Author: James E. Martin Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1434366375 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 226
Book Description
The Chartreuse Mongoose and 36 more wonderful stories from the pen of Grandpa Ed. These stories were written to support innocence and excite childhood imagination and fantasies about animals, birds, folklore, and nature. Most importantly, they are intended to encourage the joy of reading. They explicitly avoid the present-day trend of filling children's books with endless colored illustrations and one-page sentences that entertain a child, but fail to teach them to read. It is also the author's hope that his stories will contain enough intrigue to encourage parent's to return to the time-honored tradition of reading to their children, especially at bedtime.
Author: Lexi Connor Publisher: Scholastic Inc. ISBN: 0545298938 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 95
Book Description
B will cast a S-P-E-L-L on readers!Eleven-year-old Beatrix just wants to be able to cast spells the way all the other witches can. But when B discovers that magic happens when she spells out a word, the C-H-A-O-S begins!
Author: David Quammen Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0684827123 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 706
Book Description
David Quammen's book, The Song of the Dodo, is a brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope, far-reaching in its message -- a crucial book in precarious times, which radically alters the way in which we understand the natural world and our place in that world. It's also a book full of entertainment and wonders. In The Song of the Dodo, we follow Quammen's keen intellect through the ideas, theories, and experiments of prominent naturalists of the last two centuries. We trail after him as he travels the world, tracking the subject of island biogeography, which encompasses nothing less than the study of the origin and extinction of all species. Why is this island idea so important? Because islands are where species most commonly go extinct -- and because, as Quammen points out, we live in an age when all of Earth's landscapes are being chopped into island-like fragments by human activity. Through his eyes, we glimpse the nature of evolution and extinction, and in so doing come to understand the monumental diversity of our planet, and the importance of preserving its wild landscapes, animals, and plants. We also meet some fascinating human characters. By the book's end we are wiser, and more deeply concerned, but Quammen leaves us with a message of excitement and hope.
Author: James E. Martin
Author: Małgorzata Chałupnik
Author: James E. Martin
Author: James E. Martin
Author: Lexi Connor
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Author: David Quammen
Author: Pamela Ball
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office