United States

There were once two enemies who were both named George-George Washington and George III. They were very much alike in some ways, and they were both beloved...

In 1723 Ben Franklin arrived in Philadelphia as a poor and friendless seventeen-year-old who had run away from his family and an apprenticeship in Boston. S...

Lady Bird Johnson, That's Who! is Tracy Nelson Maurer's lively picture book biography of Lady Bird Johnson, with a focus on her environmentalist passion a...

If you traveled on the Underground Railroad --Where was the safest place to go? --Would you wear a disguise? --What would you do when you were free? This ...

A visual and informative guide to one of the longest and most controversial wars in American history, now revised and updated in the relaunched DK Eyewitne...

Discover How, In Paris In The 1770s, Benjamin Franklin's Scientific Method Challenged A Certain Dr. Mesmer's Mysterious Powers In A Whimsical Look At A True...

Many settlers who came to the New World to farm had never even lived with everything they possessed packed in a wagon. They looked around and saw that their...

A picture-book biography of celebrated poet Gwendolyn Brooks, the first Black person to win the Pulitzer Prize Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000) is known for ...

attention! Amy And Dan Cahill Have Been Located Once Again, This Time In The Company Of The Notoriously Unreliable Alistair Oh. Could They Have Been Foolis...

Eleanor Roosevelt’s book on citizenship for young people now revised and updated for a contemporary audience.In the voice of one of the most iconic and b...

Reissued for Spring 2012 to coincide with the anniversary of the sinking of the TITANIC in April 1912. Here is the one book with all of the answers to you...

Now in paperback—National Geographic Children's Books presents the award-winning photobiography of Alexander Graham Bell. This fascinating profile, named...