Philippines A dugout canoe called a banca is used as a ferryboat. It takes passengers across a river in the Philippines. "iEn que puedo servirle?" the guard asked. "May maitutulong ba ako?" the...
Flood!
> The water is rising! The river is spreading into the streets of the > town! It's a flood! > > Rivers often cause floods because of too much rain or the sudden > melting of lots of ice and snow. A...
Where a river meets the sea
What has its head at one end and its mouth at the other end? A river! The place where a river begins is called its head. And the place where it comes to an end, where it flows into a lake or the...
The story of a river
A river may begin as a trickle of melting snow, high on a mountaintop. It may begin as a trickle of underground water, bubbling out from under a rock on a mountainside. The trickle winds down the...
Where the sea meets the land
Wherever the sea touches land, whether it's the edge of a tiny island or the coast of a continent, there is almost always a beach. A beach is a stretch of sand, pebbles, or mud. The sea makes...
The Monkey and the Crocodile
a Jataka Tale from India retold by Ellen C. Babbitt A Monkey lived in a great tree on a river bank. In the river there were many Crocodiles. A Crocodile watched the Monkeys for a long time, and one...