The Swiss Family Robinson tells of the adventures of a family that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island. The story was made up more than 180 years ago by a real Swiss family. They imagined they...
NO CARS ALLOWED
There's an island in the United States between Lake Huron and Lake Michigan that's still in the horse and buggy days. The most important traffic law on Mackinac Island is People travel by horse or...
HONG KONG ISLAND GARDEN
Up, up, up you go in a cable car for a breathtaking ride to Victoria Peak. That's the highest point on Hong Kong island, off the south coast of China. From the cable-car stop, you can travel by bus...
THE STATUE OF LIBERTY
One of the largest statues ever made was built in France. It was shipped across the Atlantic Ocean as a gift to the people of the United States. Most people call it the Statue of Liberty, but that's...
KANGAROO ISLAND
> A visitor to Flinders Chase, a national wildlife reserve on Kangaroo > Island, feeds some small kangaroos. If you want to...
A SNOWLAND CALLED GREENLAND
When the Norseman, Eric the Red, discovered a large island in the Atlantic Ocean, he thought if he gave it a good name people would want to move there. So he named the island Greenland. Greenland...
LAKE IN THE SKY
If you were an Uru, you'd be an Indian. And you'd live on an island---but not just any kind of an island. It would be an island that you, yourself, would make of bundles of reeds. You'd float your...
What’s cooking?
In China, Wang Kow watches his mother make dinner. She pours some peanut oil into a big, round, metal bowl called a wok. The wok sits on top of a small charcoal stove. As the oil gets hot, it begins...
Meet the mollusks
Snails belong to a group of animals called mollusks. Mollusks have soft bodies with no bones. Some mollusks such as snails, clams, oysters, and scallops have outer shells for protection. Slugs,...
It’s an Amphibian
The European green toad is an amphibian. Did you ever see a big, fat frog? A frog is one of the animals that lives in water when it is a baby and on land when it grows up. We call these animals...
