Alvin Silverstein

What causes food poisoning? Is it preventable? What is the best way to treat it? This book provides information on the symptoms, remedies, and preemptive measures that can be taken to protect yourself from foodborne diseases such as E. coli, botulism, and salmonella.

Did your readers know that kids usually get more bug bites than adults? It's true. Readers find out why people are so appealing to bugs, and how to prevent and treat bites and stings from a variety of insects and animals.

Do your readers have what it takes to care for a rat? Authors Alvin and Virginia Silverstein, and Laura Silverstein Nunn explore the history of this unusual pet and the necessary food, cages, and toys to keep this pet safe and happy.

Readers will learn fun and yucky science facts about diseases of the past and present. Have you ever heard of "werewolf syndrome?" What about worms that can live in your stomach? The award-winning Silverstein writing trio brings their scientific knowledge and engaging writing skills to this fun volume.

Grade-schoolers learn how ants, snails, slugs, beetles, earthworms, spiders, and other subterranean creatures live, breed, interact, move about, defend themselves, and more.

This inexpensive volume showcases an array of curious creatures: a blob-like amoeba; a slipper-shaped paramecium and its mortal enemy, the suctorian; and many others. The authors recount the feeding, reproductive, and defensive strategies employed by these animals in easy-to-understand language that opens the door to a wonderful world of discovery. 37 illustrations.