How are crayons made? Clear wax is melted in a factory. Once it's melted, color is added to it, it is poured into crayon-shaped molds, cooled, and wrapped in a paper label. Sorted into sets, the brightly colored crayons are boxed and sent in trucks to stores to be sold to you.

How is a bridge built? Cement is mixed with water and rocks to make concrete. The concrete is poured into holes and into blocks that are stacked to make a bridge. Once fences and lights are added to the bridge, cars can drive across it.

There has always been something unusual about Magnus Fin, a school misfit. On his eleventh birthday Magnus throws a message in a bottle out to sea, wishing for a best friend and to be more brave -- and he gets a lot more than he bargained for. Magnus discovers that he is half selkie -- part seal, part human -- and his selkie family urgently need his help. Can Magnus save his new-found family from the evil force threatening all the ocean's creatures?...

Lily a un secret, et ce n'est pas qu'elle rêve jour et nuit du beau Brody Bennett, un dieu de la natation qui fait chavirer son coeur. L'identité de sirène de Lily est un secret qui ne peut être découvert, puisqu'elle n'est pas qu'une simple sirène; elle est une princesse thalassinienne. Il y a trois ans, lorsque Lily a appris que sa mère était humaine, et non sirène, elle a finalement réalisé pourquoi elle ne se sentait pas tout à fait...

On his eleventh birthday, schoolboy Magnus Fin finds out that he is half selkie - part human, part seal. Although he looks like a boy and lives on land, he can breathe underwater. In Magnus Fin and the Ocean Quest, Magnus Fin must save his new-foound family from the evil force threatening all the ocean's creatures. In Magnus Fin and the Moonlight Mission, Magnus Fin discovers his initials scratched into rocks by the shore and must find the cause of...

Flip and Fin, the irrepressible sand shark twins, want to save the day-just like their favorite TV superheroes. So off to the beach they go, for a bright, funny adventure that will tickle fans of Finding Nemo and SpongeBob SquarePants. Faster than a sailfish! Tougher than a clamshell! Inspired by their favorite TV characters, Flip and Fin are determined to save someone's day. But whose? They swim right to the shoreline with their two best friends,...

Fin Butler and the Clockwork Phoenix: A Children's Fantasy Adventure. Do you love Children's Fantasy Books? Then Fin Butler is here in this new and exciting first adventure in the series by Philip Janvier. Fin Butler and the Clockwork Phoenix is a fantasy adventure for children aged 10-12 and older. This first in a series opens with the trial of Fenix (Fin) Butler for arson. Accused of being 'The Firebird,' Fin is sent to Ravenswood House where he...

Fin Butler and the Reluctant Mermaid: A Children's Fantasy Adventure. Do you love Children's Fantasy Books? Then Fin Butler is here in this new and exciting third adventure in the series by Philip Janvier.'I could not put it down!' 'Well written, full of action and it captures you from the first page.'Fin Butler and the Reluctant Mermaid is a fantasy adventure for children aged 10-12 and older. Ravenswood House is no longer safe for Fin Butler and...

Crushes collide at a magical underwater dance. As best friend and emissary to her mer kingdom's princess, Periwinkle Wentletrap juggles many responsibilities. At the moment those include getting the princess (and herself) ready for the upcoming Sea Harvest Dance. When a trip to the Thalassinian marketplace for pearls and dress-making supplies leads to a reunion with her long-time crush, Peri is once again caught up in the swirl of emotions she feels...