Nothing is more exciting than rockets and travel in space, and this book is an excellent entry into nonfiction for young children, stimulating reading literacy. This intriguing book from Our Amazing World Series, Advanced, features impressive photos from blastoff to space travel and working astronauts. The crisp photos are complemented by factual information blending history, nature, and science with the excitement of space. Advanced early readers recognize the basic words and find alluring new words to expand their vocabulary, such as astronaut and satellite.

The world’s rivers are home to some incredible animals. Did you know a beaver’s teeth never stop growing or that a manatee lives part of its life in salt water and part in fresh water? The nonfiction series, Our Amazing World Series, Advanced, includes books that encourage children to develop a love for nonfiction through fun facts that accompany each exquisite photo. This is an excellent book for advanced early readers to practice their phonics skills. They learn to combine words they know, such as cat and fish to make catfish and king and fisher to make kingfisher.

Bright photos take children right to the fields, where they see adults and children working together to grow food, and pique their curiosity. Did you know carrots aren’t all orange? Where do French fries come from? Appropriate for children of all ages who return to the book again and again as they learn to read. Advanced early readers recognize many of the words and add new ones to grow their reading skills. Our Amazing World Series, Advanced, nonfiction books, filled with fun facts, stimulate a child’s enthusiasm to learn about the world around them.