How Come

What shape are falling raindrops? Does every cloud make rain? Where does the rain go? Learn the answers to these questions and many others in this title for read-aloud or for early readers. This book also supports the National Science Education Standards for K–4 science. Young scientists will enjoy trying the experiment "How much rain has fallen?" by making their own rain gauge.

Another collection of the comic adventures of the Fox family.

American comics reflect the distinct sensibilities and experiences of the Jewish American men who played an outsized role in creating them, but what about the contributions of Jewish women? Focusing on the visionary work of seven contemporary female Jewish cartoonists, Tahneer Oksman draws a remarkable connection between innovations in modes of graphic storytelling and the unstable, contradictory, and ambiguous figurations of the Jewish self in the postmodern era. Oksman isolates the dynamic Jewishness that connects each frame in the autobiographical comics of Aline Kominsky Crumb, Vanessa Davis, Miss Lasko-Gross, Lauren Weinstein, Sarah Glidden, Miriam Libicki, and Liana Finck. Rooted in a conception of identity based as much on rebellion as identification and belonging, these artists' representations of Jewishness take shape in the spaces between how we see ourselves and how others see us. They experiment with different representations and affiliations without forgetting that identity ties the self to others. Stemming from Kominsky Crumb's iconic 1989 comic "Nose Job," in which her alter ego refuses to assimilate through cosmetic surgery, Oksman's study is an arresting exploration of invention in the face of the pressure to disappear.

Fact-filled, fun-filled, as interesting to parents as it is to kids, the How Come? series is the trusted source for lively, clear answers to kids’ science queries. Now the best questions and answers from all three books—How Come?; How Come? Planet Earth; and How Come? In the Neighborhood—have been revised, updated, freshly illustrated in full color, supplemented with twenty completely new questions, and combined into one bigger, better volume. How Come? explains, in fascinating detail, more than 200 mysteries and phenomena in the world around us. These are the questions that pique kids’ curiosity—and stump parents. When it rains, does running (rather than walking) to the nearest shelter really keep you any drier? How can a stone skip across a pond (instead of sink)? If the Earth is spinning, why can’t we feel it? Why don’t we fly off? Why do elephants have trunks? And the all-time classic, Why is the sky blue? (Sunlight has a hidden rainbow of colors, and air molecules scatter blues the most—sending bright blue light down to Earth.) The text is clearly written, engaging, and accessible. It’s for every kid who wants to know—and every grown-up who simply doesn’t know.

My grandmother is my greatest inspiration. She was like a mother to me. This book is dedicated to her. It is a song she wrote and sang to my mother when my mom was young. She always asked my gram, “Mommy, how come?” My mother used to sing the song to me, and I wanted to share it with the world. I think all moms can relate to this book, and I have the added privilege of sharing this wonderful journey with my son who is so talented. He did all the illustrations.

This book contains poems about first love and heartbreak, the fear of never being good enough for others and yourself, finding out who you really are, goodbyes, as well as new beginnings. I want to tell you all about the people who have hurt me recklessly, loved me unconditionally, healed me selflessly, and ultimately made me who I am today. This is my story, but I hope you can find a piece of yourself in these poems. And I hope you'll feel less alone afterwards.

Answers to approximately 135 of kids' science questions about people, animals, and the natural world, such as why cats purr and why our fingers wrinkle in water.