"Developed by literacy experts and educators for students in PreK through grade two, this book introduces beginning readers to museums through simple, predictable text and related photos"--

This issue is dedicated to one of the largest and most interesting cities in the USA — Chicago. If you hear the name "Chicago" and think only of mafia and Prohibition, then you know nothing about this city. Chicago is the birthplace of jazz and variety of blues, it is the city of many victories, inventions, records and events that have affected the whole world. In this issue we will walk through the streets of Chicago and tell you about the following:...

Curiosities from the Cabinet features 36-museum objects including an ancient Babylonian tablet, a 21st-century webpage, a skeleton marionette and a colony of live ants, found in UK museums from Weston-super-Mare to the Shetland Islands. Over 40 people from inside and outside the museum world, curators, conservators, visitors, users, artists, talk about these objects with knowledge, passion and even tenderness. We listen as British Museum Assyriologist...

US Highway 20 was designated a federal highway in 1926. For the first half of the 20th century, it was the most important east-west road across northern Iowa, extending from the Mississippi to the Missouri River. The road connected 13 counties, four major metropolitan areas, and many smaller communities along its route. Fortunately, the historic two-lane road remains almost completely intact and can be driven much as travelers did in years gone by....