Frank Carlson Library

A simple explanation of how a shadow is formed.

A simple explanation of the water cycle, clouds, water vapor, condensation, evaporation, rain, and hail.

Explains how a spider spins its web and the many uses of that strong silk.

Easy-to-read text explains the meaning of bird sounds.

An introduction to the human skeletal system, explaining how the 206 bones of the skeleton join together, how they grow, how they help make blood, what happens when they break, and how they mend.

Discusses the growing garbage and trash problem in the United States and its possible solutions.

A simple description of how corn was discovered and used by the Indians and how it came to be an important food throughout the world.

"Long ago, dinosaurs ruled the Earth. Then, suddenly, they died out. For thousands of years, no one knew these giant creatures had ever existed. Then people began finding fossils -- bones and teeth and footprints that had turned to stone. Today, teams of experts work together to dig dinosaur fossils out of the ground, bone by fragile bone. Then they put the skeletons together again inside museums, to look just like the dinosaurs of millions of years...

Discusses some of the ideas and misconceptions about life in outer space and speculates on the existence of such life in light of recent space explorations.

Explains in simple terms what happens during a solar eclipse.