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A koala isn't a bear.
June 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It looks like a bear, but it's not even related to a bear. It's a koala. This little animal is related to a group of animals that includes the kangaroo. It lives in the wild in only one place in the world, the East Coast of Australia. Koalas remind people of...

Cuddly buddy.(Brief article)
June 1, 2009... Here's somebody waiting for a hug. Draw the lines you see in the boxes, in the corresponding squares on the grid. Be careful to match them up correctly. When you finish, you'll see a picture. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Koalas.(Brief article)
June 1, 2009... illustrated by Roy Green [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Koalas forever are eating and sleeping. High in the branches, they slowly are creeping, Chewing the way that the droopy'll chew And snoozing the way the marsupial do.

Word find.(Brief article)
June 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Look forwards, backwards, up, down, and diagonally to find the following words in capital letters. Cross the words off the list. After all the words are found, the letters remaining will spell something relating to animals down under. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...

The down under animal that lives down under.(Australia's wombat)
June 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Dirt and rocks fly out of a hole in the ground. Don't stand near this hole. You might get hit by a flying rock! The place is Australia, and the chubby animal inside that hole making all the commotion is a wombat. The largest burrowing herbivorous (plant-eating)...