Tiny Chick's Tail

Tiny Chick's Tail
Author:
Publisher: Gallery Books
Total Pages: 48
Release: 1990
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780831709747

Tiny chick lives on a farm with his family. He is just a yellow ball of fluff but he can't wait to grow up and have a long feathery tail like his father's.

Tales Behind the Glass

Tales Behind the Glass
Author: Jill Warrener
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
Total Pages: 69
Release: 2024-03-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1398494887

Often quirky, containing unexpected, sometimes unnerving twists, these tales can catch the reader unawares. A lonely boy on holiday with his absent mother; an elderly lady still living in her exciting, wartime past; a kindly, old gentleman, trapped inside a body which no longer works; a teenage girl who finds she might possibly be capable of murder, the central characters spring to life in our imaginations as each short tale unfolds. Sometimes you are with the character, in first person, living their thoughts, sometimes you watch from a distance in third person. Sometimes you realise with a jolt that the time frame in which the story is set is not modern-day but is the 1960s, in others you are part of today’s world. Wherever they take you, these are stories that will leave you wondering and may knock you off-balance.

Tasha’s Tails

Tasha’s Tails
Author: Tasha
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2023-04-28
Genre: Pets
ISBN:

Captured ten years ago, strolling the streets of Charlotte, NC, this spirited, adventurous Silky Terrier, continues his audacious escapades in his adopted Smokey Mountain home. Better known as the "Mayor of Carriage Park," Tasha greets every person, dog, cat, or wild animal, as a possible source of friendship, a treat, or a pat on the head. Encounters with bears, copperheads, deer, possums, and turkeys highlight his daily hikes, making you either gasp with dread, or chuckle at his daring. However, it's the accounts of his relentless theft, pillage, and escape that earns him the reputation of resident pirate. Laugh out loud, or at least smile, as you cheer on this incorrigible, delinquent dog as he outwits, brawls with, and eludes his pursuers. Like Houdini, he perfects the art of quick getaways. His destination? Any locale that offers excitement and/or nourishment. He especially relishes construction sites with the possibility of the new smells of cement, lumber, and tar, but most of all workers' desirable leftover lunches. At home, he refines his larceny skills. Leaping two feet in the air from a standstill, he gains access to any surface, seizing otherwise forbidden delicacies--hot dogs, pasta, cookies, muffins, and candy, in addition to more ill-advised goodies like butter, lemons, chocolate, fertilizer, and peach pits. This nine-pound sleuth can steal from your purse, your lap, your suitcase, your hand, or your pocket, then race away, smirking the whole time, leaving you shocked, exasperated, but eventually delighted by his brazen bravery. As a bonus, the reader will be treated to stories of Tasha’s long distant past. Imagine, a dog who sailed on the Titanic, toured with a circus, soared in Santa's sleigh, rocketed to the moon with Neil Armstrong, and even slept with Baby Jesus. Honest!

Just Plain Fancy

Just Plain Fancy
Author: Patricia Polacco
Publisher: Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 41
Release: 2014-09-24
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0307974715

A charming picture book set in an Amish community, by the beloved storyteller Patricia Polacco. Naomi lives with her farming family in an Amish village in Pennsylvania. As part of her household chores, Naomi looks after the chickens with her little sister, Ruth. One day Naomi and Ruth find an abandoned egg near the road. Naomi decides this special egg must be hatched. And when it is, it's plain to see that this is no ordinary chick! The girls keep the chick, named Fancy, a secret . . . until the day of their family's community working bee. On this day, Naomi is to receive a white organdy cap, an Amish tradition, as a reward for her hard work and responsibility. But on this day, too, Fancy the chick decides to introduce himself to the community! The results are a sheer delight, pure and simple. Accompanied by Patricia Polacco's beautiful artwork, this story of discovery and growing up will stay in the hearts of all who turn its pages.

Pima Indian Legends

Pima Indian Legends
Author: Anna Moore Shaw
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1968-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780816501861

Coyote, Eagle-man, quail, bear, and other charaters relate their adventures in two dozen delightful tales Anna Shaw heard her father tell when she was young. The author, a Pima herself, unfolds twenty-four charming Indian tales as passed down from generation to generation. Simple, and beautiful in design and content. A delight for all ages.

Delphi Collected Works of Enid Blyton (Illustrated)

Delphi Collected Works of Enid Blyton (Illustrated)
Author: Enid Blyton
Publisher: Delphi Classics
Total Pages: 16675
Release: 2022-09-20
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1801700729

A highly popular British author of stories, poems and educational books for children, Enid Blyton produced numerous series that have remained worldwide bestsellers since the 1930s. Her works largely consist of mystery or adventure stories, as well as tales that take place in schools and the circus. Her ‘Famous Five’, ‘Secret Seven’, ‘Five Find-Outers’ and ‘Malory Towers’ are enduring classics of children’s literature. They feature clearly delineated good and bad characters, while constructing exciting plots that illustrate traditional moral lessons. Blyton’s vocabulary and prose style are simple and highly accessible for beginning readers. This eBook presents the largest collection of Blyton’s work ever compiled in a single edition, with numerous illustrations, rare texts and informative introductions. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Blyton’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major texts * All of the major novels, with individual contents tables * The complete ‘Famous Five’, ‘Secret Seven’, ‘Five Find-Outers’ and ‘Malory Towers’ books * Rare ‘Secret Seven’ short stories, digitised here for the first time * Wishing-Chair and Amelia Jane Stories available in no other collection * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Famous works are fully illustrated with their original artwork (when the illustrator’s work is no longer held in copyright) * Blyton’s poetry collection * Features the fully-illustrated autobiography – available here for the first time in digital publishing * Ordering of texts into chronological order and series Please visit the Delphi website for a full contents list CONTENTS: The Famous Five Books Five on a Treasure Island (1942) Five Go Adventuring Again (1943) Five Run Away Together (1944) Five Go to Smuggler’s Top (1945) Five Go Off in a Caravan (1946) Five on Kirrin Island Again (1947) Five Go Off to Camp (1948) Five Get into Trouble (1949) Five Fall into Adventure (1950) Five on a Hike Together (1951) Five Have a Wonderful Time (1952) Five Go Down to the Sea (1953) Five Go to Mystery Moor (1954) Five Have Plenty of Fun (1955) Five on a Secret Trail (1956) Five Go to Billycock Hill (1957) Five Get into a Fix (1958) Five on Finniston Farm (1960) Five Go to Demon’s Rocks (1961) Five Have a Mystery to Solve (1962) Five are Together Again (1963) Famous Five Short Stories The Secret Seven Books The Secret Seven (1949) Secret Seven Adventure (1950) Well Done Secret Seven (1951) Secret Seven on the Trail (1952) Go Ahead Secret Seven (1953) Good Work Secret Seven (1954) Secret Seven Win Through (1955) Three Cheers Secret Seven (1956) Secret Seven Mystery (1957) Puzzle for the Secret Seven (1958) Secret Seven Fireworks (1959) Good Old Secret Seven (1960) Shock for the Secret Seven (1961) Look Out Secret Seven (1962) Fun for the Secret Seven (1963) Secret Seven Short Stories Malory Towers Series First Term at Malory Towers (1946) Second Form at Malory Towers (1947) Third Year at Malory Towers (1948) Upper Fourth at Malory Towers (1949) In the Fifth at Malory Towers (1950) Last Term at Malory Towers (1951) The Adventure Series The Five Find-Outers Books Wishing-Chair Series The Amelia Jane Books The Family Series The Farm Series The Circus Series St. Clare’s Series Mr. Twiddle Books The Faraway Tree Series Mister Meddle Books The Naughtiest Girl Books The Barney Mysteries The Secret Series The Six Cousins Books The Poetry Book Child Whispers (1923) Other Books 48 more books - too many to list The Autobiography The Story of My Life (1952)

Chicken Boy

Chicken Boy
Author: Arthur Parkinson
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2023-04-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 024157367X

A captivating testament to the mutual rewards and delights of keeping chickens, by the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Flower Yard Most of us want a dog, or a cat, or a pony when we are young – but for Arthur Parkinson, it was always hens. Growing up in an ex-mining town in Nottinghamshire, the other kids in the playground called him 'Chicken Boy'. The quiet fulfilment of keeping hens became his sanctuary, a tonic for mental and physical health, a connection with his family and the natural world. Illustrated with Arthur's own characterful watercolours and photographs of his ‘girls’, Chicken Boy is a one-of-a-kind memoir of a life in nature.