Get ready to discover the brave and heroic world of firefighters! This incredible book is designed for kids aged 4-7 who are interested in learning about the important work that firefighters do to keep us safe. With its easy-to-understand text and captivating photos, young readers will learn about the different types of firefighters and the ways in which they help people during emergencies. The book also includes fun and thought-provoking questions to encourage kids to think critically and develop their problem-solving skills. Additionally, the photo glossary will help young learners build their vocabulary and understanding of important firefighting terms. Get ready to explore the exciting world of firefighting and discover how firefighters work to keep us safe from dangerous situations like fires! Who makes a difference in your community? Young readers are fascinated by community helpers. Simple text and bright photos introduce how all kinds of community helpers contribute. Critical thinking questions and a photo glossary help build nonfiction reading skills.

Firefighters have a dangerous job. They help people when there is a fire and in other dangerous situations. By extinguishing fires and saving people and animals, firefighters keep everyone safe. Learn more about how firefighters serve their community with carefully leveled text and fresh, vibrant photos. Age-appropriate critical thinking questions and a photo glossary help build nonfiction learning skills.

Doctors know many things about health and the human body By examining patients and prescribing medicine, doctors can find out what is making someone sick and how to make them feel better. Carefully leveled text and fresh, vibrant photos engage young readers in learning about how doctors serve their community. Age-appropriate critical thinking questions and a photo glossary help build nonfiction learning skills.

Open up wide Dentists have the important job of making sure your teeth are clean and healthy. They look at your teeth to make sure you don't have any cavities and that you are flossing Carefully leveled text and fresh, vibrant photos engage young readers in learning about how dentists serve their community. Age-appropriate critical thinking questions and a photo glossary help build nonfiction learning skills.

Describes the work of a firefighter, and discusses the education and training needed to become a firefighter.

Who disposes of your garbage when your trash can is full? Garbage collectors are very important to keeping your community clean. Carefully leveled text and fresh, vibrant photos engage young readers in learning about how garbage collectors serve their community. Age-appropriate critical thinking questions and a photo glossary help build nonfiction learning skills.

It's hero time with Fireman Sam and friends! The ultimate hero next door has been racing to the rescue for over 30 years. The people of Pontypandy know help is always close by thanks to brave and resourceful Fireman Sam and his fellow rescue workers.

This high-action (yet toddler-friendly) beat-by-beat look at an emergency response is now available as a board book! Told almost entirely in sound words, this day-in-the-life look at a fire engine crew will appeal to the youngest vehicle enthusiasts and to parents with a penchant for exuberant read-aloud sessions. With art reminiscent of that in Donald Crews’s transportation books, Mike Austin evokes the excitement of a 911 call as we follow firefighters down the fire pole, through town, and up the ladder truck.

Winner of the Northern California Book Award for Nonfiction "Both a serious work of history…and a marvelously readable dramatic narrative." —San Francisco Chronicle On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sent into the abyss, a blow that destroyed the offensive power of their fleet. Pacific Crucible—through a dramatic narrative relying predominantly on primary sources and eyewitness accounts of heroism and sacrifice from both navies—tells the epic tale of these first searing months of the Pacific war, when the U.S. Navy shook off the worst defeat in American military history to seize the strategic initiative.

Draws on eyewitness accounts and primary sources to describe the first months of World War II in the Pacific, after the U.S. Navy suffered the worst defeat in its history at Pearl Harbor.