Creating a Symphony of Steel
  • By Cheryl M. Reifsnyder
  • Duration: 0:03:47
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

How a poor kid from Trinidad developed what became the only new instrument of the century: the steel pan drum. A bio of musician/drum maker Ellie Mannette.

Dueling Dinosaurs
  • By Sharon Pochron
  • Duration: 0:03:20
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

Article about Triceratops' horns and their purpose. Triceratops had a sharp horn growing above each eye and a smaller horn growing in the center of its nose. Scientists wonder...

Every Carving Tells a Story
  • By Marty Kaminsky
  • Duration: 0:05:00
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

Read how one artist's memories are carved into stories.

Exploding Stars Turn Red
  • By Ken Croswell, Ph.D
  • Duration: 0:05:41
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

Astronomers observe the formation of a red nova which occurs when two stars merge and explode.

Flying Galaxies
  • By Ken Croswell
  • Duration: 0:05:00
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

New evidence that two of the satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way are new arrivals.

The Guard the Monkey and the King's Crown
  • By Clare Mishica
  • Duration: 0:03:19
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

When 3 monkeys steal the king's crown Ravi figures out a clever way to get it back. Based on a Jataka Indian tale of moral.

The Mixed-up Fish Dance
  • By Lisa Avila
  • Duration: 0:05:30
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

Marisa tries to play a different role in the annual dance.

The Mystery of the Magic Lunch Bag
  • By Neal Levin
  • Duration: 0:03:17
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

Sheila's lunch bag may not change sandwiches into lunchtime favorites but it helps her find a new friend.

Flying Solo
  • By Susan Federici
  • Duration: 0:05:05
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

Personal account of the author's first solo flight at age 16. She's been a pilot and flight instructor for the past two decades.

Foxes in the City
  • By Highlights for Children
  • Duration: 0:04:57
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

Urban kit foxes have adapted to living in cities and are even doing better than their country cousins.

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