[PDF] Bird Of Winter eBook

Author : Kate Banks
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 30,92 MB
Release : 2024-10-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1536246247

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Forest animals help an injured nightingale survive the winter in a comforting story of friendship and resilience, lyrically told and gorgeously illustrated. As the days grow shorter and the air becomes colder, the spring birds fly south for winter—all except for a nightingale with a broken wing. Unable to fly, the nightingale worries about how to prepare for weather it’s never had to experience before. Luckily, the forest animals who are used to frosty conditions help the nightingale navigate the cold as its wing heals. Though the unfamiliar season proves challenging, and even a little scary at times, the nightingale discovers there’s beauty to be found in even the harshest weather—and with that comes newfound gratitude for the return of spring. Kate Banks weaves a story of perseverance and kindness, brought beautifully to life by Suzie Mason’s stunning artwork.

Author : Alice Hiller
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 50,31 MB
Release : 2021-04-19
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1800345682

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'Hiller offers extraordinary resilience and moments of immense, liberatory tenderness. [...] This is a harrowing book, yes, but ultimately, with its invitation to “billow forth the wrecks we hold”, with its emphasis on resistance and joy, it is a staggeringly beautiful piece of life-affirming work.' Stephanie Sy-Quia, The Poetry Review

Author : Kirsten Hall
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 12,70 MB
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1647001609

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Discover birds who survive winter against all odds in this poetic, gorgeously illustrated picture book Snowflakes whirling, snow-flocks swirling, streaks of white twirl through the night . . . You’ve heard of birds who migrate to warmer climates in the wintertime—but what about those who persevere through snowy weather and freezing temperatures? With elegant verse and striking illustrations, Snow Birds salutes the brave and resourceful birds who adapt to survive the coldest months.

Author : Catherine Burns
Publisher : Windmill Books(CA)
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 28,71 MB
Release : 1971-01-01
Category : Birds
ISBN : 9780878070206

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A stubborn little bird, staying behind when the other birds go south for the winter, learns about the strange world of the carousel horses.

Author : Helene Kerillis
Publisher : Prestel Junior
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,32 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Birds
ISBN : 9783791370804

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Eight-year-old Mayken works at her mothers inn, one winter day she is ice skating and finds an injured bird and nurses it back to health.

Author : Roger F. Pasquier
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,8 MB
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0691195439

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How birds have evolved and adapted to survive winter Birds in Winter is the first book devoted to the ecology and behavior of birds during this most challenging season. Birds remaining in regions with cold weather must cope with much shorter days to find food and shelter even as they need to avoid predators and stay warm through the long nights, while migrants to the tropics must fit into very different ecosystems and communities of resident birds. Roger Pasquier explores how winter affects birds’ lives all through the year, starting in late summer, when some begin caching food to retrieve months later and others form social groups lasting into the next spring. During winter some birds are already pairing up for the following breeding season, so health through the winter contributes to nesting success. Today, rapidly advancing technologies are enabling scientists to track individual birds through their daily and annual movements at home and across oceans and hemispheres, revealing new and unexpected information about their lives and interactions. But, as Birds in Winter shows, much is visible to any interested observer. Pasquier describes the season’s distinct conservation challenges for birds that winter where they have bred and for migrants to distant regions. Finally, global warming is altering the nature of winter itself. Whether birds that have evolved over millennia to survive this season can now adjust to a rapidly changing climate is a problem all people who enjoy watching them must consider. Filled with elegant line drawings by artist and illustrator Margaret La Farge, Birds in Winter describes how winter influences the lives of birds from the poles to the equator.

Author : Jim Grimsley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 30,47 MB
Release : 1997-01-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0684829916

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Eight-year-old southerner Danny Crell recounts his premature entry into manhood, precipitated by a violent quarrel between his father, an abusive drunk, and his mother, whose emotional detachment is nearly as frightening.

Author : Taylor Brandon
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 38,10 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Birds
ISBN : 9781889945262

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Marty McBird soon realizes he should have flown south with the other birds when winter storms arrive.

Author : Nicholas Coghlan
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,49 MB
Release : 2012-08-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0888646380

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After tough assignments as a Canadian diplomat abroad, Nicholas Coghlan and his wife Jenny unwind by sailing Bosun Bird, a 27foot sailboat, from Cape Town, South Africa, across the South Atlantic and into the stormy winter waters around Tierra del Fuego, South America. Coghlan recounts earlier adventures in Patagonia when, taking time off from his job as a schoolteacher in Buenos Aires in the late 1970s, he and Jenny explored the region of southern Argentina and Chile over three successive summers. This time, as they negotiate the labyrinth of channels and inlets around snow-covered Fireland, he reflects on voyages of past explorers: Magellan, Cook, Darwin, and others. Sailing enthusiasts and readers of true adventures will want to add Coghlan's world-wise narrative to their libraries.

Author : Helen Oyeyemi
Publisher : Picador
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 16,51 MB
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1743519591

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BOY Novak turns twenty and decides to try for a brand-new life. Flax Hill, Massachusetts, isn't exactly a welcoming town, but it does have the virtue of being the last stop on the bus route she took from New York. Flax Hill is also the hometown of Arturo Whitman - craftsman, widower, and father of Snow. SNOW is mild-mannered, radiant and deeply cherished - exactly the sort of little girl Boy never was, and Boy is utterly beguiled by her. If Snow displays a certain inscrutability at times, that's simply a characteristic she shares with her father, harmless until Boy gives birth to Snow's sister, Bird. When BIRD is born Boy is forced to re-evaluate the image Arturo's family have presented to her, and Boy, Snow and Bird are broken apart.