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A Visual Dictionary of a Pioneer Community

Bobbie Kalman (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9780778789321

Similar in themes to A Colonial Community, this book illustrates a different kind of life in the early 1900s. A Pioneer Community shows different homes from the first dirt-floor house to the fancy Victorian-era home. A visual map of a pioneer community gives the young reader a quick overview of the buildings it contains. Other topics include: early transportation; craftspeople and their tools; clothing styles; and farm life.

A Visual Dictionary of a Colonial Community

Bobbie Kalman (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9780778789307

This colorful dictionary is a treasure trove of illustrated information that will become a standard for readers of all ages. Topics include colonial houses, a plantation and its outbuildings, wood and metalworkers and their tools, shops and shopkeepers, transportation, the apothecary, milliner, wigmaker, and many more.

A Visual Dictionary of the Old West

Bobbie Kalman (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9780778789314

From living on the ranch to life on the trail, this dictionary focuses on the life of cowboys. How was cowboy clothing practical for the work done by cowboys? How were western homes built? Which buildings were part of a ranch? This book also looks at topics associated with western settlers, boomtowns, and the gold rush.

How Do Humans Depend on Earth?

Julie K. Lundgren (author)

Publisher: Rourke Publishing ISBN: 9781618103673

With interesting facts and photographs, this book discusses how nearly all food webs begin with plants, the primary producers.