Books like Killer Style: How Fashion Has Injured, Maimed, and Murdered Through History
By Alison Matthews David
For the kid obsessed with weird-but-true facts, this book turns a closet full of everyday clothes into a cabinet of historical horrors. Gruesome, gripping, and fact-packed — equal parts fashion history and cautionary tale.
A wood-frame house rises from the ground up, following surveyors, carpenters, plumbers, electricians, and landscapers as each crew adds their part until a family finally moves in.
A crew of astronauts blasts into orbit aboard a space shuttle, eating ready-to-eat food, floating in zero gravity, taking space walks, and fixing a satellite before returning to Earth.
A young visitor tours a public aquarium, moving from tank to tank to marvel at sharks, eels, seahorses, and other marine creatures living beneath the surface of the sea.
A curious little monkey swallows a puzzle piece and ends up with a bad tummy ache, so his doctor sends him to the hospital for an operation and a recovery full of new friends.
A rhyming celebration of toddler hands moving through a day — holding, molding, catching, throwing, waving hello and goodbye, clapping, and even tying a shoe.
An alphabet journey through iconic fine art, pairing each letter with a famous painting — spotting the earring in Vermeer's Girl with the Pearl Earring, counting fruit in Cezanne's still life, and more.
Bold die-cut shapes stack and overlap page after page, transforming circles, squares, and triangles into nine recognizable zoo animal faces right before your eyes.
A gallery of real animals shown at their true size — a two-foot tongue, an eye bigger than your head — turning astonishing facts into something you can see with your own eyes.
A wordless journey through city streets where ordinary things — fire escapes, scaffolding, road signs — reveal the shape of a letter, all the way from A to Z.
An alphabet journey through fruits and vegetables from around the world, pairing every letter — upper and lowercase — with foods like apricots, artichokes, yams, and zucchini.
A white shape drifts across page after page of blue sky, looking like a rabbit, a bird, an ice-cream cone, and more — until a final reveal answers what it really is.
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.
