If you climb a certain hill in central Mexico, you will find a town that silver helped build. The town is Taxco koh). Silver from the rich mines of Taxco helped pay for the red- tiled roofs, the...
Beads and bracelets
In the steamy forests of Brazil, the Indians wear hardly any clothes---or no clothes at all. But they love to dress up. How do they do it? They wear lots of jewelry. But their jewelry isn't the kind...
The money minerals
Gold is a bright-yellow metal that looks like sunlight turned to stone. Silver is a pale-gray metal that looks like frozen moonlight. These two minerals are so beautiful and hard to find that people...
Poems | Toad’s Song
from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame > The Lion > > by Jack Prelutsky "The world has held great Heroes, As history-books have showed; But never a name to go down to fame Compared...
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With silver bells and cockleshells, And pretty maids all in a row.