Two babies are born on the same day into very different lives. One is a prince and the other is a papuper who will grow up to beg on the streets of London. One day, ten years later, they meet and they change places. For a short time they enjoy it. But then they cannot change back... That same day, the old king dies. Will a pauper now be King of England?
And famous he become. But does he qualify as a "Giant of science"? Certainly his road to greatness had some prculier detours. As a young physician, he was convinced that cocaine was a miracle sure for nervous afflictions. And at one time, he traced the root of all ailments-both physical and emotional-to a single organ... the nose. Yet Kathleen Krull proveds that Sigmund Freud deserves his place…
Take a close-up at Clara Barton, who bravely nursed soldiers during the Civil War. INterviews with experts and lively writing deliver the accurate reporting you expect from TIME FOR KIDS. Historical and contemporary photographs capture the life of this caring woman and show how her legacy-THe American Red Cross-Assist people today.
People love and need animals. They keep them in their homes and on their farms. They enjoy going to zoos, and watching animals on films and on TV. Lttle children love to play wth toy animals. But people are a great danger to animals too. They take their land, and cut down the trees where animals have their homes. They pollute the rivers and seas, and kill big animals for their skins or for me…
It is the year 2522, and the planet Earth is dying. The artificial Ozone Layer is only 300 years old., but it is breaking up fast. Now the sun is burning down on Earth with a white fire. There is no water. Without water, nothing can live. Trees die, plants die, animals die, people die ... In a colony under the moon, people wait for news - news from home, news from the planet Earth. And in a s…
Arthur Clennam is back in England after many years abroad. He finds his mother as cold and hard as ever, but his father's recent death has thrown up a mystery, and he is determined to get to the bottom of it. Could itu have anything to do with Little Dorrit, the quiet, kind girl who sews for his mother and goes back at night to her home in the Marshalsea peison? As Arthur gets to know the Do…
In the jungle of Southern India the Seeonee Wolf-pack has a new cub. He is not a wolf - he is Mowgli, a human child, but he knows nothing of the world of men. He lives and hunts with his brothers the wolves. Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther are his friends and teachers. And Shere Khan, the man-eating tiger, is his enemy. Rudyard Kipling's famous story of Mowgli's adventures in the jun…
Oh, how delightful it is to fall in love for the first time! How exciting to go to your first dance when you are a girl of eighteen! But, life can also be hard and cruel, if you are young and inexperienced and travelling alone across Europe... or if you are a child from the wrong social class... or a singer without work and the rent to be paid. Set in Europe and New Zealand, these nine stori…
From a young age, Albert Einstein was curious and very smart. But that didn't mean life was easy for him. In fact, being so smart sometimes made things harder for him! Read all bout his life, and find out why Albert Einstein is known as the genius of the twentieth century.