[PDF] Tales Of Big Jon And Other Creatures The Extraordinary Times Of An Ordinary Family eBook

Author : Valarie Nichols
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 23,94 MB
Release : 2021
Category :
ISBN : 9781088005064

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Young children are story machines. The simple act of growing up always results in unplanned adventures and missteps that are often wildly entertaining to the family. As parents, we cope with their antics at the time, laugh about them later, then forget them as new journeys begin. The Armitage children had more than their share of adventures and their stories served as entertainment for friends and family over the years. In this marvelous book, Allan has shared their stories. Many will bring back memories of children's frolics, all will make you smile, and some will even result in spontaneous belly laughter. As delightful as the tales are, the wonderful illustrations make them come alive even more. Story telling is as old as time, and time stands still as we enjoy reliving our children's youth.

Author : Allan M. Armitage
Publisher : Allan Armitage
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 16,43 MB
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781088004982

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Young children are story machines. The simple act of growing up always results in unplanned adventures and missteps that are often wildly entertaining to the family. As parents, we cope with their antics at the time, laugh about them later, then forget them as new journeys begin. The Armitage children had more than their share of adventures and their stories served as entertainment for friends and family over the years. In this marvelous book, Allan has shared their stories. Many will bring back memories of children's frolics, all will make you smile, and some will even result in spontaneous belly laughter. As delightful as the tales are, the wonderful illustrations make them come alive even more. Story telling is as old as time, and time stands still as we enjoy reliving our children's youth.

Author : Allan Armitage
Publisher : Allan Armitage
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 12,41 MB
Release : 2015-03-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780692407790

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Dr. Allan Armitage reflects on "How did I get here?" in a open-hearted, conversational style book. After many years of teaching horticulture at the University of Georgia and inspiring students, gardeners, and practitioners in the horticulture industry, he retired Professor Emeritus. From the grave yard to the back yard, he shares stories about the plants and people that shaped his career. Not one to sit on his laurels, Allan finally found the time to reflect and craft this irreverent look backwards in time as to how to arrived where he is today.

Author : Randy Pausch
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,67 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Cancer
ISBN : 9780340978504

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The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.

Author : Tracy Chevalier
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 15,34 MB
Release : 2010-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101152451

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From the New York Times bestselling novelist, a stunning historical novel that follows the story of Mary Anning and Elizabeth Philpot, two extraordinary 19th century fossil hunters who changed the scientific world forever. On the windswept, fossil-strewn beaches of the English coast, poor and uneducated Mary learns that she has a unique gift: "the eye" to spot ammonites and other fossils no one else can see. When she uncovers an unusual fossilized skeleton in the cliffs near her home, she sets the religious community on edge, the townspeople to gossip, and the scientific world alight. After enduring bitter cold, thunderstorms, and landslips, her challenges only grow when she falls in love with an impossible man. Mary soon finds an unlikely champion in prickly Elizabeth, a middle-class spinster who shares her passion for scouring the beaches. Their relationship strikes a delicate balance between fierce loyalty, mutual appreciation, and barely suppressed envy, but ultimately turns out to be their greatest asset. From the author of At the Edge of the Orchard and Girl With a Pearl Earring comes this incredible story of two remarkable women and their voyage of discovery.

Author : Jon Mooallem
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 20,73 MB
Release : 2013-05-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1101617845

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"Intelligent and highly nuanced… This book may bring tears to your eyes." -- San Francisco Chronicle Journalist Jon Mooallem has watched his little daughter’s world overflow with animals butterfly pajamas, appliquéd owls—while the actual world she’s inheriting slides into a great storm of extinction. Half of all species could disappear by the end of the century, and scientists now concede that most of America’s endangered animals will survive only if conservationists keep rigging the world around them in their favor. So Mooallem ventures into the field, often taking his daughter with him, to move beyond childlike fascination and make those creatures feel more real. Wild Ones is a tour through our environmental moment and the eccentric cultural history of people and wild animals in America that inflects it—from Thomas Jefferson’s celebrations of early abundance to the turn-of the-last-century origins of the teddy bear to the whale-loving hippies of the 1970s. With propulsive curiosity and searing wit, and without the easy moralizing and nature worship of environmental journalism’s older guard, Wild Ones merges reportage, science, and history into a humane and endearing meditation on what it means to live in, and bring a life into, a broken world.

Author : Jon Provost
Publisher : Cumberland House Publishing
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 38,46 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781581826197

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Jon Provost's story is a vivid portrait of the inner workings of Hollywood in the 1950s & 1960s and is populated with some of the biggest names of the day: Grace Kelly, Bing Crosby, Jack Benny, Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, and Elvis too.

Author : Jon Klassen
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 45,20 MB
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1536233528

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“Combines spare text and art to deliver no small measure of laughs in another darkly comic haberdashery whodunit. . . . Hats off!” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) When a tiny fish shoots into view wearing a round blue topper (which happens to fit him perfectly), trouble could be following close behind. So it’s a good thing a certain enormous fish hasn’t woken up. And even if he does, it’s not like he’ll ever know what happened, right? Deadpan visual humor swims to the fore in this Caldecott Medal–winning title in the celebrated hat trilogy.

Author : Kate Beaton
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 13,25 MB
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0545637090

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Introducing Kate Beaton, a major new picture book talent, and author/illustrator of #1 New York Times bestseller Hark! A Vagrant! Princess Pinecone knows exactly what she wants for her birthday this year. A BIG horse. A STRONG horse. A horse fit for a WARRIOR PRINCESS! But when the day arrives, she doesn't quite get the horse of her dreams...From the artist behind the comic phenomenon Hark! A Vagrant, The Princess and the Pony is a laugh-out-loud story of brave warriors, big surprises, and falling in love with one unforgettable little pony.

Author : Nancy Van Laan
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,55 MB
Release : 1991-07-02
Category : Fire
ISBN : 9780833578471

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For use in schools and libraries only. When the weather changes and the ever-falling snow threatens to engulf all the animals, it is Crow who flies up to receive the gift of fire from the Great Sky Spirit.