Kids Gazette

A healthy dose of fear can keep you safe. But not all fears are created equal. Feelings of fear are great if you are in a spooky, unfamiliar cave. But those feelings aren’t helpful when they show up when you’re actually safe.

Everyone’s afraid of something. Can you match the following characters to something they fear?

A fable about a spider and a fly might not seem all that horrifying — until you imagine yourself as the fly. Here’s ‘The Spider and The Fly: A Fable,’ by Mary Howitt.

Connect the dots to see what monster is under the bed!

Search for all the birds while you color this forest coloring page.

One of the best known poems is set among the trees. In Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken,” the speaker comes to a fork in a road through the woods. Read this poem and picture yourself as the main character.

Scientists discovered the ash borers' natural enemies are small parasitoid wasps, native to China and the Russian Far East. Parasitoids (para-sih-toyds) lay their eggs inside or on the host — in this case, ash borer eggs or larvae. The wasp babies feed on and ultimately kill the host.

White oak trees, which are native to Iowa, can grow to be 500 or 600 years old if grown in the right conditions.