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.

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.

From Pit to Pond
  • By Wendy Hobday Haugh
  • Duration: 0:02:29
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

See how a backyard hole becomes a beautiful home for many little creeatures.

He Made Trees Live Again
  • By Kathleen Stevens
  • Duration: 0:06:14
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

George Nakashima insisted that he was not an artist but his furniture has been exhibited in major art museums.

How I Became a Backyard Biologist
  • By Dan Kriesberg
  • Duration: 0:02:14
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

Dan Kriesberg tells how his observations as a child helped him become a wildlife biologist.

How Lobsters Make Music
  • By Fiona Bayrock
  • Duration: 0:02:33
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

Spiny lobsters frighten predators by making sounds like a violin.

How the Brain Fools the Eye
  • By Carmella Van Vleet
  • Duration: 0:05:37
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

Learn about "change blindness"--how we can look at something but not really see it!

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