The Patchwork Parrot Makes Breakfast
Author | : A. J. Wood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1992* |
Genre | : Children's stories |
ISBN | : 9780859857628 |
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Author | : A. J. Wood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1992* |
Genre | : Children's stories |
ISBN | : 9780859857628 |
Author | : A. J. Wood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1992* |
Genre | : Children's stories |
ISBN | : 9780859857611 |
Author | : Jane Robinson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780192880208 |
Catching a parrot and building the hearth to bake it was all in a day's work for the woman pioneer. This riveting anthology tells the story of over 100 such women who settled everywhere from Africa and India to North America and Canada in the age of Empire, from the early 17th to the early 20th centuries.
Author | : A. J. Wood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1992* |
Genre | : Children's stories |
ISBN | : 9780859857604 |
Author | : A. J. Wood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1992* |
Genre | : Children's stories |
ISBN | : 9780859857635 |
Author | : Joanna Burger |
Publisher | : Villard |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2001-07-03 |
Genre | : Pets |
ISBN | : 158836027X |
“Birds are my passion,” says Joanna Burger, “but parrots are my weakness.” Fifteen years ago, when se adopted a neglected, orphaned thirty-six year old parrot named Tiko, she entered on of the most complex relationships of her life. Sullen and hostile when he entered Dr. Burger’s home, Tiko gradually warmed as she carefully persuaded him of her good intentions. Eventually he courted her, building nests inside household furniture during mating season and trying to coax her into them. He nursed her vigilantly through a bout with Lyme disease, regularly preening each strand of hair on the pillow as she slept. For a while he even fought her husband for her attentions, but eventually theirs became a relationship of deep mutual trust. The Parrot Who Owns Me is also the story of the science of birds, and of parrots in particular (America’s third most commonly owned pet, after cats and dogs). Woven into the narrative are insights and fascinating revelations from Joanna Burger’s work — not only about parrots, but about what it means to be human. By turns delightful, hilarious, touching, and enlightening, The Parrot Who Owns Me introduces us to an unforgettable bird and his human companion, whose friendships tells us much about ourselves.
Author | : Foumiko Kometani |
Publisher | : Dalkey Archive Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2013-04-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1564789667 |
These touching novellas detail the difficulties of a Japanese woman to both adapt to her new life in the United States without abandoning ties to her family and community back home. This book collects two novellas by the noted Japanese painter: “Family Business” and “1,001 Pillars of Flame.” In the first, Megumi—like the author, a long-time resident of the United States—pays a visit to her now eighty-seven-year-old mother in Japan. After so many years living abroad, Megumi simply can't understand contemporary Japan, and when her nephew runs away from home, and her elderly mother gives chase, Megumi finds herself having to relearn Japanese survival skills in an effort to bring them home safely. In “1,001 Pillars of Fire,” another Japanese-American woman, Yu, has been living in California for decades—which makes it all the more painful that she’s just as subject to discrimination now as ever. When, in the wake of the Rodney King trial, LA’s African-American population begins to riot, Yu learns just how much damage exclusion can do—finding it even within her own family.