Before Samuel Clemens became a famous author, he enjoyed one of the longest childhoods in history. Mark Twain’s adventures as a youth influenced his entire life and figured prominently in his writing.
Lasky and photographer Christopher Knight follow primatologist Alison Jolly and a group of endangered lemurs on the island of Madagascar.
Twelve-year-old Zippy, a Jewish immigrant from Russia, tells of the first eighteen months of her family's life on the Lower East Side of New York City in 1903-1904.
A photographic depiction of one the few true migratory butterflies, which journey from the coast of Maine to the forests of El Rosario, Mexico, and Pacific Grove, California, where they gather by the millions to winter.
Minna and Harriet, two proper Boston ladies of the 1890s, are appalled when the fashion for feathers on ladies' hats gets even more extreme, with whole birds perched on top. They soon begin a conservation movement that ultimately succeeds in passing laws protecting many birds.
Lasky and photographer Chistopher Knight offer an unprecedented glimpse into the rainforest canopy as they trail scientist Meg Lowman.
Twelve-year-old Mem presents a diary account of the trip she and her family made on the Mayflower in 1620 and their first year in the New World.
Fourteen-year-old Harper, an avid reader of fantasy who must hide her books from her fundamentalist parents, comes to realize that their public promotion of censorship threatens her freedom to make her own choices.
Lasky and photographer Christopher Knight capture the spirit of los Dias de Muertos, the Days of the Dead, Mexico's celebration that commemorates ancestors.
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