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Book Unlikely Friendships

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jennifer S. Holland
  • Publisher : Workman Publishing
  • Release : 2011-06-15
  • ISBN : 0761165312
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book Unlikely Friendships written by Jennifer S. Holland and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is exactly like Isaiah 11:6: “The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid . . . ” Written by National Geographic magazine writer Jennifer Holland, Unlikely Friendships documents one heartwarming tale after another of animals who, with nothing else in common, bond in the most unexpected ways. A cat and a bird. A mare and a fawn. An elephant and a sheep. A snake and a hamster. The well-documented stories of Koko the gorilla and All Ball the kitten; and the hippo Owen and the tortoise Mzee. And almost inexplicable stories of predators befriending prey—an Indian leopard slips into a village every night to sleep with a calf. A lionness mothers a baby oryx. Ms. Holland narrates the details and arc of each story, and also offers insights into why—how the young leopard, probably motherless, sought maternal comfort with the calf, and how a baby oryx inspired the same mothering instinct in the lionness. Or, in the story of Kizzy, a nervous retired Greyhound, and Murphy, a red tabby, how cats and dogs actually understand each other’s body language. With Murphy’s friendship and support, Kizzy recovered from life as a racing dog and became a confident, loyal family pet. These are the most amazing friendships between species, collected from around the world and documented in a selection of full-color candid photographs.

Book Unlikely Friendships  Dogs

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jennifer S. Holland
  • Publisher : Hachette UK
  • Release : 2016-08-23
  • ISBN : 0761189106
  • Pages : 393 pages

Download or read book Unlikely Friendships Dogs written by Jennifer S. Holland and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new book from the New York Times bestselling series. Enhanced with beautiful full-color photographs, these true stories of camaraderie, affection, and remarkable bravery are from the author of the New York Times bestsellers Unlikely Friendships, Unlikely Loves, and Unlikely Heroes, as well as other books and calendars, with nearly two million copies in print. Meet Rex, a German shepherd who learned to love and trust again through the improbable friendship of a goose. The pit bull named Dolly, whose antics with her best friend, Sheldon the tortoise, include games of tag. For the millions of dog lovers, this heartwarming and inspirational book celebrates 37 stories of unusual canine companionship.

Book Unlikely Loves

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jennifer S. Holland
  • Publisher : Workman Publishing Company
  • Release : 2013-10-08
  • ISBN : 0761178732
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book Unlikely Loves written by Jennifer S. Holland and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her inspiring New York Times bestseller Unlikely Friendships, Jennifer Holland introduced us to the heartwarming relationships that exist between animals of different species. Her stories struck a chord with thousands of readers, including Temple Grandin, who described the book as "amazing." Now Holland explores animal attachments that, in human terms, can only be called love. Packed with beautiful, breathtaking full-color photographs, Unlikely Loves is a celebration of love between species. Here are stories of parental love, like the Dalmatian who mothers a newborn lamb—a lamb that just happens to be white with black spots! Stories of playful love, including the fox and the hound who become inseparable. And stories of orphaned animals who have found family-like ties in unexpected combinations, like the elephant who’s bonded with sea lions, goats, and other animals in her walks around the Oregon Zoo. Ms. Holland has interviewed scientists, zoologists, and animal caretakers from around the world, tracking down firsthand sources and eyewitnesses. The stories are written with journalistic integrity and detail—and always filled with the author’s deep affection for her subjects.

Book Unlikely Friends

    Book Details:
  • Author : David W. Scott
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2021-07-08
  • ISBN : 1725286378
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Unlikely Friends written by David W. Scott and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can something as simple as friendship have a transformative impact in a divided world? Through a series of richly textured historical portraits and reflections on personal experience, this book shows that boundary-crossing friendships in Christian mission have shaped theologies, built organizations and partnerships, facilitated mission work, and changed attitudes and ways of thinking. This is true in settings as varied as eighteenth-century French women’s work, twentieth-century urban Boston, colonial India, the Jim Crow South, and twentieth-century rural Congo. In all these settings and more, friendship has mattered. Boundary-crossing friendships are, however, not easy. Despite their power, such friendships are complicated by race, gender, ability, class, nationality, and other elements of identity, as this book also demonstrates. Friendships are not immune from the divisions in the world, nor a simple cure-all for them. Still, friendship stands as a powerful testimony to the gospel. Therefore, the book calls for more attention to friendship in the study of mission history and more living out of friendship as a practice of mission. In this way, this book pays honor to Dr. Dana L. Robert as a pre-eminent mission scholar and exemplary friend and mentor to others in the fields of missiology and world Christianity.

Book Unlikely Friendships for Kids  The Leopard   the Cow

Download or read book Unlikely Friendships for Kids The Leopard the Cow written by Jennifer S. Holland and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012-05-02 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good friends come in all shapes and sizes! Unlikely Friendships, the runaway New York Times bestseller with a compelling message of hope and friendship and differences overcome, is rewritten just for younger readers. This hardcover chapter book for children ages seven and up collects five heartwarming true stories of animal friendship: Koko the gorilla and her favorite kittens, a dog who swims with dolphins, a zebra who cares for a young gazelle, a baby warthog who makes friends with a lonely rhinoceros, and a leopard who cuddles with a cow at bedtime. Chapter books give young readers a strong sense of accomplishment, and these heartwarming animal stories, with their incredible photographs and inexplicable mysteries of attraction, their focus on friendship, love, and the ways that creatures of all different species can find common bonds of affection, will keep kids turning the pages to find out about the unusual ways animals help each other and discover the love of new friends. Each is a perfect gift for young animal lovers, and a lovely subject to help kids get reading.

Book Beak   Ally  1  Unlikely Friends

Download or read book Beak Ally 1 Unlikely Friends written by Norm Feuti and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Award winner! “What do you get when you cross a crusty alligator and a perky bird? A surprising friendship you’ll be sure to cheer for. Beak and Ally is a warm, funny winner!” —Terri Libenson, author of the New York Times bestselling Emmie & Friends series A brand-new early reader graphic novel series about finding friendship in unexpected places! This fun and funny buddy comedy is perfect for fans of Narwhal & Jelly, emerging readers, and all kids who love comics. Ally the alligator is perfectly happy being alone . . . until one day a noisy bird named Beak lands on her snout. Beak thinks Ally is lonely and needs a friend. He has all sorts of friendship goals in mind, like riding bikes together, going to the movies together, and even solving mysteries together! But when a Long-Billed Party Pooper crashes Beak’s nest-warming party, Ally decides to show Beak something important to her: sticking up for what’s right.

Book An Unlikely Friendship

Download or read book An Unlikely Friendship written by Ann Rinaldi and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rinaldi delves into the childhood friendship between Mary Todd Lincoln and black seamstress Elizabeth Keckley--two fascinating women who became devoted friends and confidantes amid the turbulent times of the Lincoln administration.

Book Unlikely Friends

    Book Details:
  • Author : James A. Vela-McConnell
  • Publisher : Lexington Books
  • Release : 2010-12-13
  • ISBN : 1461634644
  • Pages : 253 pages

Download or read book Unlikely Friends written by James A. Vela-McConnell and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2010-12-13 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are those individuals who have established deep, lasting relationships with others from very different backgrounds of race, gender, sexual orientation, etc. Research indicates that such friendships are a relatively rare phenomenon. While many study the reasons for this pattern, the research presented here focuses on the successes of the few: 'How have you broken down the social distance between you and bridged the social distance that separates you?' This monograph traces the process by which people overcome the differences between them, starting with an in-depth look at friendship and friendship patterns in our society, how these boundaries shape the friendships themselves, how opportunities to establish such friendships are structured, and the interpersonal techniques for managing social differences. The book concludes with a consideration of how such friendships can shape the future of society.

Book Unlikely Friendships for Kids  The Dog   The Piglet

Download or read book Unlikely Friendships for Kids The Dog The Piglet written by Jennifer S. Holland and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-05-02 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good friends come in all shapes and sizes! Unlikely Friendships, the runaway New York Times bestseller with a compelling message of hope and friendship and differences overcome, is rewritten just for younger readers. This hardcover chapter book for children ages seven and up collects five heartwarming true stories of animal friendship: a hippo and the goat who is his best friend, an iguana that snuggles with a cat, a dog that takes care of a blind deer, a cat and orangutan who become friends, and a mother dog who cares for a tiny piglet. Chapter books give young readers a strong sense of accomplishment, and these heartwarming animal stories, with their incredible photographs and inexplicable mysteries of attraction, their focus on friendship, love, and the ways that creatures of all different species can find common bonds of affection, will keep kids turning the pages to find out about the unusual ways animals help each other and discover the love of new friends. Each is a perfect gift for young animal lovers, and a lovely subject to help kids get reading.

Book Weird Friends

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jose Aruego
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780152021283
  • Pages : 52 pages

Download or read book Weird Friends written by Jose Aruego and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about funny and fascinating animal friendships around the globe.

Book Unified

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tim Scott
  • Publisher : NavPress
  • Release : 2018-04-03
  • ISBN : 1496430441
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Unified written by Tim Scott and published by NavPress. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller In a divided country desperate for unity, two sons of South Carolina show how different races, life experiences, and pathways can lead to a deep friendship—even in a state that was rocked to its core by the 2015 Charleston church shooting. Tim Scott, an African-American US senator, and Trey Gowdy, a white US congressman, won’t allow racial lines to divide them. They work together, eat meals together, campaign together, and make decisions together. Yet in the fall of 2010—as two brand-new members of the US House of Representatives—they did not even know each other. Their story as politicians and friends began the moment they met and is a model for others seeking true reconciliation. In Unified, Senator Scott and Congressman Gowdy, through honesty and vulnerability, inspire others to evaluate their own stories, clean the slate, and extend a hand of friendship that can change your churches, communities, and the world.

Book Crow   Snow

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Broder
  • Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
  • Release : 2020-10-27
  • ISBN : 1534445951
  • Pages : 48 pages

Download or read book Crow Snow written by Robert Broder and published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This heartfelt and beautifully illustrated picture book follows the special friendship between a scarecrow and a snowman throughout the seasons. Being a scarecrow can be lonely. Spending his day keeping birds away doesn’t leave Crow with many options for friends. Then one snowy day, the children on the farm build a snowman. Crow and Snow are fast friends and winter passes happily in each other’s company. Then Snow goes away. Crow misses his friend and thinks of Snow during the warm seasons until they can be reunited again. Being apart can be hard, but the very truest of friends never lose each other.

Book Unlikely Friends

Download or read book Unlikely Friends written by Monica Hall and published by Thomas Nelson Inc. This book was released on 1999 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the guidance of an angel, fifteen-year-old juvenile offender Jason discovers the rewards of working with and helping Kelly, who is in a wheelchair.

Book Friends

    Book Details:
  • Author : Catherine Thimmesh
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 0547390106
  • Pages : 37 pages

Download or read book Friends written by Catherine Thimmesh and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2011 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers actual examples of unusual animal friendships, including a camel and a potbellied pig, a giraffe and an ostrich, and a bear and a cat.

Book Justice for Ella

Download or read book Justice for Ella written by Pam Johnson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a Sunday afternoon in 1959 in Shuqualak, Mississippi, Ella and her husband Nelse were arrested in front of their children and hauled off to the notorious Noxubee County Jail. The Gastons were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time--caught up in a manhunt for Nelse's cousin who had allegedly beaten up the city marshal. The court appearances and legal wrangling that followed resulted in Ella's being found guilty of intimidating an officer and the all-white Mississippi Supreme Court reversing and remanding her conviction on grounds of racial prejudice in testimony--a first. To avoid retrial, Ella and Jewell engaged in multiple cat-and-mouse games that placed Ella "sick" in the hospital, Jewell standing guard, and would-be tormenters at bay. Eventually, the women prevailed, Ella remained free, and the story faded away into obscurity--until now.

Book Wooby   Peep

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cynthea Liu
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 9781402796449
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Wooby Peep written by Cynthea Liu and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Peep leaves the city to live in the country with her pet iguana, her new neighbor, Wooby is concerned but tries to be polite and neighborly, even when her efforts to become his friend lead to disaster.

Book The Dog and the Piglet

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jennifer S. Holland
  • Publisher : Turtleback Books
  • Release : 2012-04-10
  • ISBN : 9780606238168
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Dog and the Piglet written by Jennifer S. Holland and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in schools and libraries only. Presents five stories about animals who have forged unlikely, abiding bonds with other animals of different species.