History of fun stuff

"Did you know that for thousands of year chocolate was only available as a drink and not a sold candy? Or that soldiers in the Revolutionary War were given rations of hot chocolate? Now you can become a History of Fun Stuff Expert on the history of hot chocolate!"--back cover.

A fact-filled reader shares engaging facts about telephones, from inventor Alexander Graham Bell's preference that answerers say "ahoy" to the higher power of today's smartphones compared to the first moon landing computers. --Publisher

Learn about the history of video games in this non-fiction level three reader. In this book readers will learn all about how video games came to be, from Pong to Pac-Man and everything in between!

"Blast off into a galaxy full of fun with this fact-tastic nonfiction Level 3 Ready-to-Read, part of a series about the history of fun stuff!"--

"Now beginning readers can learn all about Charles M. Schulz's iconic comic strips, beloved characters, and the cartoons and movies in this nonfiction Level 3 Ready-to-Read about the history of the Peanuts Gang! Did you know that many of the characters in A Charlie Brown Christmas were voiced by regular kids from the producer's neighborhood? Or that Charles M. Schulz had his first sketch published at age fourteen in the local newspaper's "Ripley's...