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CONTENTS 
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Queer Animals - -- -- -- -- -- --89 
A Pocket Full of Babies - -- -- -- -- -91 
An Adventure with a Skunk - -- -- -- -97 
A Pet in a Shell - -- -- -- -- -- - 101 
The Champion Digger - -- -- -- -- - 105 
Bird’s Nest or What? - -- -- -- -- - 109 
The Whistler ------------- 113 
A Flying Mammal - -- -- -- -- -- 116 
Feathered Flights - -- -- -- -- -- - 121 
A Big-headed Fisherman - -- -- -- -- 123 
Birds That Eat as They Fly -------- 127 
Busy Birds - -- -- -- -- -- -- 131 
A Bird That Fooled the Children ------- 136 
A Bird That Is a Butcher - -- -- -- -- 141 
A Fight in the Air - -- -- -- -- -- 144 
Father Verdin Has His Own Nest ------ 149 
Honk! Honk! Honk! - ---------- 152 
From Seed to Tree -.- - - - - 155 
Flowers and Their Friends -------- 157 
Under a Live Oak Tree - -- -- -- -- - 161 
Buddy Fights a Weed - -- -- -- -- - 165 
How Seeds Travel - -- -- -- -- -- 169 
What Is a Potato ? - -- -- -- -- -- 172 
From Sap to Sugar - -- -- -- -- -- 175 
A Dress Made of Wood - -- -- -- -- - 178 
Bits of Rock and Drops of Water - -- -- -- - 181 
Dishes of Clay - -- -- -- -- -- -- 183 
Stories Written on Rocks - -- -- -- -- 187 
Water Floating in the Air - -- -- -- -- 190 
Out in Star Land - --.___ 195 
Living on the Moon - -- -- -- -- -- 197 
Shooting Stars - -- -- -- -- -- - 201 
Finding the North Star - -- -- -- -- - 204 
Index .- 209 
