<DIV><P>Fact-filled, fun-filled, as interesting to parents as it is to kids, the <I>How Come?</I> series is the trusted source for lively, clear answers to kids’ science queries. Now the best questions and answers from all three books—<I>How Come?</I>; <I>How Come? Planet Earth</I>; and <I>How Come? In the Neighborhood</I>—have been revised, updated, freshly illustrated in full color, supplemented with twenty completely new questions, and combined into one bigger, better volume. <BR /><BR /><I>How Come?</I> explains, in fascinating detail, more than 200 mysteries and phenomena in the world around us. These are the questions that pique kids’ curiosity—and stump parents.<BR /><BR /><I>When it rains, does running (rather than walking) to the nearest shelter really keep you any drier?</I><BR /><BR /><I> How can a stone skip across a pond (instead of sink)?</I><BR /><BR /><I> If the Earth is spinning, why can’t we feel it? Why don’t we fly off?</I><BR /><BR /><I> Why do elephants have trunks?</I><BR /><BR /> And the all-time classic, <I>Why is the sky blue?</I> (Sunlight has a hidden rainbow of colors, and air molecules scatter blues the most—sending bright blue light down to Earth.)<BR /><BR /> The text is clearly written, engaging, and accessible. It’s for every kid who wants to know—and every grown-up who simply doesn’t know.</P></DIV>