Illus. in full color with black-and-white photos. "Covers not only the story of Robinson's prowess and his problems as the first black man to play in the major leagues, but also the story of the rise and fall of black baseball and some of its star players and managers. Nicely geared by vocabulary, sentence length, and print size to the primary grades audience."-- Bulletin, Center for Children's Books.
Brainstorms and Mindfarts delivers an informative, entertaining, and tongue- in-cheek guide to 100 of the best, worst, wackiest, brightest, and most bizarre inventions as submitted to the US Patent and Trademark Office, all the while letting you in on what the most successful and failed patents have in common and how great inventors view the world.
An empty nester's guide to remodeling features twenty-one homes and color illustrations and photographs highlighting floor plans and design ideas for a wide variety of homes that will ease the transition from busy family household to quiet homestead.