Download or read book Unexpected Talkers Learn About Animals written by Jay Leslie and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let's learn all about animals that can do some unexpected things! Can you believe some cats can talk? What about dogs? With amazing photos and lively text, this book explores five different creatures that, unexpectedly, can talk! Get ready to learn why and how these surprising animals chat away! ABOUT THE SERIES: The natural world is filled with animals doing unexpected things! It is hard to believe, but orcas can talk, sloths can swim, some snakes can fly, and octopuses love to play. Each book in this vibrant new nonfiction series explores the unusual abilities of five different animals, along with their habitat, diet, and behavior. Packed with photographs and fun facts, readers will learn all about these talented creatures that can fly, play, swim, and talk!
Download or read book Unexpected Players Learn About Animals written by Claire Caprioli and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let's learn all about animals that can do some unexpected things! Can you believe that some octopuses like to play? What about sheep? With amazing photos and lively text, this book explores five different creatures that, unexpectedly, love to play! Get ready to learn how these surprising animals have tons of fun! ABOUT THE SERIES: The natural world is filled with animals doing unexpected things! It is hard to believe, but orcas can talk, sloths can swim, some snakes can fly, and octopuses love to play. Each book in this vibrant new nonfiction series explores the unusual abilities of five different animals, along with their habitat, diet, and behavior. Packed with photographs and fun facts, readers will learn all about these talented creatures that can fly, play, swim, and talk!
Download or read book Unexpected Swimmers Learn About Animals written by Claire Caprioli and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let's learn all about animals that can do some unexpected things! Can you believe that sloths can swim? What about elephants? With amazing photos and lively text, this book explores five different creatures that, unexpectedly, can swim! Get ready to learn why and how these surprising animals splash around! ABOUT THE SERIES: The natural world is filled with animals doing unexpected things! It is hard to believe, but orcas can talk, sloths can swim, some snakes can fly, and octopuses love to play. Each book in this vibrant new nonfiction series explores the unusual abilities of five different animals, along with their habitat, diet, and behavior. Packed with photographs and fun facts, readers will learn all about these talented creatures that can fly, play, swim, and talk!
Download or read book Code Talker written by Joseph Bruchac and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-07-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Readers who choose the book for the attraction of Navajo code talking and the heat of battle will come away with more than they ever expected to find."—Booklist, starred review Throughout World War II, in the conflict fought against Japan, Navajo code talkers were a crucial part of the U.S. effort, sending messages back and forth in an unbreakable code that used their native language. They braved some of the heaviest fighting of the war, and with their code, they saved countless American lives. Yet their story remained classified for more than twenty years. But now Joseph Bruchac brings their stories to life for young adults through the riveting fictional tale of Ned Begay, a sixteen-year-old Navajo boy who becomes a code talker. His grueling journey is eye-opening and inspiring. This deeply affecting novel honors all of those young men, like Ned, who dared to serve, and it honors the culture and language of the Navajo Indians. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults "Nonsensational and accurate, Bruchac's tale is quietly inspiring..."—School Library Journal
Download or read book The Unexpected Truth about Animals written by Lucy Cooke and published by Black Swan Books, Limited. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether we're watching a viral video of romping baby pandas or looking at a picture of penguins `holding hands', we often project our own values; innocence, abstinence, hard work - onto animals. So you've probably never considered that moose get drunk and that penguins are notorious cheats. In The Unexpected Truth About Animals Zoologist Lucy unravels the many myths we humans like to believe!
Download or read book The Truth About Animals written by Lucy Cooke and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Roach meets Bill Bryson in this "surefire summer winner" (Janet Maslin, New York Times), an uproarious tour of the basest instincts and biggest mysteries of the animal world Humans have gone to the Moon and discovered the Higgs boson, but when it comes to understanding animals, we've still got a long way to go. Whether we're seeing a viral video of romping baby pandas or a picture of penguins "holding hands," it's hard for us not to project our own values -- innocence, fidelity, temperance, hard work -- onto animals. So you've probably never considered if moose get drunk, penguins cheat on their mates, or worker ants lay about. They do -- and that's just for starters. In The Truth About Animals, Lucy Cooke takes us on a worldwide journey to meet everyone from a Colombian hippo castrator to a Chinese panda porn peddler, all to lay bare the secret -- and often hilarious -- habits of the animal kingdom. Charming and at times downright weird, this modern bestiary is perfect for anyone who has ever suspected that virtue might be unnatural.
Download or read book You Had Me at Woof written by Julie Klam and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-10-28 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Look out for Julie's new book, The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters. The hilarious and heartfelt chronicle of a woman learning the secrets of love, health, and happiness from some very surprising teachers: her dogs. Julie Klam was thirty, single, and working as a part-time clerk in an insurance company, wondering if she would ever meet the man she could spend the rest of her life with. And then it happened. She met the irresistible Otto, her first in a long line of Boston terriers, and fell instantly in love. You Had Me at Woof is the often hilarious and always sincere story of how one woman discovered life's most important lessons from her relationships with her canine companions. From Otto, Julie realized what it might feel like to find "the one." She learned to share her home, her heart, and her limited resources with another, and she found an authentic friend in the process. But that was just the beginning. Over the years her brood has grown to one husband, one daughter, and several Boston terriers. And although she had much to learn about how to care for them-walks at 2 a.m., vet visits, behavior problems-she was surprised and delighted to find that her dogs had more wisdom to convey to her than she had ever dreamed. And caring for them has made her a better person-and completely and utterly opened her heart. Riotously funny and unexpectedly poignant, You Had Me at Woof recounts the hidden surprises, pleasures, and revelations of letting any mutt, beagle, terrier, or bulldog go charging through your world. Watch a Video
Download or read book Search for the Navajo Code Talkers written by Sally McClain and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One woman's determined search for the truth about World War II's forgotten heroes.
Download or read book Navajo Code Talkers written by Blake Hoena and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II U.S. forces had to keep battle plans and other top secret information out of the enemy's hands. Coded messages were often used, but secret codes could be broken. To solve this problem, the U.S. military turned to an unexpected source to create an unbreakable code. The Navajo people spoke a complex language that few outsiders knew how to speak. Several Navajo soldiers were recruited to develop a code based on the Navajo language. The result was a complex code that could not be solved by the enemy. Learn all about the brave Navajo Code Talkers and how their unbreakable code helped defeat the enemy and win the war.
Download or read book Talking to Animals written by Jon Katz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Jon Katz—“a Thoreau for modern times” (San Antonio Express-News)—offers us a deeper understanding of the inner lives of animals and teaches us how we can more effectively communicate with them, made real by his own remarkable experiences with a wide array of creatures great and small. In Talking to Animals, journalist Jon Katz—who left his Manhattan life behind two decades ago for life on a farm where he is surrounded by dogs, cats, sheep, horses, cows, goats, and chickens—marshals his experience to offer us a deeper insight into animals and the tools needed for effectively communicating with them. Devoting each chapter to a specific animal from his life, Katz tells funny and illuminating stories about his profound experiences with them, showing us how healthy engagement with animals falls into five key areas: Food, Movement, Visualization, Language, and Instincts. Along the way, we meet Simon the donkey who arrives at Katz’s farm near death and now serves as his Tai Chi partner. We meet Red the dog who started out antisocial and untrained and is now a therapy dog working with veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan. And we meet Winston, the dignified and brave rooster who was injured defending his hens from a hawk and who has better interpersonal skills than most humans. Thoughtful and intelligent, lively and powerful, this book will completely change the way you think about and interact with animals. Katz’s “honest, straightforward, and sometimes searing prose will speak to those who love animals, and might well convert some who do not” (Booklist).
Download or read book We the Animals written by Justin Torres and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The critically acclaimed debut from the National Book Award–winning author of Blackouts. In this award-winning, groundbreaking novel, Justin Torres plunges us into the chaotic heart of one family, the intense bonds of three brothers, and the mythic effects of this fierce love on the people we must become. “A tremendously gifted writer whose highly personal voice should excite us in much the same way that Raymond Carver’s or Jeffrey Eugenides’s voice did when we first heard it.” —The Washington Post Three brothers tear their way through childhood—smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from trash, hiding out when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off her graveyard shift. Paps and Ma are from Brooklyn—he’s Puerto Rican, she’s white—and their love is a serious, dangerous thing that makes and unmakes a family many times. Life in this family is fierce and absorbing, full of chaos and heartbreak and the euphoria of belonging completely to one another. From the intense familial unity felt by a child to the profound alienation he endures as he begins to see the world, this beautiful novel reinvents the coming-of-age story in a way that is sly and punch-in-the-stomach powerful. “We the Animals is a dark jewel of a book. It’s heartbreaking. It’s beautiful. It resembles no other book I’ve read.” —Michael Cunningham “A fiery ode to boyhood. . . A welterweight champ of a book.” —NPR, Weekend Edition NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
Download or read book Here Kitty Kitty written by Amy Edgar and published by Scholastic Reader, Level 2. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Molly's cat Stella is behaving oddly, but Molly cannot find her special magic bracelet that allows her to understand what animals are saying, so she does not know what Stella is trying to tell her. Includes a charm bracelet. Full color. Consumable.
Download or read book Chasing Doctor Dolittle written by C. N. Slobodchikoff and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses how animals are capable of interacting intelligently through vocal and physical methods, drawing on work with prairie dogs to present evidence of animal communication methods and how they can be imitated by human researchers.
Download or read book The Sweet Talker Sports Romance written by Cathryn Fox and published by Cathryn Fox. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “My go to author for sexy romance.” – Lauren Blakely, #1 NYT’S Bestselling author. I wasn’t looking for love. Falling for someone would dishonor the memory of my late husband. But wouldn’t you know it. Love found me anyway—in the form of a NHL player who was celebrating Christmas in Holiday Peak. Brody Tucker’s reputation preceded him. But he brought me back to life again—made me realize I was only going through the motions. Now one question remains. Can I move forward with him, find happiness again with a guy who seemed to know my deepest thoughts, my private secrets even though I had no idea how? I was ready to make the leap, take a chance on love, until I discovered the Sweet Talker was playing an off ice game I knew nothing about.
Download or read book How to Talk to Anyone Anytime Anywhere written by Larry King and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some find talking to others uncomfortable, difficult, or intimidating. Here is a way to overcome these communication challenges. HOW TO TALK TO ANYONE, ANYTIME, ANYWHERE is the key to building confidence and improving communication skills. Written by Larry King, this guide provides simple and practical advice to help make communication easier, more successful, and even more enjoyable. Anecdotes from a life spent talking--on television, radio, and in person,--add to the fun and value of the book. Learn what famous talkers say and how the way they say it makes them so successful. Lessons include: • How to overcome shyness and put other people at ease • How to choose an appropriate conversation topic for any situation • How to ace a job interview, run a meeting, and mingle at a cocktail party • What the most successful conversationalists have in common • The one great question you can ask to enhance your conversation with anyone, anytime, anywhere
Download or read book A Little Book of Sloth written by Lucy Cooke and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cozy up with adorable baby sloths in this irresistible photographic picture book. Hang around just like a sloth and get to know the delightful residents of the Avarios Sloth Sanctuary in Costa Rica, the world’s largest sloth orphanage. You’ll fall in love with bad-boy Mateo, ooh and ahh over baby Biscuit, and want to wrap your arms around champion cuddle buddy Ubu! From British filmmaker and sloth expert Lucy Cooke comes a hilarious, heart-melting photographic picture book starring the laziest—and one of the cutest—animals on the planet.
Download or read book Time to Talk written by Michelle MacRoy-Higgins and published by AMACOM. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it comes to language acquisition, all parents have questions…and?this invaluable resource?has all the answers. When should I expect my baby’s first word? Is my toddler on his way to talking soon? Is my child speaking as clearly as her peers? All parents end up thinking questions like these during their children’s formative years, but too few act on them, assuming the answers are too unpredictable to be certain. Time to Talk answers these questions for the curious parent. Written by an experienced speech-language pathologist and mom, this practical and proactive guide will help parents: Understand the building blocks of speech and language Monitor progress against expected milestones Enhance their child’s communication skills Spot signs of potential problems with hearing, speech, or language development Address common concerns, such as articulation, late talking, stuttering, dyslexia, etc. Foster literacy Raise bilingual children successfully Your child’s language acquisition no longer must be a guessing game for you. From baby’s first babbling to reading readiness, Time to Talk provides everything a parent needs so this vital fundamental skill doesn’t have to be left to chance.
