Sharing pictures and stories from Childcraft is an easy and natural way to introduce a young child to each volume of the set. These pages offer you a choice of activities for exploring each volume of...
Books to Read
If you enjoy reading about how your body works and what makes you like and different from other people, look for these and other books in your school and public libraries. Ages 5 to 8 All About Me...
Festival of freedom
Passover Long ago, the Jewish people were slaves in Egypt. God knew that the Jews longed to be free. To help the Jews, He chose one of them, a man named Moses. God appeared to Moses and told him...
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...
The first man-made food
It is the oldest of all foods made by man. It comes in all shapes and sizes. It is called "the staff of life." More people eat it than any other kind of food. In the United States, its name is a...
True Tales and Tall Tales
Have you ever read a story in which the hero was a plant? In Scotland, the people tell a story about how thistle plants saved a king. Have you ever heard about a plant people hunt for with pigs? Or...
How Does Your Garden Grow?
They can't see their pictures, they can't read the label--- the seeds in a package--- so how are they able to know if they're daisies or greens for the table? It sounds like a fancy, it sounds like...
The baker’s plant
> yeast plants > > Yeast plants are growing in the dough this baker is mixing. The small > photo shows how growing yeast cells look under a microscope. If it weren't for a plant called yeast, we...
Plants that grow on bread and cheese
> Some molds make the cheese they grow in taste better. When a piece of bread gets old, it may become covered with pale, powdery spots. Each spot is a sort of "forest" of tiny, tiny plants called...
Happy Thought
by Robert Louis Stevenson The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. Question author unknown Do you love me Or do you not? You told me once But I...
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