Can a lake vanish? A few minutes ago you saw cool water shimmering just up the road ahead of the car. But now all you see is miles of hot paved highway. Where is the lake? The disappearing lake is a...
A HIGHWAY OVER WATER
There is a highway in Louisiana that you can ride on for 24 miles (39 kilometers) and see nothing but water on both sides. It goes right across the middle of Lake Pontchartrain, the largest lake in...
WHERE NATURE GETS IN THE WAY
What happens when you want to get to the other side of a mountain, when you can't climb it? How do you get to the other side of a lake or a river, when you don't have a boat? How do you get a boat...
LAKE IN A CRATER
Crater Lake in Oregon is so big it looks like a bathtub for a giant. The clear, blue water fills the crater of a volcano named Mount Mazama. Scientists say that Mount Mazama exploded thousands of...
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...
Holes full of water
A lake is the exact opposite of an island. An island is a piece of land that has water all around it. A lake, or a pond, is water that has land all around it. Some of the places we call seas, such as...
How the Turtle Saved His Own Life
a Jataka Tale from India retold by Ellen C. Babbitt A king once had a lake made in the courtyard for the young princes to play in. They swam about in it, and sailed their boats and rafts on it. One...
