Passenger pigeon hatchlings, thought to be extinct, are discovered in Grandmother's room after she departs on a voyage to Greenland.
Author: Louise Erdrich
Publisher: Hyperion
ISBN: 0786812044
Category: Juvenile Fiction
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Passenger pigeon hatchlings, thought to be extinct, are discovered in Grandmother's room after she departs on a voyage to Greenland.Timothy was allowed to let a few pigeons out of their cages. Those birds really took flight quickly—they flew and flew—not turning back. Grandpa told Timothy how to call them. Before long, one, then two, then three more pigeons returned ...
Author: Gloria Madden
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 9781546202325
Category: Juvenile Fiction
Page: 84
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These original stories are lighthearted, with a gentle touch of compassion and helpfulness. Walter the Whale and his family lend helping flippers to a stranded cruise ship. Hip Hop the Hippo overcomes the disability of one short leg. Treats for Pepper takes the little pet dog on his first solo exploration of the town, ending with a treat from the local butcher. Mark the Manatee finds a way to teach safety to the other manatees. Croaky the Frog makes a new friend called Jumpy, and together they share the lily pads. The friendly panther learns the important lesson of being yourself and not trying to imitate others to get attention. Rascal the Raccoon is rescued from churning waters by her brothers and sisters after they put themselves in danger. Raindrops is the story of a magical land called Rainbow that began to fade away until some billowy white clouds came together and saved Rainbow.quickly, everyone in Aaron's grandmother's family had climbed down to the cellar through a little trapdoor hidden under a ... A pigeon on Second Avenue where no one needed trapdoors or secret escape passages or woodpiles to hide under.
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Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.up a ton of manure, so I selected the Carrier Pigeon unit. I always loved pigeons. Besides, the shovel for pigeons was a lot smaller.” “What is a carrier pigeon?” I asked. “Are they like the racing pigeons you and Little Augie Giambroni ...
Author: Gerald Schnitzer
Publisher: BQB Publishing
ISBN: 9781608080359
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 282
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Panic was a permanent guest in the Schnitzer's home during the 1920s. They celebrated life, but never in moderation. Thanks to Gerald's grandmother acting as a traffic cop on an emotional oasis, order was restored. Before her death, Grandma Sarah discovered the calming waters off Coney Island. She never learned to swim, not a stroke, but she could float, sometimes out of sight of land - but that's another story.The book is called Grandmother's Pigeon, and it is both about an eccentric grandmother who leaves the family in order to take a long trip and also about a nest with pigeon eggs in it that she leaves behind for the family.
Author: Richard Koch
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 9781457568121
Category: Education
Page: 264
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“Though life occurs in events, it must be written about in moments.” Today’s youth are growing up in an age of stress and trauma, and nowhere is that more apparent than in the classroom. Absenteeism, emotional distraction, passivity, and unresponsiveness are all signs of children in need. Thankfully, it turns out that the workshop classroom, with limited but essential tuning, can be just the environment students in the grip of trauma need to become comfortable in themselves and break through into active learning. In The Mindful Writing Workshop: Teaching in the Age of Stress and Trauma, Professor Richard Koch offers clear, comprehensive, guided lessons that help teachers gain the insight necessary to adapt their instruction of writing to incorporate restorative and healing practices—practices that can improve the quality of learning and writing for all learners. Accessible, straightforward, and empowering, the approaches presented in The Mindful Writing Workshop will help previously indifferent or distracted students become engaged, increase their effort, deepen their resilience, and soon raise the quality of their writing, all while guiding teachers in creating a positive, collaborative, “doing” classroom.Fritz told her how he had sent the rabbit with the message , and the misfortune he had met with , so that he was now at a loss what to do . “ • Is that all , " said the Pigeon , " give the note to me , or rather tie it under my wing ...
Author: Frances Freeling Broderip
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 9783375001247
Category: Fiction
Page: 220
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1863.Erdrich's first book for children, Grandmother's Pigeon, was also published in 1996. This excursion into children's literature might be seen as a natural extension of the nonfiction Blue Jay's Dance about childbirth and early child- ...
Author: Frances Washburn
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
ISBN: 9780313392580
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 145
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This book details the intersections between the personal life and exceptional writing of Louise Erdrich, perhaps the most critically and economically successful American Indian author ever. • Chronological organization takes the reader from Erdrich's childhood, through her years at Dartmouth College, her personal life, and her career as a writerFritz told her how he had sent the rabbit with the message , and the misfortune he had met with , so that he was now at a loss what to do . “ Is that all , ” said the Pigeon , " give the note to me , or rather tie it under my wing : and ...
Author: Frances Freeling Broderip
Publisher:
ISBN: OXFORD:590120842
Category: Children's poetry
Page: 200
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Annie S. Swan. Ellen , getting her shawl off the door . “ We have been very good friends . ... I'm werry thankful , my precious , " said Uncle Dan'l as they passed out of Pigeon Lane into a wider , more respectable , street , “ I'm ...
Author: Annie S. Swan
Publisher:
ISBN: OXFORD:600073898
Category: Christian life
Page: 95
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The Pigeon has disappeared; private bikes are streamlined numbers, and ubiquitous bike-share programmes use more utilitarian models. women, grandmothers filled the yawning gaps in child care, and took on even greater responsibility than ...
Author: Diana Lary
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781316513354
Category: Family & Relationships
Page: 250
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Over the past century and a half, China has experienced foreign invasion, warfare, political turmoil and revolution, along with massive economic and technological change. Through all this change there is one stable element: grandmothers, as child carers, household managers, religious devotees, transmitters of culture, and above all, sources of love, warmth and affection. In this interdisciplinary and longitudinal study, China's Grandmothers sheds light on the status and lives of grandmothers in China over the years from the late Qing Dynasty to the twenty-first century. Combining a wide range of historical and biographical materials, Diana Lary explores the changes and continuities in the lives of grandmothers through revolution, wars, and radical upheaval to the present phase of economic growth. Informed by her own experience as a grandchild and grandmother, Lary offers a fresh and compelling way of looking at gender, family, and aging in modern Chinese society.