Cockatoo, Too

Cockatoo, Too
Author: Bethanie Deeney Murguia
Publisher: little bee books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-01-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781499805796

Who can can-can? Find out in Cockatoo, Too, a hilarious book that features cockatoos, two more cockatoos, and tutued toucans too, now available as a board book! Cockatoo. Cockatoo two? Cockatoo, too? Two cockatoos! Two cockatoos, too? Cockatoo tutus! Two cockatoos meet two more cockatoos in tutus and two tutued toucans. And then two more! Can they all can-can? They can! The cockatoos and toucans join together for a dance and ask the reader: "Can you can-can, too?" Now even the youngest readers can experience fantastically funny wordplay and lush, vibrant illustrations in this new board book edition of Cockatoo, Too.

Cockatoos

Cockatoos
Author: Quentin Blake
Publisher: Red Fox
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781849416740

Charlie's World

Charlie's World
Author: Audrey Topping
Publisher: Earth Times Books
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2000
Genre: Cockatoos
ISBN: 9780967290928

Cockatoo Capers

Cockatoo Capers
Author: Beverly Hoffman Erickson
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 59
Release: 2009-05-04
Genre: Pets
ISBN: 1462807127

This is a story about two pet cockatoos named Todi and Quincey. Todi was acquired in South Bend, Indiana and was a well known pet at Mr. Friendlys Pet Shop in South Bend. She was so sweet and when the author first met her she knew from the start she was in love. Todi has been a special pet for yearsalmost 30 years. Her adventures start in a 3 person household when she was brought home as a pet around the Easter time of year in 1980. She did tricks and talked. It was pure love for the pet owners, as she did scream loudly, as a typical cockatoo does. She acquired a brother Quincey Vincent Cockatoo, from an Amish household in Goshen, Indiana. He turned out to be the mean one in the family, as he did not have a sweet nature but he did love women, only women. He grew to hate men and other pets as well. But he becomes a hero when he chases a burglar away. Quinceys trip to the bird show shows how birds are like children and do not always behave. He embarrassed the family when he was taken to a bird show to perform and show off his feathers. He decided he would not perform.

Dream Lover

Dream Lover
Author: Louise Glass
Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2022-10-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1637102135

In Dream Lover, we meet Ali, Lizzie, and Suzanne. They are the closest of friends and help each other navigate life's journey's through the best and worst of times. Be prepared for a bumpy road filled with tears and joy, much laughter, and steamy love scenes that will set your temperature soaring. Ali suddenly knew that her friend Lizzie could not step into the elevator of her high-rise co-op, and to do so would mean certain death. But how did Ali know this? Was she ready for the psych ward at Bellevue, or was she now psychically gifted? Of the three friends, Lizzie has significant insecurities about her appearance and every aspect of her life. But Lizzie's sense of humor borders on the absurd, and her personality jumps off the pages. You cannot help rooting for Lizzie even when she drives you crazy. Suzanne is the sweetest person you would ever hope to meet. She is very trusting and always tries to see the best in people, which is almost her downfall. Suzanne experiences life on the other side, and the afterlife is not all it's cracked up to be. A young Sulphur-crested cockatoo is freakishly brilliant. Fred, the cockatoo, is also a junk food addict that loves to snack on Cheez Doodles, and when Fred decides to mate, all hell breaks loose! Ghosts and angels are as significant to the storyline as the humans. A spirit dreams of becoming mortal like her sister, while a lovelorn ghost misses the wife he had to leave behind. Suspend your disbelief as the supernatural and reality blend together to become one. You will see more of Ali, Lizzie, and Suzanne in Dream Lovers' exciting sequel. It deals with past lives, so get ready to travel back in time.

Carpentaria

Carpentaria
Author: Alexis Wright
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2024-02-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0811238040

Alexis Wright’s award-winning classic Carpentaria: “a swelling, heaving tsunami of a novel—stinging, sinuous, salted with outrageous humor, sweetened by spiraling lyricism” (The Australian) Carpentaria is an epic of the Gulf country of northwestern Queensland, Australia. Its portrait of life in the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance centers on the powerful Phantom family, leader of the Westend Pricklebush people, and its battles with old Joseph Midnight’s renegade Eastend mob, on the one hand, and with the white officials of Uptown and the nearby rapacious, ecologically disastrous Gurfurrit mine on the other. Wright’s masterful novel teems with extraordinary characters—the outcast savior Elias Smith, the religious zealot Mozzie Fishman, the murderous mayor Bruiser, the moth-ridden Captain Nicoli Finn, the activist Will Phantom, and above all, the rulers of the family, the queen of the garbage dump and the fish-embalming king of time: Angel Day and Normal Phantom—who stand like giants in a storm-swept world. Wright’s storytelling is operatic and surreal: a blend of myth and scripture, politics and farce. She has a narrative gift for remaking reality itself, altering along her way, as if casually, the perception of what a novel can do with the inside of the reader's mind. Carpentaria is “an epic, exhilarating, unsettling novel” (Wall Street Journal) that is not to be missed.

The Cockatoos

The Cockatoos
Author: Edward John Mulawka
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2016-04-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1476614717

This reference book on the cockatoo family provides a comprehensive physical description of the various species of this exotic parrot, the habitat they favor, and their distribution and behaviors both in the wild and in captivity. Their reproductive history is examined, as is the possibility of breeding sufficient numbers in captivity to develop sustainable populations for re-introduction to their original habitat should they become extinct in the wild. The book explores the historical encounters of the various species with Europeans two centuries ago. That early history provides considerable insight to the cockatoo's popularity and to efforts to breed them in captivity. Many cockatoo species face a perilous future. As their native forests are logged, the cockatoos lose not only suitable nesting and roosting sites, but native foods. Additionally, despite conservation laws governing the capture of wild cockatoos, their desirability as an avian pet has spawned a worldwide illicit trade critically endangering some species to the point that they face extinction in the wild.

One, Two, Cockatoo!

One, Two, Cockatoo!
Author: Sarah Garson
Publisher: Andersen Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-03-03
Genre: Board books
ISBN: 9781849392334

One cockatoo on his own in a tree. Two cockatoos fly over... ...that's three! Small children will love learning to count from one to ten, as they spot the cockatoos in the pages of this gorgeous picture book.

Love and Ordinary Creatures

Love and Ordinary Creatures
Author: Gwyn Hyman Rubio
Publisher: Ashland Creek Press
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2014-10-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1618220330

New York Times bestselling author Gwyn Hyman Rubio’s highly anticipated new novel... Love and Ordinary Creatures is told through the eyes of a cockatoo in love with his very human caretaker. Snatched in a net from his Australian homeland as a young parrot, Caruso has adapted to captivity and has learned all he knows of love from his previous owner, who was obsessively fixated on his childhood sweetheart. Now in his new home with the beautiful and talented Clarissa, Caruso has found both love and happiness—until a handsome stranger arrives in town and sets his sights on Clarissa. Smart, passionate, and wildly inventive, Caruso strives to put his human rival in his place before he loses Clarissa for good. And when a hurricane descends upon the coast, Caruso’s love for Clarissa and his memories of freedom are tested as the storm threatens all that he holds dear. Set in the early 1990s in a quaint North Carolina seashore town, Love and Ordinary Creatures is an exquisite tale of the ways in which love and hope transcend species.