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Acknowledgments
“Bubbles” by Deborah Underwood from Ladybug, Magazine for Young Children Reprinted by permission of Carus Publishing
Company, Cricket Magazine Group.
“The Caterpillar” by Douglas Florian Copyright © 1994. Used by permission.
“Hamster Hide-and-Seek” by Avis Harley Text Copyright © 2011. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
“Loose and Limber” from WHISKERS AND RHYMES by Arnold Lobel. Text Copyright © 1985 by Arnold Lobel. Reprinted by
permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
“Cloud Parade” by Kristen M. Camiolo from Ladybug, Magazine for Young Children. Reprinted by permission Carus Publishing
Company, Cricket Magazine Group.
“Sunflakes” from COUNTRY PIE by Frank Asch. Text Copyright © 1979 by Frank Asch. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins
Publishers.
“Sarah Enters a Painting” by Susan Katz. Reprinted with the permission of Simon and Schuster Children’s Publishing Division.
From the autograph album by Lillian Morrison Copyright © 1960 by The Owens Publishing Company. Used by permission of
Marian Reiner for the Author.

Photography Credits
Book Cover: (c) David Young-Wolff/Alamy; (tr) PhotoLink/Getty Images

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ISBN: 978-0-02-207793-8
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Retell
Photographs and Captions
Context Clues

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Main Idea and Details
Charts
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Main Idea and Details
Maps
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Main Idea and Details
Signs and Symbols
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Compare and Contrast
Diagrams
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Author’s Purpose
Charts
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Author’s Purpose
Charts
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Retell
Photographs and Captions
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Main Idea and Details
Lists
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Compare and Contrast
Diagrams
Context Clues

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Author’s Purpose
Photographs and Captions
Context Clues

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Compare and Contrast
Signs and Symbols
Context Clues

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Main Idea and Details
Diagrams
Context Clues

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Main Idea and Details
Photographs and Captions
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Main Idea and Details
Maps
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Contents
Issue 1
A Green
School

See the otter?

Retell • Context Clues • Photographs and

Captions

(c) Peter Weimann/Animals Animals - Earth Scenes; (tr) Bridget Barrett

It lives at the pond.
So do other animals.

It’s a
Wet and Dry
World!

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Pond Life .......................................................... 6
Earth Helpers ................................................... 8
Leave it to Beavers DIAGRAMS ......................... 10

Issue 2

Main Idea and Details • Context Clues • Maps
World
Water Day

(c) Chloe/Galbe.com; (tr) Stockdisc/PunchStock

Getting over the Hump .................................. 12
Not a Drop to Drink........................................ 14
Bubbles POETRY ............................................... 16

Many children in Africa had
no books. Camels brought
the books to the children!

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Issue 3

Compare and Contrast • Context Clues
• Diagrams

Helping
Out in
the Park

L ADY BUGS
GROW UP
(c) Yves Lanceau/NHPA; (tr) NPS

These big bugs
begin as eggs.
Then they change.

Find out how!

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A Ladybug’s Life ............................................. 18
Giving Time for the Common Good ............. 20
The Caterpillar POETRY .................................. 22

Issue 4

Author’s Purpose • Context Clues • Charts

(c) Steve Satushek/Riser/Getty Images; (tr) Jorge Uzon/Corbis

Colorful
Veggies!

Be Happy and Healthy!
Run, play, and eat well. You will
flip for this healthy way of life!

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Eat Well, Feel Well ........................................ 24
Orange You Glad? ......................................... 26
Climb the Pyramid DIAGRAMS ......................... 28


Issue 5

Main Idea and Details • Context Clues • Lists

(c) DLILLC/Corbis; (tr) Jim West

Good
Citizens

Sharing with Others ...................................... 30
Thanks, Mom and Dad .................................. 32
Hamster Hide-and-Seek POETRY .................... 34

Elephant families are close.
So are other animal families.

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Issue 6

Author’s Purpose • Context Clues
• Photographs and Captions

Rain
Forest
Gifts

Welcome
(c) Kevin Schafer/Corbis; (tr) Linny Morris Cunningham/Jupiter Images

to the

Rain Forest
The rain forest is
a colorful place.
Explore it with us.

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The Forest Roof ............................................. 36
Rain Forests: From Soup to Nuts .................. 38
Life in the Rain Forest DIAGRAMS ................... 40

Issue 7

Main Idea and Details • Context Clues
• Diagrams

(c) Jorge Gonzalez/The Field Museum; (tr) image broker/Alamy

Make
a Move

Found!

Scientists found bones of a dinosaur.
It may have looked like this.

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Digging for Bones ......................................... 42
Animals on the Move .................................... 44
Loose and Limber POETRY .............................. 46

Issue 8

Main Idea and Details • Context Clues • Maps

(c) Dennis MacDonald/PhotoEdit; (tr) David Ball/Corbis

Windy
Places

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Wind makes things move.
It fills sails and pushes a big
boat. What else can it do?

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Wow! Wind Works! ...................................... 48
Blow, Wind, Blow! ........................................ 50
Cloud Parade POETRY ..................................... 52


Issue 9

Main Idea and Details • Context Clues
• Charts

(c) Gerard Lacz/FLPA/Bruce Coleman; (tr) Image Source/Getty Images

Water
Mystery

See Me in t h e S ea !

I am a dolphin.
I see many animals in the ocean.
Meet some of them!

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Sunny Side Up................................................ 54
Where Does the Water Go? .......................... 56
Sunflakes POETRY ........................................... 58

Issue 10

(c) David Grubbs, Billings Gazette/Wide World Photos/AP Images; (tr) Murray, Patti/Animals Animals - Earth Scenes

What Is
for Dinner?

Wise
as an

Owl
This is an owl. It is a bird. “Whoo,”
it says. Find out more inside!

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Main Idea and Details • Context Clues
• Signs and Symbols

Whoo’s a Wonderful Bird? ........................... 60
Food for Whoo? ............................................ 62
Growing and Changing CHARTS ..................... 64

Issue 11

Author’s Purpose • Context Clues • Charts
American
Symbols

(c) Juice Images Limited/Alamy; (tr) Adam Jones/Getty Images

Best
of the

U.S.

Prize Pets........................................................ 66
All for America! ............................................. 68
Lady Liberty DIAGRAMS ................................... 70

For many people, the family
dog is always “the best.”

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Issue 12

(c) Tom Stewart/Corbis; (tr) Dennis Brack/Black Star/Newscom

Dollars
and Cents

This boy made money selling
lemonade. What should he do
with the money?

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Retell • Context Clues • Photographs and
Captions

Money Goes Around ..................................... 72
How Money Is Made ..................................... 74
U.S. Coins CHARTS ............................................ 76


Issue 13

(c) NASA; (tr) FPG/Getty Images

Now
and Then

Read about the
shuttle’s trip.

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Compare and Contrast • Context Clues
• Diagrams

Things Change .............................................. 78
What a Trip! .................................................. 80
The Space Shuttle DIAGRAMS ......................... 82

Issue 14

Compare and Contrast • Context Clues
• Signs and Symbols

Amazing
Museums

History
Weaver

Wild About Museums ................................... 84
A Basket Maker ............................................. 86
Sarah Enters a Painting POETRY ..................... 88

(c) James Poulson/Daily Sitka Sentinel; (tr) Richard Cummins/Corbis

Teri Rofkar makes
baskets. So do many
Native Americans.

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Issue 15
It’s
Sports Time!

Being a

(c) Tim Shaffer/Reuters/Corbis; (tr) Brian Bahr/Getty Images

Baseball

Star

Layson Aliviado played in the
Little League World Series.

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Main Idea and Details • Context Clues
• Photographs and Captions

Get Ready, Get Set, Go! ................................ 90
Play Ball! ........................................................ 92
From the autograph album POETRY .............. 94


A Green
School

See the otter?

(c) Peter Weimann/Animals Animals - Earth Scenes; (tr) Bridget Barrett

It lives at the pond.
So do other animals.

It’s a
Wet and Dry

World!


Pond Life
Ponds are places to row a boat or to swim.
We can hike near them. We can fish in
them. Ponds are also homes for many
animals. They live in and out of the water.

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Ron Sanford/Photo Researchers

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Kent Foster/Photo Researchers

In the afternoon,
a swan swims.
Its long neck ducks
under the water.
This mom finds
plants for its babies
to eat.

Gary Meszaros/Photo Researchers

In the morning, a dragonfly
flies in the air. It flies over
the pond and looks for

bugs to eat.

In the evening,
a raccoon races.
It stays up at night.
It finds plants and
animals to eat.


Gay Bumgarner/Alamy

Animals and plants live in, on, and by
the pond. This heron eats bugs and frogs.
It can trap a bug as the bug creeps on a
big lily pad. The pond is a good place to
find food.
neck that stretches
out or tucks in

webbed feet

hard, flat shell
Karen Beckhardt

Issue 1

•7


Goodwillie School is in Michigan. It is a

green school. No, it is not painted green!
Kids work together to help the environment.

Kids then go outside.
Children in green schools
recycle glass and plastic
bottles after lunch. By
doing this, new products
can then be made.

Courtesy Goodwillie Environmental School

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Bridget Barrett

Kids reuse and recycle.
Boys and girls do not waste
things here. During class,
they find ways to reuse
things. Brett recycles a
plastic bag to make a kite.


Bridget Barrett

Children learn about plants and
animals. After class, they go to the

park. They discuss, or talk about,
what they see.

David Coulson

A green school is good for Earth.
Green schools use much less power
and light than other schools. Green
schools can save money. The money
that is saved can help the school.
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A beaver likes to build a dam in a river.
How does it do this?
First, it puts sticks at the very bottom of
the river. Then, the beaver adds stones and
leaves. Soon, the dam blocks the river and
makes a pond. The beaver builds a house,
or a lodge, in the pond.
Here is a picture of a pond. It shows where
a beaver lives.

(c) Robert Glusic/Getty Images; (b) Mike Maydak

lodge
den

entrance

food

dam
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(c) Chloe/Galbe.com; (tr) Stockdisc/PunchStock

World
Water Day

Ma
Many
any
a
ny children in Africa had
o books. Camels brought
no
the books to the children!


Garissa is a remote, or faraway, village in the
desert in Kenya. Kenya is a country in Africa.
Children who live near Garissa do not have
any books to read. People all over the world
have given books to a special library for
these children.
Cedric Galbe/Galbe.com

The Desert Express
Camels live in this sandy
part of Kenya. They can
carry up to 400 pounds
of books on their backs.
People, on the other hand,
can’t carry that many!

Sally and Richard Greenhill/Alamy

Check Out the Camels
Now camels carry books to
towns near Garissa. Where
you live, there are libraries.
People can get to a library
by walking or taking cars,
buses, or trains.
↑ Children in Texas take

out library books.

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Cedric Galbe/Galbe.com

Books Bring Smiles

Children in Garissa now
have books to read. They
love it when the camel
library comes. In one
town, an 11-year-old boy
takes his time with his
book. “I really want the
book to stay in my head,”
he says.

↑ Camels brought these books.

Children like to read them.

A Look at Kenya
Size: 224,960 square miles
(two times the size of Nevada)
People: 29 million

Ethiopia
Somalia

Kenya
Nairobi

Garissa

Capital: Nairobi
What people speak: English
and Swahili

Where it is: East Africa

Map Key
Capital
City

Karen Minot

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Water covers a lot of Earth.
Still, many people around
the world are thirsty.

Onne van der Wal/Corbis

Not a Drop to Drink
Arctic Ocean

North
America
Pacific
Ocean

Europe
Atlantic
Ocean

Asia

Africa

South
America

Indian
Ocean Australia

Joe Lemonnier

Stockdisc/
PunchStock

World Water Day
Water is in oceans, rivers, lakes,
ponds, and puddles, and even in our
sinks. Yet in many places, people
have no water to drink. So world
leaders chose a day to teach about
it. The day is called World Water
Day. It is on March 22 of each year.

Water, Water Everywhere
Most water on Earth is salty.
You can’t drink it. You can
only drink fresh water. This
picture shows the amount

of fresh water and salt
water on Earth.
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All Water on Earth
2.5%

fresh water

97.5%

salt water


Charles Rex Arbogast/Wide World Photos/AP Images

What’s Next?
By 2025, there may be eight billion
people on the planet. They will need
more fresh water to drink, to wash in,
and to grow food. World Water Day
makes us think about the importance
of water and how we use it.
Tatan Syuflana/Wide World Photos/AP Images

Water Wise
Kids around the world help
out on World Water Day.

They make posters. They
teach others to save water
by taking short showers and
watering plants at night.
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By Deborah Underwood

Bubbles in the fish tank,
Bubbles in the lake,
Bubbles in the batter
When my mommy bakes a cake.
Bubbles in the ocean,
Flowing with the tide,
Bubbles in the garden
Where a spittlebug can hide.
Bubbles from my bubble wand
Float across the path.
But my favorite kind of bubbles
Are the bubbles in my bath!

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Helping
Out in
the Park

(c) Yves Lanceau/NHPA; (tr) NPS

LADYBUGS
LADY
L
ADY BUGS
GROW UP
These big bugs
begin as eggs.
Then they change.

Find out how!


The life of a ladybug begins in the spring.
A ladybug grows in three stages. Then it
becomes an adult.

Jerome Wexler/Visuals Unlimited

1 The Egg Stage
A female ladybug finds
a leaf. Then she lays
many eggs.

Robert Pickett/Papilio/Alamy

2 The Larva Stage
An egg hatches. Out

comes a little bug, or
larva. It is much smaller
than a grown ladybug.

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Scott Camazine/Photo Researchers

3 The Pupa Stage
The larva grows a new hard
skin. It covers the ladybug
like a shell.


Stephen Dalton/NHPA

4 The Adult Stage
The ladybug then pushes
out of the skin. Its body
is soft and wet. The air
makes it hard and dry.
Now the ladybug is grown!

eye

wings

mouth

m

Look at tthe tiny
y
body of a ladybug.
antenna
Like all bugs, it has
three body parts and six legs.

leg
Masterfile

But its wings are different from those
of other bugs. It has two outer wings.
They cover the thin wings under them.
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NPS/Eric Leonard

Giving Time for the
Common Good

You can also meet a park
ranger there. They help people
stay safe and follow rules. They
are paid to do this work.
Arrowhead shape

Ilene MacDonald /Alamy

Sequoia
tree

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Mountain
Bison
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Catherine Karnow/Corbis

You can see rivers and canyons in
Big Bend National Park in Texas.

Badge of Honor
National park rangers
work for the National
Park Service. All rangers
wear a patch on their
uniforms. It shows what
the parks stand for.
Why do you think this
shape and these pictures
were chosen?


NPS

Some other people
work in Big Bend,
too. They teach people
about the park and
fix trails. These special
people are volunteers.
They work for free.
Volunteers are good citizens.
They make the park a better place.
Their work helps everyone because
the park belongs to everyone.

Some Big Bend volunteers got
a big “thank you.” A group called
Take Pride in America gave awards to
48 Big Bend volunteers who worked
more than 100 hours.

Charles Holbrook

Every day, volunteers give
their time. Some work in
parks. Some work in cities.
Wherever they are, other
people have a good reason
to say “thank you!”
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By Douglas Florian

(l) Creatas/PunchStock; (br) Stockbyte

The caterpillar’s not a cat.
It’s very small
And short and fat,
And with those beady little eyes
Will never win a beauty prize.
The caterpillar’s brain is small—
It only knows to eat and crawl.
But for this creepy bug don’t cry,
It soon will be a butterfly.

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