Rainbow Reading Earth and Beyond
3 total works
Space workers is about the people who have lived and worked in space and who still do. The reader will find many fun and interesting facts about space travel from its earliest days to modern times. Read about astronauts' lives in space on space stations or while travelling in spacecraft. Meet some of the famous men and women who've travelled in space and find out about useful products that were first made for astronauts, and are now used by everyone.
Thunder and lightning is a tale from a long time ago when thunder and lightning lived with the people on Earth. Thunder was an old sheep and her son, the young ram, was lightning. Each time the humid weather came before the rains, Ram would get irritable and lose his temper. He would flash with anger and cause destructive fires in the village. His mother would shout loudly in a rumbling voice. When the villagers have enough of this, they finally banish Ram and his mother from the village and order them to live in the sky – where they live to this day.
This book has many interesting facts and information about the wind. Readers can find out what wind is, how it blows, how to measure it and about the destruction that can happen when there is too much of it. The book also covers wind as a source of energy, making a wire windmill and many thrilling sports that rely on the wind to make them fun.