Download or read book The Journey of a Swallow written by Carolyn Scrace and published by Franklin Watts. This book was released on 2000-03-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the life cycle and annual migration of the swallow.
Download or read book The Journey of a Swallow written by Carolyn Scrace and published by Franklin Watts. This book was released on 2003-03-13 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of the Swallows migration, depicting the different stages of the journey and includes a map showing the migration route. Ages 7+
Download or read book Swallow Journey written by Vivian French and published by . This book was released on 2001-10 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These stories are a wonderful way for children to explore one of nature's most fascinating mysteries--the instinctive compulsion for animals to migrate over large distances. With poetic text and stunning illustrations, these tales evoke the majestic environments that each animal inhabits. Two tiny swallows, Skimmer and Sweet Claw, have flown over a long distance to raise their young brood in the exact same nest they built last year. Now it is time for them to leave the cold, autumnal winds of northern Europe and return to the warmth and plenty of South Africa.
Download or read book A Single Swallow written by Horatio Clare and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the slums of Cape Town to the palaces of Algiers, through Pygmy villages where pineapples grow wild, to the Gulf of Guinea where the sea blazes with oil flares, across two continents and fourteen countries - this epic journey is nothing to swallows, they do it twice a year. But for Horatio Clare, writer and birdwatcher, it is the expedition of a lifetime. Along the way he discovers old empires and modern tribes, a witch-doctor's recipe for stewed swallow, explains how to travel without money or a passport, and describes a terrifying incident involving three Spanish soldiers and a tiny orange dog. By trains, motorbikes, canoes, one camel and three ships, Clare follows the swallows from reed beds in South Africa, where millions roost in February, to a barn in Wales, where a pair nest in May.
Download or read book The Swallow written by Stephen Moss and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of The Robin, The Wren and The Twelve Birds of Christmas. With around 700,000 breeding pairs, the swallow is one of the most familiar birds in Britain. Though we consider the swallow to be 'our' bird, we also share this beloved creature with millions of others across the globe. Whilst we see it on a daily basis for half the year, the swallow then flies south to Africa, living on only in our memory in the long, dark winter. In The Swallow Stephen Moss documents a year of observing the swallow close to home and in the field to shed light on the secret life of this extraordinary bird. We trace the swallow's life cycle and journey, including the epic 12,000-mile round trip it takes every year, to enable it to enjoy a life of almost eternal sunshine, and the key part the swallow plays in our traditional and popular culture. With beautiful illustrations throughout, this captivating year-in-the-life biography reveals the hidden secrets of this charismatic and beautiful bird. PRAISE FOR STEPHEN MOSS: 'A superb naturalist and writer' Chris Packham 'Inspired, friendly and blessed with apparently limitless knowledge' Peter Marren 'Moss has carved out an enviable niche as a chronicler of the natural world' Daily Mail
Download or read book Swallow written by Henry Rider Haggard and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hurry and the Monarch written by Antoine O Flatharta and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2013-05-29 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the beautiful orange Monarch on her fall migration route from Canada to Mexico stops to rest at Wichita Falls, Texas, she makes friends with an old tortoise called Hurry. She tells him, "Maybe one day you'll break out of that shell, grow wings, and fly away," and then she is off again with millions of other Monarchs. In the spring, she stops again at Hurry's garden just long enough to lay her eggs and head north to Canada. Embedded in this lyrical and tender fictional presentation are the fascinating facts about the amazing 2,000-mile migration and the life cycle of butterflies. An afterword provides additional scientific data.
Download or read book Swallow written by Mary Cappello and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American half-dollar. A beaded crucifix. Tooth roots shaped like a tiny pair of pants. A padlock. Scads of peanut kernels and scores of safety pins. A metallic letter Z. A toy goat and tin steering wheel. A Perfect Attendance Pin. One of the most popular attractions in Philadelphia's world-famous Mtter Museum is the Chevalier Jackson Foreign Body Collection; a beguiling set of drawers filled with thousands of items that had been swallowed or inhaled, then extracted nonsurgically by a pioneering laryngologist using rigid instruments of his own design. How do people's mouths, lungs, and stomachs end up filled with inedible things, and what do they become once arranged in Jackson's aura-laden cabinet? What drove Dr. Chevalier Jackson's peculiar obsession not only with removing foreign bodies from people's upper torsos but also with saving and cataloging the items that he retrieved? Animating the space between interest and terror, curiosity and dread, award-winning author Mary Cappello explores what seems beyond understanding; the physiology of the human swallow, and the poignant and baffling psychology that compels people to ingest non-nutritive things. On a quest to restore the narratives that haunt Jackson's uncanny collection, she discovers that all things are secretly edible. Combining original research with a sympathetic and evocative sensibility, Cappello uncovers a history of racism and violence, of forced ingestion and hysteria, of class and poverty that left children to bank their family's last quarters in their mouths. Here, the seemingly disparate but equally marvelous worlds of the circus and the medical amphitheater meet in characters ranging from sword swallowers and women who lunched on hardware to the sensitive, bullied boy who grew up to be the father of endoscopy.
Download or read book A Game for Swallows written by Zeina Abirached and published by Graphic Universe ™. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Zeina was born, the civil war in Lebanon had been going on for six years, so it's just a normal part of life for her and her parents and her little brother. The city of Beirut is cut in two, separated by bricks and sandbags and threatened by snipers and shelling. East Beirut is for Christians, and West Beirut is for Muslims. When Zeina's parents don't return one afternoon from a visit to the other half of the city, and the bombing grows ever closer, the neighbors in her apartment house create a world indoors for Zeina and her brother where it's comfy and safe, where they can share cooking lessons and games and gossip. Together they try to make it through a dramatic day in the one place they hoped they would always be safehome. Zeina Abirached, born into a Lebanese Christian family in 1981, has collected her childhood recollections of Beirut in a warm story about the strength of family and community.
Download or read book The Swallows Flight written by Hilary McKay and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A triumph.” —Philip Pullman, bestselling author of the His Dark Materials saga Four young lives are forever changed at the dawn of World War II in this “stirring and unforgettable” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) novel from award-winning author Hilary McKay. In England, Ruby has no friends because of the speckled blotches on her face that kids say look like dirt. And Kate is sickly all the time, her older siblings each taking turns looking after her. Ruby and Kate’s first meeting is nearly disastrous, but the two lonely girls soon strike up a friendship. Their connection becomes all the more important when England joins the war against Germany and the blitz begins overhead. In Germany, Erik and Hans are best friends filled with plans for their future: Erik taking over their beloved local zoo, and Hans serving pastries right outside the gates. They never expected to be forced to join the national service, training as pilots and tasked with hurting people. And in London a mistreated dog roams the streets looking for handouts, and for a friend. All of these lives will cross in the most surprising ways in this heartrending tale of war and compassion, and hope that can be found in even the most unexpected friendships, brought to life by award-winning author Hilary McKay.
Download or read book Fantastic Journey Along the Swallows Migratory Routes written by Sarah MUZIO and published by . This book was released on 2016-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swallows are widely spread across the five continents and their coming back in the skies, at the end of their annual migration route, marks the change of season in the collective imagination. In this coloring book, featuring drawings by Sara Muzio, an artist with a ten-year-long experience in graphic and design, you will follow a swallow's journey all over the world and discover different environments. This black-and-white bird will link all pages, while the various environments will be represented by animals and plants drawn in silhouette, figures that together will mark the boundaries of the region where the swallow will be traveling. Rich in precious details and elegant in style, these drawings can be coloured in pencil or marker pen according to your personal fantasy and taste, spending many free hours in a very relaxing and pleasant activity. To top it off, there is a game in the game: in every drawing you can find another animal hidden in the page. Your achievement through colours, being so unique and personal, can be proudly displayed and will represent an antidote to everyday stress. ILLUSTRATOR: Sara Muzio has over ten years of experience working in graphic design and illustration. In 2002, after earning a degree in Medical Illustration, she began working for small graphic design studios and in 2004 she became the scientific illustrator for Lumen Edizioni, where she completed a postgraduate course on publishing and advertising graphics. From 2005 to 2011, Sara worked as a freelance graphic designer for private clients as well as public entities and publishing houses. From 2011 to 2013, she was the graphic and packaging designer for Sambonet Paderno Industrie S.p.a. She currently works as a freelance graphic designer and as the Marketing Assistant for "La Salute nel Sale", a halotherapy centre with locations in Vercelli and Casale, Italy. In addition to the illustrations found in this book, she created those for 'Flower Fantasy' and 'Hidden in the Jungle' for White Star Publishers.
Download or read book The Swallow s Nest written by Emilie Richards and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this heartwarming novel of marriage, motherhood, and forgiveness, three women fight for the chance to raise the child they've all come to love. After a challenging year of seeing her husband Graham through cancer treatment, lifestyle blogger Lilia Swallow is ready to celebrate his recovery. But just as their festive party gets underway, a mysterious guest presents Lilia with a beautiful baby boy, and vanishes. Toby is Graham’s darkest secret—the son he conceived in a moment of despair. Lilia is shocked by Graham’s betrayal, but even more surprised by the love she feels for his child. Once abandoned, Toby is now desperately wanted by three women: Lilia, who takes him into her home and heart; Marina, who bore him and now regrets giving him up; and Ellen, who sees in him a chance to correct the mistakes she made with her own son, Toby's father. A custody battle begins, and each would-be mother must examine her heart, confront her choices and weigh her dreams against the fate of one vulnerable little boy. Each woman will redefine family, belonging and love—and the results will alter the course of not only their lives, but also the lives of everyone they care for.
Download or read book The Children of Swallow Fell written by Julia Green and published by Oxford University Press - Children. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driven from her home by war, Isabella must make the daunting journey with her father, to his childhood home in the north of England. Swallow Fell is deserted - another casualty of the conflict which has spread worldwide - but when her father goes in search of help, Isabella discovers that there are other children, just like her. They are surviving against the odds, but can Isabella and her new found friends learn to not simply survive but to thrive? Where there is love there is hope.
Download or read book In the Orchard the Swallows written by Peter Hobbs and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2012-04-14 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Guardian Book of the Year and Chapters/Indigo Best Book In the foothills of a mountain range in northern Pakistan is a beautiful orchard. Swallows wheel and dive silently over the branches, and the scent of jasmine threads through the air. Pomegranates hang heavy, their skins darkening to a deep crimson. Neglected now, the trees are beginning to grow wild, their fruit left to spoil on the branches. Many miles away, a frail young man is flung out of prison gates. Looking up, scanning the horizon for swallows in flight, he stumbles and collapses in the roadside dust. His ravaged body tells the story of fifteen years of brutality. Just one image has held and sustained him through the dark times -- the thought of the young girl who had left him dumbstruck with wonder all those years ago, whose eyes were lit up with life. A tale of tenderness in the face of great and corrupt power, In The Orchard, The Swallows is a heartbreaking novel written in prose of exquisite stillness and beauty.
Download or read book Swallow the Air written by Tara June Winch and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2006, Tara June Winch's startling debut Swallow the Air was published to acclaim. Its poetic yet visceral style announced the arrival a fresh and exciting new talent. This 10th anniversary edition celebrates its important contribution to Australian literature. When May's mother dies suddenly, she and her brother Billy are taken in by Aunty. However, their loss leaves them both searching for their place in a world that doesn't seem to want them. While Billy takes his own destructive path, May sets out to find her father and her Aboriginal identity. Her journey leads her from the Australian east coast to the far north, but it is the people she meets, not the destinations, that teach her what it is to belong. Swallow the Air is an unforgettable story of living in a torn world and finding the thread to help sew it back together.
Download or read book Swallow written by Sefi Atta and published by Interlink Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1980s in Lagos, the government’s War Against Indiscipline and austerity measures are in full swing. A succession of unfortunate events leads Tolani, a bank secretary, to be persuaded by her roommate Rose to consider drug trafficking as a way to make a living. Tolani’s subsequent struggle with temptation forces her to reconsider her morality—and that of her mother Arike’s—as she embarks on a turbulent journey of self-discovery.
Download or read book Swallow written by Ashley Wood and published by IDW Publishing. This book was released on 2008-03-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting the fourth edition of a deluxe magazine devoted to modern illustration and the artists that produce it. This volume offers over 200 pages of paintings, sketches, and illustrations by some of today's top artists, including Brom, Toby Cypress, Jeremy Geddes, Shane Glines, Andrew Hem, James Jean, Teddy Kristiansen, Jim Mahfood, Paul Pope, Bill Presing, Kent Williams, Ashley Wood, and Vania Zouravliov.