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...
World and Space
The volume explores earth—what it is, how it came to be, how it makes life possible; weather; planets, stars, galaxies; maps, globes, compasses; and the work of people who study the world and space.
The Foolish, Timid Rabbit
a Jataka Tale from India retold by Ellen C. Babbitt Once upon a time, a Rabbit was asleep under a palmtree. All at once he woke up, and thought: "What if the world should break up! What then would...
