Download or read book Possum Got Big Ears written by Agnes Cross-White and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Possum Got Big Ears is a collection of short stories about a little African-American girl growing up during the 1950s and 60s in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is the story about a time when children were seen not heard; when children said yes maam, and no maam to all adults; when rebellion and disrespect were not tolerated. It is about a time when little children sat at special tables for dinner, away from the adults; and obedience and respect were demanded and received. Possum refers to a game played by the adults in my family who were determined to keep children innocent, out of their business, and away from their secrets. In order to do this, they spelled their conversations, letter by letter, a non-stop string of words strung together into a conversation. It infuriated me, because I didnt know how to spell. However, I would learn. It was my incentive to learn to spell, and learn I did, in spite of their efforts. Possum is about the good, the bad, the ugly, the funny and my quest to grow up. This is the story of a little girls tears, anger, repentance and victory. Agnes Cross-White lives in Florida and is the publisher of The Charlottesville Tribune in Charlottesville, Virginia. Ms. White grew up in Philadelphia in the 1950s and 1960s and spent her earliest years with her grandmother, Agnes Gilbert Daniels who she credits with having been the most important person in her life. Possum Got Big Ears is a collection of short stories about her family and their interaction over the first twelve years of her life. Each story details experiences and their effect on her development into a woman. This is Ms. Whites second book, having published Charlottesville, the African-American Communityin 1998.
Download or read book The Bicycle Life of Oliver Possum Complete Series written by Chip Haynes and published by 4 Horsemen Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 2025-03-07 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oliver Possum’s life is filled with his love for bicycles and the occasional pie! Come along as we share the complete tales of Oliver Possum’s Bicycle Life as he rides from one adventure into the next. We’ll be making discoveries, visiting the town, and making friends along the way–even if it might rain! Oliver even finds a chance to take a walk with a young joey, but Oliver always makes it back home by dark. Oliver and all his animal friends make for a feel-good adventure perfect for early readers with lessons around relationships and experiences. It encourages readers to explore just outside their door and within their own hometown as well as nurtures a love for bicycles. The quirky jokes and sense of innocence and joy is fun to read for all ages. Chip Haynes started writing this tale with his late wife and now has handed the stories to those little possums in our life. The quirky artwork is only a glimpse of the bright, warm tales written within which emphasize positivity and finding joy in the small things in our everyday lives.
Download or read book Early Education Transformed written by Lesley Abbott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Education Reformed provides a strong foundation of knowledge about aspects of early years education, by summarising the current status and outlining paths of development for now and the future. Specially commissioned papers by some of the most respected academics currently working in the field of early childhood and education means that this book will be essential reading for early years teachers and staff, social and child-care workers, researchers and policy-makers.
Download or read book Graham Hill written by Janius Grady and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-05-04 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come to a world, a fantasyland that could be most anywhere, but is set in Virginia--but has never been seen in Virginia. It is a world that never could have been but seems as if it were real but is always based on humor and the impossible. Behind it is all about a room of people or animals that seem real, but each have a persona that is not real (with a couple of exceptions). A book where possums are seen as almost super-possums with many human aspects and with superhuman abilities, such as in the use of their almost-twenty-foot tail to the control they have over the people. There are colorful people such as Parviance, who does many things, and while he is incorrigible, Parviance is also shown to be very loving. All characters have their good and bad points. Behind it all is the vivid imagination of the chief character in the book, Warren Harding Graham. Remember, this book is at the beginning of his life and is setting out in later books to cover his entire life. Just as Mark Twain in his books described a world that was not true but also a world that described the whole life of America, this book is trying to do the same.
Download or read book The Trailsman 307 written by Jon Sharpe and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fargo takes down a killer town… Ft. Benton, Montana is a small boomtown with a big problem—the neighboring town of Sundown, which the vicious outlaw Whit Anders has turned into a den of depravity and death. He raids Ft. Benton for food, supplies, and women, and there’s no lawman tough enough to stop him. But Anders just made his last mistake. He killed a man who saved Skye Fargo from certain death—and Fargo always pays his debts. So the Trailsman is about to go to town…with a vengeance.
Download or read book Slewfoot Sally and the Flying Mule written by Ardath Mayhar and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-one tales from the back-of-the-woods American heartland filled with gentle humor, poignant encounters, funny fantasy, riveting adventures, and loads of sheer fun.
Download or read book At the Big House written by Anne Virginia Culbertson and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Field Guide to the Larger Mammals of South America written by Richard Webb and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive comprehensive photographic field guide to the larger mammals of continental South America South America’s wide range of habitats support a tremendous diversity of plants and animals, including more than 400 species of larger mammals—those the size of a guinea pig or bigger. Many are truly iconic: Jaguar, Puma, Ocelot and numerous other beautiful cats; the fantastic Maned Wolf; the incomparable Giant Anteater; and an incredible variety of extraordinary primates. This groundbreaking guide provides detailed coverage of these and many other wonderful mammals, including porcupines and peccaries; squirrels, sloths, skunks and seals; opossums, olingos and otters; armadillos, agoutis and Andean Bear; and viscachas and Vicuña—not to mention tapirs and river and estuarine dolphins. The species accounts include a description of key features and information on subspecies, comparisons with similar species that overlap in range, details of the habitats in which the species occurs, a summary of its distribution in South America and information on its conservation status. Each species is illustrated with carefully selected photos, or artwork where suitable photos were not available. Detailed coverage of 420 species Showcases over 550 stunning photos, many of rarely photographed species Features specially commissioned artwork for almost 100 species, including comparative plates of all marmosets and titi monkeys Includes up-to-date distribution maps
Download or read book Predators with Pouches written by Menna Jones and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2003-04-30 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Predators with Pouches provides a unique synthesis of current knowledge of the world’s carnivorous marsupials—from Patagonia to New Guinea and North America to Tasmania. Written by 63 experts in each field, the book covers a comprehensive range of disciplines including evolution and systematics, reproductive biology, physiology, ecology, behaviour and conservation. Predators with Pouches reveals the relationships between the American didelphids and the Australian dasyurids, and explores the role of the marsupial fauna in the mammal community. It introduces the geologically oldest marsupials, from the Americas, and examines the fall from former diversity of the larger marsupial carnivores and their convergent evolution with placental forms. The book covers all aspects of carnivorous marsupials, including interesting features of life history, their unique reproduction, the physiological basis for early senescence in semelparous dasyurids, sex ratio variation and juvenile dispersal. It looks at gradients in nutrition—from omnivory to insectivory to carnivory—as well as distributional ecology, social structure and conservation dilemmas.
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Download or read book Wildlife of Australia written by Louise Egerton and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is nothing to beat the extraordinary wildlife of Australia. Its colourful parrots, its venomous snakes, its abundance of hopping marsupials and the strange, egg-laying Platypus - these are just a few of the players in a story that began hundreds of millions of year ago. Many members of Australia's wildlife live nowhere else on Earth. They are unique, the result of evolution on a continent that has been geographically isolated from the rest of the world for 38 million years. Wildlife of Australia is an account of how these animals have developed in response to changing climates and habitats. It describes their day-to-day habits, where they live, how they find partners and care for their young, and how they protect themselves and find food and shelter. Superbly illustrated with over 550 colour photographs by renowned wildlife photographer Jiri Lochman, the book also contains a list of scientific names, good zoos and wildlife parks, useful websites and books, and a comprehensive glossary. Wildlife of Australia reveals the fascinating worlds of the animals that live all around us on this ancient land but remain largely unnoticed.
Download or read book Kieron Smith boy written by James Kelman and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rejected by his brother and largely ignored by his parents, Kieron Smith finds comfort - and endless stories - in the home of his much-loved grandparents. But when his family move to a new housing scheme on the outskirts of the city, a world away from the close community of the tenements, Kieron struggles to find a way to adapt to his new life. Warm, funny, with searing insight and astonishing empathy, in Kieron Smith, James Kelman has created an unforgettable boy.
Download or read book Mammals Gr 1 written by and published by On The Mark Press. This book was released on with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Appleblossom the Possum written by Holly Goldberg Sloan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of E.B. White and Dick King-Smith will adore this heartwarming and funny animal adventure by the award-winning author of New York Times Bestseller Counting by 7s Mama has trained up her baby possums in the ways of their breed, and now it’s time for all of them—even little Appleblossom—to make their way in the world. Appleblossom knows the rules: she must never be seen during the day, and she must avoid cars, humans, and the dreaded hairies (sometimes known as dogs). Even so, Appleblossom decides to spy on a human family—and accidentally falls down their chimney! The curious Appleblossom, her faithful brothers—who launch a hilarious rescue mission—and even the little girl in the house have no idea how fascinating the big world can be. But they're about to find out! With dynamic illustrations, a tight-knit family, and a glimpse at the world from a charming little marsupial's point of view, this cozy animal story is a perfect read-aloud and a classic in the making.
Download or read book A Possum in my Pocket written by Elizabeth T. Holtam and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-23 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Web excerpt #1 Later on we had to take Goober Pea to the vet for a check-up. The possum came along too. Goober Pea rode in the pet carrier, and the possum rode...in my shirt pocket. I was wearing a baggy flannel shirt and the possum was so little it fit right in the bottom of the pocket and took a nap. After Dr. Bob had given Goober Pea his check-up, I pulled the possum out of my pocket. It scampered across the examination table like it wanted to get away; even possums must not like to go to the doctor! Dr. Bob caught it and gently pinched the skin on its back. The skin sort of stayed stuck the way he'd pinched it instead of springing back into place. Dr. Bob said that showed it was dehydrated, which means it hadn't had enough to drink in the last few days. The doctor gave us some puppy formula to dilute and a syringe for feeding it liquids. Well, guess what: the possum didn't like puppy formula. Come to think of it, it didn't like oatmeal either. Just like me! After the visit with Dr. Bob, we went to the grocery store. I don't think animals are supposed to go in the store with you, but nobody said anything even if I had a funny bulge in my shirt pocket and a tail curling out of it. Probably most people at supermarkets don't expect customers to be taking their baby possums grocery shopping. * * * * * * * * * * Web excerpt #2 We started sprinkling Elmo's food around in the leaves so that he has to hunt for it. When he eats he makes loud, smacking noises, and he doesn't chew with his mouth closed like grownups say you should. I think he really enjoys his meals: when he eats he looks like he's smiling. He especially likes grapes. He nibbles one until it is gone, then spits out the skin. He is still so tiny that one little grape looks huge in his hands. Picture me, gnawing on a football! Even though possums don't have very good table manners, you should see Elmo give himself a bath! He licks his fingers lots of times, making smacky noises, then he scratches himself with his wet fingers. He does that over and over again until he thinks he is clean. Sometimes he uses his hands to wash himself, and sometimes he uses his feet. Possums' feet really look like hands, because they have an opposable thumb like we have on our hands and like monkeys have on their hands and feet. (I read about this in one of the library books.) Having an opposable thumb on each hand makes it easier to hold on to things and helps keep us all from falling out of trees. Sometimes I get Elmo out of the cage to hold him or let him walk around. He doesn't like to be in my shirt pocket any more, but he likes to ride around on my shoulder. He probably remembers about riding on his mommy's back. He holds on with sharp little claws. Sometimes he snuffles around in my hair or breathes in my ear. It tickles! * * * * * * * * * * Web excerpt #3 I started to think we should keep Elmo so that she wouldn't ever meet any predators that would like to have her for dinner or humans that would make her into a coat, or even so she wouldn't ever have to cross a road. But then I started thinking that she might like to meet another possum and have babies and that she'd probably like to wander freely rather than stay in a cage all her life. We read that possums can have lots of babies in one litter, like cats and dogs do. I started to think that if Elmo had a family, she could help make up for all the possums that don't make it across the road. When we first got Elmo I could hold her in one hand, but she has grown a lot; she's almost as big as our cat Oreo. And she looks a little different than when we got her: she has long white-ish fur over the soft gray baby fur. Now she can put a whole grape in her mouth. She chews it with loud smacking noises while the juice runs down her chin. I certainly couldn't get away with manners like that! Besides grapes, Elmo likes cheese, catfood and eggs. Did I tell you that possums wi
Download or read book Crackers written by Roy Blount and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensible guide to southernness from revered humorist and unapologetic curmudgeon Roy Blount Jr. When a simple-talking, peanut-warehousing, grit-eating Southern Baptist Cracker got himself nominated for president of the United States in 1976, it set Roy Blount Jr. to thinking—about the South, about southerners, and about southernness. The result is a collection of savagely funny and insightful takes on redneck heaven, whiskey, blood, possums, and a great number of other things. Blount turns his gimlet eye on his Dixie home, and in the process, he clears up long-held misconceptions (and creates new ones) about the people who reside below the Mason-Dixon line. Crackers delivers classic Blount, whether you are a proud southerner or a clueless Yankee.
Download or read book Hunter trader trapper written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
