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The intended market was teenaged boys, but the books have been enjoyed by a wide range of readers. Heinlein wanted to present challenging material to children, such as the firearms for teenagers in Red Planet. This led to "annual quarrels over what was suitable for juvenile reading" [2] with Scribner's editors.
A typical example of the stress response is a grazing zebra. If the zebra sees a lion closing in for the kill, the stress response is activated as a means to escape its predator. The escape requires intense muscular effort, supported by all of the body's systems. The sympathetic nervous system's activation provides for these needs. A similar ...
Pages in category "Children's science fiction novels" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 328 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Freight Train is a 24-page children's picture book written and illustrated by Donald Crews and published by Greenwillow Books in 1978. It lacks any story, but rather describes the inner workings of a large cargo train. It was named one of 1979's Caldecott Honor books. [1]
As of 2017, the books had collectively sold more than seven million copies, [7] and appeared on numerous children's best-seller lists. [6] They have collectively been hailed as a "cultural touchstone for a generation", [ 7 ] with the original charcoal and ink artwork by Gammell often singled out for praise.
Stage 2 books "explore more challenging concepts for children in the primary grades and include hands-on activities that children can do themselves." Subjects covered in the Stage 2 titles including the human body, plants, animals, dinosaurs, space, weather and the seasons, our earth and "the world around us." [citation needed]
This category is for Popular Science books, i.e. books on science which are written in non-technical language and aimed at the general reader. The main article for this category is Popular science books .
Growth of the eight largest Wikibooks sites (by language), July 2003–January 2010. Wikibooks (previously called Wikimedia Free Textbook Project and Wikimedia-Textbooks) is a wiki-based Wikimedia project hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation for the creation of free content digital textbooks and annotated texts that anyone can edit.