Author : Janet Halfmann
Publisher : Arbordale Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,32 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780976882381
Age 5-6. After Little Skink loses her tail to an attacking crow, she dreams of having the tails of other animals in the forest, but none seem quite right until the day she gets a big surprise.
Author : Peter Muilenburg
Publisher : Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 14,20 MB
Release : 2012-06-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1937644081
A family with wanderlust, a sailboat to carry them across oceans, and an 11-pound dog to watch over them… These are the elements of this delightful memoir of adventurous living. Young newlyweds Peter and Dorothy Muilenburg found their way from New Hampshire to the Virgin Islands. He had been a civil rights Freedom Fighter, jailed in Mississippi while protesting racial injustice. In St. John, she founded the Pine Peace School. They both taught. On an East End beach, he built a sailboat strong enough to take them anywhere, and they put to sea with their two young sons. But their crew was not yet complete. Santos, a schipperke, came to them as a tiny puppy and sailed with them all his life—75,000 deep-sea miles—four times across the Atlantic, crisscrossing the Caribbean, coasting the U.S. eastern seaboard, exploring the Med, ranging up African rivers. A lightning rod for trouble, he survived a kidnapping, hurricanes, raging surf, being lost overboard at sea, and was twice given up for dead. And he watched over his family with fierce and abiding devotion. If you want to see the world—really see it—go by sailboat. And if you want to absorb the world through every pore, take a venturesome dog as your guide. The bright spirit named Santos became a legend to millions of readers through the pages of SAIL and Reader’s Digest magazines. Now Peter Muilenburg—a wise and observant chronicler with a true wanderer’s desire to engage the world on authentic terms—has written this captivating story of familial love and adventure, unforgettable people and places, and an amazing schipperke who has sailed right into the sea dog hall of fame.
Author : Audrey Wood
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 35,74 MB
Release : 1993-02-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780152474768
Searching for fun in his snowy polar world, Little Penguin dances with the gooney birds, cavorts at the Walrus Polar Club, and narrowly escapes being eaten by a whale.
Author : Jillian Tamaki
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 16,67 MB
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1683352777
Now available as a board book, the award-winning They Say Blue is a playful, poetic exploration of color and point of view In captivating paintings full of movement and transformation, we follow a young girl through a year or a day as she examines the colors in the world around her. Egg yolks are sunny orange as expected, yet water cupped in her hands isn’t blue like they say. But maybe a blue whale is blue. She doesn’t know; she hasn’t seen one. Playful and philosophical, They Say Blue is a book about color as well as perspective, about the things we can see and the things we can only wonder at.
Author : Jacqueline Yallop
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,25 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Animal rights
ISBN : 9780241261415
When Jacqueline moves to south-west France with her husband, she embraces rural village life and buys two pigs to rear for slaughter. But as she gets to know the animals better, her English sentimentality threatens to get in the way and she begins to wonder if she can actually bring herself to kill them. This is a memoir about that fateful decision, but it's also about the ethics of meat eating in the modern age, and whether we should know, respect and even love the animals we eat. Threaded throughout is the story of the Sapient Pig, (who was something of a celebrity in late 18th-century England), and an elegy to a rural France whose life and traditions are slowly dying out. At its heart, this book is a love story, exploring the increasing attachment of the author for her particular pigs, and celebrating the enduring closeness of humans and pigs over the centuries.
Author : Ash Gilpin
Publisher : Bookbaby
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,61 MB
Release : 2019-01-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781532380525
"A Tall Tale About The Dog With The Polka Dotted Tail" is a cute and lovable story about an outcast dog, with a most unusual tail, who learns that he is perfect just the way he is.
Author : John Crowley
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 40,59 MB
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0062124048
John Crowley's masterful Little, Big is the epic story of Smoky Barnable, an anonymous young man who travels by foot from the City to a place called Edgewood—not found on any map—to marry Daily Alice Drinkawater, as was prophesied. It is the story of four generations of a singular family, living in a house that is many houses on the magical border of an otherworld. It is a story of fantastic love and heartrending loss; of impossible things and unshakable destinies; and of the great Tale that envelops us all. It is a wonder.
Author : David Conway
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 24,45 MB
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1444923382
A follow up to the bestselling The Great Nursery Rhyme Disaster. Fairy tales have never been funnier than in this outrageously silly picture book! Once upon a time there lived an old Big Bad Wolf. He no longer has any huff and puff to blow down the Three Little Pigs' houses so he scampers off into the pages of the Fairy Tale book to find a new one. He tries one tale after another, but things never quite work to plan. Will he find a fairy tale that suits him perfectly? With all the well-known and well-loved fairy tales, including Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Goldilocks and the Three Bears. 'It's madness and mayhem which results in a very funny, laugh out loud book.' The Bookbag http://www.davidconwaychildrensbooks.co.uk/
Author : Alina Surnaite
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 17,21 MB
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1786033739
Suzy is afraid to go to sleep, because a monster might come when she's sleeping. Mummy tells her not to worry, as Bunny will chase the monsters away. But at the break of dawn, a shadow creeps into the room, and Bunny disappears... Suzy is scared and runs straight to her Mummy. However, when Misty the cat creeps into the room, holding Bunny in his mouth, Suzy realises that, though things can look scary in the dark, really there's nothing to be afraid of. A beautiful, reassuring heart-warming story about being afraid of the dark that is perfect for reading at bedtime.
Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 14855 pages
File Size : 22,91 MB
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN :
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