America's best-selling annual publication is also the most beloved. A reference book that reads like a magazine, the Almanac contains ''everything under the Sun, including the Moon''--facts, feature articles, and advice that are ''useful, with a pleasant degree of humor.'' The 2013 edition, which marks the publication's 221st anniversary, will feature - weather predictions for every day and climatic trends for each season, plus hints of how a low sunspot cycle could influence conditions in the coming years - the most accurate astronomical data in the solar system, with best-viewing recommendations for every month - safe and easy home remedies for each season's most common--and uncomfortable--aches and ailments - fail-safe gardening tips to ensure a hefty harvest, ideas for using vegetable plants as ornamentals, plus gardening by the Moon - delicious recipes for homebaked cakes, cookies, and pies; plus readers' best bacon dishes - amusing and enlightening articles on raising children, kisses, and why pets bite (and how to stop them)and much, much more! Added value this year: - 80 full-color pages - full-color national weather maps of winter and summer forecasts