The Green Kingdom

Cossack asparagus

Cattails grow in marshes, on riverbanks, and near water-filled ditches. Their flowers become fuzzy, brown rods that look and feel like the tip of a cat’s tail. Cattail roots are good to eat. The…

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About Animals

Chirp, creak, buzz

Z eet-zeet-zeet! Cree-cree-cree! Ch-ch-ch-ch-urrrrr ! Those are some of the insect noises you can hear on a hot summer night. Most of the chirps, creaks, and buzzes you hear are made by crickets,…

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Mathemagic

The minus mystery

> Mildred Minuette wrote mystery stories. Her books were very popular. > In fact, they were so popular that her fans showed up at all hours of > the day and night, begging for autographs. Mildred was…

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