Download or read book Ty the Quiet Giraffe written by Carrie Hasler and published by Blue Sneaker Press. This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At first, everyone noticed Ty the giraffe. He's hard to miss. But Ty is quiet. He doesn't like to interrupt, and he never shouts out. He likes to think before answering. He pays attention to details and notices things that others don't. And being quiet makes him a great listener. But the others think Ty is too quiet. They think he never has anything to say. Can he even speak at all? Pretty soon, everyone stops noticing him. That is until Ty shows them that everyone has something important to say. Inspired by giraffes who are naturally quiet and virtually non-vocal, this story teaches young kids that being quiet is more than okayƒ‚‚"ƒ‚‚€ƒ‚‚"it can be a benefit. Includes fun facts and information about giraffes!
Download or read book The Breathless Zoo written by Rachel Poliquin and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2012-08-22 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From sixteenth-century cabinets of wonders to contemporary animal art, The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing examines the cultural and poetic history of preserving animals in lively postures. But why would anyone want to preserve an animal, and what is this animal-thing now? Rachel Poliquin suggests that taxidermy is entwined with the enduring human longing to find meaning with and within the natural world. Her study draws out the longings at the heart of taxidermy—the longing for wonder, beauty, spectacle, order, narrative, allegory, and remembrance. In so doing, The Breathless Zoo explores the animal spectacles desired by particular communities, human assumptions of superiority, the yearnings for hidden truths within animal form, and the loneliness and longing that haunt our strange human existence, being both within and apart from nature.
Download or read book Giraffes Can t Dance written by Giles Andreae and published by Cartwheel Books. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Great Britain: Orchard Books London, 1999.
Download or read book A Wish for Pangolin written by Carrie Hasler and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-20 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ƒ‚‚‹ƒ‚‚€ƒ‚‚‹Preeya the pangolin and her pup Chatri discover that their home in the rainforest of Thailand has become too dangerous. As the only mammals with scales, pangolins are some of the most unusual animals in the world. But, they are being hunted to the brink of extinction. With danger on the rise, Preeya and Chatri find human footprints nearby and must find a new, safer home deeper in the forest. As they search for one, the pangolins find some unexpected help from their forest friends along with a renewed sense of hope for their future.
Download or read book Gretel and the Dark written by Eliza Granville and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades after a celebrated Viennese psychoanalyst begins working with a woman who claims to be a machine, a young girl retreats into fairy tales, unaware of the dangers in her Nazi-controlled German city.
Download or read book Periwinkle s Journey written by Judy Petersen-Fleming and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's spring in Australia when Periwinkle, a little blue penguin, begins her journey to Antarctica where she'll meet all of her penguin cousins. Along the way she learns a lot about her world and herself. The smallest penguin of all, Periwinkle is not only shorter than her cousins, but she is also blue and most importantly- different from the rest. Hesitant at first, Periwinkle learns during her journey to be brave and realizes that it's not how you look on the outside, but it's what's inside that matters. Periwinkle's Journey is the first book in an entirely new series of endearing characters from Suzy's World. Featuring the work of beloved illustrator Suzy Spafford, creator of Suzy's Zoo, and author Judy Petersen-Fleming, these books and characters are dedicated to educating kids in a fun and whimsical way about animals in the wild, inspiring all of us
Download or read book A Friend of the Earth written by T. C. Boyle and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: _______________________ 'A comedy with teeth ... razor sharp and darkly funny' (TIMES) 'Boyle's prose is so good and his imagination so fertile that after a while you just sit back and are swept along' (TELEGRAPH) 'Surreal, daring and compassionate. Easily one of the best books of the year' (MAIL) 'Superb ... if Boyle was from this side of the pond, this is the book they'd all have to beat for the Booker Prize' (SUNDAY TIMES) It's 2025, and 75-year-old environmentalist and retired eco-terrorist Ty Tierwater is eking out a bleak living managing a pop star's private zoo. It is the last one in southern California, and vital for the cloning of its captive species. Once, Ty was so serious about environmental causes that as a radical activist committed to Earth Forever! he endangered the lives of both his daughter, Sierra, and his wife, Andrea. Now, when he's just trying to survive in a world cursed by storm and drought, Andrea re-enters his life. Frightening, funny, surreal and gripping, T.C. Boyle's story is both a modern morality tale, and a provocative vision of the future.
Download or read book A Ball for Daisy written by Chris Raschka and published by Schwartz & Wade. This book was released on 2011-12-21 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2012 Randolph Caldecott Medal This New York Times Bestseller and New York Times Best Illustrated Book relates a story about love and loss as only Chris Rashcka can tell it. Any child who has ever had a beloved toy break will relate to Daisy's anguish when her favorite ball is destroyed by a bigger dog. In the tradition of his nearly wordless picture book Yo! Yes?, Caldecott Medalist Chris Raschka explores in pictures the joy and sadness that having a special toy can bring. Raschka's signature swirling, impressionistic illustrations and his affectionate story will particularly appeal to young dog lovers and teachers and parents who have children dealing with the loss of something special.
Download or read book The Kindergarten and First Grade written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Aqua Adventure written by Carrie Hasler and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While searching for his family, Coop the chicken, along with his friends, embarks on an underwater adventure and saves a coral reef community from a greedy polluter.
Download or read book A Dictionary of the English Language written by Alexander Reid and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Loneliness as a Way of Life written by Thomas Dumm and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “What does it mean to be lonely?” Thomas Dumm asks. His inquiry, documented in this book, takes us beyond social circumstances and into the deeper forces that shape our very existence as modern individuals. The modern individual, Dumm suggests, is fundamentally a lonely self. Through reflections on philosophy, political theory, literature, and tragic drama, he proceeds to illuminate a hidden dimension of the human condition. His book shows how loneliness shapes the contemporary division between public and private, our inability to live with each other honestly and in comity, the estranged forms that our intimate relationships assume, and the weakness of our common bonds. A reading of the relationship between Cordelia and her father in Shakespeare’s King Lear points to the most basic dynamic of modern loneliness—how it is a response to the problem of the “missing mother.” Dumm goes on to explore the most important dimensions of lonely experience—Being, Having, Loving, and Grieving. As the book unfolds, he juxtaposes new interpretations of iconic cultural texts—Moby-Dick, Death of a Salesman, the film Paris, Texas, Emerson’s “Experience,” to name a few—with his own experiences of loneliness, as a son, as a father, and as a grieving husband and widower. Written with deceptive simplicity, Loneliness as a Way of Life is something rare—an intellectual study that is passionately personal. It challenges us, not to overcome our loneliness, but to learn how to re-inhabit it in a better way. To fail to do so, this book reveals, will only intensify the power that it holds over us.
Download or read book St Nicholas written by Mary Mapes Dodge and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Portable Dictionary of the English Language written by Noah Webster and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The people s portable dictionary condensed by C Robson written by Noah Webster and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Signs and Symbols written by Adrian Frutiger and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the elements of a sign, and looks at pictograms, alphabets, calligraphy, monograms, text type, numerical signs, symbols, and trademarks.
