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Glass flowers — and thinking for yourself
When I was a little girl in Boston, my mom used to take me and my friends to see the glass flowers at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. There are over 4,000 of them. They were made a long time ago in Dresden, Germany, by a father and son—Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka. It took them 50 years to make them all!
These glass flowers are amazing. Each one is different. There are yellow black-eyed Susans. Gray-green ferns. Roses of every color.
And they look SO REAL. You can almost see them swaying in the breeze.
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By Wim van Koten,
Kids
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A little moon story
By Lyn Littlefield Hoopes,
- The two houses
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Safe, under Mother's wings
By Samuel Muiruri,
- Tell the story of Joseph and his brothers
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Joseph in Egypt
By Jenny Sawyer,
- The Joseph Game
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The first photo of the brothers
By Poldy Bird,
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HOW GOD HELPED US!
with contributions from Max Chantha, Isaac Ikpe, Nicole Dakin, Mary Estes, Jens Fromm, Paulo Coraça da Gama Vaiano, Audry Mutombo
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Glass flowers — and thinking for yourself
By Mary Trammell,
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Moses and the Ten Commandments
By Esmeralda Westlund,
- End
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A stream that won't stop flowing
Story and illustrations by Manfred Krüger,
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Florian and Wolfgang
By Esther Glardon,
