Richard Walz

Recounts events in the life of George Washington which focus on his fondness for animals.

"A look at how the dirt roads of the early 1800s evolved into the present-day U.S. highway system."--Amazon.com.

Batter up! It's 1919 and baseball is in trouble! All across the country, people are throwing down their bats, and giving up America's national pastime. It's up to Babe Ruth to win back fans and save baseball! Can he do it, or will he strike out?

Accident-prone Jar Jar Binks has adventures and mishaps in the Mos Espa marketplace on the planet Tatooine.

A Step 3 Step into Reading Biography Reader about Teddy Roosevelt and his efforts to protect our environment and establish national parks. Teddy battled asthma all his life, and the list of things he shouldn't do was long. But when people told him "you can't," he set about proving them wrong. --Publisher

A story about how the very messy French philosopher, René Descartes, invented an ingenious way to keep track of his possessions.

This collection features three of our most popular biographies: Washington, the stoic general with a soft spot for animals; Jefferson, the brilliant statesman who was a foodie at heart, and Lincoln, the absentminded lawyer whose compassionate caseload foretold his presidency. Beginning readers will learn about little-known, illuminating events in the earlier years of these extraordinary men and how, long before entering the White House, they lived...