Word Bird's Fall Words

Word Bird's Fall Words PDF Author: Jane Belk Moncure
Publisher: Child's World
ISBN: 9780895653086
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38

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Word Bird's Fall Words is a reinforced, library bound book in The Child's World series Word Bird Library.

Word Bird's Fall Words

Word Bird's Fall Words PDF Author: Jane Belk Moncure
Publisher: Child's World
ISBN: 9780895653086
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38

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Book Description
Word Bird's Fall Words is a reinforced, library bound book in The Child's World series Word Bird Library.

Word Bird's Fall Words

Word Bird's Fall Words PDF Author: Jane Belk Moncure
Publisher: Childrens Press
ISBN: 9780516456010
Category : Autumn
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Word Bird puts words about fall in his word house--leaves, playground, football, Pilgrims, monsters, and others.

Words for All Seasons

Words for All Seasons PDF Author: Linda Beech
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780930790134
Category : Creative activities and seat work
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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Word Bird's Winter Words

Word Bird's Winter Words PDF Author: Jane Belk Moncure
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781567668988
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Word Bird puts words about winter in his word house--snow, mittens, sled, icicles, and others.

Word Bird's School Words

Word Bird's School Words PDF Author: Jane Belk Moncure
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780895655103
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38

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Word Bird's School Words is a reinforced, library bound book in The Child's World series Word Bird Library.

Word Bird's Summer Words

Word Bird's Summer Words PDF Author: Jane Belk Moncure
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780516056036
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 38

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Word Bird puts words about summer in his word house--swimming pool, seashells, boat, fireworks, lemonade, parade, and others.

Aaaaw to Zzzzzd: The Words of Birds

Aaaaw to Zzzzzd: The Words of Birds PDF Author: John Bevis
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262288958
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 159

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The distinctive and amazing songs and calls of birds: a meditation and a lexicon. “A miraculous little book: a compressed encyclopedia of our fascination with avifauna.” —The Nation “A charming, funny, and eccentric book.” —Times Literary Supplement “An elegant tribute to the beauty of its subject.” —Los Angeles Times Birds sing and call, sometimes in complex and beautiful arrangements of notes, sometimes in one-line repetitions that resemble a ringtone more than a symphony. Listening, we are stirred, transported, and even envious of birds' ability to produce what Shelley called “profuse strains of unpremeditated art.” And for hundreds of years, we have tried to write down what we hear when birds sing. Poets have put birdsong in verse (Thomas Nashe: “Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo”) and ornithologists have transcribed bird sounds more methodically. Drawing on this history of bird writing, in Aaaaw to Zzzzzd John Bevis offers a lexicon of the words of birds. For tourists in Birdland, there could be no more charming phrasebook. Consulting it, we find seven distinct variations of “hoo” attributed to seven different species of owls, from a simple hoo to the more ambitious hoo hoo hoo-hoo, ho hoo hoo-hoo; the understated cheet of the tree swallow; the resonant kreeaaaaaaaaaaar of the Swainson's hawk; the modest peep peep peep of the meadow pipit. We learn that some people hear the Baltimore oriole saying “here, here, come right here, dear” and the yellowhammer saying “a little bit of bread and no cheese.” Bevis, a poet, frames his lexicons—one for North America and one for Britain and northern Europe—with an evocative appreciation of birds, birdsong, and human attempts to capture the words of birds in music and poetry. He also offers an engaging account of other methods of documenting birdsong—field recording, graphic notation, and mechanical devices including duck calls and the serinette, an instrument used to teach song tunes to songbirds. The singing of birds is nature at its most sublime, and words are our medium for expressing this sublimity. Aaaaw to Zzzzzd belongs in the bird lover's backpack and on the word lover's bedside table, an unexpected and sui generis pleasure.

Word Bird's Christmas Words

Word Bird's Christmas Words PDF Author: Jane Belk Moncure
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780516065748
Category : Christmas
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Word Bird puts words about Christmas in his word house--North Pole, reindeer, candy canes, stockings, and others.

Word Bird Makes Words with Pig

Word Bird Makes Words with Pig PDF Author: Jane Belk Moncure
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780895652621
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Word Bird Makes Words with Pig A Short i Adventure is a reinforced, library bound book in The Child's World series Word Bird Library.

Word Bird's Halloween Words

Word Bird's Halloween Words PDF Author: Jane Belk Moncure
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780516065762
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Word Bird puts words about Halloween in his word house, introducing such words as "witches," "costumes," and "masks."