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ARE BOYS AND GIRLS REALLY DIFFERENT?

Features include: Boys and Girls in the Primate World, What Kind of Athlete are You?, How Different Are Boys and Girls?, Super Spy Techniques, Emma Edmonds: Mast of Disguise

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 6-9
ARE YOU WHAT YOU WEAR?

Test your fashion IQ and discover just why a penny comes up heads in this clever issue that covers everything from clowns and their costumes to the development of cutlery and the h …

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 9-14
ASLEEP, WHILE YOU'RE

Young readers will discover just what happens in the city after they've gone to bed. Easy-to-make "day-into-night" flip book!

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 3-7
BOATS AFLOAT

Sailboats, steamboats, dugouts and canoes, tugboats, fishing boats, ferries and barges. Learn about how all contributed to the exploration of the world in this seafaring issue. Fea …

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 3-7
CALL OF THE CRYPTILE LIZARD

Beasts that might evolve in a future without humans, a jaunt to New Zealand’s Fiordland to visit the last known kakapo booming grounds, and an excellent excerpt from Bibles and Bes …

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 9-14
CHESS / HARRY POTTER

Rooks, bishops, pawns, knights, kings and queens – all the game pieces and their history are here in Muse’s look at chess for kids who don’t play chess! Meet the chess consultant f …

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 9-14
CITY'S FURY

Features include: Rats!, You Say Susquehanna, I say Kanastoge, Ivory-Billed Woodpecker: A Schroder's Cat of Extinction and Conservation, Thinking Like a Swarm, Growing Software

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 9-14
COLOR ALL AROUND

Features include: Click and the Kids, Our Colorful World, Brown Bats and Blue Frogs, Red, Yellow, Blue, Green, Yo Wants to Know, Color in Art, Green Eggs and Sam, Color Me.

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 3-6
END-OF-THE WORLD STORIES

Grab your scarves and mittens for this chilling issue that includes photos and excerpts from The Worst Journey in the World and a feature on present-day research at the Amundsen-Sc …

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 9-14
ENERGY

From horse power to atomic power, energy is what is needed to get things done. Wind turbines, hydroelectric dams, solar power, and muscles -- all are food for the fuel that is used …

Paperback  $5.95  Suggested for ages 9-14
EXPLODING TROUSERS

Features Include: Cavefish.net, Bo's Page, Muse Mail, Kokopelli & Company, Math Page: A Good Plot, Q & A, Muse Contest, Last Page: Skaters, out! Cars, non!, Why do Cavefish Lose Th …

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 9-14
EXTREME ORIGAMI

Features include: The War of the Origami Bugs, Yo! Turn Me Off!, Playing 'Possum, Pyongyrang

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 9-14
FAILED FUTURELANDS

What did people of the past think the world was going to be like in the year 2000 and beyond? Muse takes a look at some Tomorrowlands that never came to pass in this popular editio …

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 9-14
FAIRY TALES

Who wrote Cinderella? Who was Mother Goose? And what was in the minds of Charles Perrault and the Grimm brothers as they penned their favorite fairy tales? Muse takes a gander. Sur …

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 9-14
FLIGHT, DREAM OF

Bees, bats, birds and people all take to the sky in this soaring issue that features the Wright Brothers, Bessie Coleman, stunt pilots, and a history of flight before the Wright B …

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
GETTING AROUND

This driving issue takes a closer look at the many ways to get from point A to point B. See how the wheel might have been invented, how people travel to places roads can't reach, …

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 3-6
GHOSTS ON AUDIOTAPE?

Features include: Talking to Ghosts, The Man with the Brains, The Other 1, Sounds Amazing!

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 9-14
GOOGLE UNIVERSE

Features include: The Google Story, Artsmart Pigeons, Time Flies, Convergence, Making a Universe

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 9-14
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CLICK

Features include: Click and the Kids, Mary Had a Little Lamb, Galapagos Islands, Signs for Everyone, Meet Fireman Tom, Bow-Wow-Wow, Yo Wants to Know, From Egg to Salamander, Buildi …

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 3-6
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUSE

Features include: Muse Turns, Math Page: The Power of Ten, Last Page: The Ultimate Party Favor, Vegetarianism, Picking the Perfect Birthday Card (for the Perfect Magazine, The Myst …

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 9-14
HITTING THE WALL

Features include: Racing the Antelope, Freaky Fluid, Infection, Renaissance Man, Charlie Goodnight and the First Cattle Drive

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 9-14
HOAXES AND CONSPIRACIES

Fly with Muse to the moon and back; calculate the cost and effort of space travel in Why We Can’t Get There from Here; imagine life without gravity; and join an investigation with …

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 9-14
HOW WE COMMUNICATE

Explore how we communicate whether it's with symbols, signs, words or gestures. Read how writing first began. Also includes a special section on animal communication and a story ab …

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 3-7
HOW'D THEY BUILD THAT?

Find out how the Pyramids were built and what they were used for. Meet a man who makes massive card houses that are able to hold thousands of pounds, and learn how you can, too. En …

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 6-9
I Didn't Know That

Why are no two fingerprints the same? What kind of picture makes you look many pounds lighter? Why aren't "piggy banks" called "doggie banks?" What is fifty times sweeter than suga …

Paperback  $4.95  Suggested for ages 8-11
IMAGINING

Features include: Wait, We Forgot the Pencil!, How a Pencil is Made, Christmas Postcards from the South Pole, A Perfect Red, Nexting

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 9-14
IS $27 A LOT OF MONEY?

Features include: Banker to the Poor, Giant, Nonfolding Money, How the U.S. Economy Works, Play Money

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 9-14
LET'S BUILD

Features include: I Love Tools!, New School for Hopperville, How Hannah Builds, Yo Wants to Know, Push, Lift, Dig, Dump, Planning a Mouse House, Build a House

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 3-6
LET'S PLAY

Features include: Let's Play, Children's Games, Move, Stretch, Balance, Why Do Animals Play?, Animal Athletes,Triathalon Trina

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 3-6
LOOKING CLOSER

What's on the inside can be very different than what's on the outside as readers will discover in this unusual and informative issue. Click takes a look inside a piano and a wasp's …

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 3-7
LORD OF THE RINGS

There’s magic in middle earth in this spellbinding “making-of” issue. Meet a man who can talk with Elves, and the real-life Gollum. From massive battles to buckets of makeup, to c …

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 9-14
MAKING CLOTHES

Features include: A Riveting Idea, Clothes with an IW, A Farsighted Look at Glasses, Made to Fit, Garrett Morgan: Inventor Hero, Postcards from Marco Polo

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 6-9
MAKING MOVIE MONSTERS

Virtual monsters from Star Wars to Jurassic Park are captured in this movie special-effects edition. Decipher messages from monkeys and magpies to chicken chatter and consider the …

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 9-14
MEASUREMENTS

Distance, time, temperature, weight, and the tools that were invented to calculate them, are introduced in this hefty issue. Give your child a sense of accomplishment as you explor …

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
MEMORY

Features Include: Making Memories - Why You Can't Remember Your First Birthday, Vehicles with Insufficient Wheels, The Sun Pitches a Fit, The Sultan and the Giantess on Vacation - …

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 9-14
NOTE TO ARTISTS

Features include: A Bridge to the Past, The Kooky Science of Molecular Gastronomy, Sugar and Spice, The Life Story of a Tree

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 9-14
ON THE MOVE

Trucks, trains, planes and automobiles. People the world over are on the go. Ride the rails, and go trucking with Sam in his dad’s model R-600 Mack truck. Sing the song of a freigh …

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
ON THE ROAD

Take a detour with Click and discover what lies beneath a city street. Follow the steps to building a new highway. Drive along with Mr. Picadilly and help him decipher the road sig …

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
PARASITES / SECRET PASSAGES

Find out everything you didn’t even know you wanted to know about parasites before delving into an article about a spooky house that has some serious secrets to hide. Then it’s bom …

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 9-14
PERPETUAL MOTION MACHINES

Readers will be captivated by the magically entertaining and extraordinarily complex machines contestants enter in the Carnival of the Century. Enjoy a beginner’s guide to early mu …

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 9-14
PLANTING A RAINFOREST

Stimulate your appetite for information and unusual facts with this jam-packed issue chock-full of fascinating articles and fabulous photographs. From the amazing concoctions food …

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 9-14
POISON POTION

Features include: WOnder drug, Bo's Page, Muse Mail, Kokopelli & Company, Math Page: Sudoku Mania, Meet our Muses, Sweet Elixar of Death, The Case of the Four-Armed Corpse, Sent to …

  $6.95  Suggested for ages 9-14
REMBRANT, HOW TO SPOT A FAKE

How do art experts form their opinions? The Rembrandt Research Project sets forth all the evidence on paintings attributed to this famous artist in the cover story. Try your eye at …

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 9-14
ROMANCE IS IN THE AIR

Features include: Oxygen: A Love Story, Something for Nothing, Construction: Sight, Mozart's Little Muse

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 9-14
SKATEBOARD PARKS

Muse goes airborne, dude, and checks out the coolest skate parks for ollies in America. Color photographs of adventure parks -- from willowy wonderlands to cookie-cutter playground …

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 9-14
SPORTS, DOING YOUR BEST IN

Take a test to learn just what kind of athlete you are and which sports are best for your body type. Travel back in time to ancient sporting events, read about the first Olympics, …

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
STOLEN MONA LISA

Muse takes a look at math, microscopes and the Mona Lisa. And it doesn’t take much to bring this famous lady to mind as The Fine Art of Advertising illustrates. Read the fascinatin …

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 9-14
SUMMER

Features include: Click and the Kids, Why Is Summer Hot?, Summer Art, Summer Feast, Fireflies, Yo Wants to Know, Sunflowers, The Day That Lasted All Night, Stay Cool

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 3-6
TAKE A CLOSER LOOK

Readers are introduced to magnifying glasses, binoculars and microscopes – tools that help us see better and that can change the way we think about everyday things. Vivid photograp …

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
UNDERNEATH PARIS

Features include: Screamazon.eek, Bo's page, Muse Mail, Math Page: Upgrading, Empire of the Dead, Slime, Cosplaying, X-Treme Cheese Rolling, What Did This Person Look Like?, Puttin …

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 9-14
UNELMPLOYED ELEPHANTS

Features include: Tiny Houses, Big Backyards, Whiter the Mahout?, Caterpillar, Grub, Larva, Nymph, Maggot

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 9-14
UP, UP AND AWAY

Features include: Riding the Wind, What a view, First Flight for Phoebe, Taking Off, Flying Zoo, The Glorious Flight, Flying for Fun, Go Fly a Kite.

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 3-6
WAS NAPOLEON KILLED BY HIS WALLPAPER?

Was Napoleon actually French? And was he really that short? Did his wallpaper kill him? These questions about the pint-sized dictator and more are reflected upon in the cover story …

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 9-14
WHAT IS THIS CREATURE?

Features include: The Printer's Trial, Whimsical Wood, How to Be Cool, Selling Soap, If the World Didn't Have Shes or Hes..., No one Thanked Him,

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 9-14
WHAT SHOULD I WEAR?

Features include: Whose Shoes?, Click and The Kids, Clothes Talk, Bruno the Tailor, Cotton to Jeans, Yo Wants to Know, Fellece, Fiber, Yarn, Sweater, My Shoes, Dress Me.

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 3-6
WHAT'S DOWN THERE, ANYWAY?

Features include: Inside Earth, What's Under New York City, Fire Below Your Feet, If You Could Fly Like a Bird, Birds Can Fly, Why Can't I?, Diving Into the Mysterious World of Dol …

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 6-9
WHAT'S RISKY?

Take a chance and read what scientists have discovered about our fears. The spirit of adventure is kept alive in two amazing tales – mountaineer George Mallory’s and fighter pilot …

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 9-14
WHERE DOES THIS COME FROM?

One of the world's best writers for children, Tommy de Paola, contributes to this charming issue that explains where every day things originate. Topics like fabrics, cheese, flour, …

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 3-7
WHERE DOES YOUR GARBAGE GO?

Here comes the recycling truck! And a lot of additional useful information about reusing some of the things that get thrown out. Yo has a yard sale and a first-grade class mixes up …

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
WHERE THINGS COME FROM

If you've ever wondered what comes from what, or how to explain where things do come from to curious students, see this edition filled with everything from detailed photographs of …

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 3-7
YOUR INNER COPYCAT

Your Inner Copycat, Living Pictures, A Muse Mini-Myth: The Trojan War, or a Really Bad Series of Unfortunate Events, Schliemann: Braggart, Boaster, and Discoverer of Troy, Curiouse …

Paperback  $6.95  Suggested for ages 9-14
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