Croc Gets a Shock

Croc Gets a Shock
Author: Mairi Mackinnon
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Animals
ISBN: 9781409550525

Croc is late for everything, even her own birthday party. She misses the bus, she can't buy new shoes because the store is closed for lunch, and what's worse, she has the hiccups. With simple rhyming text and phonic repetition specially designed to develop essential language and early reading skills.

Cow Takes a Bow and Other Tales

Cow Takes a Bow and Other Tales
Author: Russell Punter
Publisher: Usborne
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Animals
ISBN: 9781409580959

A collection of six funny stories, each told with rhythmic text and phonic repetition specially designed to develop essential language and early reading skills. Suitable for reading aloud or beginner readers. Guidance notes at the back explain how parents can help their children get the most out of this book.

Notes of a Crocodile

Notes of a Crocodile
Author: Qiu Miaojin
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2017-05-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1681370778

WINNER OF THE 2018 LUCIEN STRYK ASIAN TRANSLATION PRIZE The English-language premiere of Qiu Miaojin's coming-of-age novel about queer teenagers in Taiwan, a cult classic in China and winner of the 1995 China Times Literature Award. An NYRB Classics Original Set in the post-martial-law era of late-1980s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile is a coming-of-age story of queer misfits discovering love, friendship, and artistic affinity while hardly studying at Taiwan’s most prestigious university. Told through the eyes of an anonymous lesbian narrator nicknamed Lazi, this cult classic is a postmodern pastiche of diaries, vignettes, mash notes, aphorisms, exegesis, and satire by an incisive prose stylist and major countercultural figure. Afflicted by her fatalistic attraction to Shui Ling, an older woman, Lazi turns for support to a circle of friends that includes a rich kid turned criminal and his troubled, self-destructive gay lover, as well as a bored, mischievous overachiever and her alluring slacker artist girlfriend. Illustrating a process of liberation from the strictures of gender through radical self-inquiry, Notes of a Crocodile is a poignant masterpiece of social defiance by a singular voice in contemporary Chinese literature.

The Eye of the Crocodile

The Eye of the Crocodile
Author: Val Plumwood
Publisher: ANU E Press
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2012-11-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1922144177

Val Plumwood was an eminent environmental philosopher and activist who was prominent in the development of radical ecophilosophy from the early 1970s until her death in 2008. Her book Feminism and the Mastery of Nature (1992) has become a classic. In 1985 she was attacked by a crocodile while kayaking alone in the Kakadu national park in the Northern Territory. She was death rolled three times before being released from the crocodile’s jaws. She crawled for hours through swamp with appalling injuries before being rescued. The experience made her well placed to write about cultural responses to death and predation. The first section of The Eye of the Crocodile consists of chapters intended for a book on crocodiles that remained unfinished at the time of Val’s death. The remaining chapters are previously published papers brought together to form an overview of Val’s ideas on death, predation and nature.

Into the Crocodile Nest

Into the Crocodile Nest
Author: Benedict Allen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 223
Release: 1987
Genre: Ethnology
ISBN: 9780571206223

Benedict Allen travelled through Papua New Guinea in search of a tribe that would let him participate in an initiation ceremony into manhood. He was finally admitted to the ceremonies of the Sepik tribe, whose totemic god is the crocodile. With fifteen other young males, Allen was secluded from the village in a large nest-like enclosure. Crocodile marks were carved onto their bodies with sharpened bamboo. Grey mud was applied to stop the blood-flow from their wounds, and they were beaten every day for six weeks. This book is the story of Allen's initiation experiences - a tale of love, community through shared pain and of sudden death.

Comprehension and Critical Thinking Grade 4

Comprehension and Critical Thinking Grade 4
Author: Greathouse, Lisa
Publisher: Shell Education
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2017-03-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1618137808

Build Grade 4 students' comprehension and critical-thinking skills and prepare them for standardized tests with high-interest nonfiction articles from TIME For Kids®. This easy-to-implement resource includes accompanying document-based questions that focus on key strategies for breaking down informational text to help students build cross-curricular reading skills. A document-based assessment sheet is also provided for each passage so students can investigate the text in even deeper and more meaningful ways. This resource is aligned to state and national standards and supports the development of college and career readiness skills.

What a Croc!

What a Croc!
Author: Bill Myers
Publisher: Focus on the Family
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2024-02-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1646071204

From best-selling author Bill Myers comes a hilarious, faith-filled, and action-packed adventure starring the Mulligan family. For some reason, things keep going wrong for the Mulligan kids. There was the incident with the bugs on the bus. Then came the mixed-up lunches. And now several animals have escaped from the park. What is going on? Could the curse that Madame Clare mentioned at her fortune-telling booth actually be true? What's more, could it seriously hurt their animal park and family connection. Will Mike Mulligan fail in his bid to oust the corrupt Mayor? Neither Michael nor Traci Mulligan had intended upon a large family, let alone one of such diversity. But God had other plans. After their second child, Lisa, was born blind, they began to see their gift for reaching out, connecting, and laughing with special children with special needs―all while raising their family among the many creatures living at the animal park that they operate. Are there trials? You bet. There's no way to keep the boat from rocking with so many children from such diverse backgrounds and in such an incredible environment. But their faith in Christ, commitment to one another, and ability to laugh at themselves keep them digging in to make it work.

Test Prep Level 4: This Croc Rocks Comprehension and Critical Thinking

Test Prep Level 4: This Croc Rocks Comprehension and Critical Thinking
Author: Lisa Greathouse
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 5
Release: 2014-06-01
Genre:
ISBN: 1480779318

Fourth graders read a high-interest nonfiction article, strengthen comprehension skills by responding to follow-up questions, study a primary source document, and demonstrate critical-thinking skills through document-based questions.

The Shocking Secret of the Electric Eel... and More!

The Shocking Secret of the Electric Eel... and More!
Author: Ana María Rodríguez
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2017-07-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0766088510

Readers tag along with scientists as they uncover intriguing adaptations that help animals survive in their environments. This colorful book explains the electric eel’s hunting tactics and an unexpected defense strategy, why some fish sleep in mucous cocoons, how jumping spiders hear from across a room, what the shape of a European eel’s head reveals about its diet, and why midshipman fish sing only at night. Based largely on primary sources, including interviews with the scientists, illustrated with original research and stock photographs, and complemented with a hands-on activity, this volume opens a window into the world of scientists as they uncover animal secrets that vividly complement basic biological principles.

Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology

Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology
Author: Michael Newton
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 585
Release: 2016-10-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0786491531

On every continent and in every nation, animals unrecognized by modern science are reported on a daily basis. People passionately pursue these creatures--the name given to their field of study is cryptozoology. Coined in the 1950s, the term literally means the science of hidden animals. When the International Society of Cryptozoology (ISC) was formed in 1982, the founders declared that the branch of science is also concerned with "the possible existence of known animals in areas where they are not supposed to occur (either now or in the past) as well as the unknown persistence of presumed extinct animals to the present time or to the recent past...what makes an animal of interest to cryptology is that it is unexpected." This reference work presents a "flesh and blood" view of cryptozoology. Here, 2,744 entries are listed, the majority of which each describe one specific creature or type of creature. Other entries cover 742 places where unnamed cryptids are said to appear; profiles of 77 groups and 112 individuals who have contributed to the field; descriptions of objects and events important to the subject; and essays on cryptotourism and hoaxes, for example. Appendices offer a timeline of zoological discoveries, annotated lists of movies and television series with cryptozoological themes, a list of crypto-fiction titles and a list of Internet websites devoted to cryptozoology.