Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780809492626
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
A collection of stories and poems incorporating rebuses, designed to introduce an early understanding of reading.
Purple Parrots Eating Carrots
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780809492626
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
A collection of stories and poems incorporating rebuses, designed to introduce an early understanding of reading.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780809492626
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
A collection of stories and poems incorporating rebuses, designed to introduce an early understanding of reading.
The Purple Parrot
Author: Clyde B. Clason
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Inheritance and succession
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Inheritance and succession
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
My Purple Parrot
Author: Amber Woods
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1665572272
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
He soars all around and never leaves my side. He can hide very well and sneak up from behind! My purple parrot is large and then small, and scary, then calm. He is My Purple Parrot and he is one of a kind! My Purple Parrot comes from the point of view of a child living with epilepsy. It expresses the difficulties of seizing, having constant reminders as well as overcoming the condition, and having the strength to enjoy each day. When I was diagnosed with Epilepsy at 17 years old, I felt lost. No one around me knew much about it and we weren't sure what we were supposed to do. I would be confused and scared for years as my seizures changed in type and triggers. When I finally found help, I wanted to share it. Over the years I have worked to bring attention to how common Epilepsy is, the various types of it, how to handle seizures safely, and helping parents, children and others find support. I have come to learn that everyone has something they carry with them, those invisible pets that no one will ever completely understand. - Amber Woods
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1665572272
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
He soars all around and never leaves my side. He can hide very well and sneak up from behind! My purple parrot is large and then small, and scary, then calm. He is My Purple Parrot and he is one of a kind! My Purple Parrot comes from the point of view of a child living with epilepsy. It expresses the difficulties of seizing, having constant reminders as well as overcoming the condition, and having the strength to enjoy each day. When I was diagnosed with Epilepsy at 17 years old, I felt lost. No one around me knew much about it and we weren't sure what we were supposed to do. I would be confused and scared for years as my seizures changed in type and triggers. When I finally found help, I wanted to share it. Over the years I have worked to bring attention to how common Epilepsy is, the various types of it, how to handle seizures safely, and helping parents, children and others find support. I have come to learn that everyone has something they carry with them, those invisible pets that no one will ever completely understand. - Amber Woods
Essay Savvy
Author: Robin Taylor
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780646412696
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Guide to essay writing. Covers adopting the right attitude, getting started, understanding the assignment, directing and focussing your reading, draft-writing, and reviewing and polishing your work. Includes glossary and index. Author has a Masters in Creative Arts and has taught university short courses, undergraduate courses, community courses and writing workshops.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780646412696
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Guide to essay writing. Covers adopting the right attitude, getting started, understanding the assignment, directing and focussing your reading, draft-writing, and reviewing and polishing your work. Includes glossary and index. Author has a Masters in Creative Arts and has taught university short courses, undergraduate courses, community courses and writing workshops.
Flaubert's Parrot
Author: Julian Barnes
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307797856
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE • From the internationally bestselling author of The Sense of an Ending comes a literary detective story of a retired doctor obsessed with the 19th century French author Flaubert—and with tracking down the stuffed parrot that once inspired him. • “A high literary entertainment carried off with great brio.” —The New York Times Book Review Julian Barnes playfully combines a detective story with a character study of its detective, embedded in a brilliant riff on literary genius. A compelling weave of fiction and imaginatively ordered fact, Flaubert's Parrot is by turns moving and entertaining, witty and scholarly, and a tour de force of seductive originality.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307797856
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE • From the internationally bestselling author of The Sense of an Ending comes a literary detective story of a retired doctor obsessed with the 19th century French author Flaubert—and with tracking down the stuffed parrot that once inspired him. • “A high literary entertainment carried off with great brio.” —The New York Times Book Review Julian Barnes playfully combines a detective story with a character study of its detective, embedded in a brilliant riff on literary genius. A compelling weave of fiction and imaginatively ordered fact, Flaubert's Parrot is by turns moving and entertaining, witty and scholarly, and a tour de force of seductive originality.
Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut
Author: Margaret Atwood
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781770871007
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The pampered Princess Prunella has an important life-lesson to learn, and a wise old woman is just the person to teach her! When the old lady comes to the palace begging for food and the spoiled princess rudely shoos her away, the old woman casts a strange and terrible spell. Now the princess is aghast to discover a hideous purple peanut is growing from the point of her nose! The only way for Princess Prunella to break the spell is for her to perform three good deeds. Margaret Atwood's Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut is a charming children's book with spirited illustrations by Maryann Kovalski.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781770871007
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The pampered Princess Prunella has an important life-lesson to learn, and a wise old woman is just the person to teach her! When the old lady comes to the palace begging for food and the spoiled princess rudely shoos her away, the old woman casts a strange and terrible spell. Now the princess is aghast to discover a hideous purple peanut is growing from the point of her nose! The only way for Princess Prunella to break the spell is for her to perform three good deeds. Margaret Atwood's Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut is a charming children's book with spirited illustrations by Maryann Kovalski.
Parrot and Olivier in America
Author: Peter Carey
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307593010
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Parrot and Olivier in America has been shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize. From the two-time Booker Prize–winning author comes an irrepressibly funny new novel set in early nineteenth-century America. Olivier—an improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville—is the traumatized child of aristocratic survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot is the motherless son of an itinerant English printer. They are born on different sides of history, but their lives will be connected by an enigmatic one-armed marquis. When Olivier sets sail for the nascent United States—ostensibly to make a study of the penal system, but more precisely to save his neck from one more revolution—Parrot will be there, too: as spy for the marquis, and as protector, foe, and foil for Olivier. As the narrative shifts between the perspectives of Parrot and Olivier, between their picaresque adventures apart and together—in love and politics, prisons and finance, homelands and brave new lands—a most unlikely friendship begins to take hold. And with their story, Peter Carey explores the experiment of American democracy with dazzling inventiveness and with all the richness and surprise of characterization, imagery, and language that we have come to expect from this superlative writer.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307593010
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Parrot and Olivier in America has been shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize. From the two-time Booker Prize–winning author comes an irrepressibly funny new novel set in early nineteenth-century America. Olivier—an improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville—is the traumatized child of aristocratic survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot is the motherless son of an itinerant English printer. They are born on different sides of history, but their lives will be connected by an enigmatic one-armed marquis. When Olivier sets sail for the nascent United States—ostensibly to make a study of the penal system, but more precisely to save his neck from one more revolution—Parrot will be there, too: as spy for the marquis, and as protector, foe, and foil for Olivier. As the narrative shifts between the perspectives of Parrot and Olivier, between their picaresque adventures apart and together—in love and politics, prisons and finance, homelands and brave new lands—a most unlikely friendship begins to take hold. And with their story, Peter Carey explores the experiment of American democracy with dazzling inventiveness and with all the richness and surprise of characterization, imagery, and language that we have come to expect from this superlative writer.
Advocacy
Author: Andy Boon
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135345252
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135345252
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Home is the Sailor
Author: Day Keene
Publisher: Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN: 0857683837
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
NO MAN COULD RESIST HER. BUT COULD ANY MAN EVER HAVE HER? After years at sea, Swede Nelson just wanted to find a nice girl and settle down. But what he found instead was Corliss Mason: beautiful, sensual, irresistible – and nothing but trouble. It begins with a bar fight that lands Swede in jail. Soon he’s helping Corliss cover up a killing. But how long can they get away with murder? And why can’t Swede shake the terrible suspicion that he’s being set up?
Publisher: Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN: 0857683837
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
NO MAN COULD RESIST HER. BUT COULD ANY MAN EVER HAVE HER? After years at sea, Swede Nelson just wanted to find a nice girl and settle down. But what he found instead was Corliss Mason: beautiful, sensual, irresistible – and nothing but trouble. It begins with a bar fight that lands Swede in jail. Soon he’s helping Corliss cover up a killing. But how long can they get away with murder? And why can’t Swede shake the terrible suspicion that he’s being set up?
Alex & Me
Author: Irene Pepperberg
Publisher: Scribe Publications
ISBN: 1921372729
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
'A moving tribute that beautifully evokes the struggles, the initial triumphs, the setbacks, the unexpected and often stunning achievemnets . . . [while] uncovering cognitive abilities in Alex that no one believed were possible.'Publishers WeeklyOn September 6, 2007, an African Grey parrot named Alex died prematurely at age thirty-one. His last words to his owner, Irene Pepperberg, were 'You be good. I love you'.What would normally be a quiet, very private event was, in Alex's case, headline news. Over the thirty years they had worked together, Alex and Irene had become famous - two pioneers who opened an unprecedented window into the hidden yet vast world of animal minds. Alex's brain was the size of a shelled walnut, and when Irene and Alex first met, birds were not believed to possess any potential for language, consciousness, or anything remotely comparable to human intelligence. Yet, over the years, Alex proved many things. He could add. He could sound out words. He understood concepts like bigger, smaller, more, fewer, and none. He was capable of thought and intention. Together, Alex and Irene uncovered a startling reality: We live in a world populated by thinking, conscious creatures.The fame that resulted was extraordinary. Yet there was a side to their relationship that never made the papers. They were emotionally connected to one another. They shared a deep bond far beyond science. Alex missed Irene when she was away. He was jealous when she paid attention to other parrots, or even people. He liked to show her who was boss. He loved to dance. He sometimes became bored by the repetition of his tests, and played jokes on her. Sometimes they sniped at each other. Yet nearly every day, they each said, 'I love you'.Alex and Irene stayed together through thick and thin - despite sneers from experts, extraordinary financial sacrifices, and a nomadic existence from one university to another. The story of their thirty-year adventure is equally a landmark of scientific achievement and of an unforgettable human-animal bond.
Publisher: Scribe Publications
ISBN: 1921372729
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
'A moving tribute that beautifully evokes the struggles, the initial triumphs, the setbacks, the unexpected and often stunning achievemnets . . . [while] uncovering cognitive abilities in Alex that no one believed were possible.'Publishers WeeklyOn September 6, 2007, an African Grey parrot named Alex died prematurely at age thirty-one. His last words to his owner, Irene Pepperberg, were 'You be good. I love you'.What would normally be a quiet, very private event was, in Alex's case, headline news. Over the thirty years they had worked together, Alex and Irene had become famous - two pioneers who opened an unprecedented window into the hidden yet vast world of animal minds. Alex's brain was the size of a shelled walnut, and when Irene and Alex first met, birds were not believed to possess any potential for language, consciousness, or anything remotely comparable to human intelligence. Yet, over the years, Alex proved many things. He could add. He could sound out words. He understood concepts like bigger, smaller, more, fewer, and none. He was capable of thought and intention. Together, Alex and Irene uncovered a startling reality: We live in a world populated by thinking, conscious creatures.The fame that resulted was extraordinary. Yet there was a side to their relationship that never made the papers. They were emotionally connected to one another. They shared a deep bond far beyond science. Alex missed Irene when she was away. He was jealous when she paid attention to other parrots, or even people. He liked to show her who was boss. He loved to dance. He sometimes became bored by the repetition of his tests, and played jokes on her. Sometimes they sniped at each other. Yet nearly every day, they each said, 'I love you'.Alex and Irene stayed together through thick and thin - despite sneers from experts, extraordinary financial sacrifices, and a nomadic existence from one university to another. The story of their thirty-year adventure is equally a landmark of scientific achievement and of an unforgettable human-animal bond.