Those Voracious Vultures

by Marta Magellan

Published 1 September 2008
Vultures are voracious! They eat a lot of yucky stuff—and that’s good because it keeps things tidy. Here are 20 questions and answers about these clean-up birds so you’ll know all about them. You’ll learn why vultures’ heads are bald, why vultures vomit, why vultures don’t get sick when they eat rotten meat, why they circle in the sky, what baby vultures look like (cute fuzzballs), and whether turkey vultures gobble (no!).

Make a turkey vulture mobile, a vulture collage, and connect the dots to reveal a Eurasian vulture.

Those Lively Lizards

by Marta Magellan

Published 1 September 2008
Learn all about lizards. They live all over the world and come in many shapes, sizes, and colors. You’ll find out if a lizard can change colors to match its surroundings, if a lizard’s tail can really grow back, which lizard runs on water, whether boy and girl lizards look the same, why lizards stick out their tongues, and if they are endangered.

Activities include a lizards crossword puzzle and a lizard puppet that sticks out his dewlap. (What’s a dewlap? You’ll find out!)

Those Colossal Cats

by Marta Magellan

Published 1 October 2009