Books like Grand Canyon
By Jason Chin
For the kid who asks how old dinosaurs were or why rocks look like that, this book turns a hike into a journey through deep time. Vast, quiet, awe-struck, and scientifically rich.
A time-traveling guide skydives into Sequoia National Park, leading young explorers through groves of giant trees to uncover the park's history, wildlife, and a hidden danger threatening its ancient giants.
A curious young girl goes looking for water all around her — finding it as a lake, steam, a tear, even a snowman — and discovers it's hiding in more places than she ever expected.
A nonfiction picture book follows a tree's life from seed to full growth, using bold watercolor collage with real seeds, roots, and wire to show how trees live and change.
A nonfiction picture book that explains how scientists uncover dinosaur fossils bone by fragile bone, then piece giant skeletons back together inside museums for us to see today.
A girl who grows up watching fireflies in the Great Smoky Mountains notices they blink in perfect unison — and sets out to convince skeptical scientists that the dazzling synchronized show is real.
A concept book traces everyday transformations — seed to flower, tadpole to frog, caterpillar to butterfly — using die-cut pages that let one shape magically become the next.
Two kids leave their paved, noisy neighborhood on an adventure through woods and fields, searching for wildness — and discovering it lives in bark, storms, flowers, and fruit, not just far away.
A comparison of biggest things starts with the blue whale, then zooms outward — a hollow Mount Everest could hold billions of whales, and Mount Everest itself is tiny next to the Earth, stars, and the universe.
A decommissioned aircraft carrier, the USS Oriskany, is stripped down and sunk off the coast of Florida, transforming from a retired warship into the world's largest artificial reef.
A family travels from the country into the city for the day, taking in the sights along the way — then the book flips upside down and becomes an entirely new journey home.
