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Sap's running!
Swinburne details the sugar-maple business of the Colemans. Every spring, the Colemans tap holes into sugar-maple trees, and then hang a bucket under each hole to catch the sap. Sap from sugar maples looks like water, but tastes sweet because it contains sugar and minerals from the soil.
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River to the Sea
Brooks join to become streams, and streams meet to become bigger rivers. Swinburne, who lives near the West River in Vermont, spent time finding out where this river comes from and where it ends.
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Lots and lots of zebra stripes : patterns in nature
A photo-essay featuring patterns that appear in nature, from animal colorings to physical phenomena.
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Ocean soup : tide-pool poems
Playful poems and information about some of the creatures that live in Atlantic and Pacific Ocean tide pools.
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Sap's Running!
\"Sap from sugar maples looks like water, but tastes sweet. That's because it has sugar in it. It also contains minerals from the soil. A 50-foot-high sugar maple has nearly two hundred thousand leaves. All these leaves drink in summer sunshine and make sugar. During winter, sugar is stored in the tree. Running sap in the spring contains the sugar that was made in the tree the summer before.\" (Highlights for Children) Learn how sap is collected and turned into maple syrup. The relationship between temperature and sap flow is explained and an Iroquois legend about the origin of maple syrup is presented.
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