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Animal Rescue Team: Gator on the Loose!
by Sue StauffacherMeet the Carters: Mr. and Mrs. Carter, 10-year-old daughter Keisha, five-year-old Razi, baby Paolo, and Grandma Alice. Together, they run Carters' Urban Rescue, the place you call when you've got an animal where it shouldn't be. In their first adventure, there's a baby alligator at the city pool, which will seriously interfere with opening day, especially Keisha's cannonball practice. So it's up to the whole family to figure out what to do with the poor guy who has no business hanging around Michigan. Luckily for all of them, and thanks to some serious ingenuity from Keisha, the answer is closer than they ever could have imagined. Sue Stauffacher turns to her first series effort with Animal Rescue Team. With compelling plots based on actual events in her community, Sue has created a lovable cast of characters of boys and girls, young and old, who feel like people you'd meet at your neighborhood block party. Written in an accessible and engaging style meant to appeal to those independent readers looking to be excited and entertained, and with subplots about friendship, siblings, the environment, and animal conservation, along with plenty of humor, these will be a hit with teachers and librarians, and parents, as well as kids themselves.
Animal Rescue Team: Show Time (Animal Rescue Team #4)
by Sue StauffacherThe squirrels at Mt. Mercy College are getting too friendly-they're frightening the students, making the nuns jumpy... and they're super messy. It's time to call the Animal Rescue Team! Meanwhile, Keisha's got a problem of her own. The Grand River Steppers jump rope team has a chance to win first place in their school district this year, but Keisha's so nervous, she keeps messing up! When she and Daddy go to the Veteran's Facility to check out their squirrel situation, Keisha meets Sergeant Pinkham, who's learning how to use his new prosthetic leg. Could Sarge be just the person to help Keisha stay calm, do well, and have fun at the competition? Perfect for independent readers, the Animal Rescue Team books offer adventurous and heartwarming stories with lots of laughs-and plenty of critters. From the Hardcover edition.
Animal Rescue Team: Special Delivery!
by Sue StauffacherKeisha and her family are just sitting down to Saturday-morning breakfast when the phone rings. Uh-oh!There seems to be a skunk at the community garden, and it's dug a hole under the shed. At the same time, Mr. Sanders can't deliver the mail to a certain house: crows keep dive-bombing him when he gets near the mailbox. Time for the Animal Rescue Team to spring into action! This time they've gottwomysteries to solve: What could crows have against mail delivery? And what really dug that hole at the community garden--as Mama knows, it's too big to have been dug by a skunk. Once again, it'll take the whole team, along with help from some new friends, to sort out what, and who, is creating all this mayhem around town. Sue Stauffacher turns to her first series effort with Animal Rescue Team. With compelling plots based on actual events in her community, Sue has created a lovable cast of characters of boys and girls, kids and adults, who feel like people you'd meet at your neighborhood block party. Written in an accessible and engaging style meant to appeal to independent readers looking to be excited and entertained, and with subplots about friendship, siblings, the environment, and animal conservation, along with plenty of humor, these will be a hit with teachers and librarians, and parents, as well as kids themselves.
Animal Rhetoric and Natural Science in Eighteenth-Century Liberal Political Writing: Political Zoologies of the French Enlightenment (Routledge Studies in French and Francophone Literature)
by Andrew BillingOur tendency to read French Enlightenment political writing from a narrow disciplinary perspective has obscured the hybrid character of political philosophy, rhetoric, and natural science in the period. As Michèle Duchet and others have shown, French Enlightenment thinkers developed a philosophical anthropology to support new political norms and models. This book explores how five important eighteenth-century French political authors—Rousseau, Diderot, La Mettrie, Quesnay, and Rétif de La Bretonne—also constructed a "political zoology" in their philosophical and literary writings informed by animal references drawn from Enlightenment natural history, science, and physiology. Drawing on theoretical work by Derrida, Latour, de Fontenay, and others, it shows how these five authors signed on to the old rhetorical tradition of animal comparisons in political philosophy, which they renewed via the findings and speculations of contemporary science. Engaging with recent scholarship on Enlightenment political thought, it also explores the links between their political zoologies and their family resemblance as "liberal" political thinkers.
Animal Sanctuary
by Sarah Falkner"Animal Sanctuary is an intensely focused, ambitious work with a wonderfully insistent sense of obsession. The novel brings together weirdly disparate elements in the same surprising way that life does. Returning continuously and seemingly helplessly to animals as a point of reference, Animal Sanctuary suggests that obsession may be the only way of pinning down the truth. This is a rich, interesting, multidimensional book that knows fragility and maps it."-Stacy Levine, judge of the Starcherone Fiction PrizeSarah Falkner, LMT, has been a New York State licensed bodywork practitioner since 1998. Falkner also writes, blogs, and makes visual art.
Animal Satire (Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature)
by Susan McHugh Robert McKayAnimal Satire presents a cultural history of animal satire, a critically neglected but persistent presence in the history of cultural production, in which animals expose human folly while the strategies of satire expose the folly of human-animal relations. Highlighting the teeming animal presences across the history of satirical expression from Aristophanes to Twitter, with chapters on key works of literature, drama, film, and a plethora of satirical media, Animal Satire reveals the rich rhetorical significance of animality in powering the politics of satire from ancient and medieval through modern and contemporary times. More pressingly, the book makes the case for the significance of satire for understanding the real-world implications of rhetoric about animals in ongoing struggles for justice. By gathering both critical and creative examples from representative media forms, historical periods, and continents, this volume aims to enrich scholarship on the history of satire as well as empower creative practitioners with ideas about its practical applications today.
Animal Skins and the Reading Self in Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries
by Sarah KayJust like we do today, people in medieval times struggled with the concept of human exceptionalism and the significance of other creatures. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the medieval bestiary. Sarah Kay’s exploration of French and Latin bestiaries offers fresh insight into how this prominent genre challenged the boundary between its human readers and other animals. Bestiaries present accounts of animals whose fantastic behaviors should be imitated or avoided, depending on the given trait. In a highly original argument, Kay suggests that the association of beasts with books is here both literal and material, as nearly all surviving bestiaries are copied on parchment made of animal skin, which also resembles human skin. Using a rich array of examples, she shows how the content and materiality of bestiaries are linked due to the continual references in the texts to the skins of other animals, as well as the ways in which the pages themselves repeatedly—and at times, it would seem, deliberately—intervene in the reading process. A vital contribution to animal studies and medieval manuscript studies, this book sheds new light on the European bestiary and its profound power to shape readers’ own identities.
Animal Sounds (A Golden Sturdy Book)
by Aurelius Battaglia Golden BooksWhat does the crow say? Caw! Caw! The donkey says hee-haw, hee-haw! The cow says moo-o-o-o-o! What do the owls say? Whoo-o-o-o-o! Children will love imitating the sounds each of the animals, birds, and insects make in this colorfully illustrated sturdy board book.
Animal Spirit: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries Ser.)
by Francesca MarcianoCentered in Rome but transporting us into worlds as varied and alluring as they are emotionally real, Francesca Marciano&’s stories paint landscapes that are populated—vividly, hauntingly—by animals: from violent seagulls and starlings circling the evening sky in exhilarating formation to magical snakes and a tiny dog on the side of a deserted road. In unforgettable, cinematic frames, events unfold, especially in the lives of women. An affair ends painfully at a dinner table, an actress&’s past comes crashing down on her during an audition, an unhappy wife seeks respite in a historic palazzo sublet. Two starkly different couples imagine parenthood during a Greek island holiday and a young girl returns from rehab, deciding to set out anew with a traveling circus. A man in crisis draws his ex-lover deep into the New Mexico desert. With spellbinding clarity, the six masterly stories in Animal Spirit inhabit the minds and hearts of Marciano&’s characters. They chronicle deeply human moments of realization and recognition, indelible instants of irrevocable change—epiphanies sometimes sparked by our connection with animals and the primal power they show us.
Animal Stories
by Michael MorpurgoA collection of stories about the animal kingdom from such writers as Rudyard Kipling, John Steinbeck, and Paul Gallico.
Animal Stories: Contains 30 classic tales
by Enid BlytonA charming new bumper short-story collection from the world's best-loved storyteller.A fantastic collection of 30 stories about animals of all shapes and sizes, this will charm children aged 6 and up. From pet puppies to woodland wildlife, garden birds to pond-dwelling frogs, Enid Blyton was a devoted and knowledgeable animal-lover. Readers who feel the same way are bound to love her wonderful stories about our furry friends - and scaly, feathery or fluttery ones too!These delightful stories are ideal for newly confident readers and are the perfect length to be read aloud in the classroom or at bedtime.***Enid Blyton ® and Enid Blyton's signature are Registered Trademarks of Hodder & Stoughton Limited. No trademark or copyrighted material may be reproduced without the express written permission of the trademark and copyright owner.
Animal Stories: Contains 30 classic tales (Bumper Short Story Collections #17)
by Enid BlytonA charming new bumper short-story collection from the world's best-loved storyteller.A fantastic collection of 30 stories about animals of all shapes and sizes, this will charm children aged 6 and up. From pet puppies to woodland wildlife, garden birds to pond-dwelling frogs, Enid Blyton was a devoted and knowledgeable animal-lover. Readers who feel the same way are bound to love her wonderful stories about our furry friends - and scaly, feathery or fluttery ones too!These delightful stories are ideal for newly confident readers and are the perfect length to be read aloud in the classroom or at bedtime.***Enid Blyton ® and Enid Blyton's signature are Registered Trademarks of Hodder & Stoughton Limited. No trademark or copyrighted material may be reproduced without the express written permission of the trademark and copyright owner.
Animal Stories: Contains 30 classic tales (Bumper Short Story Collections #17)
by Enid BlytonA charming new bumper short-story collection from the world's best-loved storyteller.A fantastic collection of 30 stories about animals of all shapes and sizes, this will charm children aged 6 and up. From pet puppies to woodland wildlife, garden birds to pond-dwelling frogs, Enid Blyton was a devoted and knowledgeable animal-lover. Readers who feel the same way are bound to love her wonderful stories about our furry friends - and scaly, feathery or fluttery ones too!These delightful stories are ideal for newly confident readers and are the perfect length for bedtime.***Enid Blyton ® and Enid Blyton's signature are Registered Trademarks of Hodder & Stoughton Limited. No trademark or copyrighted material may be reproduced without the express written permission of the trademark and copyright owner.(P) 2019 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
Animal Stories: Stage 2, Emerging Reader (Bob Books)
by Katie Kath Lynn Maslen KertellA brand-new Bob Books boxed set featuring 12 easy-to-read stories about silly animal characters, and introducing a new illustrator! Bob Books Animal Stories includes twelve easy-to-read and humorous books, all featuring silly animal characters! From a pig who is a picky eater to a rabbit who loves playing chess, these charming and relatable stories will engage young readers while they practice their reading skills. <p><p>One-syllable words using consistent short vowels build confidence while longer animal names and sight words sprinkled throughout add just the right amount of challenge. Perfect for kids in kindergarten and first grade!
Animal Subjects: Literature, Zoology, and British Modernism
by Caroline HovanecAnimal Subjects identifies a new understanding of animals in modernist literature and science. Drawing on Darwin's evolutionary theory, British writers and scientists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries began to think of animals as subjects dwelling in their own animal worlds. Both science and literature aimed to capture the complexity of animal life, and their shared attention to animals pulled the two disciplines closer together. It led scientists to borrow the literary techniques of fiction and poetry, and writers to borrow the observational methods of zoology. Animal Subjects tracks the coevolution of literature and zoology in works by H. G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, and modern scientists including Julian Huxley, Charles Elton, and J. B. S. Haldane. Examining the rise of ecology, ethology, and animal psychology, this book shows how new, subject-centered approaches to the study of animals transformed literature and science in the modernist period.
Animal Visions: Posthumanist Dream Writing (Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature)
by Susan Mary PykeAnimal Visions considers how literature responds to the harms of anthropocentricism, working with Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847) and various adaptations of this canonistic novel to show how posthumanist dream writing unsettles the privileging of the human species over other species. Two feminist and post-Freudian responses, Kathy Acker’s poem “Obsession” (1992) and Anne Carson’s “The Glass Essay” (1997) most strongly extend Brontë’s dream writing in this direction. Building on the trope of a ludic Cathy ghost who refuses the containment of logic and reason, these and other adaptations offer the gift of a radical peri-hysteria. This emotional excess is most clearly seen in Kate Bush’s music video “Wuthering Heights” (1978) and Peter Kosminsky’s film Wuthering Heights (1992). Such disturbances make space for a moor love that is particularly evident in Jane Urquhart’s novel Changing Heaven (1989) and, to a lesser extent Sylvia Plath’s poem, “Wuthering Heights” (1961). Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and its most productive afterings make space for co-affective relations between humans and other animal beings. Andrea Arnold’s film Wuthering Heights (2011) and Luis Buñuel’s Abismos de Pasión (1954) also highlight the rupturing split gaze of non-acting animals in their films. In all of these works depictions of intra-active and entangled responses between animals show the potential for dynamic and generative multispecies relations, where the human is one animal amongst the kin of the world.
Animal Wife: Stories
by Lara EhrlichIn this award-winning debut collection, fifteen magical realism stories portray girls and women searching for an escape from their everyday lives. &“In villages where women bore most of the weight of a constricted life, witches flew by night on broomsticks,&” said Italo Calvino of the way imagination bridges the gap between everyday existence and an idealized alternative . . . The fifteen stories of Animal Wife are unified by girls and women who cross this threshold seeking liberation from family responsibilities, from societal expectations, from their own minds. A girl born with feathers undertakes a quest for the mother who abandoned her. An indecisive woman drinks Foresight, only to become stymied by the futures branching before her. A proofreader cultivates a cage-fighting alter ego. A woman becomes psychologically trapped in her car. A girl acts on her desire for a childhood friend as a monster draws closer to the shore. A widow invites a bear to hibernate in her den . . .Animal Wife was selected as the winner of the Red Hen Fiction Award by New York Times– bestselling author Ann Hood, who says, &“From the first sentence Animal Wife grabbed me and never let go. Sensual and intelligent, with gorgeous prose, it made me dizzy with its exploration and illumination of the inner and outer lives of girls and women.&”Praise for Animal Wife &“Whimsy and fantasy meet the way things really turn out in stories from a strong new voice.&” —Kirkus Reviews &“Strange, funny, fearsome, Animal Wife is a gorgeous book, weird in its very bones.&” —Elizabeth McCracken, author of Bowlaway: A Novel &“Lara Ehrlich has written a collection of stories that allow for escapism.&” —F(r)iction &“I was particularly intrigued by the way Lara beautifully portrays the inner struggle between wildness and domesticity, the surreal elements of each story lending a mythical complexity to these conflicts. Really lovely and thought-provoking. Perfect for fans of Aimee Bender, Karen Russell, and Angela Carter.&” —Joy Baglio, founder of Pioneer Valley Writer&’s Workshop
Animal at Large (Mysteries on Zoo Lane #2)
by Patricia Reilly GiffA missing animal at the zoo and strange noises coming from her backyard can mean only one thing for Tori: she's got a mystery to solve!Tori loves living on Zoo Lane with her family. Who else gets to live at a zoo--and with her cousin Sumiko visiting from Tokyo soon, this is shaping up to be the best summer ever! But when rumors of a missing animal start to spread, Tori wants to help . . . except she doesn't know which creature is on the loose. An ostrich? A little frog? There's also a strange noise coming from her backyard. It almost sounds like someone is calling her name! Tori is on the case.In this second book in the illustrated Mysteries on Zoo Lane series, two-time Newbery Honor author Patricia Reilly Giff has crafted a charming story about conservation, animal care, friendship, and problem-solving. In touch with the programs and initiatives that today's zoos are undertaking, Giff provides readers with a fresh look at the work of zoologists. Charming line artwork by Abby Carter appears throughout and keeps the story upbeat.
Animal de nieve
by Dara ScullyDara Scully nos transporta con Animal de nieve a un lugar aislado y frío donde la directora de un internado femenino impone una férrea disciplina en las alumnas, hasta que la llegada de un nuevo profesor hace que una ellas rompa el molde y reclame su propia existencia. «Las alumnas especulaban. Un hombre había penetrado en sus dominios, en su colegio de paredes de piedra, de entramados de flores en los jardines. ¿Acaso se aventuraban a decirlo? ¿Era tal vez un maestro? ¿Se atrevería Miss Bell a dejar que un hombre enseñara a las muchachas?» Animal de nieve es la segunda novela de la fotógrafa Dara Scully, cuyo arte ha conseguido enredar a sus miles de seguidores en un mundo de cuerpos mágicos, escenas hipnóticas y animales heridos. Precisamente todas esas cosas son las que componen el universo de este libro, con una historia unas veces deliciosa y otras claustrofóbica sobre un internado para niñas regentado por una misteriosa directora. De entre todas las alumnas, Angélica se sabe diferente al resto. Tal vez sea su ímpetu, o su curiosidad, tal vez sean sus nervios, o sus ansias de belleza, pero ella reconoce que ese colegio es demasiado sombrío. Que necesita salir de allí y ser libre. Será tras la llegada al colegio de Frédéric, el nuevo profesor de música, cuando todos esos sentimientos terminen por estallar en su corazón. Él es un hombre que ha visto más allá de los muros del internado y que, pese a todo, se enfrenta a los mismos fantasmas que las chicas. Animal de nieve es una novela lírica, sobrecogedora, que sigue la estela de la literatura de Fleur Jaeggy, Herta Müller o Marguerite Duras, y cuyas protagonistas recuerdan también a las nínfulas del arte de Virginia Mori o Sally Man.
Animal de radio
by Lalo Mir Carlos BarragánPersonajes y hechos de la radiofonía argentina Todo oyente de radio que se precie conoce los cuentos desopilantes del "Fabuloso Mundo de las Bestias Salvajes" y las sentencias del "Gran Confucio", algunos de los protagonistas de uno de los programas más inteligentes de la actualidad. "Animal de radio" está por cumplir diez años en el aire. Buen momento para reunir una selección de esos textos que, sin perder nunca el humor, supieron acompañar y observar nuestra realidad cotidiana. Ahora usted se puede llevar en el bolsillo la "Tanda vencedor", el "Zapping", el "Manual del veraneante" y tantos otros escritos inclasificables porque lo que usted tiene en sus manos es un compilado de muchos días de hacer radio, pensar radio, inventar radio y aprender radio con animales de toda clase.
Animal doméstico
by Mario HinojosAnimal doméstico es una novela sobre el duelo y la pérdida, una investigación sobre los límites que determinan el cruce incierto entre lo humano y lo animal cuando se impone la supervivencia. Dos hombres conversan en el laberinto complejo y desolado de una casa. Desmontan el trasunto de sus vidas, obligados al aislamiento que les impone el estallido de una guerra. Uno hace preguntas, el otro intenta responderlas. Afuera, una ciudad colonizada por la amenaza de un ejército de perros salvajes. Adentro, historias desentrañadas bajo la tutela de un terapeuta con métodos poco ortodoxos. Esta novela es una reflexión sobre la guerra, sobre sus pueblos y sus perros, y es también un examen sobre la orfandad del individuo y las civilizaciones. Para narrarla, Mario Hinojos construye un libro lleno de interrogantes: ¿qué es lo que queda de nosotros cuando aquello que creíamos nuestro hogar desaparece? ¿Hasta dónde estamos dispuestos a dejarnos domesticar para recuperar ese cobijo primigenio? Animal doméstico de Mario Hinojos es el cuarto título que Lara Moreno, editora invitada de Caballo de Troya durante 2017, trae a su colección «El caballo de Lara».
Animal rarísimo
by Ana María ShuaAna María Shua nos encanta con este relato sensible que fue armando con un poco de historias personales y buenas cuotas de fantasía. Un tapir es un animal rarísimo. Un mono pelando maní es muy interesante. Una serpiente tragándose un ratón es más fascinante todavía. A Gaspar todos los animales le gustaban mucho así que estaba fascinado con la visita al zoológico. ¡Hasta los gatos callejeros le parecían hermosos! Sin embargo, a Martín, que es el hermano más grande, nada le atrajo tanto la atención como una chica que pasó comiendo helado. ¿Cómo se entiende eso?
Animal rarísimo
by Ana María ShuaA partir de 7 años - Naturaleza Un mono pelando un maní es muy interesante. Una serpiente tragándose unratón es más interesante todavía. Pero ¿una chica comiendo un helado? ¿Aquién le interesa?
Animal verdadero
by Rafael VillegasDebía matar sin razón alguna. Ése era el plan. Animal verdadero es una original y afortunada mezcla de géneros literarios pocas veces vista en las letras mexicanas. Rafael Villegas nos presenta la vida del fugitivo Luther Morán, cuya memoria discontinua es un punto clave para esclarecer el enigma de la violencia que lo rodea, pero que también surge de él. Tras perpetrar una masacre escolar en Wyoming, Estados Unidos, Morán viaja por diversos lugares inmersos en una terrible guerra y retrata la decadencia estadounidense a través de distintas temporalidades, mismas que ofrecen destellos de la mentalidad de un hombre y una sociedad cuyo lado más salvaje ha encontrado nuevas formas de manifestarse. Animal verdadero es una original y afortunada mezcla de géneros literarios pocas veces vista en las letras mexicanas. La trama muta de una novela apocalíptica a una fábula pop con altas dosis de ironía. Rafael Villegas no teme a la bomba casera que fabricó; por el contrario, se regocija dejando que te sientas cómodo con ella, para que luego explote en tu cara.
Animal's People
by Indra Sinha"I used to be human once. So I'm told. I don't remember it myself, but people who knew me when I was small say I walked on two feet, just like a human being..." Ever since he can remember, Animal has gone on all fours, his back twisted beyond repair by the catastrophic events of "that night" when a burning fog of poison smoke from the local factory blazed out over the town of Khaufpur, and the Apocalypse visited his slums. Now just turned seventeen and well schooled in street work, he lives by his wits, spending his days jamisponding (spying) on town officials and looking after the elderly nun who raised him, Ma Franci. His nights are spent fantasizing about Nisha, the girlfriend of the local resistance leader, and wondering what it must be like to get laid. When Elli Barber, a young American doctor, arrives in Khaufpur to open a free clinic for the still suffering townsfolk -- only to find herself struggling to convince them that she isn't there to do the dirty work of the Kampani -- Animal gets caught up in a web of intrigues, scams, and plots with the unabashed aim of turning events to his own advantage. Profane, piercingly honest, and scathingly funny, Animal's People illuminates a dark world shot through with flashes of joy and lunacy. A stunning tale of an unforgettable character, it is an unflinching look at what it means to be human: the wounds that never heal and a spirit that will not be quenched.