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Golden Gate Park, An A to Z Adventure

Author : Marta Lindsey

Publisher : Graphic Arts Books

Page : 35 pages

File Size : 28,29 MB

Release : 2020-05-05

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 1513263021

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Explore California's most visited city park in this A-to-Z adventure! A 2020 Eureka! Honor Award Winner "This book will be an instant classic and resonate with anyone who has ever fallen in love with Golden Gate Park. It is truly gorgeous and really captures the uniqueness of the park." --Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture at the San Francisco Botanical Garden "Did you know that a famous grizzly bear once lived in Golden Gate Park? Or that in 1921, 25 bison escaped their enclosure at night and roamed the streets of the nearby Richmond district? You couldn’t make this stuff up. Written by a GGMG mom of two, this A to Z book will make your family look at GGP with new eyes and will probably inspire you to explore new spots. Fairy doors, anyone." --Golden Gate Mothers Group Magazine "I was quite surprised by how much I enjoyed this little picture book. Reading all these fun facts made me pretty curious about the place and I hope I get to visit it for real one day! I recommend this book for kids ages six and up!" --Kids' BookBuzz (Hannah, age 13) "To celebrate Golden Gate Park's 150th anniversary, the San Francisco Parks Alliance and West Margin Press have collaborated to publish this colorful, alphabetical introduction. . . For San Franciscans, and those planning a visit, especially with children, this book suggests a number of intriguing explorations. Especially useful in the region, but also where there's a general interest in geography and destinations." --School Library Journal From A for Artist Ruth Asawa's hanging wire creations in the de Young Museum, to Z for the Zebra on the carousel in the Koret Children's Quarter, this book leads you around San Francisco's famous Golden Gate Park to reveal a range of fun and surprising facts for tourists and locals alike. Step into art, science, nature, and culture by visiting the park's major attractions, like the serene Japanese Tea Garden; discovering secret destinations, like the magical fairy doors hidden in trees; or just relaxing on the green meadows where the bison roam. Included also at the back of the book is a colorfully illustrated map with extra trivia and details on the park's favorite sights. The board book version of this is available as ABCs of Golden Gate Park.



Little Gray's Great Migration

Author : Marta Lindsey

Publisher : Arbordale Publishing

Page : 19 pages

File Size : 24,38 MB

Release : 2015-01-20

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1628554606

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Little Gray loved his lagoon and the humans who came to visit him there. One day, Mama announces that they must swim north to a far-away sea. At first he is sad to leave his home, but Little Gray soon realizes the importance of their journey. What happens along the way and how does Little Gray help his mother? Swim along with Little Gray as he finds the way to this special, food-filled sea.



An A to Z Walk in the Park (Animal Alphabet Book)

Author : R. M. Smith

Publisher :

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 37,7 MB

Release : 2008-05

Category : Alphabet books

ISBN : 9780615195728

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Take a journey upon a path that winds into a park full of wild and not so wild creatures from A to Z. This picture book is designed to help children learn their ABC's while identifying much of the animal kingdom--there are over 200 animals to explore. In addition to learning the alphabet, this book was created with the idea of how great it would be to read and connect many animals with their names easily in one book! There is even an index!



House of Leaves

Author : Mark Z. Danielewski

Publisher : Pantheon

Page : 738 pages

File Size : 15,26 MB

Release : 2000-03-07

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0375420525

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“A novelistic mosaic that simultaneously reads like a thriller and like a strange, dreamlike excursion into the subconscious.” —The New York Times Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth -- musicians, tattoo artists, programmers, strippers, environmentalists, and adrenaline junkies -- the book eventually made its way into the hands of older generations, who not only found themselves in those strangely arranged pages but also discovered a way back into the lives of their estranged children. Now this astonishing novel is made available in book form, complete with the original colored words, vertical footnotes, and second and third appendices. The story remains unchanged, focusing on a young family that moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story -- of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.



ABCs of Golden Gate Park

Author : Marta Lindsey

Publisher : Graphic Arts Books

Page : 30 pages

File Size : 14,75 MB

Release : 2020-05-05

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 1513263048

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Explore California’s most visited city park in this A-to-Z adventure! From A for Artist Ruth Asawa’s hanging wire creations in the de Young Museum to Z for the Zebra on the carousel in the Koret Children’s Quarter, this book leads you around San Francisco’s famous Golden Gate Park to reveal a range of fun and surprising facts for tourists and locals alike. Step into art, science, nature, and culture by visiting the park’s major attractions, like the serene Japanese Tea Garden; discovering secret destinations, like the magical fairy doors hidden in trees; or just relaxing on the green meadows where the bison roam. Included also at the back of the book is a colorfully illustrated map with extra trivia and details on the park’s favorite sights. The picture book version of this is available as Golden Gate Park, An A to Z Adventure.



Good Night San Francisco

Author : Adam Gamble

Publisher : Good Night Books

Page : 23 pages

File Size : 44,68 MB

Release : 2006-10-28

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 1602197636

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Book Description

Easy-to-read text introduces the sights of San Francisco, through a full day of sightseeing.



A Book of Golden Deeds

Author : Charlotte Mary Yonge

Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com

Page : 276 pages

File Size : 29,87 MB

Release : 1927

Category : Europe

ISBN :

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Book Scavenger

Author : Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

Page : 367 pages

File Size : 34,56 MB

Release : 2015-06-02

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 162779526X

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A New York Times-Bestseller! For twelve-year-old Emily, the best thing about moving to San Francisco is that it's the home city of her literary idol: Garrison Griswold, book publisher and creator of the online sensation Book Scavenger (a game where books are hidden in cities all over the country and clues to find them are revealed through puzzles). Upon her arrival, however, Emily learns that Griswold has been attacked and is now in a coma, and no one knows anything about the epic new game he had been poised to launch. Then Emily and her new friend James discover an odd book, which they come to believe is from Griswold himself, and might contain the only copy of his mysterious new game. Racing against time, Emily and James rush from clue to clue, desperate to figure out the secret at the heart of Griswold's new game—before those who attacked Griswold come after them too. This title has Common Core connections.



Hello, National Parks!

Author : Martha Zschock

Publisher : Commonwealth Editions

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 19,46 MB

Release : 2016-06-07

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 9781938700330

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A Colorful and Fun Tour of National Parks for the Littlest Explorers



The Devil's Teeth

Author : Susan Casey

Publisher : Henry Holt and Company

Page : 326 pages

File Size : 27,87 MB

Release : 2006-05-30

Category : Nature

ISBN : 1466800518

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A journalist's obsession brings her to a remote island off the California coast, home to the world's most mysterious and fearsome predators--and the strange band of surfer-scientists who follow them Susan Casey was in her living room when she first saw the great white sharks of the Farallon Islands, their dark fins swirling around a small motorboat in a documentary. These sharks were the alphas among alphas, some longer than twenty feet, and there were too many to count; even more incredible, this congregation was taking place just twenty-seven miles off the coast of San Francisco. In a matter of months, Casey was being hoisted out of the early-winter swells on a crane, up a cliff face to the barren surface of Southeast Farallon Island-dubbed by sailors in the 1850s the "devil's teeth." There she joined Scot Anderson and Peter Pyle, the two biologists who bunk down during shark season each fall in the island's one habitable building, a haunted, 135-year-old house spackled with lichen and gull guano. Two days later, she got her first glimpse of the famous, terrifying jaws up close and she was instantly hooked; her fascination soon yielded to obsession-and an invitation to return for a full season. But as Casey readied herself for the eight-week stint, she had no way of preparing for what she would find among the dangerous, forgotten islands that have banished every campaign for civilization in the past two hundred years. The Devil's Teeth is a vivid dispatch from an otherworldly outpost, a story of crossing the boundary between society and an untamed place where humans are neither wanted nor needed.