Educational Books & Workbooks

The #1 bestselling Girl’s Body Book includes everything you need to know about growing up, even the embarrassing stuff.

"What is happening to my body?"
"How do I fit in?"
"Why is everything different?"

These questions, along with others, leave pre-teen girls feeling confused and parents wondering what to do next. From periods to peer pressure, puberty is hard! The newly updated fifth edition of The Girl’s Body Book helps prepare girls and their parents for the ups and downs of puberty, middle school, and everything in between, This guide for pre-teen girls addresses issues like changing bodies, personal hygiene, self-confidence, leadership, school safety and #MeToo. This updated fifth edition book for girls is expanded to include topics like: 

- Cyberbullying and internet safety
- Emotional health and self-esteem
- Stress management
- Personal boundaries and communication
- Sports and leadership
- and MORE

The Girl’s Body Book helps prepare girls for puberty and beyond.

Kelli Dunham, RN, BSN is a nurse, a comedian, and author of three other books: How to Survive and Maybe Even Love Nursing School, How to Survive and Maybe Even Love Your Life as a Nurse, and The Boy’s Body Book: Everything You Need to Know for Growing Up You, also published by Applesauce Press. In her spare time, she likes to read, skateboard, and embarrass her niece Viola when the whole family goes to the supermarket.

Puberty is hard! That’s why we made The Boy’s Body Book.

Everything is changing! How will you survive this crazy time in your life? This #1 bestselling book made just for boys contains all of the guy stuff you need to know about growing up, even the embarrassing stuff. Author and nurse Kelli Dunham covers everything from body changes to planning for college, giving pre-teen boys the answers they need to prepare for puberty and beyond. The fifth edition of the #1 bestselling The Boy's Body Book features topics like: 

- School safety and consent
- Emotional health & self esteem
- Cyberbullying and internet safety
- Learning disabilities
- Personal boundaries & communication
- Stress management
- Building healthy friendships
- and MORE

Get The Boy's Body Book today and never have to wonder how you will answer the question, "What is happening to my changng body?" ever again.

Kelli Dunham, RN, BSN, is a nurse, stand-up comic, and author of How to Survive and Maybe Even Love Nursing School, How to Survive and Maybe Even Love Your Life as a Nurse, and The Boy’s Body Book: Everything You Need to Know for Growing Up You, also published by Applesauce Press. She has worked as a primary care and home visiting nurse with first-time new moms. She has lived in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Ohio, Oklahoma, Florida, Portland, Oregon, New York, and on a houseboat in Philadelphia. In her spare time she likes to read, skateboard, and she would really, really like to learn to play the banjo.

Steve Bjorkman has illustrated over 100 picture books for children, as well as doing advertising, editorial and packaging illustration. He works with his brother doing greeting cards for Recycled Paper Greetings. To date, well over one hundred million cards with his art have sold around the world.

Explore the depths of the ocean with Discovering Whales.

With scientific facts and illustrations all about marine biology, kids will learn about whale habitats, habits, and more! Features gorgeous, scientifically accurate illustrations that give kids a glimpse of the majesty of some of the largest living mammals. Kids will learn all about endangered whales and how we can help preserve their habitats. With a stunning, tactile cover, this eye-catching book is sure to stand out.

With a unique book cover that looks and feels like actual shark skin, DISCOVERING SHARKS is the ultimate guide to the fiercest, most fascinating predators that lurk the ocean deep!

This action-packed, full-color book features dozens of different types of sharks, with captivating photographs and illustrations throughout. From the Great White to the Hammerhead, learn about those razor-sharp teeth and prominent fins, mysterious behavior patterns, and even their unique diets. DISCOVERING SHARKS is jam-packed with gripping facts and fun tidbits, as well as breath-taking images that nearly jump off the page and right into your lap! Featuring a one-of-a-kind textured book cover that feels like shark skin, this book is a must-have for any child fascinated by the fiercest creatures who lurk the ocean deep!

Turn your home into an underwater utopia with Your Bedroom Is An Ocean!, a one-of-a-kind craft book filled with everything a young seafarer needs to transform their space into an ethereal ecosystem!  

Why look to the sky for mystery and wonder when one of history’s greatest puzzles is right below our noses? Earth’s oceans remain one of the most mystifying entities in existence. Swarming with species that have yet to be identified and housing unique characters like sailors, pirates, and (according to some) aliens, the planet’s waters are one of the remaining frontiers of our modern world. So why wouldn’t children want to immerse themselves in this mystical environment?

Your Bedroom Is An Aquarium! gives them that power, making ocean exploration as easy as 1-2-turn the page please! And trust us, these pages are filled to the brim with facts and activities too irresistible to ignore, like…

- The largest ocean is the Pacific, which covers 30% of the Earth’s surface.
- Tsunamis can thunder in at 500 miles per hour, on a good day. 
- The water emitting from hydrothermal vents deep beneath the surface can reach up to 750 degrees Fahrenheit. 
- The planet’s largest mountain range is not the Andes...it’s the Mid-Oceanic ridge and it’s nearly ten times longer than it’s above-the-surface counterpart, clocking in at a mind-boggling 40,390 miles. 
- Have you heard of The Bloop? It’s not a children's TV character; it’s the largest “ocean sound” that has ever been recorded, and it happened in 1997. 
- There are over 3 million shipwrecks peppering our ocean floors. 
- 91 percent of sea creatures have yet to be discovered, which means marine biologists still have a lot of work to do. 

Want more? Don’t worry. As the universe’s largest inhabited space, the world’s oceans have plenty of information to offer, all of which will be folded within the pages of our bubbly book. More than just a textbook, though, Your Bedroom Is An Aquarium! is also jam-packed with stunning photographs and textile add-ons like stickers that will help kids and parents alike submerge themselves into this perplexing underwater adventure. 

 

See prehistoric predators of all sizes come to life with Dino World, the trifold pop-up book all about dinosaurs!

Experience dinosaurs like you’ve never seen them before with innovative paper crafting that breathes new life into prehistoric scenes. You will be immersed in the extraordinary artwork of paleoartist Julius Csotonyi as the images leap off the page in a pop-up dinosaur book for a stunning experience like no other. Dino World features cool facts about each dinosaur, including the massive T. rex and crafty raptors, as well as eye-catching lifelike scenes, learning about prehistory has never been this fun. 

Dinosaur lovers of all ages will adore this booSavek!

With a unique glow-in-the dark tactile book cover that recreates the cratered surface of the moon, DISCOVERING PLANETS AND MOONS is the ultimate guide to the most fascinating features of our solar system.

Blast off into outer space with DISCOVERINGS PLANETS AND MOONS! From the icy outer reaches of our solar system to the blazing heat of the Sun, this action-packed, full-color book is bursting with gripping facts, fun tidbits, and dynamic artwork that bring the mysteries of our galaxy to life!

Featuring massive mazes, spider-ific stickers, and fun foldouts, this book is the bee’s knees.

Exterminate boredom with the massive mazes, spider-ific stickers, and fun foldouts in the Discovering Bugs Activity Book. Thanks to scientifically sound information and detailed illustrations, this activity book is as educational as it is fun. Kids can embrace their inner artist with coloring pages bearing beautiful illustrations of bugs from around the world, and the Gooty Sapphire Tarantula on the stunning, tactile cover is guaranteed captivate (and terrify) readers of all ages. One thing’s for sure: the Discovering Bugs Activity Book is the bee’s knees.

Discover the most dangerous carnivores that ever roamed the Earth in this exciting and action-packed exploration of Prehistoric Predators, featuring a unique cover that feels like dinosaur-skin!

The biggest baddies of the prehistoric world -- the carnivores -- come alive in Prehistoric Predators. From favorites like T-Rex and Giganotosaurus, to the ferocious Spinosaurus and terrifying Megalodon, the stunning full-color illustrations from renowned paleoartist Julius Csotonyi make these dangerous creatures spring to life on each page. Bursting with fascinating facts written by National Geographic contributor Brian Switek, dynamic artwork, and a unique dino-skin textured cover, this is the perfect book for dinosaur lovers of every age!

From the publisher that brought you THE BOY'S BODY BOOK–the bestselling handbook for adolescent boys–comes an all-new guide to friendship, crushes, texting, and social media, for the modern, tech-savvy pre-teen!

This fun and accessible illustrated guide is for preteens who are ready to take their first steps into the unchartered territory of crushes, social media, and texting in the digital age. Kelli Dunham gives tips on navigating the digital landscape while keeping "reputation safety" in mind. Not just about texting, this handbook doles out advice for successful communication in settings like classrooms, after-school activities, and hang-outs among friends. With tips and advice from experts and fellow preteens alike, this is the perfect guide for any adolescent who’s ready for their first cell phone, first Facebook profile, or first crush.

 

Say goodbye to boredom forever with The Super Duper Puzzle Book, featuring hundreds of wacky and fun games, puzzles, and riddles for kids 10 and older.

Make boredom a thing of the past with The Super Duper Puzzle Book, the ultimate wacky activity book for kids 10 and older. With hundreds of number challenges, riddles to solve, limericks to finish, doodles to draw, word problems, memory games, backward crossword puzzles, Sudoku, and more this wacky activity book guarantees that brains are going to get a workout. With The Super Duper Puzzle Book, kids won’t realize they’re actually learning things –they’ll be too busy laughing and having a good time!  

Get ready to discover the fiercest, fastest, and strangest sharks on Earth with The Little Chunky Book of Sharks!

Filled with fun facts and amazing, scientifically accurate illustrations, The Little Chunky Book of Sharks is a big book of learning sure to entertain and inform kids of all ages. Discover everything there is to know about sharks, both small and large, from long-extinct species like megalodon to why sharks behave they ways they do today. The Little Chunky Book of Sharks is perfect for aspiring marine biologists to tuck into their backpacks for beach or boat expeditions or to read in bed at night.

Kelly Gauthier Cormier is a Boston-based writer and editor. When she’s not working, Kelly can often be found on a boat, in the water, or sitting on the end of a dock reading a book. She is also the author of Discovering Bugs, The Bug Handbook, Discovering Planets and Moons, and The Little Chunky Book of Dinosaurs.

Featuring mega mazes, stunning stickers, and fun foldouts, the Discovering Dinosaurs Activity Book is a sure hit with junior paleontologists everywhere.

Thanks to scientifically sound information and stunning illustrations, this activity book is as educational as it is fun. Whether it is the glorious illustrations on the coloring foldouts or the stunning, tactile cover, the Discovering Dinosaurs Activity Book is sure to draw in kids of all ages.  

Experience the wonder of the moon landing with Discovering Planets and Moons: The Apollo 11 50th Anniversary Edition!

Experience the wonder of the moon landing with Discovering Planets and Moons: The Apollo 11 50th Anniversary Edition! Learn about the technology that propelled us to the moon, and all about the ups and downs of one of history’s most watched events. With a stunning cover and packed with breathtaking imagery from the moon landing and exciting scientific facts, aspiring astronauts of all ages will learn about how our solar system works and how we continue to discover amazing new information about our universe.

Boredom is Extinct: From fun facts to cool fossils, kids of all ages will be entertained by this little book of big learning that features full color throughout. 

Get ready to discover the largest reptiles to ever walk the earth with The Little Chunky Book of Dinosaurs. This is the perfect gift for the junior paleontologist in your life. With scientifically accurate illustrations and profiles, kids will learn all about dinosaurs like the T. Rex and the Triceratops. This compact book is perfect for tucking in backpacks for outdoor safaris. From fun facts to cool fossils, kids of all ages will be entertained by this little book of big learning that features full color throughout.

With over 100 new dinosaurs species discovered since 2012, Discovering Dinosaurs will make all earlier dino books EXTINCT!

The most up-to-date illustrated dinosaur encyclopedia on the market! DISCOVERING DINOSAURS features spectacular illustrations of nearly 140 species, including all of the top dinosaur discoveries through 2015—written and illustrated by two of the world’s top dinosaur experts and artists. With a stunning oversized format that showcases Bob Walters' and Tess Kissinger’s award-winning illustrations, and a textured dinosaur-skin-like book cover, kids will not want to put the book down!

Bob Walters is one of the world’s top paleoartists, with his work appearing in numerous books, magazine and journal articles, TV and films, and award-winning permanent murals in places like the Smithsonian, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Dinosaur National Monument, and others. He lives in Philadelphia. Tess Kissinger is an award-winning paleoartist, curator, writer and consultant who has worked with the History Channel, The Learning Channel, numerous museums, and the movie Jurassic Park 3. She lives in Philadelphia.

Meet the coolest creepy crawlies on the planet! Discovering Bugs features an in-your-face look at more than fifty fascinating insects—as if through a magnifying glass!

Zoom in on the coolest bugs in the world, crawling the forest floor alongside beetles and ants, and flying the skies with bees and dragonflies. Discovering Bugs makes you feel as if you’re looking through a microscope...and the deeply textured cover looks and feels like a gigantic spider! Stunning artwork takes you up-close-and-personal with 50 of the most interesting "bugs" from around the world. Your own backyard! Discovering Bugs features:  *Profiles of dozens of awesome critters, from the teeny, tiny fairyfly wasp to the ginormous Goliath beetle!   *Fun Facts highlighting the fascinating features of each species, from the classic monarch butterfly, to the Gooty sapphire tarantula, to the Hercules beetle!    *Intricate, full-page illustrations show these creatures in action, battling other bugs or blending into their natural environments!