"The ground is hot---almost hot enough to burn my feet! It's been getting hotter every day." That's what a farmer named Dionisio Pulido thought as he plowed his cornfield near Paricutin, Mexico. ...
Eye-catching walls
There is a beautiful village about 30 miles from the city of Pretoria, South Africa. It stands in the middle of wild country called the bush. In the village, the people of the Ndebele tribe live in...
Drum talk
> "Listen!" > > The two men stopped, every sense alert to the world around them. The > air was filled with sound---birds screeching, monkeys chattering. But > that was as it should be. The jungle is...
Many families – one house
In most villages around the world, you'll find lots of houses. But on the island of Borneo, a Dyak village may have only one house! That's because the house is a village all by itself! A Dyak house,...
The Boy Who Became a Wizard
from A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin Earthsea is an imaginary world made up entirely of islands. On one of these, the island of Gont, lives the boy Duny. Duny longs to be a mage, or...