Frank Carlson Library

A nose for digging? Ears for seeing? Eyes that squirt blood? Explore the many amazing things animals can do with their ears, eyes, mouths, noses, feet, and tails in this beautifully illustrated interactive guessing book. Explains how a lot of animals use their noses, ears, tails, eyes, mouths, and feet in very different ways.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, Amelia Earhart, George Washington Carver, Wild Bill Hickok, and Jim Ryun all came from Kansas. A tornado took Dorothy and Toto from Kansas to the Land of Oz, but they decided there was "no place like home". Kansas Trivia features more than 1,200 fascinating questions and answers about the Sunflower State such as: Where is the geographic center of the contiguous 48 states? What is the name of the first national hamburger chain,...

A collection of facts and trivia about human plants, usually framed in a question and answer format. Includes index.

Many children want to know where stories come from and how a book is made. Marie-Louise Gay’s new picture book provides them with some delightfully inspiring answers though a fictional encounter between an author and some very curious children — together they collaborate on writing and illustrating a story. Marie-Louise Gay has scribbled, sketched, scrawled, doodled, penciled, collaged, and painted the words and pictures of a story-within-a-story...

Don't Know Much About Geography by New York Times bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis is a fascinating and fun exploration of our planet. Geography is the hub from which other disciplines radiate: meteorology, ecology, geology, oceanography, demographics, cartography, agricultural studies, economics, and political science. In addition to presenting geographical trivia that'll impress your friends, Davis explores 21st-century topics of global concern,...

A collection of facts and trivia about planet Earth, usually framed in a question and answer format.

"Follow along as two ragtag, everyday super heroes don capes to play in the mud, save their stuffed animals from certain peril, conquer the vegetables at dinner, and overcome darkness at night"-

In order to answer her mother's question about what would make her smile, a girl first asks various people, animals, and even the moon what makes them happy.

Dr. Zooper answers questions about life's ordinary puzzles, such as why homework disappears or how a song gets stuck in one's head, by identifying and describing different kinds of Mischievians.

In a question and answer format addresses basic physiology, such as why one has bones, why one needs food, and how the body grows.