> France In France, a group called the Parliament makes the laws. Each family has rules. Parents make them. Brothers and sisters sometimes get a chance to decide what the rules will be. Once the...
Living Together
What is the first thing you must do before you can play a new game? You must learn the rules. Rules let the players know what to do. If all the players played the game their own way, the game would...
All kinds of crabs
Someone who is grouchy is often called a \"crab." That doesn't seem fair to the real crabs. There's no reason to think that any of them are grouchy! In fact, they're a big family with many odd and...
The gawky lobster
Many people think that lobsters are bright red. That's because they've only seen cooked lobsters. Cooking turns them red. But live lobsters are greenish, or bluish, or brownish. A lobster is a...
Tooth and claw
The sun is setting on the cactus and sagebrush of a desert in North America. A badger is busily digging beside a bush. Along comes a coyote. It sees the badger and licks its lips with a long, pink...
This bird
This is a looking page. What do you see when you look at this blue jay? Its wings are stretched out. The feathers overlap. Because they overlap, the feathers catch and hold the air. They help the...