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Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1989

Animals

The American marten
Animals showing off
Creatures of long ago: dinosaurs
Beaver at Long Pond
Bird
Butterfly and moth
Pond & river
Rocks & minerals
Skeleton
Tree
A first look at seals, sea lions, and walruses
Heads
A horse of a different color
Kenneth Lilly's animals
Lili: a giant panda of Sichuan
Llama
Penguin
The loon: voice of the wilderness
Nature's loving lights: fireflies and other bioluminescent creatures
101 questions and answers about pets and people
The penguin family book
Red pandas: a natural history
Scaly babies: reptiles growing up
Side by side
Swans
Wild animals of America ABC

Biography

Chuck Yeager: the man who broke the sound barrier
Rachel Carson: biologist and author
Rachel Carson: pioneer of ecology
Thomas Alva Edison
What are you figuring now? : a story about Benjamin Banneker

Space Science and Astronomy

Galaxies
The glow-in-the-dark night sky book
I want to be an astronaut
Nebulae: the birth and death of stars
The origin and evolution of our own particular universe
Stars and planets
UFOs, ETs, & visitors from space
U.S. and Soviet space programs: a comparison

Archaeology and Anthropology

Dinosaur bones
Dinosaurs, dragonflies & diamonds : all about natural history museums
Diving to the past: recovering ancient wrecks
From map to museum: uncovering mysteries of the past
Hominids: a look back at our ancestors
The igloo
In the beginning : creation stories from around the world
Science in ancient China
Science in early Islamic culture
Science of the early American Indians

Earth Science, Environment, and Conservation

The big rock
The hidden life of the meadow
The hidden life of the forest
The hidden life of the pond
How to be an ocean scientist in your own home
Keepers and creatures at the National Zoo
Moonseed and mistletoe: a book of poisonous wild plants
The nature book: discovering, exploring, observing, experimenting with plants and animals at home and outdoors
Rain forest
Rain of troubles: the science and politics of acid rain
The roadside
Silent killers : radon and other hazards
Sketching outdoors in summer
Sketching outdoors in autumn
Sketching outdoors in winter
Small energy sources: choices that work
Step into the night
The sun, the wind, and the rain
Tracking wild chimpanzees
Volcanoes
A walk on the Great Barrier Reef
Where the forest meets the sea
The whooping crane : a comeback story

Life Science

Apple tree
Farming
Growing colors
A house for Hermit Crab
How to raise butterflies
I was born in a tree and raised by bees
Planting a rainbow

Medical and Health Sciences

Animal doctor
Asking about sex and growing up : a question-and-answer book for boys and girls
Babies!
A dentist's tools
Science and sports
Taking my cat to the vet
Taking my dog to the vet
When i see my doctor-
When I see my dentist-
Why am I so miserable if these are the best years of my life?: everything your mother never told you about becoming a woman: a survival guide for or growing up female in the '80s
Note: This is the revised edition; we do have the first edition
Wonders of speech

Physics, Technology, and Engineering

Clocks: building and experimenting with model timepieces
Glass: its many facets
Handy Hank will fix it
How did we find out about superconductivity?
The inventors : Nobel prizes in chemistry, physics, and medicine
Research balloons: exploring hidden worlds
Sanitation workers from A to Z
Size: the measure of things
The Smithsonian book of flight for young people
Trains
The way things work

Other

But not like mine
Consider the lemming
Dry or wet
Fire engine shapes
How many snails? : a counting book
The king's chessboard
Look! look! look!
So can I
Tail, toes, eyes, ears, nose
Two bad ants
Tyrannosaurus was a beast : dinosaur poems
Waving
World of wonders: a trip through numbers

Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1988

Animals

Ant cities
City geese
Dolphins and porpoises
The friendly prairie dog
Have you seen birds?
Julius
Kangaroo
Giraffe
Koala
Zebra
Lies (people believe) about animals
A moose for Jessica
My first fishes and other water life: a pop-up field guide
My first insects: spiders and crawlers
Raccoons and ripe corn
The Sea World book of dolphins
To love a dog
Whales, the nomads of the sea
What is a bird?
Whitetail
Wild boars

Biography

Amelia Earhart: aviation pioneer
Anne Morrow Lindbergh : pilot and poet
Carl Sagan: superstar scientist
The disease fighters: the Nobel Prize in medicine
Five secrets in a box

Space Science and Astronomy

Daring the unknown: a history of NASA
Halley's comet : what we've learned
Hello? Who's out there?: the search for extraterrestrial life
Journey to the planets
Mars
Uranus
Rainbows, mirages, and sundogs: the sky as a source of wonder
Star guide
They dance in the sky: Native American star myths

Earth Science, Environment, and Conservation

Do not disturb
How did we find out about sunshine?
Icebergs and glaciers
Restoring our earth
Stone, clay, glass: how building materials are found and used
Tasmania: a wildlife journey
Turtle watch
Water sky
Who lives in...the forest?
Zoo

Life Sciences

Dinosaurs walked here : and other stories fossils tell
Evolution
Forest year
The house on Maple Street
The human body: how we evolved
Mummies, tombs, and treasure : secrets of Ancient Egypt
The oak tree
Rosalie
Sketching outdoors in spring
Trapped in tar: fossils from the ice
Under the sun
Wheat: the golden harvest
A winter day

Medical and Health Sciences

AIDS: what does it mean to you?
Revised and expanded edition
Alzheimer's disease
The artificial heart
Cancer: can it be stopped?
Crack: the new drug epidemic!
Foodworks : over 100 science activities and fascinating facts that explore the magic of food
Menstruation
Spare parts for people
The story of your foot
Sugar isn't everything : a support book, in fiction form, for the young diabetic

Physics, Technology and Engineering

Bridging the Golden Gate
Farming the land: modern farmers and their machines
Get ready for robots!
Machines at work
Opt : an illusionary tale
Radio: from Marconi to the space age
Weather forecasting
You won't believe your eyes!

Other

Animal numbers
Dinosaurs
Dots, spots, speckles, and stripes
Getting started in problem solving and math contests
I eat dinner
1, 2, 3 to the zoo : a counting book
Recipes for art and craft materials
Reflections

Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1987

Animals

The beaver
Birth of a foal
Blue footed booby: bird of the Galapagos
Buffalo: the American bison today
Clem: the story of a raven
The dangerous life of the sea horse
Do animals dream?: children's questions about animals most often asked of the natural history museum
Dogs: all about them
A dog's body
A dolphin goes to school: the story of Squirt, a trained dolphin
Draft horses
Earthworms, dirt, and rotten leaves: an exploration in ecology
Fireflies
Chirping insects
Snakes
Tree frogs
Giant panda
Giant pandas
Giants of land, sea & air: past & present
The goose family book
Headgear
Here come the killer bees
Hide and seek
How do ants know when you're having a picnic? (and other questions kids ask about insects and other crawly things)
Life of the ladybug
Meet the beaver
Mosquitoes
My first puppy
Panda, panda
Peeping in the shell : a whooping crane is hatched
The Secret world of animals
Sharks, the super fish
State birds
Swan
Taking care of your hamster
Taking care of your guinea pig
Wonders of giraffes

Earth and Space Science

Aircraft
From Sputnik to space shuttles: into the new Space Age
The Macmillan book of astronomy
Recent revolutions in geology
The sun
To space & back
Volcano : the eruption and healing of Mount St. Helens
What the moon is like
Your future in space: the U.S. Space Camp training program
Space station: bold new step beyond Earth
Stars

Biography

Christa McAuliffe: pioneer space teacher
Click: a story about George Eastman
A pocketful of goobers : a story about George Washington Carver
Shoes for everyone : a story about Jan Matzeliger
We'll race you, Henry : a story about Henry Ford
More with less: the future world of Buckminster Fuller

Environment and Conservation

The crocodile and the crane: surviving in a crowded world
Hazardous substances, a reference
Naturewatch: exploring nature with your children
Night in the country
One day on the prairie
Toxic threat
Tundra, the Arctic land
Wastes
When it comes to bugs
Winter barn

Life Science

Dive to the coral reefs
Genetics: from Mendel to gene splicing
Hay from seed to feed
How leaves change
Mushrooms
Pumpkin, pumpkin
Pumpkin, pumpkin
Big book

Medical and Health Sciences

AIDS: what does it mean to you?
Arthritis
Being born
Going to the doctor
How to be a reasonably thin teenage girl: without starving, losing your friends, or running away from home
Make the most of a good thing, you!
Marijuana
Modern sport science
Teeneagers face to face with cancer
Thinking big: the story of a young dwarf

Physics and Chemistry

Force: the power behind movement
How did we find out about the speed of light
Optical illusions
Radioactivity: from the Curies to the atomic age
Shape: the purpose of forms

Technology and Engineering

Computers for the disabled
Fiber optics: bright new way to communicate
Milk: the fight for purity
River and canal
Wheels at work : building and experimenting with models of machines

Other

Becca backward, Becca frontward : a book of concept pairs
Famous experiments and how to repeat them
Flies in the water, fish in the air: a personal introduction to fly fishing
Shapes, shapes, shapes
Shapes, shapes, shapes
Big book

Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1986

All wilde creatures welcome: the story of a wildlife rehabilitation center
Alzheimer's disease: the silent epidemic
America's bald eagle
Andy Bear: a polar cub grows up at the zoo
Animals at play
Anno's hat tricks
Bike factory
Black-footed ferret
Breakthrough: the true story of penicillin
A children's zoo
The comet and you
The digging badger
Dinosaurs that swam and flew
Eagles
Environment
Birds
Land animals
Ocean life
Flying the space shuttles
From graphite to pencil
Guess what?
Guinea pigs don't read books
How they built the Statue of Liberty
In my garden: a child's gardening book
Inside turtle's shell, and other poems of the field
Is it larger? Is it smaller?
Isaac Newton: reluctant genius
I touch
A look inside calculators
A look inside computers
Make it graphic! drawing graphics for science and social studies projects
Meet the moose
Milk
The milk makers
My first kitten
Night of ghosts and hermits: nocturnal life on the seashore
The Nova space explorer's guide: where to go and what to see
Nuclear war: from Hiroshima to nuclear winter
Once there was a tree
101 questions and answers about dangerous animals
Quarter horses
Thoroughbred horses
Raceways : having fun with balls and tracks
Satellites of today and tomorrow
Saturn
Saving the peregrine falcon
Season of the white stork
The seven sleepers: the story of hibernation
The shark watchers' guide
The sheep book
Snowflakes
Soap bubble magic
Someone saw a spider: spider facts and folktales
The story of your hand
Tales mummies tell
Tazo and me
Tunnels
Wallaby Creek
What good is a tail?
What's for lunch? the eating habits of seashore creatures
When the tide is low
Where the waves break : life at the edge of the sea
Wolf of shadows
Wolf pack : tracking wolves in the wild

Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1985

Air and flight
All kinds of feet
All wet! All wet!
Alligator
Are those animals real? how museums prepare wildlife exhibits
Baby animals on the farm
Baby dinosaurs
Biology
Bits and pieces: understanding and building computing devices
A book of vegetables
Comets
Computer graphics basics: an introduction for young people
Computer talk
Computers in entertainment and the arts
Computers in everyday life
Robots and intelligent machines
Cosmic quest: searching for intelligent life among the stars
Does candy grow on trees?
Electronic musical instruments: what they do, how they work
Exploring winter
Exploring with lasers
Farm animals
Fish facts and bird brains: animal intelligence
Glaciers and ice sheets
The goodnight circle
Gorilla
Grasslands
Deserts : the living world
Jungles
Mountains
How did we find out about computers?
How you were born
Note: we do have the revised and expanded edition
An insect's body
The moon
Note: we do have the revised edition
More BASIC: a guide to intermediate level computer programming
Mountains and earth movements
The mystery of the bog forest
Night dive
Night of the twisters
One day in the alpine tundra
101 questions and answers about the universe
Petroleum: how it is found and used
Pets, vets, and Marty Howard
Puffin
Raccoon baby
Rattlesnakes
Scavengers and decomposers: the cleanup crew
The secret language of snow
Shivers and goosebumps: how we keep warm
Space challenger: the story of Guion Bluford: an authorized biography
Tiger lilies and other beastly plants
Toxic waste: clean-up or cover-up?
Tractors: from yesterday's steam wagons to today's turbocharged giants
Tree flowers
Tunnels
TV & video
Vegetation
Wasps
The whale watchers' guide
Whales: giants of the deep
Where the river begins
Wonders of sharks
Wonders of woodchucks

Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1984

Acid rain
All about dogs as pets
Amazing air
Animals sleeping
Balloon trip: a sketchbook
Being a plant
The biggest living thing
Bobcat
Breakthrough: women in science
Bright stars, red giants, and white dwarfs
Cars and how they go
Catnip
Chiseling the earth: how erosion shapes the land
Computers, how they work
Cosmic countdown: what astronomers have learned about the life of the universe
The cranberry book
A day at the races
Dinosaurs and their young
"The earth is flat" -- and other great mistakes
Einstein Anderson sees through the invisible man
Feral: tame animals gone wild
Ferris wheels
A field guide to dinosaurs
A first look at spiders
First to fly
Forest in the sand
The fur seals of Pribilof
Germs!
Giants from the past
Gibbons
Green magic: algae rediscovered
Heartbeats: your body, your heart
How did we find out about the universe?
How things work
Hurricane
Hyenas
The illustrated dinosaur dictionary
Keeping warm, keeping cool
Kitten is born
Ladybugs
Large animal veterinarians
Lasers
Machines and how they work
Meet the opossum
Monster dinosaur
The monsters who died: a mystery about dinosaurs
The Mount St. Helens disaster: what we've learned
Nature's great carbon cycle
Oak & company
Once around the galaxy
The 100-year-old cactus
Orangutans: the red apes
Path of the pale horse
Pets without homes
Pitcher plants: the elegant insect traps
Rabbits and hares
Rain shadow
The robots are here
Sally Ride and the new astronauts: scientists in space
Saturn: the spectacular planet
Secrets of a wildlife watcher
Sled dogs
Some feet have noses
Some plants have funny names
The strange armadillo
The telescope
They work with wildlife: jobs for people who want to work with animals
Tree squirrels
Trees
Try these on for size, Melody!
Under the high seas: new frontiers in oceanography
Viruses
Volcanoes in our solar system
Wild Appaloosa
Wolfman: exploring the world of wolves

Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1983

Animals that migrate
Arabian horses
Astronomy today: plants, stars, space exploration
A Biblical garden
Billions of bats
Biological clocks
A bird's body
The brain: magnificent mind machine
The Brooklyn Bridge : they said it couldn't be built
Cactus: the all-American plant
A cat's body
The chemist who lost his head: the story of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
Chickens and their wild relatives
Close looks in a spring woods
A day in the life of a marine biologist
Diary of a rabbit
Dinosaurs, asteroids, & superstars : why the dinosaurs disappeared
Discovering life on earth: a natural history
Dragonflies
Drawing spaceships and other spacecraft
Elephant school
The elevator
A forest is reborn
Freshwater fish & fishing
Guinea pigs, an owner's guide to choosing, raising, breeding, and showing
Harvest mouse
How fast do your oysters grow? investigate and discover through science projects
How seeds travel
The human body
Human origins
The internal combustion engine
Into winter: discovering a season
It's BASIC : the ABC's of computer programming
Jetliner: from takeoff to touchdown
Journey to the planets
Living fossils
The long journey from space
Malunda
Marie Curie
Maybe you belong in a zoo! zoo and aquarium careers
Nuclear energy at the crossroads
Orphans from the sea
A picture book of cows
Pictures of motion and pictures that move: Eadweard Muybridge and the photography of motion
The planets: exploring the solar system
Poisonous snakes
Rajpur, last of the Bengal tigers
Saving America's birds
The secret life of hardware: a science experiment book
Shale oil and tar sands: the promises and pitfalls
Six little chickadees: a scientist and her work with birds
Sky watches of ages past
Smile! how to cope with braces
Snowy owls
Space colony: frontier of the 21st century
Spider magic
Sports medicine
Supersaurus
Test-tube mysteries
Too hot, too cold, just right: how animals control their temperatures
Tool book
Vampire bats
Water: the next great resource battle
Weather watch
Where do they go? insects in winter
Windows in space
Wonders of peacocks
Wonders of rhinos
The world of lizards
You can't make a move without your muscles
Your immune system
Note: we do have the revised edition

Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1982

Alligators, raccoons, and other survivors: the wildlife of the future
Animal superstars: biggest, strongest, fastest, smartest
Bears in the wild
Bermuda petrel: the bird that would not die
Birds for pets and pleasure
Black bear: the spirit of the wilderness
The book of the pig
Bridges
Butterflies and moths around the world
The changing desert
The cheetah: nature's fastest racer
Cindy, a hearing ear dog
Desert voices
Deserts of the world: future threat or promise?
Dinosaurs discovered
Dinosaurs of North America
Disastrous hurricanes and tornadoes
Disastrous floods and and tidal waves
A duckling is born
Earth afire! volcanoes and their activity
Earthquakes: nature in motion
Exploring with computers
The family howl
Farm babies
Flight: a panorama of aviation
Foxes
Gas
Geothermal energy: a hot prospect
Going on a dig
Grasshoppers
Halley's comet
Here come the robots
A horse's body
The hospital book
How it feels when a parent dies
Jacob and owl
The joy of chickens
The last hundred years, medicine
Lots of rot
Messing around with water pumps and siphons
Moose
More than one
The new explorers : women in Antarctica
The nuclear question
Offshore! oil and gas platforms in the ocean
Peason, a harbor seal pup
Penguin world
A penguin year
Plants up close
The plants we eat
Poisoned land: the problem of hazardous waste
Poisonous snakes
The prickly plant book
Puffins, come back!
Satellites
Seeds pop, stick, glide
Shadows: here, there, and everywhere
A snake's body
Snap! photography
The story of evolution
Strange creatures
Sure hands, strong heart: the life of Daniel Hale Williams
Thunder, singing hands, and other wonders: sound in the atmosphere
TIgers
Vanishing wildlife of Latin America
Viruses: life's smallest enemies
Voyager: the story of a space mission
Windmills: an old-new energy source
WIngs, paws, hoofs, and flippers: a book about animals
Wires and watts: understanding and using electricity
Zoos without cages
How things are made

Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1981

Album of whales
All about eggs
Allergies and you
Bears of the world
Bet you can't! : Science impossibilities to fool you
Body words: a dictionary of the human body, how it works, and some of the things that affect its health
The book of pets
A close look at the moon
Coal in the energy crisis
Coral
Count on your fingers African style
The crocodiles still wait
The cry of the crow
Dinosaur mysteries
Earthquake
Eat the fruit, plant the seed
Einstein Anderson, science sleuth
Einstein Anderson shocks his friends
Electric fish
The first travel guide to the moon: what to pack, how to go, and what to see when you get there
Five nests
Follow the river
Forest log
A frog's body
Gadabouts and stick-at-homes: wild animals and their habitats
Glaciers: nature's frozen rivers
Green darner: the story of a dragonfly
Hatch!
Have you ever heard of a kangaroo bird? fascinating facts about unusual birds
Heavy equipment
Home computers: a simple and informative guide
A horse and a hound, a goat and a gander
How animals care for their young
How animals hunt
How plants grow
How the forest grew
How to be an inventor
If you are a hunter of fossils
The kids' diet cookbook
Koalas
Leakey the elder: a chimpanzee and his community
Listen to your kitten purr
Little wild lion cub
Lives at stake: the science and politics of environmental health
The lives of spiders
Locks and keys
Lucky porcupine!
Memory: how it works and how to improve it
Mice, all about them
Mirror magic
Mr. Wizard's supermarket science
The moons of our solar system
Nature's champions: the biggest, the fastest, the best
Night animals
No measles, no mumps for me
Our wild wetlands
People of the dawn
The racers: speed in the animal world
Roadrunner
Rocky Mountain bighorns
Seals, sea lions, and walruses
Seasons of the tallgrass prairie
Silent sound: the world of ultrasonics
Spaces, shapes, and sizes
The stars: decoding their messages
Storm alert: understanding weather disasters
The story of Nim: the chimp who learned language
Strange mysteries from around the world
Sunflower!
Super structures
Tooth and claw
Traps and lures in the living world
The truth about gorillas
Up, up, and away! the story of ballooning
Volcanoes: the fiery mountains
What makes popcorn pop?
Whose house is it?
Why does a turtle live longer than a dog?
The wild rabbit
Wildlife alert! the struggle to survive
Window on the wild
Wonders of dust

Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1980

Alligators
Alternate energy sources
America's journeys into space: the astronauts of the United States
Animals live here
Animals that live in groups
Apples, how they grow
The astronauts
Ball-point pens
Bubbles
The beaver
Beware! These animals are poison
Biography of a snowy owl
The bionic people are here
A book about your skeleton
Brain power: understanding human intelligence
Building: the fight against gravity
Butterflies and moths: how they function
Care of uncommon pets
A closer look at reptiles
Common frog
The stickleback cycle
Crinkleroot's book of animal tracks and wildlife signs
Note: we do have the revised edition
Dance of the planets: the universe of Nicolaus Copernicus
Danger from below : earthquakes, past, present, and future
Deer, moose, elk and their family
The Earth and space
Elephant seals
Exploring the world of speed
Find the hidden insect
A first look at sharks
Fog in the meadow : a story
Galaxies, islands in space
Gorillas
Hidden messages
High ridge gobbler: the story of the American wild turkey
How animals live together
How does it feel to be old?
How things work
How the body works
Into the dark: a beginner's guide to developing and printing black-and-white negatives
The island ponies : an environmental study of their life on Assateague
Jupiter, the star that failed
Killer insects
The kingdom of wolves
The long view into space
Marijuana
Miracle chip: the microelectronic revolution
Monsters rom outer space?
Moose baby
Natural fire: its ecology in forests
Nuclear power: from physics to politics
An oak tree dies and a journey begins
Period
Raccoons, coatimundis, and their family
Secret in a sealed bottle: Lazzaro Spallanzani's work with microbes
Shark lady: true adventures of Eugenie Clark
Sizes and shapes in nature - what they mean
Elephants
Whales
Snake fights, rabbits fights and more: a book about animal fighting
Snake secrets
The space shuttle: its story and how to make flying paper model
The spider makes a web
The Star Wars question and answer book about space
The stereo-hi fi handbook
The story of your heart
Thor Heyerdahl: Viking scientist
Time & clocks for the space age
Watching them grow : inside a zoo nursery
What is a laser?
What's hatching out of that egg?
Wild babies, a canyon sketchbook
Wonders of camels
You can't catch diabetes from a friend
Your skin

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