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Turtles that swim more than a thousand miles to lay their eggs and long lines of lobsters walking across the ocean floor?!

When polar bears migrate, are they moving across the ice, or is the ice moving them? 

The skies are busy highways for birds, bats, insects and even seeds.

Which planet has forty-two years of continuous daylight, followed by forty-two years of night?

Did you know that Saturn’s rings are really billions of chunks of ice, dust and rocks, swirling around the huge gas giant?

Can you imagine a planet where the difference in temperature between day and night is 1,000 degrees?

Venus may be our sister planet, but it could not be more different than our Planet Earth!

When the Voyager 2 spacecraft whizzed past Neptune, we learned more about this mysterious planet than in all the previous years of observation from Earth.

Why do some things float and others sink? Does a small, wide container hold more water than a tall, thin one? 

What keeps trees from falling over? How can skyscrapers stand so tall?

How do you know air is around you when you can’t see it?

Not all dinosaurs were giants! This beautifully illustrated book features seven dinosaurs that were only about the size of a dog or even a chicken! 

What color were the dinosaurs? Did dinosaurs have families?

The sun, the center of the solar system, is so large that 1,300,000 Earths could fit inside.

The monarch butterfly you see fluttering across the grass may be on a thousand-mile journey to another part of the world. 

A brown bat can catch and eat 600 mosquitos in a single hour, even though it doesn’t see well in the dark.

Do you know what a parasaurolophus looks like (or how to pronounce its name)? You will, after reading this book!p> 

What did the baby polar bear say to his mother? And what is the best year for a kangaroo? These answers plus many more silly jokes and riddles, in this new, "read to me" eBook! 

Here’s a Seymour Simon eBook that is a FREE download for Nook ColorTablet and iPad owners.  Read and listen to all kind of amazing and funny facts about puppies, kittens, bunnies and other animal pets.

A horse runs so fast that its feet don’t always touch the ground.

Answers to 14 top questions about these adorable, lovable pets. A "Read-to-Me" book for the Nook Color. Also available as an iPad app in the iTunes store! 

Why do kittens twitch their whiskers? And why do they climb everything? Seymour Simon’s new Read and Listen Book™ is now available for the iPad and Nook Color.

"The best kind of book, one that entertains while it educates."An unusual and striking picture book that combines fun with scientific fact, beautifully illustrated by Diane deGroat. 

-Publishers Weekly.    

Are all snakes dangerous to humans?

Sharks are some of the most feared hunters of the sea. A great white shark’s teeth can cut through the side of a steel boat in one bite.

Experience a thrilling 3-D encounter with some creepy creatures! Millions of insects, spiders, and other bugs live in the nooks and crannies of our houses, backyards, and schools.

Are killer whales dangerous to people?

Why is Earth the wrong name for our planet?

Do you know what names we use for all kinds of baby animals?

Do you love any of these animals?

What do you call a baby kangaroo? 

What can you do to be safe in a tornado?

Why are bones so strong and light?

What’s the biggest and most dangerous big cat?

What makes a comet grow a tail?

What makes you move?

How do mountains grow and disappear?

Can wildfires ever be a good thing?

Do you have the guts to read about your own insides?

Our eyes turn images around upside-down, so how come we don’t see people standing on their heads? 

Now you see it, now you don’t!

Uranus is the coldest planet in the solar system.

What are Saturn’s rings made of?

What happened when a huge comet plowed into Jupiter?

What are the latest discoveries we’ve made about Mars?

How big and how hot is our sun?

Why are icebergs more dangerous to ships than they look? 

What does it take to be a space traveler?

¿Cuántos años tienen las pirámides?

How old are the pyramids?

How heavy is a knight’s armor?

¿Qué tipo de tormenta es la más peligrosa para la gente?

What’s the tallest skyscraper in the world?

Which kind of storm is the most dangerous to people?

Which is the biggest snake in the world?

Can you outrun a river of lava flowing down a volcano slope?

What’s the longest bridge in the world?

Which is the coolest car to drive?

Why did people think that aliens came from Mars?

¿Qué planeta tiene una tormenta más grande que nuestro planeta?

Which planet has a storm bigger than our whole planet Earth?

¿Las ballenas asesinas lastiman a la gente?

¿Qué sucede cuando un tiburón rompe un diente?

What happens when a shark breaks a tooth?

Which giant machine has tires bigger than a person?

Los helicópteros más grandes pueden levantar sobre 80.000 libras.

The biggest helicopters can lift over 80,000 pounds on one flight.

How can bats hunt for flying insects during the night?

How many different kinds of emergency vehicles are there?

Which is the biggest bug in the world?

Match your wits against Einstein Anderson, Science Detective.

How many different kinds of locomotives and freight cars can you name?

What kind of truck is the longest and has the most wheels?

How to care for small animals you can keep in a jar.

Match your paper airplanes against others in a flying contest.

Why does the moon change shape in the sky?

Exploding stars, black holes, space pods and strange space sights are only some of the mysteries of the universe.

Every star you see in the night sky is a gigantic sun, and some are a lot bigger and hotter than our own sun.

How come Pluto is no longer considered a planet?

Ever wonder what makes the wind blow or where clouds come from or why it rains?

Volcanoes can erupt and send red-hot rocks and ash flying through the air for hundreds of miles around.

Which animals live in small ponds on the tops of trees and never see the ground? 

Earth is the only planet in our Solar System with water on its surface—more than 1.5 quintillion tons of water—and it’s constantly in motion.

Lightning strikes the earth more than a hundred times every second of every day of the year.

The gigantic swirling storms called hurricanes bring heavy rains, flooding, and destructive winds.

If there’s global warming, why is it snowing?

Earthquakes can be the most destructive disasters in nature, destroying whole cities and killing hundreds of thousands of people.

You breathe more than twenty thousand times each and every day of your life.

The human body is like a huge city, with millions of inhabitants called cells.

Does the eerie howling of a wolf mean that wolves are the treacherous and sly animals of legend?