Beaky's Guide to Caring for Your Bird


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In this book, Beaky the Budgie reveals how readers should go about choosing a pet bird, what supplies they will need, how to make a new pet bird feel at home, and how to properly care for a pet bird, including feeding, exercising, and keeping a bird cage clean. Text is accompanied by clear, labeled photographs to further reinforce key concepts, and the use of an animal narrator also allows the book to be used to teach perspective.




Beaky's Guide to Caring for Your Bird Ars Scribendi


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Titles in the Pets' Guides series teach young readers how to care responsibly for their chosen pet. However, in a unique spin, each book is written from the point of view of one of the animals themselves, thus also allowing the books to be used to teach perspective. In this book, Beakie the Budgie reveals how readers should go about choosing a pet bird, what supplies they will need, how to make a new pet bird feel at home, and how to properly care for a pet bird, including feeding, exercising, and keeping a bird cage clean. Text in the book is accompanied by clear, labelled photographs to further reinforce key concepts.




Little Puppy, Little Puppy, Noisy As Can Be!


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Pets can be noisy! They bark, squeal, and squeak. What kinds of sounds do you hear? Children interact with pets in this original rhyme set to music. Which pet will you pick? Each title in the Father Goose: Animal Rhymes series is aligned with Early Learning Science Standards. This eBook includes online music access.




Conures


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The adorable conure, named for its conically shaped tail, is one of the world’s favorite parrots and the subject of this Complete Care Made Easy pet guide that presents new and experienced bird keepers with insight into every aspect of selecting, caring for, and maintaining well-behaved happy pet birds. Bird specialist and trainer Nikki Moustaki has written an ideal introductory pet guide about the boisterous conure, with chapters on the characteristics of the conure, the varied behaviors of these small macaw-like parrots in the wild, selection of a healthy, typical pet bird, housing and care, feeding, training, and health care. The chapters “The Many Conure Species” and “Selecting a Great Conure” offers potential owners excellent advice about dozens of species and how to select the best one from those available commercially, from the blue-crowned conure and the green-cheeked conure to the sun conure and red-fronted conure. In the chapter on housing and care, the author discusses selection of the right cage, placement of the cage, and all the necessary accessories. A bird’s diet is critical to its ongoing health, and the chapter devoted to feeding gives the reader all the info he or she needs about choosing the best diet . The chapter “Conure Behavior and Training” gives expert advice about how to train the very talkative conure to speak and be quiet, too. The book concludes with an appendix of bird societies, a glossary of terms, and a complete index.




Birds


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What's even more fun than bird-watching? Watching over a new pet bird, of course! This engaging book teaches readers everything they need to know to take care of an avian companion. Full-color photographs introduce readers to different breeds of birds. A handy checklist helps readers decide which type of bird is best for their lifestyle and home. Readers will learn about how birds behave in the wild, and how this translates to pet bird behavior. They'll also learn what to do if their feathered friend feels under the weather. Full of fun features such as sidebars on famous pet birds and birds in the news, this informative book is perfect for pet owners and bird lovers alike.




Pet Parakeets


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Large, easy-to-read text and full-page color photos show readers what life is like for pet parakeets, including what they eat, how they communicate, and how they exercise and bathe. An illustrated Words to Know section at the beginning of the book helps readers understand new words they will encounter in the text.




The Complete Guide to Service Learning


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Presents tips and advice for professionals who are creating or overseeing service-learning programs.




Project-Based Inquiry Units for Young Children


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Set in the wider context of the project approach to learning, this book addresses the needs of both library media specialists and teachers in preschool, kindergarten, and primary grades. Educators who want to use stories and nonfiction to promote independent learning in young children will love this book. The reader will find practical hands-on activities where each sample lesson includes content, learning goals, and strategies for teaching and assessing learning. Librarians and teachers will learn not only how to guide young children through the research process, but also the important why to do this. These developmentally appropriate research lessons are ready to teach for grades preschool through second.




The Hidden Truth of Your Name


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From the secret wisdom of Kabbalah, the Runes, and Numerology--an unprecedented guide to unlocking the hidden power of your name. Your name is not only your calling card, it also may determine how your life will unfold. Mystics have studied the energies associated with names for centuries, but The Hidden Truth of Your Name is the first book to synthesize their fascinating findings into one compelling resource--offering in-depth profiles of 750 American names. Created by a team of linguistic experts and specialists, this beguiling reference guides you through the illuminating intricacies of three ancient systems of divination--and shows you how to apply them to create a subtly nuanced portrait of any name you choose. - KABBALAH--This ancient Hebrew system of letter-and-number analysis helps you discover what the mathematics of your name adds up to in terms of work, relationships, and spiritual energies. - THE RUNES--The letters of this old northern European alphabet, for centuries an honored source of religious and magical values, open surprising windows to self-discovery and change. - NUMEROLOGY--The key numbers of your name contain potent truths about the positive and negative aspects of your true nature--and your destiny. Complete with the principle colors, gemstones, and herbs that harmonize with each name, this delightfully accessible book at last gives you the means to uncover the hidden truth and unique traits of your name. From the Trade Paperback edition.




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