NELSON MANDELA
Celebrate Nelson Mandela`s 90th birthday by learning about this extraordinary leader! This warrior f … (more info)
Paperback - $5.95
Cobblestone & Cricket

Ask - 9 issues

ASK® encourages young readers to explore the world with the greatest inventors, artists, thinkers, and scientists of the past and present, discovering how the ideas that shaped our lives were formed. Informative articles are complemented by amazing pictures, puzzles, and activities of all kinds, plus a cast of characters that makes kids laugh while digging deep into the issue’s theme.

  • Surprises in every issue
  • Serial stories with fun characters
  • Articles by the best children's writers
"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
Teacher's Guides | Interactive Sample

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

$33.95  qty:

Available Back Issues

Issues From '08
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 …
$5.95  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 …
$5.97  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?, …
$5.97  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 …
$5.97  Suggested for ages 6-9
JANUARY ISSUE 2008 ASK
Features include: Plants that Poison, On the Trail of the Snail, The Butterfiles' Strange Behavior, Meet Marvin and Friends, Is There a Geni …
$5.95  Suggested for ages 6-9
Issues From '07
NOVEMBER 2007 ISSUE ASK
Features include: Perfect Partners, Blabbermouth, At Your Service!, Where's the Honey, Honey?, Garden Friends, The Whales of Twofold Bay
$5.97  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 …
$5.97  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 …
$5.97  Suggested for ages 7-10
THE CHALLENGE OF CARS
Features include: The Need for Speed, The Wheels of Invention, Are We There Yet?, Dream Cars, Without Gas
$5.97  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
$5.97  Suggested for ages 6-9
THE WONDER OF WATER
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 …
$5.97  Suggested for ages 7-10
THE PUZZLE OF MIGRATION
Features include: The Hows--and Wows--of Bird Migration, Risky Business, A Sloth's Migration?, How Small Can You Go?, Coming through the Clo …
$5.97  Suggested for ages 6-9
Issues From '07
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.
$5.95  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 …
$5.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
FOOLED YOU!
Features to include: deceptive ravens, fireflies, camouflage, written all over your face, detecting lies
$5.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
Do You Have a 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 …
$5.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
SO MANY KINDS OF ANIMALS
Features include: Searching for New Species, Ready...Set...Bioblitz!, Gone Forever, Welcome Back, Dodo, Return of the Cranes.
$5.95  Suggested for ages 6-9
WHY CAN MONEY 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 …
$5.95  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 …
$5.95  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 …
$5.95  Suggested for ages 6-9
MYSTERIES OF THE DESERT
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 …
$5.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
INSIDE YOUR BODY
Features include:Mysteries of Inner Space, Bone Shadows, An Inside Look, Girnd, Gulp, and Gurgle!
$5.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
Issues From '05
Let's Be Friends
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 …
$5.95  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 …
$5.95  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 …
$5.95  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 …
$5.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
Who Loves 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 …
$5.95  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 …
$5.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
How Do 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 …
$5.95  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 …
$5.95  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 …
$5.95  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 …
$5.95  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 …
$5.95  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 …
$5.95  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 …
$5.95  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 …
$5.95  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 …
$5.95  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 …
$5.95  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 …
$5.95  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 …
$5.95  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 …
$5.95  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 …
$5.95  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 …
$5.95  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 …
$5.95  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 …
$5.95  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 …
$5.95  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 …
$5.95  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 …
$5.95  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 …
$5.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
EXPLORING NEW WORLDS
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 …
$5.95  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 …
$5.95  Suggested for ages 7-10
Suggested Reading
Odyssey - 9 issues
Science explains and enhances everything we do. Each month, ODYSSEYTM
48 pgs.  $33.95
Cobblestone - 9 issues
Designed to meet curriculum standards for history/social science while still being a lively and ente…
48 pgs.  $33.95
Cicada - 6 issues
CICADA® is the literary magazine for teenagers who appreciate terri…
48 pgs.  $33.95
Site MapAbout UsAwards
Home   Back   Print
Cobblestone Publishing, Division of Carus Publishing Company

30 Grove Street, Suite C, Peterborough, NH 03458
1-800-821-0115 • FAX: 603-924-7380
©2005 Cobblestone Publishing | Privacy Policy | Terms and Conditions | Link To Us

Updated: 8/1/08 10:12 am
Log In