Author : Jose Aruego
Publisher : Scholastic
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 49,79 MB
Release : 1976-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780590426961
A little boy saves a crocodile's life only to have the animal threaten to eat him.
Author : Martin Jenkins
Publisher : Candlewick
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 39,85 MB
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0763675385
Explore an informative, playfully illustrated story about one of the world’s most dangerous animals: the crocodile. You probably know a little about crocodiles already. They’re reptiles, they have an awful lot of teeth, and they’re pretty scary — at least, the big ones are! They’re not very fussy about what they eat, and when it comes to hunting down dinner, crocodiles are very determined . . . and very cunning. But there’s more to crocodiles than just their appetites. They love to nap on warm sandbanks and cool off in calm waters, and crocodile mothers are very gentle with their babies. This fascinating look at one of Earth’s most infamous creatures is full of information for amateur scientists, with back matter that includes an index, notes on species, and suggestions for further reading.
Author : Paul Komesaroff
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 26,91 MB
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1938416511
Abraham Nevski is a dedicated and eccentric professor of medicine at the Royal Prince John Hospital. He prides himself on his diagnostic skills and powers of reasoning. On returning to work after a break he becomes aware of disturbing changes taking place in the hospital. A series of suspicious deaths then throws his world into confusion. Nevski’s inner turmoil grows and he has to confront the dangers that close in around him. Riding a Crocodile is both an insider’s account of life in a major teaching hospital and a chilling detective story, exploring life and death issues of urgent contemporary relevance.
Author : Faustin Charles
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 29,5 MB
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1408839318
All of the animals are afraid of the Selfish Crocodile - he never let's them into his river, and he's always so snappy! And so when the Selfish Crocodile finds himself in terrible pain, no-one wants to help him - after all, what if he gobbles them up? But, to everyone's surprise, there is one animal in the forest who is willing to help . . . A brilliant tale of friendship, The Selfish Crocodile has become a picture book classic.
Author : Diana Hendry
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 17,36 MB
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1444927469
A little girl takes an imaginative romp through the animal kingdom in this delightful tale from award-winning author Diana Hendry! Everyone knows that little sisters can be a handful. But this little sister is more - she's a zoo-ful! She's a monkey, a bear, a camel, a penguin, a crocodile... If only she'd be a little girl now and again. After all, you can't cuddle a crocodile... A fresh and funny picture book from much-loved author Diana Hendry. Read more about Diana Hendry at dianahendry.co.uk
Author : Bruno Schulz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 12,90 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780140186253
The Street of Crocodiles in the Polish city of Drogobych is a street of memories and dreams where recollections of Bruno Schulz's uncommon boyhood and of the eerie side of his merchant family's life are evoked in a startling blend of the real and the fantastic. Most memorable - and most chilling - is the portrait of the author's father, a maddened shopkeeper who imports rare birds' eggs to hatch in his attic, who believes tailors' dummies should be treated like people, and whose obsessive fear of cockroaches causes him to resemble one. Bruno Schulz, a Polish Jew killed by the Nazis in 1942, is considered by many to have been the leading Polish writer between the two world wars.
Author : Qiu Miaojin
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,23 MB
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 168137076X
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.
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Publisher : DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,24 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 9781564584632
Engaging characters are brought to life in cheery cut-paper illustrations. This international collection of folk tales bring together six of Barbara Baumgartner's most successful performances on one volume. For the first time ever, this well-loved storyteller has written down her stories for school-age children to enjoy at home. Engaging characters-from the clever monkey who outwits a hungry crocodile, to a magical dragon that brings secret gifts to a kind young boy-are brought to life in Judith Moffatt's cheery cut-paper illustrations. Readers will also enjoy Bringing the Stories to Life with Stick Puppets, a special section at the end of the book. Following simple instructions for making their own puppets, children will learn how to act out the tales in the book. Through her animated stories, Barbara Baumgartner teaches young listeners the simple truths of folk tales and the wisdom that each imparts.
Author : Gaëtan Dorémus
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,1 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Animals
ISBN : 9781592701254
A bear gobbles up a wolf, a lion, and an elephant after each animal steals the bear's teddy bear and refuses to return it.
Author : Bernard Waber
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 12,86 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780395137208
Lyle is perfectly happy living with the Primms on East 88th St. until irritable Mr. Grumps next door changes all that.
