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Author: Ray Prather
Publisher: New York : Scribner
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Goaded by the taunts of the village children, a youngster runs deep into the jungle searching for her real mother--an ostrich.
Author: V.K. Singh
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Published: 2024-02-05
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9357089187
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A visitor mistakes Ritu’s bird call for an ostrich’s and wants to see the bird. But there are no ostriches on Henry Island! where will Ritu find one to show him?
Author: Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek
Publisher: Daimon
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 3856305998
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →These beautiful and timeless stories from the African Bush were gathered more than a century ago and have touched thousands of readers ever since. The South African-born author, Sir Laurens van der Post, revered them and helped to make them known throughout the world. For this special new edition, Gregory McNamee has adapted the original nineteenth-century English translations to create modern versions of the stories for readers without a prior knowledge of the Bushman ways of life. The stories in this book carry universal observations and truths and, with their historical and ethnographic roots in the African Bushman culture, they are fascinating and educational for readers and listeners of all ages. They bear powerful testimony to a desert people living at one with Nature.
Author: Charity Waciuma
Publisher:
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 28
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The story of a young girl tricked into thinking she is the daughter of ostriches, relating her subsequent adventures, eventual return to her clan, and her marriage to a wealthy warrior.
Author: Melissa Kirsch
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 502
ISBN-13: 9780761142133
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Brings together survival tips, suggestions, and information on everything from diet and exercise, home decorating, and career to retirement planning, Internet dating, and family relationships.
Author: Melissa Wiley
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Published: 2020-08-18
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 0375870385
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A feisty girl from a family of ranchers lands a job as a daredevil stunt girl in the early days of silent film in this adventurous and funny cross between Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken and Ramona. Pearl lives on a ranch where her chores include collecting eggs and feeding ornery ostriches. She has three older brothers, who don't coddle her at all. And she knows a thing or two about horses, too. One day, Pearl's brothers get cushy jobs doing stunts for this new form of entertainment called "moving pictures." They're the Daredevil Donnelly Brothers, a Death-Defying Cowboy Trio. Before she knows it, Pearl has stumbled into being a stunt girl herself--and dreams of becoming a star. The only problem is, her mother has no idea what she's up to. And let's just say she wouldn't be too happy to find out that Pearl's been jumping out of burning buildings in her spare time. Filled with action, humor, and heart--not to mention those pesky ostriches--The Nerviest Girl in the World introduces a spunky heroine whose adventures will have kids on the edge of their seats and whose sense of humor will have them laughing until the very last line.
Author: Betsy Bird
Publisher: Yearling
Published: 2023-08-08
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0593304004
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →NAMED ONE OF THE BEST CHILDREN’S BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES The story of a girl who rides an ostrich straight to her dreams from the award-winning writer and librarian Betsy Bird, illustrated by Caldecott Medalist David Small. "[A] charming, wacky novel." —The New York Times Twelve-year-old Suzy Bowles is tired of summers filled with chores on her family farm in Burr Oak, Michigan, and desperate to see the world. When her wayward uncle moves back home to the farm, only to skip his chores every morning for mysterious reasons, Suzy decides to find out what he's up to once and for all. And that's when she meets legendary former circus queen Madame Marantette and her ostriches. Before long, Suzy finds herself caught-up in the fast-paced, hilarious world of ostrich riding, a rollicking adventure that just might be her ticket out of Burr Oak. “Beautifully told by one of our best librarians.” —Jon Scieszka, First National Ambassador of Young People’s Literature
Author: Barbara Fister
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 1995-09-14
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 0313032777
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This reference volume serves as a companion to Third World women's literatures in English and in English translation by presenting entries on works, writers, and themes. Entries are chosen to present a balance of well-known writers and emerging ones, contemporary as well as historical writers, and representative selections of genres, literary styles, and themes. What plays have been written by women in the developing world? What books have been written by Sri Lankan or Brazilian women? Which works address themes of feminism or exile or politics in the Third World? These are the types of questions that can now be answered through Fister's companion to Third World women's literatures in English and English translation. Organized alphabetically, this reference volume presents entries on works, writers, and themes. Entries are chosen to present a balance of well-known writers and emerging ones, contemporary as well as historical writers, and representative selections of genres, literary styles, and themes. By providing information about and leads to works by and about Third World women, an important and largely marginalized literature, Fister has created a unique reference tool that will help teachers, scholars, and librarians, both public and academic, expand their definitions of the literary, making the voices of Third World women available in the same format in which many companions to Western literature do. An important book for all public and college-level libraries.
