Sometimes the biggest stories come from the smallest beginnings ... Meet Tad. She's the smallest tadpole in a big pond, and lives there with all her tadbrothers and tadsisters. Although something else lives there too ... BIG BLUB! And when everyone else starts to disappear, Tad starts to wonder if Big Blub will get her too ... Or is everyone else going somewhere else; somewhere better? And if so, will Tad ever get there too? A big story about a tiny...

An introduction to the life cycle of the butterfly.

Shows the frog as it grows up in its natural environment.

Describes what happens day-by-day for the three weeks from the time a hen lays an egg until the baby chick hatches.

Looks back over the past 500 years in order to uncover distinct patterns in history resulting in a cyclical formula comprising growth, maturation, entropy, and rebirth and applies this cycle to the next century. First came the postwar High, then the Awakening of the '60s and '70s, and now the Unraveling. This audacious and provocative book tells us what to expect just beyond the start of the next century. Are you ready for the Fourth Turning? ...

Introduces the tree as "the biggest plant that grows" and explains the life cycle of an apple tree.

On a muddy mound in a lake more salty than the ocean, a mother and father flamingo take turns shading their egg from the blistering sun. Soon a fluffy white chick hatches in the nest by the mangrove trees. Four days later the chick is swimming, and at five weeks is able to catch his own food, brine shrimp. Soon after he learns to fly and eventually searches for a mate and then the cycle begins all over again.

Colorful pictures and simple text illustrate the life of a puppy. Watch Me Grow, a groundbreaking series from DK, brings readers ages 5 and up into the fascinating world of animal development. Close-up photographs give children an animal's eye-view of growing up, while simple, first-person text and fact boxes explain what is happening at each stage in the lives of different kinds of animals. Watch Me Grow introduces beginners to the cycle of life...

"How an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes uses illustration, humor, and accessible storytelling to explain complex topics of economic growth and monetary systems. In it, economic expert and bestselling author of Crash Proof, Peter Schiff teams up with his brother Andrew to apply their signature "take no prisoners" logic to expose the glaring fallacies that have become so ingrained in our country's economic conversation.Inspired by How an Economy Grows...