After A While Crocodile: Alexa's Diary


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Alexa and the other children at her escuela in Costa Rica have a special project: they are raising American Crocodiles. She names her croc Jefe, which means "boss," because he seems to be in charge of all the other babies. Alexa brings him chicken and frogs to eat, and writes about his progress in her diary. Soon, her little hatchling is as big as a loaf of bread. He has grown into a juvenile and it is time for Alexa to say goodbye and for Jefe to return to the wild.




See You Later, Alligator


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A departing tortoise has his bags packed and is almost ready to set out on an adventure, but he can’t leave until he says good-bye to each of his animal friends. The tortoise stops for every last timid mouse and bumblebee, shouting his rhyming good-byes, making you wonder if, perhaps, he’s stalling the start of his trip. His animal friends appear startled as he suddenly pops up on each page to say adieu—especially the perplexed rhinoceros the tortoise mistakes for a unicorn! With each farewell, the tortoise’s good-byes get sillier and more creative. When will the good-byes end and the adventure begin? See You Later, Alligator is a silly story with bright, engaging illustrations and expressive, rhyming text that children will want to read—and giggle through—again and again. Sky Pony Press, with our Good Books, Racehorse and Arcade imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of books for young readers—picture books for small children, chapter books, books for middle grade readers, and novels for young adults. Our list includes bestsellers for children who love to play Minecraft; stories told with LEGO bricks; books that teach lessons about tolerance, patience, and the environment, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.




See You Later Alligator, After While Crocodile


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See You Later Alligator, After While Crocodile explores the feelings and frustrations of those who have lost a loved one. With empathy and a touch of whimsy, the author walks through the stages of grief. As one alligator who has lost multiple crocodiles in her life, Darla provides encouragement to take the steps necessary to work through grief and get to a new normal in life. Encouraging Scriptures help the reader to embrace life and realize that God is still in control. Journal questions and pages also help the reader to record important thoughts and experience renewed life. Beautifully illustrated and concise, See You Later Alligator, After While Crocodile is written to encourage you that there is life after grief. Darla Austell: wife, mother, grandmother, teacher, entrepreneur, deeply compassionate and loving; the person who has written this book for you. Darla understands loss and grieving through experience. Having lost both parents at an early age, Darla has walked through the grief process. Darla understands that death is not the only loss that causes grief. Loss of relationships, physical disabilities, and other aspects of life can cause grief as well. Whatever the cause, there are time-tested methods to working through grief. Darla has created a delightful little book that documents these methods in an easy-reading format. Darla's goal is to touch the hearts of the grieving and offer hope to hurting hearts. Illustrator Ian Montelongo, a graduate of Orange County School of the Arts and Orange Coast College, is currently studying illustration at Cal State Long Beach. Ian, a born artist, prefers the color gray. He is passionate about art.




See You Later, Alligator!


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Alligators, turtles, and other reptile pupils enjoy a boisterous day in school.




Crocodile Encounters!


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Presents stories and adventures of Brady Barr, a zoologist and daring explorer who sometimes dresses up in a crocodile suit or crawls into a hole full of crocodiles.




Crocodile on the Sandbank


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Amelia Peabody is Elizabeth Peters' most brilliant and best-loved creation, a thoroughly Victorian feminist who takes the stuffy world of archaeology by storm with her shocking men's pants and no-nonsense attitude! In this first adventure, our headstrong heroine decides to use her substantial inheritance to see the world. On her travels, she rescues a gentlewoman in distress - Evelyn Barton-Forbes - and the two become friends. The two companions continue to Egypt where they face mysteries, mummies and the redoubtable Radcliffe Emerson, an outspoken archaeologist, who doesn't need women to help him solve mysteries -- at least that's what he thinks!




Later, Gator!


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Gator's moving and he gets encouragement from his old friends to make new friends in his new neighborhood.




Alligator Or Crocodile?


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"Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through grade three, this book introduces alligators and crocodiles to young readers through leveled text and related photos"--




Can You Tell an Alligator from a Crocodile?


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Looks at the ways that alligators and crocodiles are different, as well as how they are similar, looking at their physical features, behavior, and where they live.




Notes of a Crocodile


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WINNER OF THE 2018 LUCIEN STRYK ASIAN TRANSLATION PRIZE The English-language premiere of Qiu Miaojin's coming-of-age novel about queer teenagers in Taiwan, a cult classic in China and winner of the 1995 China Times Literature Award. An NYRB Classics Original Set in the post-martial-law era of late-1980s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile is a coming-of-age story of queer misfits discovering love, friendship, and artistic affinity while hardly studying at Taiwan’s most prestigious university. Told through the eyes of an anonymous lesbian narrator nicknamed Lazi, this cult classic is a postmodern pastiche of diaries, vignettes, mash notes, aphorisms, exegesis, and satire by an incisive prose stylist and major countercultural figure. Afflicted by her fatalistic attraction to Shui Ling, an older woman, Lazi turns for support to a circle of friends that includes a rich kid turned criminal and his troubled, self-destructive gay lover, as well as a bored, mischievous overachiever and her alluring slacker artist girlfriend. Illustrating a process of liberation from the strictures of gender through radical self-inquiry, Notes of a Crocodile is a poignant masterpiece of social defiance by a singular voice in contemporary Chinese literature.