Author: Andrew Clements
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547562667
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Grumps is a circus dog who loves to make people laugh--all he has to do is lie down on the ground with his feet in the air and the crowds cheer and roar. But one day a new dog named Sparks joins the circus. Sparks can jump through hoops, balance a ball on his nose, and even ride on the back of a running zebra. How can an old dog with one simple trick compete with the likes of Sparks? Sue Truesdell's exuberant illustrations capture all the excitement of circus life in this heartwarming story about friendship, family, and the universal need for acceptance.
Circus Family Dog
Author: Andrew Clements
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547562667
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Grumps is a circus dog who loves to make people laugh--all he has to do is lie down on the ground with his feet in the air and the crowds cheer and roar. But one day a new dog named Sparks joins the circus. Sparks can jump through hoops, balance a ball on his nose, and even ride on the back of a running zebra. How can an old dog with one simple trick compete with the likes of Sparks? Sue Truesdell's exuberant illustrations capture all the excitement of circus life in this heartwarming story about friendship, family, and the universal need for acceptance.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547562667
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Grumps is a circus dog who loves to make people laugh--all he has to do is lie down on the ground with his feet in the air and the crowds cheer and roar. But one day a new dog named Sparks joins the circus. Sparks can jump through hoops, balance a ball on his nose, and even ride on the back of a running zebra. How can an old dog with one simple trick compete with the likes of Sparks? Sue Truesdell's exuberant illustrations capture all the excitement of circus life in this heartwarming story about friendship, family, and the universal need for acceptance.
Badger the Mystical Mutt and the Enchanting Exchange
Author: McNicol
Publisher: The Lunicorn Press
ISBN: 0992926416
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
A Big Top has arrived on the lane with a spectacular attraction: a real live minotaur! But the minotaur wants to return home, and Pogo Paws is homesick for his childhood circus family. The minotaur's labyrinth is in a parallel universe called Esterious, and Pogo Paws' circus is far, far away, and to return would mean abandoning Pickle. Can Badger, with his makeshift magic and a little help from a solar eclipse, open the portal in the Crystal Cave, and make the Enchanting Exchange happen? Or will Pickle sabotage Badger's attempts, and make it impossible for Pogo Paws and the minotaur to ever find their way home?
Publisher: The Lunicorn Press
ISBN: 0992926416
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
A Big Top has arrived on the lane with a spectacular attraction: a real live minotaur! But the minotaur wants to return home, and Pogo Paws is homesick for his childhood circus family. The minotaur's labyrinth is in a parallel universe called Esterious, and Pogo Paws' circus is far, far away, and to return would mean abandoning Pickle. Can Badger, with his makeshift magic and a little help from a solar eclipse, open the portal in the Crystal Cave, and make the Enchanting Exchange happen? Or will Pickle sabotage Badger's attempts, and make it impossible for Pogo Paws and the minotaur to ever find their way home?
Elephants Among Us
Author: M. Jaynes
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1780997051
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Born in the 1970s, Stoney the elephant spent his life traveling and performing with his family. In 1994, he was injured while working in Las Vegas. He died after a nearly year-long medical confinement in a storage barn behind a hotel. The pages within chronicle his short life and tell the complex story of the people who knew him and those who tried to save him. Stoney is the most important elephant you ve never heard of. Also within is the story of the elephant Big Mary, who in 1916 was hanged from a railroad derrick after killing a man in Tennessee. Here an effort is made to combine previous scholarship into a new considered retelling, with the elephant as the core of its focus. Big Mary died at the beginning of the twentieth century, Stoney at the end of it. Both performing elephants underwent disaster, and both can tell us something about ourselves.
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1780997051
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Born in the 1970s, Stoney the elephant spent his life traveling and performing with his family. In 1994, he was injured while working in Las Vegas. He died after a nearly year-long medical confinement in a storage barn behind a hotel. The pages within chronicle his short life and tell the complex story of the people who knew him and those who tried to save him. Stoney is the most important elephant you ve never heard of. Also within is the story of the elephant Big Mary, who in 1916 was hanged from a railroad derrick after killing a man in Tennessee. Here an effort is made to combine previous scholarship into a new considered retelling, with the elephant as the core of its focus. Big Mary died at the beginning of the twentieth century, Stoney at the end of it. Both performing elephants underwent disaster, and both can tell us something about ourselves.
Amigurumi Circus
Author: Joke Vermeiren
Publisher: Meteoor Books
ISBN: 9789491643118
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Joke collects the most beautiful patterns from all over the world on her website www.amigurumipatterns.net. With more than 160,000 fans the site has grown into a community and a meeting place where crocheters and designers exchange tips and patterns. She organized a competition for designers where they were challenged to create an original circus character. A lion who prefers the hula hoop instead of the burning hoop? A prima ballerina hippo challenging gravity? A weightlifter elephant matching strength with his friend the mouse? You cannot imagine anything crazier - you ll find it all in this circus book. And it gets even better because now you can make these cute amigurumi yourself! This book contains fourteen designs chosen from the original competition. Maybe you are making your very first amigurumi? Then don t worry. The book opens with a number of pages dedicated to explaining all the basics. More experienced? Then you ll certainly love the details in these designs!"
Publisher: Meteoor Books
ISBN: 9789491643118
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Joke collects the most beautiful patterns from all over the world on her website www.amigurumipatterns.net. With more than 160,000 fans the site has grown into a community and a meeting place where crocheters and designers exchange tips and patterns. She organized a competition for designers where they were challenged to create an original circus character. A lion who prefers the hula hoop instead of the burning hoop? A prima ballerina hippo challenging gravity? A weightlifter elephant matching strength with his friend the mouse? You cannot imagine anything crazier - you ll find it all in this circus book. And it gets even better because now you can make these cute amigurumi yourself! This book contains fourteen designs chosen from the original competition. Maybe you are making your very first amigurumi? Then don t worry. The book opens with a number of pages dedicated to explaining all the basics. More experienced? Then you ll certainly love the details in these designs!"
Cake My Day!
Author: Karen Tack
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544263766
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
The New York Times bestselling authors of Hello, Cupcake! show you how to make a Taxi Cake, a Ladybug Cake, a Siamese Cat Cake, a Guitar Cake, and more. Those cupcaking geniuses, Karen Tack and Alan Richardson, are back, this time with bigger canvases and bolder creations. Everything that can be done with a cupcake can be done better with a cake—with a twelfth of the effort and loads more wow power, using everyday pans, bowls, and even measuring cups. Press candy into frosting for an argyle pattern, or use one of the easy new decorating techniques to produce wood grain for a guitar cake. Turn a round cake into Swiss cheese and Brie for April Fool’s Day. Whether you’re a kitchen klutz or a master decorator, you can transform a loaf cake into a retro vacuum cleaner for Mom or bake a cake in a bowl for a rag doll. Need a piñata for a birthday party? Bake the batter in a measuring cup. Or skip the baking altogether, buy a pound cake, and fashion it into a work boot for Dad or a high-top sneaker. You won’t believe these creations aren’t the real thing—until you take the first delicious bite!
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544263766
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
The New York Times bestselling authors of Hello, Cupcake! show you how to make a Taxi Cake, a Ladybug Cake, a Siamese Cat Cake, a Guitar Cake, and more. Those cupcaking geniuses, Karen Tack and Alan Richardson, are back, this time with bigger canvases and bolder creations. Everything that can be done with a cupcake can be done better with a cake—with a twelfth of the effort and loads more wow power, using everyday pans, bowls, and even measuring cups. Press candy into frosting for an argyle pattern, or use one of the easy new decorating techniques to produce wood grain for a guitar cake. Turn a round cake into Swiss cheese and Brie for April Fool’s Day. Whether you’re a kitchen klutz or a master decorator, you can transform a loaf cake into a retro vacuum cleaner for Mom or bake a cake in a bowl for a rag doll. Need a piñata for a birthday party? Bake the batter in a measuring cup. Or skip the baking altogether, buy a pound cake, and fashion it into a work boot for Dad or a high-top sneaker. You won’t believe these creations aren’t the real thing—until you take the first delicious bite!
The Case for the Legal Protection of Animals
Author: Kimberly C. Moore
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031460650
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
This book presents the case for legal protection for animals based on humanity’s shared interests and destinies with the animal kingdom. To underscore the urgent need for legal reform, the book documents how animals are in crisis, with separate discussions on animals in entertainment, research, fashion, the food industry, and animals in our homes, as well as issues that impact wildlife and aquatic animals. In each of the foregoing areas, there is a discussion of major developments for animals across the globe, the objective being to demonstrate how the U.S. is out of step with other major countries in its legal treatment of animals. The importance of media as a driver of change is also considered. This background culminates to the heart of the book, which discusses and analyzes the link between human rights and animal rights, with nine areas explored (e.g., loss of biodiversity; environmental destruction; zoonotic diseases; world hunger; violence). Challenges to legal reforms are also explored, including issues associated with weak laws, the failure to enforce existing laws, and governmental agencies that tend to overlook the actions of industries. Finally, the book explores the development of animal law and the trajectory of current laws, with analysis of developing ‘rights of nature’ laws and ‘legal personhood’ status for animals.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031460650
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
This book presents the case for legal protection for animals based on humanity’s shared interests and destinies with the animal kingdom. To underscore the urgent need for legal reform, the book documents how animals are in crisis, with separate discussions on animals in entertainment, research, fashion, the food industry, and animals in our homes, as well as issues that impact wildlife and aquatic animals. In each of the foregoing areas, there is a discussion of major developments for animals across the globe, the objective being to demonstrate how the U.S. is out of step with other major countries in its legal treatment of animals. The importance of media as a driver of change is also considered. This background culminates to the heart of the book, which discusses and analyzes the link between human rights and animal rights, with nine areas explored (e.g., loss of biodiversity; environmental destruction; zoonotic diseases; world hunger; violence). Challenges to legal reforms are also explored, including issues associated with weak laws, the failure to enforce existing laws, and governmental agencies that tend to overlook the actions of industries. Finally, the book explores the development of animal law and the trajectory of current laws, with analysis of developing ‘rights of nature’ laws and ‘legal personhood’ status for animals.
Hay and Peanuts
Author: G. M. Ayon
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1646106687
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Hay and Peanuts By: G.M. Ayon While in the circus, an elephant has a big dream of becoming free. And at a farm, a German Shepherd puppy has big dreams of adventure. When these two animal come together, their journey of excitement, adventure and freedom begins. These two unlikely friends prove that there is a place and a time where dreams become a reality.
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1646106687
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Hay and Peanuts By: G.M. Ayon While in the circus, an elephant has a big dream of becoming free. And at a farm, a German Shepherd puppy has big dreams of adventure. When these two animal come together, their journey of excitement, adventure and freedom begins. These two unlikely friends prove that there is a place and a time where dreams become a reality.
Only Big Show Coming
Author: Orin Copple King
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 9781465329165
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Only Big Show Coming is an amended and greatly enlarged version of articles published in Bandwagon: The Journal of the Circus Historical Society between 1982 and 1999. Volume I covers the routes, reviews and incidents surrounding circus and wild west performances in Kansas between 1853 and 1878, and provides an intriguing view of life in the Victorian west.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 9781465329165
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Only Big Show Coming is an amended and greatly enlarged version of articles published in Bandwagon: The Journal of the Circus Historical Society between 1982 and 1999. Volume I covers the routes, reviews and incidents surrounding circus and wild west performances in Kansas between 1853 and 1878, and provides an intriguing view of life in the Victorian west.
The Circus Fire
Author: Stewart O'Nan
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307482987
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The acclaimed author of Emily, Alone and Henry, Himself brings all his narrative gifts to bear on this gripping account of tragedy and heroism—the great Hartford circus fire of 1944. It was a midsummer afternoon, halfway through a Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus performance, when the big top caught fire. The tent had been waterproofed with a mixture of paraffin and gasoline; in seconds it was burning out of control. More than 8,000 people were trapped inside, and the ensuing disaster would eventually take 167 lives. Steward O'Nan brings all his narrative gifts to bear on this gripping account of the great Hartford circus fire of 1944. Drawing on interviews with hundreds of survivors, O'Nan skillfully re-creates the horrific events and illuminates the psychological oddities of human behavior under stress: the mad scramble for the exits; the perilous effort to maneuver animals out of danger; the hero who tossed dozens of children to safety before being trampled to death. Brilliantly constructed and exceptionally moving, The Circus Fire is history at its most compelling.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307482987
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The acclaimed author of Emily, Alone and Henry, Himself brings all his narrative gifts to bear on this gripping account of tragedy and heroism—the great Hartford circus fire of 1944. It was a midsummer afternoon, halfway through a Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus performance, when the big top caught fire. The tent had been waterproofed with a mixture of paraffin and gasoline; in seconds it was burning out of control. More than 8,000 people were trapped inside, and the ensuing disaster would eventually take 167 lives. Steward O'Nan brings all his narrative gifts to bear on this gripping account of the great Hartford circus fire of 1944. Drawing on interviews with hundreds of survivors, O'Nan skillfully re-creates the horrific events and illuminates the psychological oddities of human behavior under stress: the mad scramble for the exits; the perilous effort to maneuver animals out of danger; the hero who tossed dozens of children to safety before being trampled to death. Brilliantly constructed and exceptionally moving, The Circus Fire is history at its most compelling.
Animalkind
Author: Ingrid Newkirk
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 1501198556
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The founder and president of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk, and bestselling author Gene Stone explore the wonders of animal life with “admiration and empathy” (The New York Times Book Review) and offer tools for living more kindly toward them. In the last few decades, a wealth of new information has emerged about who animals are: astounding beings with intelligence, emotions, intricate communications networks, and myriad abilities. In Animalkind, Ingrid Newkirk and Gene Stone present these findings in a concise and awe-inspiring way, detailing a range of surprising discoveries, like that geese fall in love and stay with a partner for life, that fish “sing” underwater, and that elephants use their trunks to send subsonic signals, alerting other herds to danger miles away. Newkirk and Stone pair their tour through the astounding lives of animals with a guide to the exciting new tools that allow humans to avoid using or abusing animals as we once did. Whether it’s medicine, product testing, entertainment, clothing, or food, there are now better options to all the uses animals once served in human life. We can substitute warmer, lighter faux fleece for wool, choose vegan versions of everything from shrimp to marshmallows, reap the benefits of animal-free medical research, and scrap captive orca exhibits and elephant rides for virtual reality and animatronics. Animalkind provides a fascinating look at why our fellow living beings deserve our respect, and lays out the steps everyone can take to put this new understanding into action.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 1501198556
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The founder and president of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk, and bestselling author Gene Stone explore the wonders of animal life with “admiration and empathy” (The New York Times Book Review) and offer tools for living more kindly toward them. In the last few decades, a wealth of new information has emerged about who animals are: astounding beings with intelligence, emotions, intricate communications networks, and myriad abilities. In Animalkind, Ingrid Newkirk and Gene Stone present these findings in a concise and awe-inspiring way, detailing a range of surprising discoveries, like that geese fall in love and stay with a partner for life, that fish “sing” underwater, and that elephants use their trunks to send subsonic signals, alerting other herds to danger miles away. Newkirk and Stone pair their tour through the astounding lives of animals with a guide to the exciting new tools that allow humans to avoid using or abusing animals as we once did. Whether it’s medicine, product testing, entertainment, clothing, or food, there are now better options to all the uses animals once served in human life. We can substitute warmer, lighter faux fleece for wool, choose vegan versions of everything from shrimp to marshmallows, reap the benefits of animal-free medical research, and scrap captive orca exhibits and elephant rides for virtual reality and animatronics. Animalkind provides a fascinating look at why our fellow living beings deserve our respect, and lays out the steps everyone can take to put this new understanding into action.