Faces - The Magazine of People, Places and Cultures for Kids
The Floating City
If you put a fish on dry land, can it survive? That is the way we people here are like. We cannot live on land. Living on water is part of our culture.” -Noah Shemede, native of Makoko
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November/December 2019
Faces - The Magazine of People, Places and Cultures for Kids
Welcome To Nollywood
Lagos is home to Nollywood, one of the world’s largest film industries. More than 2,500 movies are made in Nollywood each year. The industry adds about $10 billion a year to the country’s economy. According to the International Monetary Fund, as many as one million Nigerians work in the movie industry.
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November/December 2019
Faces - The Magazine of People, Places and Cultures for Kids
Preserving Ancient Mysteries At The Nigerian National Museum
Many amazing works of art are on display at the Niegerian National Museum in Lagos.
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November/December 2019
Faces - The Magazine of People, Places and Cultures for Kids
LAGOS: A City Of Opportunity
The Nigerian city of Lagos is Africa’s most heavily populated city. It is home to an estimated 21 million people. Researchers at the Global Cities Institute predict it will be the world’s largest city by the year 2100. By then, they estimate the city’s population will have reached 88 million.
3 min |
November/December 2019
Muse Science Magazine for Kids
Printing Big
WHO’S THE BIGGEST MAKER OF THEM ALL?
4 min |
November/December 2019
Faces - The Magazine of People, Places and Cultures for Kids
Eshu: The Yoruba Trickster God
One hot afternoon, two friends were having an argument.
3 min |
November/December 2019
Muse Science Magazine for Kids
The Bubbler
Bursting with ideas at the Madison Public Library
4 min |
November/December 2019
Muse Science Magazine for Kids
Digital Detectives
Printing Dinosaurs For Summer Science
4 min |
November/December 2019
Spider Magazine for Kids
The Fable Of The Three Cats
ALONG TIME AGO, when the ancient landscape of Japan was dotted with hundreds of castles and the country was ruled by the sword, there was a great samurai warrior who was pestered by a large rat.
2 min |
October 2019
Muse Science Magazine for Kids
Stomp Troopers
Inspired by a certain space opera, young makers let the good times roll!
5 min |
November/December 2019
Faces - The Magazine of People, Places and Cultures for Kids
The Chocolate Hills of Bohol
Wait, did you say, “Chocolate Hills?!” If you have mouth-watering images of mounds of chocolate ready to be munched, your taste buds will be sorely disappointed.
2 min |
October 2019
Ask Magazine for Kids
When a Whale Falls
When an enormous whale dies, its body sinks to the bottom of the ocean. There it provides food for thousands of deep-sea creatures.
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October 2019
Faces - The Magazine of People, Places and Cultures for Kids
One-Hundred Eighty Bars A Day
An apple a day keeps the doctor away. What about a chocolate bar a day? Cacao beans, the primary ingredient in chocolate, are part of the fruit from a flowering tree, just like apples. Cacao beans are the seeds from the cacao fruit. Cacao beans have more than 300 chemicals, including a poison. Yet eating a chocolate bar doesn’t kill us—it makes us happy.
3 min |
October 2019
Spider Magazine for Kids
Pumpkin Pockets
Making of Recipes.
5 min |
October 2019
Reader's Digest US
The Haunted House Next Door
The Broaddus family had just bought their dream home and couldn’t wait to move in. Until ominous letters began arriving in the mail.
10 min |
October 2019
Faces - The Magazine of People, Places and Cultures for Kids
From Bean to Bar
Aztecs believed that chocolate was the gift from a god, and most people today would probably agree that it is a heavenly treat. The ingredients of this exotic and ancient food gets its complex flavors from the fruit of cacao trees. In fact, it might be strange to think about, but chocolate is made from the seeds of this fruit, the cacao pod.
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October 2019
Faces - The Magazine of People, Places and Cultures for Kids
A World Without Chocolate?
Many people enjoy a steaming cup of hot chocolate on a snowy day or a gooey candy bar as an afternoon treat. So rumors predicting that chocolate would disappear from the planet by the mid-21st century sent chocoholics into a frenzy.
4 min |
October 2019
Spider Magazine for Kids
Doodlebug & Dandelion
Ghost Walk
3 min |
October 2019
Faces - The Magazine of People, Places and Cultures for Kids
The Three Shades Of Chocolate
Like coffee, chocolate contains caffeine—but in much smaller quantities. White chocolate has no caffeine; milk chocolate has some; dark chocolate has the most.
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October 2019
Spider Magazine for Kids
The Very Wicked Witch and the Village Play
THE VERY WICKED Witch sat at her gnarled breakfast table and chuckled.
5 min |
October 2019
Spider Magazine for Kids
The Epic World Of Puppet Theater
A DRAGON EMERGES from a foggy lake.
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October 2019
Faces - The Magazine of People, Places and Cultures for Kids
A Short, Sweet History Of Chocolate
No one knows exactly when and how the delights of chocolate were first discovered.
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October 2019
Faces - The Magazine of People, Places and Cultures for Kids
The Curious Connection Between Brain-Eating Flies And Chocolate
A large leaf-cutter ant has just cut a piece of fresh, new leaf from a cacao tree in Brazil.
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October 2019
Ask Magazine for Kids
The Deepest Dive
In 1872, two scientists set out to study the ocean.
3 min |
October 2019
Ask Magazine for Kids
Marie Maps The Sea
Young Marie Tharp thought her dad had the best job ever. He traveled around the country, making maps. His maps were special—they revealed hidden things. They showed where different kinds of soil were, and wet and dry places. That helped farmers know what to plant.
3 min |
October 2019
Ask Magazine for Kids
Internet Ocean
Say you’re curious about giraffes.
2 min |
October 2019
Cricket Magazine for Kids
The Tale Of Paddy Ahern
THERE ONCE WAS a lad named Paddy Ahern who trod the green hills of Limerick, Ireland, offering to help farmers with their chores in return for food and lodging.
5 min |
October 2019
Cricket Magazine for Kids
The Pedestrians
EACH TIME HELGA Estby looked over her shoulder, the big cat was there. Crossing Wyoming’s Red Desert on foot, in the dust and heat of August 1896, was tough.
7 min |
October 2019
Cricket Magazine for Kids
The Magic Gifts
A Basque Folk Tale
8 min |
October 2019
Cricket Magazine for Kids
The Dragon's Scales
“THREE YEARS I'VE been waiting, when Torquil promised he’d return them in three days. I’m not waiting three more days to get back what’s mine!” The dragon punctuated his remarks with a smoky snort and a lashing tail.
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