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I make believe

I think of things I know and see. I also think of things as they might be. Suppose I write a poem about an animal, half­elephant and half-giraffe. Shall I call it an elephaffe? How would it look?...

Long roads

I like to travel with my family. I go to the gas station with my mother. The garage man checks our car for safety. We go back home and I sit on top of a big suitcase so Dad can close it. And then...

My world stretches out

When I leave my house, my world stretches out around me. People are in my world. I like to know what they are doing, so I walk around my block. I smell cookies baking. I hear boys and girls...

Energy from the sun

Someday you may live in a house that keeps itself warm with a tankful of \"sunshine"--- even on cloudy days and chilly nights. Instead of turning on a furnace, you'll use saved-up heat from the sun. ...

A HOUSE FOR SONGS

> Opera lovers watch an opera performed at La Scala Opera House. La Scala in Milan, Italy, is a house built for singing---an opera house. It is built on the same ground where the Church of Santa...

PULLED OUT OF A SLUM

When Jane Addams turned Hull House in Chicago into a settle­ment house, it was because of a slum. She wanted a place where the poor people of the neighborhood could come for help. So she rented an...

LIVE UNDERWATER?

> These men lived in Starfish House at the bottom of the Bed Sea. You'd be surprised to look out your window and see a parrot fish, a jellyfish, or a mackerel swim by. But seeing fish outside his...