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Have you ever wondered WHY things around you look and act the way they do?

The world around us is made up of particles we call matter. Science can help us better understand what matter is and how it works. Learn facts about different states of matter, how they act, and how they can sometimes change in this simple yet informative introduction to nonfiction.

Readers will learn the answers behind:

- Why do we call some things matter?

- Why do we call some things solid, liquid, or gas?

- Why do solids stay still?

- Why do liquids slip and slide?

- Why do gases get to go wherever they want?

- Why do some things get to be many different states of matter?

About the Why Do series: Introduce early learners to nonfiction with this layered series full of fun and learning. Each book explores a STEM topic by answering questions kids want to know! The whimsical pages of these books feature the why do questions and silly answers and illustrations before revealing the true answers. Vocabulary words and simple activities are scattered throughout to add to the fun.

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

Winner of the 2024 Dzanc Short Story Collection Prize, Entomology of the Pin-Up Girl delivers a terrific play on the "monstrous feminine"--captivating stories of women shedding their skins and exoskeletons and blurring the boundaries between predator and prey.A dissatisfied wife wraps herself in a silk cocoon. Teenage girls declare decay as the newest fashion trend. A new religion emerges from blood-sucking moths. And Grete Samsa wakes to find herself transformed--not into a cockroach, but a monstrous camel spider, famished and salivating for the man at the door.A surreal exploration of nature, sexuality, disaster and desire, Lauren Osborn's stunning debut isa must-read for fans of Lidia Yuknavitch, Aimee Bender, and K-Ming Chang. The final edition will include six full-page, black-and-white illustrations by brilliant artist Jenny Eickbush.

Cut, collage, and craft your way through this elegant collection of vintage images, including botanical illustrations, playful animals, nostalgic typography, decorative patterns, and more!

Inside, you'll find a carefully curated collection of 2,000 vintage images ready for you to cut, layer, and transform into your own works of art. Luxe materials--including 16 pages printed with shimmering gold ink--mean that each page cuts, handles, and glues like a dream.

Each spread has been expertly compiled by the team at English design studio Roomytown to create a portal to the past. They have spent countless hours trawling through hidden corners of history to find these gems, and each piece is a fragment of design ephemera waiting for a new chapter.

Now it's your turn to bring them into your own creative projects. Whether you're journaling, making art, or just rediscovering the simple joy of cutting and sticking, this book is designed to inspire. There are no rules--only possibilities. Use these images to personalize your journal, make unique cards for friends, dream up wall art, or simply explore ideas on a rainy afternoon.

The Collage Compendium is the perfect gift or self-purchase for any artist or crafter.

BOUNDLESS VARIETY OF VISUALS: Charmingly drawn animals, vintage color charts, marbled paper patterns, delicate watercolor flowers--these unique specimens are ready to bring your vision to life. With this cut-and-collage book, you can add charm and beauty to all your projects, including scrapbooking, junk journaling, decoupage, vision boarding, and more.

TOP QUALITY: This is the perfect companion for discerning creatives. It offers special finishes, high-quality paper, and a hand-selected assortment of beautiful images.

GET INSPIRED: Along with being ideal for collage projects and visual journaling, this curated image collection makes a beautiful look-book and source of artistic inspiration.Perfect for:

• Artists and creatives
• Contemporary crafters
• Junk journalers, bullet journalers, and scrapbookers
• Lovers of all things vintage
• Fans of the Roomytown design studio

Learn watercolor with confidence--no sketching required! This beginner-friendly workbook includes a watercolor pad with pre-printed line art so you can jump right into painting.

Watercolor Made Simple Workbook is the perfect hands-on guide for anyone looking to develop their painting skills in a stress-free and accessible way. Created by watercolor instructor Nicki Traikos, this workbook features 20 all-new projects that introduce essential techniques through fun, step-by-step exercises.

With the included premium watercolor pad featuring pre-printed line drawings, you can paint directly onto the pages, eliminating the need for sketching or transferring designs. The workbook covers a wide range of popular subjects--florals, landscapes, animals, food, and more--while providing easy-to-follow instructions to help you master blending, layering, and brushwork.

Inside, you'll find:

• 20 all-new projects designed to build your watercolor skills and confidence.
• A premium watercolor pad with printed templates, allowing you to paint directly onto the pages.
• Video tutorials linked to QR codes so you can follow along with guided demonstrations.
• A relaxed, encouraging approach that helps artists of all levels explore creativity without pressure.

Whether you're just beginning your watercolor journey or looking for fresh inspiration, Watercolor Made Simple Workbook makes learning to paint fun, approachable, and rewarding.

Have you ever wondered WHY plants look the way they do?

Plants come in all shapes, sizes, and colors. From the spiky cactus in the desert to the tallest trees reaching toward the sky in the forest, they all have special traits that help them grow big and strong. Learn fun facts about different types of plants, how they act, and what makes them unique in this simple yet informative introduction to nonfiction.

Readers will learn the answers behind:

- Why do plants need seeds?

- Why do plants have roots?

- Why do plants love the sun?

- Why do some plants have flowers?

- Why do some trees lose their leaves before winter?

- Why do some plants have thorns?

About the Why Do series: Introduce early learners to nonfiction with this layered series full of fun and learning. Each book explores a STEM topic by answering questions kids want to know! The whimsical pages of these books feature the why do questions and silly answers and illustrations before revealing the true answers. Vocabulary words and simple activities are scattered throughout to add to the fun.

Make drawing a rewarding daily habit with this practical and encouraging guide.

What if drawing wasn't just something you did when inspiration struck--but an essential part of your daily life? Drawing Is Important by illustrator and educator Tom Froese is an inspiring and practical guide to building a sustainable daily drawing practice, embracing consistency over perfection.

Through insightful essays and creative exercises, Froese builds on his popular Skillshare class of the same name to make the case for why drawing every day--without pressure for results--can lead to greater creativity, artistic growth, and personal satisfaction. This book offers motivation, mindset shifts, and practical guidance to help you develop a habit of drawing regularly, no matter your skill level or experience.

Inside, you'll find:

• Encouraging insights on why daily drawing leads to creative breakthroughs
• Exercises to build consistency and make drawing a natural part of your day
• Techniques for overcoming perfectionism and creative fears
• A beautiful design that inspires creativity on every page

Whether you're an experienced artist looking to reinvigorate your practice or a beginner eager to build confidence, Drawing Is Important will help you make drawing a joyful, meaningful part of your daily life.

Embrace the spirit of beekeeping and build your very own miniature beehive right at your desk.

• Specifications: Includes 15 pieces of pre-cut wood to assemble into a 4-inch-tall beehive with a hinged lid, complete with removeable acrylic stickers of simulated honey and bees. Also includes 2 faux jars of honey
• Illustrated Mini Book: Includes a 48-page mini book with essential information about how to raise your own honeybees and other beehive basics
• A Unique Gift: The perfect gift item for beekeepers, bee lovers, and sustainable living enthusiasts

A clever pocket-sized dictionary that celebrates travel with hilarious definitions and witty illustrations of terms that globetrotters know and love.

Here is a clever, tongue-in-cheek "dictionary" that's perfect for any travel-lover. The Traveling Dictionary is filled with hilarious definitions for hundreds of travel terms, plus dozens of witty illustrations. Terms range from hotel lingo, gear, and tourist destinations to the insider jargon that all globetrotters know and speak fluently, from "airport lounge" to "zip line." With equal parts quirky humor and charming giftability, it's a delightful book for every travel obsessive.

From USA Today bestselling author Gwendolyn Womack comes a thrilling and romantic science fiction adventure about a musician who travels back to the 1800s on the currents of sound and falls for an earl as the two must decode the secrets of time and music to save both of their futures.

Magellan Brighton may be a musical prodigy with limitless talent, but her soul yearns for something more than playing in concert halls or at weddings. As the world is on the brink of a catastrophic polar shift, she mysteriously vanishes while playing an ancient organ and awakens in 1829. The answers to why lie in a lost diary belonging to Gwynedd, Merlin's forgotten twin sister.

Rhys Sherwood, the dashing and brooding Earl of Liron, is still haunted by the memory of his father, a scientist and historian who was killed in an experiment gone wrong. When Rhys stumbles upon a strange woman at the center of his estate's labyrinth, her arrival couldn't have come at a worse time, interrupting an important house party he'd planned to select his future wife.

Yet the two find themselves inexplicably drawn to each other, and when they discover that Magellan's musical gifts and the diary are connected, they must uncover its secrets and connection to the key to saving the world. From candlelit medieval abbeys to opulent Renaissance courts in a perilous journey through the past to find the key, Magellan must risk everything and face the sinister forces who want the key for themselves.

From two of Colorado's leading native plant experts, this accessible and colorful guide to planting natives will help gardeners at every level of experience add beneficial pollinators to their home gardens.

Bring Your Garden to Life--and Life to Your Garden!

The Rocky Mountain Native Plant Primer introduces 225 wildflowers, grasses, cacti, shrubs, and trees across a broad range, including: northern New Mexico, northern Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, much of Idaho and Montana, the Texas Panhandle, and the western halves of Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and the Dakotas. As the Rocky Mountains and High Plains grow in population, temperatures rise, and water becomes scarce, this book focuses on the role that native plants and water-wise planting can have in fostering sustainability for all life in the region.

Most businesses don't take qualitative research seriously. They see it as soft, vague-too uncertain to drive business strategy. That's why so many researchers see their insights ignored and struggle to gain buy-in.

Design Research Mastery changes the game. Sara Fortier teaches you how to transform research into a strategic catalyst-winning over skeptics and inspiring innovative products and services. Through a step-by-step approach, readers will master the planning, execution, and communication of research inside an organization. Covering four core methods-in-depth interviews, observations, diary studies, and workshops-Fortier provides the tools (including templates and checklists) to navigate stakeholder dynamics, manage logistics, and present findings with impact.

This book goes beyond methodology, emphasizing the importance of synthesis and design storytelling, helping researchers craft compelling reports that shape decision-making. Complete with real-world anecdotes, it will help practitioners overcome organizational resistance, build trust, and turn insights into real action, demonstrating the tangible value of design research.

With AI automating execution-heavy roles, the future belongs to those who can think critically, synthesize complex ideas, and influence stakeholders. Whether you're a UX researcher, designer, or product manager, Design Research Mastery will help you bridge the gap between research and business-and make your work indispensable.

Now in a fully revised second edition, this authoritative manual presents the only dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)-informed approach designed specifically for people of all ages with learning and mental health challenges. Used in a wide range of clinical and community settings, the Skills System teaches essential emotion regulation and adaptive coping skills in a motivating, structured framework. It allows clinicians to provide comprehensive treatment for individuals who have had difficulty engaging in traditional therapeutic services. In a convenient large-size format, the manual features ideas for scaffolding learning, a sample 12-week group curriculum, and practical tools, including a reproducible/downloadable lesson planning worksheet. Client handouts and worksheets are not included in the second edition, but are provided in the companion workbook designed to optimize client learning, available separately in print or fillable e-book formats: The Emotion Regulation Skills System Workbook, Second Edition.

New to This Edition

• Reflects the use of the Skills System in a growing range of settings; includes pre-instruction strategies, targeting strategies, and more ways to tailor instruction to clients' needs, abilities, context, and learning preferences.
• Chapter on integrating the Skills System into individual therapy sessions.
• Updated emotion regulation theory and research.
• Companion workbook written expressly for clients, with numerous new reproducible tools.

See also The Emotion Regulation Skills System Workbook, Second Edition.

Climate catastrophe leaves the people of Earth fighting for oxygen in this gripping dystopian thriller.

Everyone calls it the Reek.

The atmosphere is toxically polluted, and Axel Brodie, the tech billionaire behind Zephyr Industries, is cashing in as the only supplier of clean air.

Sparrow is struggling to help her family survive until her genius inventor friend, Miriam Fenn, comes up with a new form of technology that could break Zephyr's stranglehold on the air supply. But men like Brodie are hard to defeat, and he will do everything in his power to stop Miriam and Sparrow. Who will triumph in this battle to breathe?

P U! In our 29th issue we get down and dirty and explore the the world of scents. Young readers will find activities, comics, interviews, and so much more.

How much of our world do we understand though SMELL? In this issue, we'll take you on a sensational tour of odors, aromas, whiffs, scents, and maybe a stench or two.

Inside this olfactory issue (featuring a cover by Michael D. Kennedy perfectly capturing our complicated emotional responses to smelling) you'll find factoids about the smelliest fruit, creatures, and insects; biologist G. Eric Schaller sharing his adventures studying the world's stinkiest bloom, the Corpse Flower; a pair of snails going on a flower-smelling binge (courtesy of Aaron Piland and Weng Pixin); super-noses from the animal kingdom (drawn by you); and more! Enjoy new comics by Yuk Fun and Tom Bingham, Thien Pham's guide to creating your own food review comics, clay sculptures of unforgettable smells, fantasies of smell museums, and all the activities, interviews, recommendations, and more stories readers of Illustoria have come to know and love. Clear your nostrils, take in the biggest whiff you can, and get ready for another jam-packed issue of the best kids art and storytelling magazine around!

Illustoria is a print magazine for creative kids & their grownups. We celebrate visual storytelling, makers and DIY culture through stories, art, comics, interviews, crafts and activities. Our high-quality, tri-annual publication is geared toward readers ages 6-12 and the young at heart.

Illustoria is the official publication of the International Alliance of Youth Writing Centers, publishing writing and art by young people alongside accomplished professionals.

The ultimate guide to Oregon's best backpacking adventures!

Wake up next to a sparkling alpine lake, hike amid giant old-growth trees, breathe in the warm high desert air, or take in the view from a point high above the vast, blue Pacific Ocean. Backpacking Oregon is the guide that will get you there, with 70 overnight and multiday routes that explore the state's diverse and dramatic landscapes.

Oregon hiking expert Eli Boschetto tested each hike with boots-on-the-ground research and offers weekend-friendly treks for all ability levels, plus information on four of the state's best long-distance trails. Whether you dream of taking the kids backpacking to Mirror Lake, hiking the Rogue River Trail with friends, or traversing the breathtaking Eagle Cap Wilderness, turn to this reliable guide to experience Oregon's wild beauty for yourself.

• Detailed route descriptions and maps that note campsites, water sources, and more
• Helpful mileage logs
• Quality and difficulty ratings for all trails
• At-a-glance chart to compare and select outings
• Quick-reference icons for solitude, wildlife, wildflowers, suitability for kids and/or dogs, and more
• Tips for extending or customizing each hike
• 1% of proceeds support Trailkeepers of Oregon