Author: Anthony D. Fredericks
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1584696044
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Tall Tall Tree is a tribute to the last remaining old-growth redwood forests that stand along the northern Californian coast. The perfect forest book for kids, Tall Tall Tree includes accurate scientific information about redwood trees and the habitat they create, making this book important for young readers at home and in the classroom. Tall Tall Tree is the perfect California book for kids eager to learn about the state and its surrounding environment. With its counting format and rhyming text, this book doubles as a counting book for kids and young readers. There's a world teeming with life that very few people ever see. Take a peek at some of the animals that make their home in a Tall Tall Tree—a magnificent coast redwood. Count the animals, one through ten—chipmunks chattering, bats roosting, slugs sliding, and many more. Tony Frederick's playful rhyme makes this a book young children will want to look at and listen to again and again, while early readers will enjoy reading it on their own. The turn of every page reveals a unique perspective on the redwood's many moods, illustrated with Chad Wallace's stunning colors. Enriching STEAM activities complement the content. Come discover and explore this wild and magic world! Parents, teachers, gift givers, and many others will find: backmatter includes further information about redwood trees and the animals that live there An explore more section for teachers & parents includes STEAM activities and further learning websites A book for young readers learning how to count!
Author: Robert E. Pike
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393248607
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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In this robust, informal book, Robert E. Pike tells the colorful story of logging and log-driving in New England. The New England loggers and river drivers were a unique breed of men. Working with their axes and peaveys through Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, they contributed mightily to the development of the United States. The daily life of the loggers was hard — working in deep icy water fourteen hours a day, sleeping in wet blankets, eating coarse food, and constantly risking their lives. Their pay was very low, yet they were proud to call themselves loggers. When they came out of the woods after the spring drives, they ebulliently spent their pay carousing in the staid New England towns. Robert E. Pike, who as a youth worked in the woods and on the rivers, writes affectionately and knowingly, with humorous anecdotes, of every detail of lumbering. He describes the daily life of the logging camps, giving a picture of the different specialist jobs: the camp boss, the choppers, the sawyers and filers, the scaler, the teamsters, the river men, the railroaders, and the lumber kings. His descriptions bring the reader vividly into the woods, smelling the tangy, newly cut timber, hearing the boom of the falling trees. "The author's lively prose matches the temper of his subject. . . . This is basic history, geography, psychology, economics, and folklore all rolled into one top-quality volume." — R. S. Monahan, New York Times Book Review
Author: Rex Southwell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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A rugged climate breeds a rugged people, and the Southwells were no exception. Grover, the son of a ship's carpenter, is the victim of a broken marriage and is sent to Coldwater Orphanage. Made a ward of the state, he is placed with a merciless farmer who won't let Grover stop working long enough to go to school. His father returns for him on his eighteenth birthday, only to find an embittered young man. Grover's story of forgiveness, financial struggle, family love, and salvation encompasses more than just a woodsman's tale of the early twentieth century, it chronicles the settling of the vast northern reaches of a harsh land and the sacrifices that were made to tame it.
Author: Gabriel Hemery
Publisher: Wood Wide Works
ISBN: 9781916336230
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Tall Trees Short Stories: Volume 21 is a collection of 18 extraordinary tales exploring the natural world and our relationship with it, written by environmentalist and celebrated tree author Gabriel Hemery.
Author: Robert Shearman
Publisher: Chizine Publications
ISBN: 9780981317731
Category : Fantasy fiction, Canadian
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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2015 World Fantasy Award nominee! Shirley Jackson Award nominee! A beautiful and courageous journal. - Peter Straub Shadows & Tall Trees is the flagship publication of Undertow Publications (UP), a small press based near Toronto. In 2010 and 2013 the journal was a finalist for the British Fantasy Award for Best Periodical/Magazine. Stories published in Shadows & Tall Trees have been selected for reprint in The Best Horror of the Year; The Best British Stories; The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror; Imaginarium: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing; The Year's Best Australian Fantasy & Horror; and Wilde Stories: The Best Gay Speculative Fiction. Many notable authors have graced the pages of Shadows & Tall Trees, including Robert Shearman, Steve Rasnic Tem, Alison Moore, Nicholas Royle, and Nina Allan."
Author: Brian Evenson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781988964164
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD-WINNER (Vol. 7) WORLD FANTASY AWARD FINALIST (Vol. 6) "A smart, soulful, illuminating investigation ... of our moment's most interesting and necessary projects, of opening up horror literature to every sort of formal interrogation. It is a beautiful and courageous series." - Peter Straub, author of Ghost Story
Author: Matt Wagner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780983491712
Category : Art, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Winner - Silver Medal - IPPY Awards In this second book of Matt Wagner's survey of international contemporary art, he turns his eye to his hometown of Portland, OR. He's chosen 40 artists who embody the independent ethos that Portland is known for and shows readers what's happening in the city's vibrant visual arts scene right now. Wagner has created a portrait of a city that nurtures artists and art in a way few other cities do. These tall trees stand out for creating the bold and unique works that led art critic Peter Plagens to wonder in The Wall Street Journal if Portland might be America's next art capital.
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781741693010
Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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As with Key Links Magenta and Red titles, Jill Eggleton has carefully sequenced the Yellow titles to maximise the scaffolding from one book to the next. Yellow titles continue to increase key vocabulary in every book. The Tall Tree is a nonfiction title. The documentary-style nonfiction integrates 'learning to read' and 'reading to learn' in a case-study approach. The prompts in the Focus Panels for Yellow titles cover a range of Key Targets that are listed in the Teachers' Tool Box (item 7883547). 1 copy.
Author: Alison Moore
Publisher: Shadows & Tall Trees
ISBN: 9780995094932
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Volume 7 of the acclaimed anthology of weird, strange fiction. Short-listed for the World Fantasy, and Shirley Jackson Awards, and featuring contemporary luminaries of weird fiction Alison Moore, Robert Shearman, M. Rickert, Nicholas Royle, Brian Evenson, V.H. Leslie, and others.
Author: Joan Bauer
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0142404276
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
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Tree, a six-foot-three-inch twelve-year-old, copes with his parents' recent divorce and his failure as an athlete by helping his grandfather, a Vietnam vet and recent amputee, and Sophie, a new girl at school.
