This ongoing series introduces our country's history to young readers in an appealing picture-book format. Clear, simple texts combine with informative, accurate illustrations to help young people develop an understanding of America's past and present.

"The New Americans" is the story of the colonists -- the more than two hundred thousand new Americans -- who came over from Europe and struggled to build a home for themselves in a new world.

"The Maestros do a real service here in presenting the more familiar explorers in the context of all the migrations that have populated the Western Hemisphere....An outstanding introduction."--Kirkus Reviews. "The dazzlingly clean and accurate prose and the exhilarating beauty of the pictures combine for an extraordinary achievement in both history and art."--School Library Journal.

Explore the many forms money has taken around the world and through history, from doubloons of ages past to contemporary credit cards.

Thirty popular expressions such as "straight from the horse's mouth" and "white elephant" are amusingly explained and illustrated. Full color.

Traces the origins of more than 100 eponymous words--words derived from the names of people or places. For example sandwich is an eponymous word from the eponym, Earl of Sandwich, the man who invented sandwiches.

"Madam, I'm Adam." Can you read this sentence backward? If you can, then it's a palindrome -- and this book is filled with them! "Fascinating for lovers of word play." -- School Library Journal