Thanon felt as if there were a thousand butterflies in his stomach. This would be his first day of school. He was now 8 years old, and in Thailand, where Thanon lives, this is when children start...
First lessons
Ketwago and his family live in the Kalahari Desert in southern Africa. They belong to a group of people known as Bushmen. Most Bushmen do not raise animals or plants for food. Instead, the men and...
How Do You Know?
Ketwago was learning to hunt. Pulling his bowstring tighter, he moved slowly forward. "Stoop as low as you can," said his father from behind him. "When we stoop over, the antelopes think we are...
Pen pals
What do children in other lands look like? What do they like to eat? What games do they like to play? Where do they go to school? What kinds of clothes do they wear? You can find the answers to these...
A window on the world
Long ago, people didn't get much news. They never even knew what happened a few miles away---unless someone who had been there told them. That was the only way to get news---someone had to tell you....
Drum talk
> "Listen!" > > The two men stopped, every sense alert to the world around them. The > air was filled with sound---birds screeching, monkeys chattering. But > that was as it should be. The jungle is...
What’s new?
What's the latest news? Did our team win yesterday? Will it rain tomorrow? Everyone wants to know what's happening. We're curious about things that go on everywhere. Thanks to the invention of...
Put it in writing
When you do your homework or write a letter to a friend, the marks you make on the paper stand for the sounds you make when you talk. Writing is a way of turning sounds into marks that fit...
No words, just pictures!
In Afghanistan, there are roads for cars and trucks and roads for camels and donkeys. Even if a driver is from another country, he can tell which road is which by the picture signs. Picture signs...
We all make different sounds
When a dog barks, we all hear the same sound. But a French boy says that his dog is saying "gnaf-gnaf!" A German girl says her dog is saying "wau-wau!" And Japanese children say that their dogs are...
