Childcraft
THE HOW AND WHY LIBRARY
VOLUME 8
About Us
Who Are We?
We’re all the people in the world. We live in cities or villages, in deserts, on mountains, and on islands in the seas. Wherever we are, we make homes to live in and find work to do. We come in…
Where Did We Come From?
How did the world begin? Where did we come from? People have been puzzling over questions like these for thousands of years. The Bible tells the myth of the Creation of the world in the Book of…
Brothers and Sisters, Moms and Dads
What is a family? To the ancient Greeks, it was a mother, father, and their children, living together in the same house. That’s what the word “family” has meant to many people for thousands of…
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Acknowledgments
The publishers of Childcraft— The How and Why Library gratefully
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organizations for permission to use copyrighted illustrations appearing
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