George Ancona celebrates the joy of kids giving back. Young humanitarians reading these accounts may well be inspired to find ways that they can help, too.
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Presents a portrait of a Santa Fe community garden, revealing how students and other citizens work together to select and grow annual plants, create compost, release butterflies, harvest edibles, and protect garden beds for the winter--Source other than Library of Congress.
Describes how Don Ricardo, a craftsman from Ejutla de Crespo in southern Mexico, makes piñatas for all the village birthday parties and other fiestas.
A photo essay on the pan-Indian celebration called a powwow, this particular one being held on the Crow Reservation in Montana.
Text and photographs present the traditions and rituals of the annual celebration of Carnaval as experienced in the small Brazilian city of Olinda.
Sally's homemade submarine takes her out to sea, to the ocean floor, and back home just as her fisherman father returns to the dock.
A pictorial essay on cowboys, focusing on the annual round-up at the Eby Ranch in Faywood, New Mexico.
Words and sign language depict children at the zoo discovering how to sign the names of various animals and how to tell time.
Text and photographs depict four major aquariums, describing how they are able to recreate various aquatic environments for many species of life.
Text and photographs depict the endangered situation of sea turtles, current efforts to protect them, and the effect of these conservation methods on those people who sell or eat the turtles.
Words and sign language depict friends helping a deaf woman celebrate her birthday.
An introduction to two kinds of sign language: finger spelling, or forming words letter by letter with the fingers, and signing, or making signs with one or two hands for each word or idea.
Text and photographs present the life and customs of the descendants of the Maya now living in the Yucatan Peninsula area of Mexico.
Discusses the work and residents of the privately owned Dolphin Research Center in Grassy Key, Florida, and describes the characteristics of the friendly, intelligent mammal that is studied there.
Describes the government program which maintains an ecological balance among wild mustangs by capturing, training, and offering for adoption selected animals.
A girl recollects childhood experiences on her grandparents' farm.
Describes the various kinds of huge machines used to move ores and other bulky and heavy materials from one place to another.