Volume Two in the How Do You Do Music series by preschool educator Leah Wells. These books introduce musical notation to young readers in the context of a story. The Rainbow Remembers the Music includes 22 pages of enlarged staff paper for young composers to begin practicing.

The second installment in DK’s new Heads Up series, Heads Up Philosophy addresses the issues and theories that are most intriguing and relevant to the curious minds of teens — making a difficult topic easier to comprehend. Questions such as “What is knowledge?” “What is reality?” “What is the mind?” and “What’s right and wrong?” are all addressed, offering big ideas, simply explained. Written and designed specifically for the teen market, Heads Up Philosophy combines challenging but clear text with cool graphic illustrations that clarify and explain theories and arguments.

Biography spreads cover the famous quotes of great philosophers including Socrates, Aristotle, Friedrich Nietzsche, Epicurus, Plato, and Thomas Aquinas, while major theories and debates including epistemology, metaphysics, and ideologies are also explained. Heads Up Philosophy also includes case study panels, diagrams, and real world spreads to show how philosophical theories relate to everyday life.

Making a difficult subject more approachable, Heads Up Philosophy is designed to provoke, entertain, and stimulate young minds.

Children are astounded at the human body and are eager to learn about the processes that are going on inside them. Super Human Encyclopedia offers a new perspective on the human body for kids by highlighting the truly extraordinary processes behind the body’s everyday functions.

Packed with interesting facts, from how we keep cool and how memories are made to how we fight infections and how many muscles we use to smile, Super Human Encyclopedia reveals the extraordinary facts about the human body from the strength and flexibility of the human skeleton to the incredible way the brain works. Featuring real “superhumans”, including memory champions, contortionists and free divers, the book features the characteristics that take them to human extremes and showcases their remarkable records of speed, power, acceleration, heart rate and a host of other fascinating facts.

With artwork and text appropriate for children 10 and older, Super Human Encyclopedia showcases from head to toe how extraordinary the human body is.

Supports the Common Core State Standards

Utterly Amazing Science is a fascinating look at the core principles of science.

With the help of fun, interactive elements including pop-ups, pull outs, and flaps, each spread in the book features colorful illustrations and fun activities that help illustrate key science topics such as force and motion, light and color, elements and matter, and magnets and electricity. Age-appropriate, engaging text is integrated with the photographs, illustrations, and interactive elements to provide clear explanations of scientific concepts.

Packed with incredible facts, Utterly Amazing Science makes discovering what makes the world go round interactive and fun.

Supports the Common Core State Standards.

Color is all around us and humans start to see colors at the age of 3 months. But how much do you really know about color? Color Illusions explores every aspect: from what it is, to how you see it, to the way in which colors make you feel in a fun, interactive format appropriate for children.

Featuring pull out tabs, flaps, a multi-use decoder with 3D glasses, plus an amazing pop-up rainbow, Color Illusions lets readers uncover hidden images, blend their own colors, and learn color-based jokes and tricks to fool friends and family. Kids will discover which color doesn’t actually exist, the color science behind camouflage, how color affects emotions, the symbolic meaning of color in cultures, plus see patterns of circles so bright they appear to be moving and a tie-dye pattern that appears to pulsate before their very eyes.

Packaged in a bright kaleidoscopic cover, Color Illusions will challenge the minds of young readers and everything they thought they knew about colors.

The book was designed to introduce teenagers to simple investing, and create a compelling case for why they should begin investing immediately from their first dollar earned.