How the Guinea Fowl Got Her Spots

How the Guinea Fowl Got Her Spots
Author: Barbara Knutson
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2009-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0761357912

The Guinea Fowl and Cow are best friends. Both of them keep an eye out for Lion. When Lion threatens, each must intervene to save the other. Beautiful watercolors transform this tale into a visual delight.

How the Guinea Fowl Got Her Spots

How the Guinea Fowl Got Her Spots
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Total Pages: 24
Release: 1993
Genre: Folklore
ISBN: 9780153016288

A folk explanation for the guinea fowl's protective coloration that enables it to hide from its natural predator, the lion.

Sungura and Leopard

Sungura and Leopard
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Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2006-12-28
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0822568012

A small but clever hare and a fierce leopard agree to share a house, but as the hare's family grows, he realizes that he must find a way to get rid of his bad-tempered neighbor.

Love and Roast Chicken

Love and Roast Chicken
Author: Barbara Knutson
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books ®
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2013-11-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 146773795X

One day, high in the Andes Mountains, Cuy the Guinea Pig is searching for wild spinach to eat when Tío Antonio the Fox comes in search of Cuy to eat! Tío Antonio thinks he's found dinner, but crafty Cuy has other plans. Quick-witted Cuy fools Tío Antonio not once, but three times. Combining striking wood block artwork with an authentic South American voice, this sly trickster tale shows that clever thinking is key when you're out-foxing the fox. Discover more about this title and Barbara Knutson at www.barbaraknutson.net.

Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks

Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks
Author: Gail Damerow
Publisher: Storey Publishing
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2013-01-15
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1612120148

Gail Damerow shows you how to incubate, hatch, and brood baby chickens, ducklings, goslings, turkey poults, and guinea keets. With advice on everything from selecting a breed and choosing the best incubator to feeding and caring for newborn chicks in a brooder, this comprehensive guide also covers issues like embryo development, panting chicks, and a variety of common birth defects. Whether you want to hatch three eggs or one hundred, you’ll find all the information you need to make your poultry-raising operation a success.

Spots in a Box

Spots in a Box
Author: Helen Ward
Publisher: Templar Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: JUVENILE FICTION
ISBN: 9780763675974

Ordering some spots by mail when he worries about his lack thereof, a young guinea fowl is surprised by his delivery, which contains spots of various sizes, colors, and patterns.

Why the Crab Has No Head

Why the Crab Has No Head
Author: Barbara Knutson
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2009-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0761357920

Nzambi Mpungu, creator of the earth and sky, has spent a long hard day making the Elephant. By nightfall, Nzambi still hasn't finished her next creation, the Crab, and she tells the little creature to return the following day for a fine head. That night, the proud Crab boasts about the promised head to all the other animals and ends up learning a hard lesson. This tale from the Bakongo people of Zaire, retold and illustrated by Barbara Knutson, will delight readers of all ages.

The Bright Hour

The Bright Hour
Author: Nina Riggs
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2017-06-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1501169351

"Built on her ... Modern Love column, 'When a Couch is More Than a Couch' (9/23/2016), a ... memoir of living meaningfully with 'death in the room' by the 38-year-old great-great-great granddaughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson--mother to two young boys, wife of 16 years--after her terminal cancer diagnosis"--