Dot Dash

When it is time to play, Dot and Dash look everywhere for their friend Tiny, but they cannot find him, although they find lots of other friends along the way.

Telecommunications is a major global industry, and this unique book chronicles the development of this complex technology from the electric telegraph to the Internet in a simple, accessible, and entertaining way. The book opens with the early years of the electric telegraph. The reader will learn how the Morse telegraph evolved into an international network that spanned the globe, starting with the development of international undersea cables, and the heroic attempts to lay a trans-Atlantic cable. The book describes the events that led to the invention of the telephone, and the subsequent disputes over who had really invented it. It takes a look at some of the most important applications that have appeared on the Internet, the mobile revolution, and ends with a discussion of future key developments in the telecommunications industry.

Its in the book. Jim Nelson Did you know? Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, and Diamonds - Julius Caesar. "When possums are playingpossium, they are not playing. They actually pass out from sheer terror. "In the 1940s, the FCC assigned televisions channel 1 to mobile services, two-way radios in taxicabs, etc. They never did assign any other channels. Thats why our TVs today start with channel 2. "Hersheys Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like its kissing the conveyor belt. "The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when horses pulled the fire engines. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight stairways. "The only two days of the year that do not have any professional sports games, MLB, NBA, NHL, or the NFL are the day before and the day after the Major League Baseball All-Star Game. I have not failed. Ive just found ten thousand ways that wont work. Thomas Edison

Challenges kids to use problem solving and critical thinking to design, build, and test model structures, games, and vehicles.

Bebe Stone longs for adventure. A visit with her grandparents in Maine for the summer is a "no-go." Things take a turn when a surprise gift arrives from Gramps and Grandmother. With the help of the surprise gift and her grandparents' unexpected visit to Florida, they all team up to solve the mystery of the strange fisherman. The heroics of Bebe's new dog, Matilda, convince Bebe that Matilda is truly "man's best friend." Hang on to your fishing hats and get ready to set sail on the Indian River to help solve this exciting mystery. Ages 7-12

An antique porcelain jar that once held party favors for an Emperors guests is now filled with heroin and shipped across the Pacific. An old, retired drug-sniffing dog and its owner call attention to the crime. To distance themselves from the shipment, the guilty try to destroy the reputations of the dog and its owner. Justice and truth will come with a high price as the detectives quickly learn.

Reproduction of the original: Pitcher Pollock by Christy Mathewson