He visits with worldly cormorants, the hardworking birds who catch fish for their owners. Later he climbs aboard another boat and escapes becoming dinner only because a boy sets him free. Throughout he’s curious about the world, feisty, and brave. Still, the following evening he runs home...
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With the permission of the author and The Book & Paper Gathering, this essay by Paula Steere is being reposted at Books On Books because Steere’s observations about bookbinding lead to a closer look at works in the Books On Books Collection. Keep Steere’s essay open in this window, then...
Thus it was that we lunched together amid the books and birds, in an exquisite solitude a deux; for the ringer of the silver bell had disappeared, having left a dainty meal in readiness--for two. View in context Over and over again in my past experience among my perishing fellow-creatur...
Peter is interested in reading books about animals and plants. He has a real ___ of animals, birds and flowers.A.courageB.energyC.knowledgeD.experience 免费查看参考答案及解析 题目: By the end of last term, I___ ten books.A.had finished readingB.have finish readingC.had finish to re...
Other Books Received: Familiar Garden Birds of Americadoi:10.2307/4083037K. C. PThe Auk
It’s nice to see a book about how a family living in a city apartment creates a garden. A little girl and her father go to the grocery store and buy flowering plants. Then, they take the bus back to their city apartment. There they plant a window box as a birthday present for her...
This is a precious book about a tiny gardener, to whom the garden means everything. But he’s just too little to care for it! When he collapses from exhaustion, a regular sized girl starts caring for the garden – bringing new life to the garden and the little gardener himself. The ...
The Yellow Birds Kevin Powers I do not usually read war/soldiers stories and probably wouldn’t have ever picked this up if I had known what it was about. But I didn’t and by the time I figured it out I was sucked in to the story. This is a compelling book about 2 soldiers in...
staircases and flit with the butterflies of the garden, suspending gravity and disbelief, venturing through gates and windows to boughs and fern vaults in the sky. And in so doing experience, within the small intimacy of book, something of the unfolding immensity of the garden and its timeless...