Lakes

Our World of Water

by B.J. Best

Lakes can be as small as ponds or as large as Lake Superior. They collect and supply the world's freshwater, supporting much of the life on our planet directly or indirectly. Kids will learn how lakes gather water from their drainage basins and the different types of underwater life lakes support.

24 pages, ebook

Published December 30, 2017

About the author

B.J. Best is the author of three books of poetry: But Our Princess Is in Another Castle (Rose Metal Press, 2013), State Sonnets (sunnyoutside, 2009), and Birds of Wisconsin (New Rivers Press, 2010), winner of the Many Voices Project competition and an Outstanding Achievement in Poetry award from the Wisconsin Library Association. He has also published three chapbooks with Centennial Press, most recently Drag: Twenty Short Poems about Smoking, as well as numerous poems in literary magazines, including Denver Quarterly, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Nimrod, North American Review, Pleiades, Quarterly West, and Sentence. He holds an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis and is an Assistant Professor of English at Carroll University. He has twice been a finalist to serve as Wisconsin's Poet Laureate, and serves on the editorial board for Verse Wisconsin.