Book Description
While observing other contestants practice for the Sunny Patch Pinecone Derby, Snowdrop decides that she cannot be graceful with eight legs, and tries to make herself more like an insect.
Author : David Kirk
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 43,91 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Contests
ISBN : 9780448445175
While observing other contestants practice for the Sunny Patch Pinecone Derby, Snowdrop decides that she cannot be graceful with eight legs, and tries to make herself more like an insect.
Author : David Kirk
Publisher : Grosset & Dunlap
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,16 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Contests
ISBN : 9780448444260
While observing other contestants practice for the Sunny Patch Pinecone Derby, Snowdrop decides that she cannot be graceful with eight legs, and tries to make herself more like an insect.
Author : Robertson
Publisher : Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 13,54 MB
Release : 2017-10-26
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1617410217
Spiders! This Clever Book Teaches Young Children All About Spiders With Text And Up-Close Photos.
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Page : 30 pages
File Size : 18,55 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780817251635
Hoping to beat the other animals in a race without working too hard, Spider asks Great Hippo for different legs, before ending up with the eight he has today.
Author : Liza Charlesworth
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,40 MB
Release : 2005
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Author : Charles Edward Hammett
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,70 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Athletics
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Author : Steve Parker
Publisher : Ivy Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 39,29 MB
Release : 2023-01-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0711278539
Discover nature’s most colourful creatures in a major new book on colour in the animal kingdom. For many animals use of colour is essential to surviving in the wild. Both a built-in defence mechanism and a cunning tactic for attack, this biological advantage helps animals hide from dangerous predators and catch unsuspecting prey. It is used in many different ways, primarily to mask one’s identity, movement or location, and changes over time as animals evolve and adapt to live. This stunning photographic collection reveals 100 creatures from around the world paired with fascinating insights from leading UK zoology author Steve Parker. Each animal will have a profile of 300 words paired with striking photographic examples featuring a wealth of colour and ingenious uses of colour for display or disguise. Learn how: The octopus can change its opacity, colour and pattern in response to threats. The walking leaf insect has evolved a strikingly similar shape and colour to the leaves it eats. The arctic fox changes its fur colour to white in the winter, perfectly blending in with the snow – but climate change is disrupting this age-old adaptation. This study of some of the most innovative uses of colour by animals, packed with beautiful photography and fascinating insights, will delight all lovers of the natural world.
Author : Leslie Kirk Campbell
Publisher : Sarabande Books
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 24,91 MB
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1946448893
In these brilliant, thematically linked stories, men and women from the Midwest to the West Coast, from Germany to Japan—engineers, opera singers, waitresses, teenagers, and monks—reckon with their body’s relationship to grief, illness, violation, technology, and genocide. They escape their fate in unusual ways—by befriending the squatting heroin addict next door, using a child’s flute as a gun in the dark, or ordering a new pair of legs, all in a variety of rich settings. The Man with Eight Pairs of Legs is about the ways our bodies are marked by memory, often literally (burns, bruises, tracks, tattoos), and the risky decisions we make when pushed to the extreme. There’s a little O’Connor, a dash of DeLillo, and a cup of Alice Munro mixed together with a great deal of compassion. Leslie Campbell’s fiction debut is a must-read and sure winner.
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Page : 696 pages
File Size : 26,93 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Adventure stories
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Page : 900 pages
File Size : 16,37 MB
Release : 1876
Category : Architecture
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