Download or read book Kookaburra Tales 3 written by Moh Ana and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is often said that laughter is the best medicine. Humour, besides having a wonderful therapeutic effect on our mental and physical health, bonds loved ones and communities, even strangers, together. However, when laughter comes at the expense of someone else - when we make fun of the failures, flaws and misfortunes of others, we not only cause them to suffer but could hurt ourselves as well. It may take a particular experience to teach us the value of treating others with kindness and respect. In this charming tale, the community living around a pond discovers just that when a duck pursues a snail, hoping to make him part of her meal. A group of dandelions mock her efforts and their laughter leads to unexpected, dire consequences! Watching, with Kookaburra, this enchanting world connected through the web of life, readers young and old imbibe the simple yet powerful Golden Rule, "Don't laugh at others" and risk being hurt too!
Download or read book Kookaburra Tales 1 6 written by Moh Ana and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our little ones engage in Pretend Play, creating a fantasy world where they dramatise their perception of every day happenings and give voice to their imaginary characters. Join Kookaburra and experience this Enchanting World of our children brought to life through exciting tales and vibrant illustrations. Tale #1 Separated from his own kind, Dove learns the true meaning of love, family and home in a 'foreign' nest. Tale #2 Life comes full circle for a shy shallow and her little hero as they breathe new energy into the age-old maxim "A friend in need is a friend indeed". Tale #3 Through the web of life, imbibe the simple yet powerful golden rule of never to laugh at others, and risk being hurt too. Tale #4 Wise and compassionate Father Snail turns his journey of discovery into a teachable moment for his 1-year-old to appreciate the value of persistence and turn disappointments into inspiring experiences. Tale #5 Grandpa Fish uses a simple game to help Baby Fish overcome her fear of the unknown that engulfs her little heart and clogs up her vulnerable mind. Tale #6 Through his greedy deed, a pup learns that Mum's insistent nagging has its purpose too.
Download or read book Mystery at Camp Kookaburra written by Kyla Steinkraus and published by Paisley Atoms. This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Strange animals appear in the forest. Where did they come from?" --
Download or read book Kookaburras Love to Laugh written by Laura Bunting and published by Omnibus Books. This book was released on 2018-01-03 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is no laughing matter when you are the most serious bird in the borough. Kookaburras love to laugh. They laugh when it is sunny, or rainy, or windy. They laugh for no reason at all. When one serious kookaburra decides to flee the jokers, and goes to find a more suitable flock, he finds that perhaps he might just be in the right place after all.
Download or read book Kookoo Kookaburra written by Gregg Dreise and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Age range 5 to 8 Kindness is like a boomerang -- if you throw it often, it comes back often. Kookoo the Kookaburra is the second heartwarming morality tale - set within the cultural context of theDreamtime -- by Queensland teacher Gregg Dreise. In the same vein as his first book Silly Birds (MagabalaBooks 2014) Dreise tells the story of Kookoo, a kind and well-loved kookaburra who is famous for entertainingthe other bush creatures with his funny stories. Everyone knows Kookoo has a special gift because he cantell funny stories about the other animals without hurting their feelings. However, when Kookoo runs out ofkind stories he turns to teasing and making fun of his friends' differences.Refusing to listen to the sage advice of his uncle, Kookoo gradually alienates all his friends until he findshimself alone and ignored by the other animals. When he finally listens to the sounds of his own laughterechoing around the bush and realises it has become an unhappy sound, Kookoo is forced to remember hisuncle's words and change his ways -- kindness is like a boomerang -- if you throw it often, it comes backoften.
Download or read book Kookaburra Tales 4 written by Moh Ana and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a sunny, peaceful morning in a vineyard, a snail named Aaron celebrates his first birthday by embarking on his long-awaited, initial climbing trip with his proud father, a successful 'mountaineer', leading the way. Beaming with delight, both father and son begin to climb one of the poles as Kookaburra watches perched on a tree nearby. Soon, Father Snail realizes that Aaron has stopped climbing! Anxious and dejected, the little one asks his father to take him home. The duo try scaling the pole the next day and the day after, only to turn back before reaching the summit when Aaron stops and sadly requests to return home, again and again. Puzzled, Father Snail wonders why his son's excitement has faded, replaced instead with overwhelming discouragement. He must figure out why Aaron is giving up on his goal! Join the determined father on his journey of discovery in this fourth tale in a series set in an enchanting world, where Kookaburra observes as young Aaron, with the help of his wise and compassionate father, learns a valuable lesson about persistence and turning disappointments into inspiring learning experiences.
Download or read book Kookaburra Tales 1 written by Moh Ana and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At dawn in a beautiful fantasy land, Kookaburra's laughter announces the arrival of old Mr Sun, whose golden fingers begin to gracefully dance on the sunflower family, causing them to straighten and reach for his revitalizing warmth. Suddenly, the tallest of the sunflowers notices something falling from the sky. Netting the object on her face, she sends it rolling down her family's spiral stairway, right into a nest created by the bent grass blades. Incubating the egg in their own special way, the grass and flowers create protective layers to shelter the unborn from a looming storm. With the wind fiercely howling pass during the terrible thunderstorm, Kookaburra realises that the flowers and grass need help. He swoops in and saves the egg, just in time! The next morning, a tiny chick hatches and soon grows into healthy fledgling, tenderly cared for by his hosts. As the bird seeks adventure in search of his own kind, Kookaburra, the sunflowers and grass wonder if their bond is strong enough to entice him to return, back into the warm embrace of their loving home. In this vibrant children's story that comes alive with enchanting illustrations, the value of love and life is encapsulated through nature as an orphaned bird learns the true meaning of family and home.
Download or read book Gadi Mirrabooka written by Pauline E. McLeod and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-11-15 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a journey into the fascinating world of Australia's Aboriginal culture with this unique collection of 33 authentic, unaltered stories brought to you by three Aboriginal storyteller custodians! Unlike other compilations of tales that were modified and published without permission from the Aboriginal people, these stories are now presented with approval from Aboriginal elders in an effort to help foster a better understanding of the history and culture of the Aboriginal people. Gadi Mirrabooka, which means below the Southern Cross, introduces wonderful tales from the Dreamtime, the mystical period of Aboriginal beginning. Through these stories you can learn about customs and values, animal psychology, hunting and gathering skills, cultural norms, moral behavior, the spiritual belief system, survival skills, and food resources. A distinctive and absolutely compelling story collection, this book is an immensely valuable treasure for educators, parents, children, and adult readers. Grades K-A
Download or read book Kookaburra written by Claire Saxby and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The team behind Dingo returns with a lyrically told, beautifully illustrated exploration of another unique Australian animal: the laughing kookaburra. In the crinkled shadows, night dwellers yawn, day creatures stretch, and Kookaburra laughs. Kook-kook-kook. Kak-kak-kak. What is that sunrise chorus that sounds like laughter? It is a kookaburra and her family, calling over the river. Follow these iconic Australian birds as they search for food and team up to defend their territory in preparation for the nesting season. With rich paintings and poetic text, threaded through with intriguing facts, Kookaburra offers insight into the lives of these fascinating birds. Curious readers will find more information about kookaburras at the end, as well as an index leading them back through the book to explore these distinctive creatures more closely.
Download or read book Kookaburra Tales written by Moh Ana and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old Mr Sun crawls up the dark sky and sets it aglow with a rosy charm. All the animals awaken, shedding their cosy blanket of sleep. With the dawn of the bright new day, a lone swallow arrives at the vineyard to begin her solo performance. Kookaburra watches and wonders why she chooses to be alone and not flock with her family and friends. Soon, Swallow spreads her wings and gracefully flies around, leaving Kookaburra enchanted by her acrobatic stunts. But she becomes accidentally entangled in the drooping tendrils of the grapevines! A red butterfly stops to assist and when she is finally free, Swallow is just too shy to utter even a word of thanks to Red Wing. Weeks later, as she rests on a bunch of grapes after her usual morning dance, Swallow discovers she may have the opportunity to thank her saviour after all! In this charming children s tale, life comes full circle for a bird and her little hero as they breathe new energy into the age-old maxim, A friend in need is a friend indeed.
Download or read book The Road from Coorain written by Jill Ker Conway and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-06-22 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a memoir that pierces and delights us, Jill Ker Conway tells the story of her astonishing journey into adulthood—a journey that would ultimately span immense distances and encompass worlds, ideas, and ways of life that seem a century apart. She was seven before she ever saw another girl child. At eight, still too small to mount her horse unaided, she was galloping miles, alone, across Coorain, her parents' thirty thousand windswept, drought-haunted acres in the Australian outback, doing a "man's job" of helping herd the sheep because World War II had taken away the able-bodied men. She loved (and makes us see and feel) the vast unpeopled landscape, beautiful and hostile, whose uncertain weathers tormented the sheep ranchers with conflicting promises of riches and inescapable disaster. She adored (and makes us know) her large-visioned father and her strong, radiant mother, who had gone willingly with him into a pioneering life of loneliness and bone-breaking toil, who seemed miraculously to succeed in creating a warmly sheltering home in the harsh outback, and who, upon her husband's sudden death when Jill was ten, began to slide—bereft of the partnership of work and love that had so utterly fulfilled her—into depression and dependency. We see Jill, staggered by the loss of her father, catapulted to what seemed another planet—the suburban Sydney of the 1950s and its crowded, noisy, cliquish school life. Then the heady excitement of the University, but with it a yet more demanding course of lessons—Jill embracing new ideas, new possibilities, while at the same time trying to be mother to her mother and resenting it, escaping into drink, pulling herself back, striking a balance. We see her slowly gaining strength, coming into her own emotionally and intellectually and beginning the joyous love affair that gave wings to her newfound self. Worlds away from Coorain, in America, Jill Conway became a historian and the first woman president of Smith College. Her story of Coorain and the road from Coorain startles by its passion and evocative power, by its understanding of the ways in which a total, deep-rooted commitment to place—or to a dream—can at once liberate and imprison. It is a story of childhood as both Eden and anguish, and of growing up as a journey toward the difficult life of the free.
Download or read book Dingo written by Claire Saxby and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetic language and glorious illustrations follow a dingo from the comfort of her pack into the darkening landscape in search of food for her family. Can you see her? There — deep in the stretching shadows — a dingo. Her pointed ears twitch. Her tawny eyes flash in the low-slung sun. Dingo leaves her sleeping pups with her mate and lifts her head to smell the air. Dusk is a busy time — the time for hunting. Softly and fleetly she runs through the forest, past a possum, a wombat, and kangaroos in the gully below. Now she climbs to the highest point and sniffs again, locating the scent of rabbits in the wind. Interspersed with text offering facts for curious readers, Dingo is a lyrical foray into the life of these fascinating wild dogs.
Download or read book Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators in the Mystery of the Laughing Shadow written by William Arden and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Firestorm at Kookaburra Station written by Robert Elmer and published by Endless Rain. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick and Michael find themselves aboard an escaped hot air balloon with an inexperienced pilot. Sighting a "bunyip", a legendary creature feared by the aborigines, they wonder if they can escape in time to warn the ranchers of an approaching firestorm.
Download or read book I See a Kookaburra written by Steve Jenkins and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I See a Kookaburra! lets readers search for an oystercatcher, an elephant shrew, and a fierce snapping turtle in the places where they live. Learn how these animals and many others grow and thrive in very different environments. Incorporated into the book is an interactive element. Hidden in the illustrations are animals camouflaged in their surroundings. Turn the page to see if you were able to find them all!
Download or read book Kookaburra written by Sarah Legge and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2004 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kookaburras are among the largest kingfishers in the world. They can live in a wide variety of habitats, and have adapted to living around humans relatively well. While they may be a familiar icon, Sarah Legge also explains why this laughing king of the bush is a much more complex bird than generally assumed.
Download or read book Kassie the Kookaburra a tale of laughter and friendship written by Maree Dundee and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2023-09-20 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kassie the kookaburra sits high in his tree with his good friend Charlie the cockatoo. Together they enjoy watching over Anthony, Shae and Lea, playing in the garden below. Watch Anthony, so clever on his skateboard and bike. Discover the fun that Shae and Lea have playing games in their playhouse. What adventures those children enjoy under the beautiful Australian sun, surrounded by the beauty of Gum trees and tree ferns! How does laughter and screeching protect them from the slithering brown snake? Read on to discover the beauty of friendship and laughter between 2 feathered friends and 3 Aussie kids!
