Ellen B. Jackson

Cinderella and Cinder Edna, who live with cruel stepmothers and stepsisters, have different approaches to life; and, although each ends up with the prince of her dreams, one is a great deal happier than the other.

In easy-to-read text, describes what the first day of school might be like for a child in Kenya, Kazakhstan, Canada, Australia, Japan, China, Peru, Germany, India, Russia, and the United States.

Scatterbrain Sam finds true love while gathering ingredients for the mysterious glue stew that is supposed to make him smarter.

A young boy learns about colors in a day at the farm.

Follow Dr. Alex Fillippenko and his High-Z Supernova Search Team to Mauna Kea volcano in Hawaii, where they will study space phenomena and look for supernovae, dying stars that explode with the power of billions of hydrogen bombs. Dr. Fillippenko looks for black holes--areas in space with such a strong gravitational pull that no matter or energy can escape from them--with his robotic telescope. And they study the effects of dark energy, the mysterious...

Color illustrations accompany facts about the month of May in North America, covering such areas as animal behavior, weather, historical events, and holidays.

Describes some animals and plants that are slimy and includes recipes for edible slime, slime jokes, and a slimy short story.

Surveys the many ways the arrival of spring is celebrated.

A retelling of part of a Navajo creation and evolution myth in which of all the animals the lowly snail alone is responsible for bringing pure water to the new land.

When her papa finally relents and lets her go to school with the other children, Wendy the witch is the happiest little girl in town. But soon Papa gets into a spell-casting war with Wendy's teacher, Miss Crispus. Can Wendy's magic spell-cruncher save the day?