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"Lonely Cuban-born eleven-year-old Oriol lives in Santa Barbara, California, where she enjoys caring for injured animals, but her budding friendship with Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American winner of a Nobel Prize in Literature, emboldens Oriol, an aspiring writer, to open up and create a world of words for herself"--OCLC.
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A collection of the well-known stories, including "How the Whale Got His Throat," "The Elephant's Child, " and "The Butterfly That Stamped." Kipling's own drawings, with their long, funny captions, illustrate his hilarious explanations of "How the Camel Got His Hump," "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin," "How the Armadillo Happened," and other animals How's. He began inventing these stories in his American wife's hometown of Brattleboro, Vermont, to...
4) How a Singing Elephant, an Extremely Speedy Chicken and a Flying Lynx Save the World. A Story for
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How a Singing Elephant, an Extremely Speedy Chicken and a Flying Lynx Save the World. A Zoe and Bliss Adventure. Volume 1 takes the reader to fantasy worlds on alien planets, as well as on Earth. Mysterious creatures make miracles happen. Swiftsnow, a powerful flying lynx, is a most reliable rescuer in any emergency. Daisy, an airy elephant, is as free from the laws of gravity as from self-consciousness, and happily entertains the space travelers...
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Elephant Rocks, Kay Ryan's third book of verse, shows a virtuoso practitioner at the top of her form. Engaging and secretive, provocative and profound, Ryan's poems have generated growing excitement with their appearances in The New Yorker and other leading periodicals. Sometimes gaudily ornamental, sometimes Shaker-plain, here is verse that is compact on the page and expansive in the mind.
10) Dumbo
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Buena Vista Home Entertainment
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[2001]
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English
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A baby elephant with oversized ears is ridiculed by all the circus animals and finally befriended by a mouse. Dumbo becomes the world's only flying elephant.
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Roaring Brook Press
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2019.
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"Follow researcher Carl Safina as he treks with a herd of elephants across the Kenyan landscape, then travel with him to the Pacific Northwest to track and monitor whales in their ocean home. Along the way, find out more about the interior lives of these giants of land and sea--how they play, how they fight, and how they communicate with one another, and sometimes with us, too. Weaving decades of field research with exciting new discoveries about...
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9 Story Media Group
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2009.
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Wibbly introduces us to his new orchestra... a chicken. It seems a bit small for an orchestra, and the chicken won’t sing! Suddenly we meet a bear making ‘boom boom’ sounds on his belly and some birds singing sweetly like clarinets. There’s even two elephants trumpeting away, as well as a honking goose - but still the chicken won’t sing... that is until she meets - another chicken! Wibbly’s orchestra is complete! But where did Wibbly find...
15) Nasla's dream
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Princeton Architectural Press
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[2020]
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"At bedtime, a mysterious yellow dot appears above the top of Nasla's wardrobe--the new home for her toys now that she's decided she's too old to sleep with stuffed animals. Could it be Timboubou the elephant, or her hippo with the broken foot? As a wondrous, dreamlike world with dancing moons and swinging elephant trunks emerges from the shadows, she longs to sing and reassure her toys, but she worries that dancing and singing at night is not allowed....
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Classic animal tales written by Rudyard Kipling and read unabridged by Jim Weiss. With vivid characters and an hysterically funny choice of words, Rudyard Kipling's beloved stories "explain" how camels got humps, great whales got tiny throats, elephants got trunks and more.
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Gathered here is a beguiling selection of folktales from Zimbabwe and Botswana as retold by the best-selling author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. This treasury contains most of the stories previously collected in Children of Wax and seven new tales from the Setswana-speaking people of Botswana.
A girl discovers that her young husband might actually be a lion in disguise, but not before they have two sons who might actually be cubs . ....
A girl discovers that her young husband might actually be a lion in disguise, but not before they have two sons who might actually be cubs . ....
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