cub to adult.

Provides information about lions, including their diet, life cycle, physical characteristics, behaviors, and habitat.

Introduces readers to the concepts of day and night, describing the changes in the sky, and the effects on various plants and animals across the planet.

Describes how different animal parents teach their offspring to obtain food, showing them how to use tools, avoid predators, and hunt.

Describes the physical characteristics, behavior, and environment of turtles.

Adult and child readers will learn all about plants together in this new Co-reader from National Geographic Kids. Find out how plants grow as well as the different parts of plants, seeds, and flowers.

Travel to ancient Egypt to learn all about its amazing pyramids in this new National Geographic Kids Reader. The Level 1 text provides accessible, yet wide-ranging, information for beginning readers about these amazing wonders of the world and their importance today.

"Information about animals shells, scales, spikes and other outer coverings, for young children learning to read"--

Using the example of a tadpole to a frog, describes how animals grow from babies to adults.