January 2009
Whether you wear fur or feathers, scales or hide, your skin is one hard-working organ! In this issue of Ask, find out all about the amazing skin you're in, meet an artist who can give your hands a whole new look, teach your skin to read, and count your touchy-feelies all over!
Invention Studio
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Skin Matching Game
PUZZLES & GAMES - Can you match these close-ups of skin with the correct animal?
The Clubhouse
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If you could be another animal for a day, what would you be?
ASK & TELL - Share your comments on this month's question.
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Second Skin
CONTEST - See our Ask Magazine contest winners for "Second Skin"
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The Skin You're In
AVERY WANTS TO KNOW - Answer questions about the skin you're in!
Book Recommendations
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Extreme Animals: The Toughest Creatures on Earth
In this book you will meet some of these animals, from polar bears to bacteria, who have evolved cunning ways of surviving heat, cold, and crushing pressure.
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Mosquito Bite
There’s a story behind everything, even something as small as a mosquito bite.
