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A Cricket Magazine Group magazine

Science for grades 2-5

How did great scientists and thinkers get their start? By asking questions! Each themed issue of ASK invites newly independent readers to explore the world of science and ideas with topics that really appeal to kids: What makes wind? Where do colors come from? Were pirates real? Filled with lively, well-written articles, vivid graphics, activities, cartoons, and plenty of humor, ASK is science kids demand to read!

  • Introduces informational text and independent inquiry
  • Supports STEM curriculum
  • Proven kid appeal!
"ASK's high-quality articles will both satisfy and stimulate the curiosity and imagination of contemporary kids." - Virgina A. Walter, Award-winning Children's Author
Upcoming Themes | Teacher's Guides | Interactive Sample | ASK's Web Site for Kids

Paperback  34 pgs.  Full Color
Suggested for ages: 7-10
Product Code: ASK

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Available Back Issues

Issues From '13
So Many Seasons
Features include: Alien Seasons; The Duke's Seasons; A Wintry World; How Hot Is It?; Monsoon in June; Project BudBurst.
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
Meet the Family
Features include: Your Family, Our Family; Primate Puzzlers; Your Family Tree; Meet the Leakeys; See Your DNA!; The Neandertals Next Door.
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
Hair, There and Everywhere
Features include: Mane Attraction; The Buzz About Dino Fuzz; Hair Today, What Tomorrow?; Hair that Feels; Hairstyles in history; Why Are Nak …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
Oceans of Grass
Features include: Oceans of Grass; Little School on the Prairie; Gopher's Guide to Gourmet Grasses; Growing with the grass; A Hunger for Gra …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
Our Star
Features include: The Surprising Sun; Our Star; Where Does the Sun Get Its Shine?; The Star Gazers; Louis the Sun King; Living on Sun Time.
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
Issues From '12
Animals Sound Off
Features include: Small Bugs, Big Sounds; Why Do Birds Sing?; The Dog Says...; The Noisy Ocean; Listening to Elephants; On the Frog Watch.
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
Skeleton Stories
Features include: When a Bone Breaks; Your Bones; Day of the Dead; Fin and Fingers, Wings ad Hooves; Where Do You Keep Your Skeleton?; What …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
Who Needs Numbers?
Features include: Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci; Who Needs Numbers?; The Wheat on the Chessboard; Can Animals Count?; Mathematikitty; Bot …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
Caves Rock!
Features include: The Secret Cave; Finger Painting, Stone-Age Style; The 30,000-Year-Old Artist; How to Make a Cave; Home Sweet Cave; Myster …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
Bubbles and Balloons
Features include: Riding the First Balloons; The Alchemist of Air; There's a Balloon in My Belly!; Bubble Bugs; Blowing Up Art; Pop! The Inv …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
How Many Fish in the Sea?
Features include: Counting All the Fish in the Sea; Tuna Tag; Deep-Sea Research Party; Living Oceans; How Not to Count Fish; Finding Creatur …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
It's Shocking!
Features include:Lightning Strikes; Leaping Electrons!; The War of the Currents; A Fishy Sixth Sense.
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
In Your Dreams
Features include: Why Do We Dream?; Do Animals Dream?; Nighttime Busy Bodies; The Surrealists Dream Up Art; I Dreamed of a Snake!; My Bad Dr …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
Crazy for Color
Features include: Crazy for Color; Holi: A Festival of Colors; All the Colors of Black; Why is the Sky Blue?; Newton Discovers the Rainbow; …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
Issues From '11
Robots Like Us
Features include: Team Robot; Anatomy of a Robot; Robot Relatives; Dr. Rivet's Guide for the Mechanically Perplexed; Driving on Mars; My tea …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
The Fungus Among Us
Features include: Looking at Mushrooms; Animal, Vegetable, or Fungus?; Talented Fungi; Wanted! Mad, Bad, and Killer Fungi; March of the Zomb …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
What's In a Face?
Features include: What Are Faces For?; Making Faces; Should Robots Have Faces?; Face to Face; What Did King Midas Look Like?
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
Seeing Stars
Features include: The Guest Star; A Star's Life: The Inside Story; What is a Black Hole?; Stephen Hawking: Exploring the Rules of the Univer …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
Wild or Mild?
Features include: Tale of the Dog; Why Don't We Ride Zebras?; Wild Lives; Ask Moose Medic; A Dog's World; How to Choose a Human; Ant Farmers …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
Can You Trust Your Senses?
Features include: Do We See with Our Eyes or Our Brains?; Fool Your Senses; Gorilla? What Gorilla?; Alphabet Rainbow; How Do We Taste? A Cow …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
Who Needs Wind?
Features include: A World Without Wind; Sailing the Breeze; Hurricane Flight; Admiral Beaufort Scales the Gale; The Boy Who Harnessed the Wi …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
The Secret Life of Forests
Features include: Ancient Forests; Advice for Young Acorns; Forest Layers; Yanomami: People of the Forest; What Good is a Forest Fire?
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
Just the Right Size
Features include: Just the Right Size; Why Were Dinosaurs So Big?; Growing Pains; Whose Foot?; Island of the Small.
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
Issues From '10
A Peek Behind the Scenes
Features include: A Baby Mammoth's 40,000-Year Journey; Making Movie Dragons; Raise the bridge; The Food Stylist's Art; A Day at the Aquariu …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
Secrets of Alchemy
Features include: Secrets of the Alchemists; The Alchemist's Apprentice; What Are You Made Of?; Sneaky Tricks of the Alchemists; Scritch, Sw …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
In Other Words
Features include: A New Language-Invented by Kids!; Can Animals Talk?; Conversation with an Ape; Seeker of Knowledge; Words in Pictures; Wam …
$6.90  Suggested for ages 7-10
ASK July/August 2010
Features include: Which Nest is Best?; Build Your Dream Nest!; Stack, Dig, Spin, and Spit;Learning From the Masters; Ant Castles.
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
ASK May/June 2010
Features include: Inventing the Zipper; The Miracle Cure; Dr. Luke N. Fursumting, Archaeologist of the 41st Century; Great!-- But What Is It …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
ASK April 2010
Features include: The Emperor's Silent Army; Lost Sounds; Miss Me?; Mummy Makers; Still Lost.
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
Can We Save Them?
Features include: Saving Endangered Species; The Mystery of the Large Blue; Stop Thief!; What You Can Do; The Race to Save the Frogs.
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
Do You See What I See?
Features include: Extraordinary Eyes; Fun with Mirrors; Eyes on the Sky; Amazing Light!; Photo Firsts; Where's My invisibility Cloak?
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
In the Ice
Features include: The Mystery of the Frozen Man; Frozen Art; Making Ice; Diving Under the Ice; Cold Scientists.
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
Issues From '09
Searching for Pirates
Features include: A Pirate's Life for Me; Dive to a Pirate Ship; True or False?; Tales of a Pirate; The Real Pirate Code
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
Facing Fear
Features include: Fear on the Brain; Things That Go Bump in the Night; Facing Your Fears; Alien Invasion; Rap! Rap! Rap!
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
Eureka!
Features include:The Marvelous Antikythera Machine; Thinking with Archimedes; Clock Watching; Capturing a Castle; Siege Machines of Myth and …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
ASK JULY/AUGUST 2009
Features include: Nestor's Dock; The Puzzle of Pangaea; Earth, A Brief History; Ask a Pirate About Treasure; The Ring of Fire; Ask Jimmy and …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
Sticking Together
features include: Traveling with the Crowd; What Can a Computer Learn From a Wildebeest?; A Noodle of Names; All Together Now; The Tribe of …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
Scientists at Work
Features include: Kristin Laidre: Arctic Adventurer, You Study What? Strange But True Stories of Scientists in Action, Cool Tools, The Art o …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
Get Up and Dance
Features include: Dances with Animals, Three Dances Every Kid Should Know, How Do They Do That?, Get Up and Play!
$6.95  Suggested for ages 6-9
SO MANY MOONS
Features include: Making Moons, Life Without Gravity, Home Sweet Moon, Loony Moons, Build a Fizzy Rocket
$6.95  Suggested for ages 6-9
SKIN YOU'RE IN
Features include: The Skin You're In, Hand Gogh, Only Skin Deep-The Story of Skin Color, Loius Braille: Opening the Doors of Knowledge, The …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 6-9
Issues From '08
DINOSAUR ROUNDUP
Features include: Dino-Mite: Amazing, Unusual, and Unexpected Dinosaur Discoveries, New Dinosaurs: Wild, Wonderful, and Way Weird, To Fly wi …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 6-9
TOO SMALL TO SEE
Features include: The Search for the Small, Mini-Monsters, Dr. Luke N. Fursumting: Archaeologist of the 41st Century, Is Anybody Out There?
$6.95  Suggested for ages 6-9
WHAT'S FOR DINNER?
Features include: Life in the Food Chain, The Case of the Disappearing Bees, The First Olympics, Go Out and Play!, Say Cheese! The Science o …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 6-9
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 Technique …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 6-9
GLOBAL WARMING
Features include: Why is Everyone Worried About Global Warming?, Putting the Puzzle Together, Climate Clues, Diving to Rescue Coral Reefs, A …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 6-9
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?, …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 6-9
MAKING CLOTHES
Features include: A Riveting Idea, Clothes with an IW, A Farsighted Look at Glasses, Made to Fit, Garrett Morgan: Inventor Hero, Postcards f …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 6-9
NATURE'S POISONERS
Features include: Plants that Poison, On the Trail of the Snail, The Butterfiles' Strange Behavior, Meet Marvin and Friends, Is There a Geni …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 6-9
Issues From '07
WORKING TOGETHER
Features include: Perfect Partners, Blabbermouth, At Your Service!, Where's the Honey, Honey?, Garden Friends, The Whales of Twofold Bay
$6.95  Suggested for ages 6-9
IN THE DARK
Features include: Summer, Winter, Spring, Fall...and Night?, Why Darkness Falls, That Spooky Night, At Home in the Dark, Moonlight, Glow in …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
ERUDITIO
Features include: Scoops, Nestor's Dock, Ask Jimmy and the Bug, Marvin and Friends, Way Back to School, Why Practice, Lessons for Little One …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
CHALLENGE OF CARS
Features include: The Need for Speed, The Wheels of Invention, Are We There Yet?, Dream Cars, Without Gas
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
MAKING ART
Features include: Art is Everywhere, Crazy for Color, The Art of Faking, What's Behind "Nestor's Dock", Playing with Mud
$6.95  Suggested for ages 6-9
WATER, WONDER OF
Features include: Max and Kate, I Found a Stick, Here is the Ostrich, The Paw, The Dancing Bear, Mercy, Two in a Pocket, In the Park, Mop an …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
MIGRATION, PUZZLE OF
Features include: The Hows--and Wows--of Bird Migration, Risky Business, A Sloth's Migration?, How Small Can You Go?, Coming through the Clo …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 6-9
GETTING BETTER...STAYING WELL
Features include: The Mysterious Case of the Broad Street Pump, Can We Be Too Clean?, Take Your Medicine, Ouch!, The Dreaded School Physical …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
FROM TIGER TO TABBY
Features include: From Wild to Mild, Born to Hunt, Saving the Tigers, Big Cat, Little Cat, Tiger Tabby's Family Photos.
$6.95  Suggested for ages 6-9
Issues From '06
OCEAN MOTION
Features to include: exploring oceans for new sources of food, medicine, energy, and knowledge about climate change, deep ocean fish, how oc …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
FOOLED YOU!
Features to include: deceptive ravens, fireflies, camouflage, written all over your face, detecting lies
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
MUSICAL BRAIN
Features to include: Susan Milius article, "Face the Music - Why are we such a musical species - and does it matter?", bass sounds and emoti …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
ANIMALS, SO MANY KINDS
Features include: Searching for New Species, Ready...Set...Bioblitz!, Gone Forever, Welcome Back, Dodo, Return of the Cranes.
$6.95  Suggested for ages 6-9
MONEY: WHY CAN IT BUY THINGS?
Ever wonder why something that costs just 5.7 cents to make (that’s a one-dollar bill!) is worth so much? Money talks in this issue, reveali …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 6-9
HOW SMART ARE PLANTS?
Did you know that flowers didn’t always have petals? They evolved over time, just like humans did, finding better ways to pollinate and thri …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 6-9
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 o …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 6-9
DESERT, MYSTERIES OF
Unlock the secrets of the Sahara, where sand dunes have been known to sing and blue men roam. Find out why the largest desert in the world h …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
INSIDE YOUR BODY
Features include:Mysteries of Inner Space, Bone Shadows, An Inside Look, Girnd, Gulp, and Gurgle!
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
Issues From '05
LET'S BE FIRENDS
It’s good for people to have friends. Do animals have friends, too? How well do you know your friends? Fill out a friendship survey. Read ab …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
Our Restless Earth
Our restless earth just won’t sit still. Ask explores what causes natural phenomena like volcanoes and tsunamis. The kids of Nestor’s …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
EXPLORING OUR SOLAR SYSTEM
It’s a bird, it’s a plane… it’s Ask, in outer space! “Our Weird Neighborhood” explains how our solar system formed and what our neigh …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
FANTASTIC ISLANDS
Join Ask on a journey to Earth’s fantastic island habitats. Animals have adapted in strange ways to life on an island. Giant Galapago …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
BUGS
They were here first, they can fly, they're masters of disguise, they'll live anywhere, eat anything, and, they're organized! Listen to what …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
MARVELOUS MAPS
X marks the spot in this recent feature. If you need help figuring out where in the world you are, consult a road map, a treasure map, or pe …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
WILD ANIMALS STAY HEALTHY
Life in the wild can be tough; sick or wounded animals are easy targets for prey. Learn how animals protect themselves from predators and as …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
WALK OR ROLL
Ever wonder how many steps you take in a day? Or why our big toes are no longer opposable? How would you design a robot to walk? Care to tak …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
SEA MONSTERS
Magnificent marine monsters -- real and imaginary -- rule the waves in this buoyant edition. There's much to discover about giant squids, sh …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
Issues From '04
WHY DO WE EAT WHAT WE EAT?
It's all a matter of taste in this savory edition that includes instructions on how to host a Roman banquet and make dates with almonds and …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
SLEEP, GOOD NIGHT'S
We each spend about one-third of our lives sleeping! Everyone has experienced sleep cycles, the stages of dreaming, yawning, and the ubiquit …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
PAST, IMAGINING
What can we learn from bones? Find out in this engaging edition filled with dinosaurs, fossils, and the scientists who learn from them. This …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
DIRT, WHAT'S SO BAD ABOUT?
Dust hunters need look no further than this fascinating and revealing edition that covers everything from mud houses to dirt on Mars and the …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
PICTURE, GETTING THE
In this issue Ask features photographs and photographers -- Edward Curtis, Dorothea Lange, Matthew Brady, Jacques-Henri Lartigue -- from t …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
DOGS: WHAT MAKES THEM TICK?
Tales of dogs, pups, and even a dog "bot" bark up the right tree in this special edition featuring man's best friend. Whether the dogs in yo …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
SCIENTISTS IN ACTION
Discover why scientists risk life and limb in order to discover new forms of life on earth. Read strange but true stories of scientist who s …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
SURVIVING THE COLD
Make way for the giant mammals of the Ice Age from woolly mammoths and mastodons to saber tooth tigers and giant, short-faced bears. Enjoy s …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
MEET THE GERMS
Bacteria, viruses, fungi and protozoa, oh my! Ask answers questions about how to keep these tiny troublemakers from getting inside us and wh …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
Issues From '03
PLAY, POWER OF
It's playtime in this exhilarating edition that features some of the world's most adorable animals and how they learn to play -- and why. Po …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
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 …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
NATURE, BALANCE OF
Visit coral reefs and Koala Beach. See how ecosystems like Guam's tropical forest change and develop over time. Interested in butterflies' s …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
PAST, SEARCHING FOR THE
Dig into this archaeological issue one layer at a time. Learn about the mystery of the "Iceman," search for the lost palace of Cleopatra, ma …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
HORSES, HOW WE BECAME FRIENDS WITH
Mongol soldiers on horseback thundering across the steppes, herds of sturdy ponies, horse books, and horse history from centaurs to guide po …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
WHO'S THE SPY
Join Ask for a dangerous game of espionage in this hush-hush issue that reveals some clever methods for keeping secrets. Create your own cip …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
Issues From '02
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 sportin …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
INVENTORS AT PLAY
Join in the fun with this invention convention! Read about inventors at play, weird tales from the Inventors' Hall of Fame, and a true story …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
EYES, EXTRAORDINARY
The "eyes" have it in this fascinating exploration of how people and animals see the world. Have fun with optical illusions, create your own …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
NEW WORLDS, EXPLORING
Explore new worlds from deep within the earth to the outer reaches of space in this thrilling issue. Join in the exploits of Marco Polo, exp …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
ANIMALS, CAN WE TALK WITH THE
Everybody's talking about Ask's premier issue, "Can We Talk With the Animals?"! Discover the special ways birds, bees, fish and animals, lar …
$6.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
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