Anne Ylvisaker

Introduces the earth's largest ocean, and provides instructions for an activity to demonstrate how the tropical storms known as typhoons spin.

Tugs Esther Button was born to a luckless family. Buttons don't presume to be singers or dancers. They aren't athletes or artists, good listeners, or model citizens. The one time a Button ever made the late Goodhue Gazette - before Harvey Moore came along with his talk of launching a new paper - was when Great Grandaddy Ike accidentally set Town Hall ablaze. Tomboy Tugs looks at her hapless family and sees her own reflection looking back until she...

Introduces the ocean that lies between Australia and Asia, and provides instructions for an activity to demonstrate how to remove the salt from salt water.

Introduces muscles and their parts, their voluntary and involuntary functions within the body, muscle diseases, and how to keep muscles healthy.

Discusses how Lake Huron was formed, its early people, important industries, pollution, and how the lake is used today.

Discusses how Lake Huron was formed, its early people, important industries, pollution, and how the lake is used today.

When a steamboat arrives heralding the news that Iowa has been called up to represent the Union of the United States of America, Ike is beside himself with excitement. For months, the promise of war has enveloped small-town Keokuk like a grand game that everyone's in on - everyone but Ike, his swaybacked pony, and his best friend and checkers partner, Albirdie. Left behind with Mother and the aunts and girl cousins while the Button men march forth...