Oh! look at the moon, She is shining up there; Oh! mother, she looks Like a lamp in the air. Last week she was smaller And shaped like a bow; But now she's grown bigger, And round as an 0. ...
Why the moon shines
Why does the moon shine? It isn't a ball of hot, glowing gas, like the sun. It's a ball of cold, hard rock. How can rock give off light? The answer to that may surprise you. The moon is like a giant...
How the sun was born
Most scientists think our sun began as an immense cloud of gas and dust. Stars that are growing old often shoot out enormous clouds of gas and dust. The gas and dust are made up of all kinds of...
The bright giant
It's a Fact About 1,300,000 planets the size of earth could be packed into the sun. Millions of miles (kilometers) out in space there is a gigantic ball of hot, glowing gas we call the sun. The...
How was the earth born?
Why is the earth shaped like a ball? Why isn't it shaped like a block? Or why isn't it round and flat, like a pie? Why does it spin? And why does it whirl around and around the sun? Most scientists...
Around and around the sun
The earth doesn't just spin---it also moves through space. Right this very moment, the earth is rushing through space at tremendous speed---more than 66,000 miles (106,000 kilometers) an hour. It...
The spinning world
You may think our world, the earth, is standing still. But it isn't. The earth is spinning around and around, like a huge top. Push a stick through a ball of clay and then twirl the stick. The clay...
An island in space
We live on an island. An island in space! An island is a piece of land with water all around it. The earth is a giant ball of rock and metal with space all around it. A ball of rock and metal such...
Casey at the Bat
by Ernest Lawrence Thayer > The outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville nine that day; > > The score stood four to two, with but one inning more to play; > > And so, when Cooney died at first,...
The New Kid
by Mike Makley A few of the kids and their parents say they don't believe that the new kid should play But she's good as me, Dutch, PeeWee, or Earl, so we don't care that the new kid's a girl. by...