Free as a Bird

Free as a Bird

Author: Lina Maslo

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2020-09-22

Total Pages: 45

ISBN-13: 0063063255

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The inspiring true story of Malala Yousafzai, human rights activist and the youngest ever winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, from debut author/illustrator Lina Maslo. Celebrate the power of one young woman speaking up for change with Free as a Bird. This beautiful nonfiction picture book is perfect for sharing at home or in the classroom. When Malala Yousafzai was born, some people shook their heads because girls were considered bad luck. But her father looked into her eyes and knew she could do anything. In Pakistan, some believed girls should not be educated. But Malala and her father were not afraid. She secretly went to school and spoke up for education in her country. And even though an enemy tried to silence her powerful voice, she would not keep quiet. Malala traveled around the world to speak to girls and boys, to teachers, reporters, presidents, and queens—to anyone who would listen—and advocated for the right to education and equality of opportunity for every person. She would shout so that those without a voice could be heard. So everyone could be as free as a bird. Free as a Bird is the inspiring true story of a fearless girl and the father who taught her to soar. A unique way to celebrate the power of a young woman, and to honor a father who strives to let his daughter shine.


Free as a Bird

Free as a Bird

Author: Barroux

Publisher:

Published: 2024-09-05

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781915659330

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One day Jonas the lighthouse keeper and his friend Blue the whale rescue a tired, bedraggled bird from the sea - a bird who has made a perilous journey from a far-off country, fleeing war and great danger. This beautiful story of care, refuge and freedom is told and illustrated with compassion and empathy.


How to Make a Bird

How to Make a Bird

Author: Meg McKinlay

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2021-04-20

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 1536215260

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To make a bird, you'll need hundreds of tiny, hollow bones, so light you can barely feel them on your palm, so light they can float on air. Next you'll need feathers, for warmth and lift. There will be more besides - perhaps shells and stones for last touches - but what will finally make your bird tremble with dreams of open sky and soaring flight? This picture book shows how even the smallest of things, combined with wonder and a steady heart, can transform into works of magic.


Free as a Bird

Free as a Bird

Author: Gina McMurchy-Barber

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2010-02-22

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 1770705791

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Born with Down syndrome, Ruby Jean Sharp comes from a time when being a developmentally disabled person could mean growing up behind locked doors and barred windows and being called names like "retard" and "moron." When Ruby Jean's caregiver and loving grandmother dies, her mother takes her to Woodlands School in New Westminster, British Columbia, and rarely visits. As Ruby Jean herself says: "Can't say why they called it a school -- a school's a place you go for learnin an then after you get to go home. I never learnt much bout ledders and numbers, an I sure never got to go home." It's here in an institution that opened in 1878 and was originally called the Provincial Lunatic Asylum that Ruby Jean learns to survive isolation, boredom, and every kind of abuse. Just when she can hardly remember if she's ever been happy, she learns a lesson about patience and perseverance from an old crow.


Bird Songs

Bird Songs

Author: Les Beletsky

Publisher: becker&mayer! Books

Published: 2018-10-16

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 0760363269

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In Bird Songs, ornithologist Les Beletsky profiles 250 birds alongside colorful illustrations, and includes a digital audio player that provides the corresponding song for each of the 250 birds. Drawing from the collection of the world-renowned Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Bird Songs presents the most notable North American birds—including the rediscovered ivory-billed woodpecker—in a stunning format. Renowned ornithologist Les Beletsky provides a succinct description of each of the 250 birds profiled, with an emphasis on their distinctive songs. Lavish full-color illustrations accompany each account, while a sleek, built-in digital audio player holds 250 corresponding songs and calls. In his foreword, North American bird expert and distinguished natural historian Jon L. Dunn shares insights gained from a lifetime of passionate study. Complete with the most up-to-date and scientifically accurate information, Bird Songs is the first book to capture the enchantment of these beautiful birds in words, pictures, and song.


What It's Like to Be a Bird

What It's Like to Be a Bird

Author: David Allen Sibley

Publisher: Knopf

Published: 2020-04-14

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0525520295

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The bird book for birders and nonbirders alike that will excite and inspire by providing a new and deeper understanding of what common, mostly backyard, birds are doing—and why: "Can birds smell?"; "Is this the same cardinal that was at my feeder last year?"; "Do robins 'hear' worms?" "The book's beauty mirrors the beauty of birds it describes so marvelously." —NPR In What It's Like to Be a Bird, David Sibley answers the most frequently asked questions about the birds we see most often. This special, large-format volume is geared as much to nonbirders as it is to the out-and-out obsessed, covering more than two hundred species and including more than 330 new illustrations by the author. While its focus is on familiar backyard birds—blue jays, nuthatches, chickadees—it also examines certain species that can be fairly easily observed, such as the seashore-dwelling Atlantic puffin. David Sibley's exacting artwork and wide-ranging expertise bring observed behaviors vividly to life. (For most species, the primary illustration is reproduced life-sized.) And while the text is aimed at adults—including fascinating new scientific research on the myriad ways birds have adapted to environmental changes—it is nontechnical, making it the perfect occasion for parents and grandparents to share their love of birds with young children, who will delight in the big, full-color illustrations of birds in action. Unlike any other book he has written, What It's Like to Be a Bird is poised to bring a whole new audience to David Sibley's world of birds.


A Bird about to Sing

A Bird about to Sing

Author:

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 0618188657

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Natalie, who likes to write poems, goes to a poetry reading and discovers that a poem needs to be read out loud at just the right time.


Bird Sense

Bird Sense

Author: Tim Birkhead

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2013-01-17

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 140883054X

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What is it like to be a swift, flying at over one hundred kilometres an hour? Or a kiwi, plodding flightlessly among the humid undergrowth in the pitch dark of a New Zealand night? And what is going on inside the head of a nightingale as it sings, and how does its brain improvise?Bird Sense addresses questions like these and many more, by describing the senses of birds that enable them to interpret their environment and to interact with each other. Our affinity for birds is often said to be the result of shared senses - vision and hearing - but how exactly do their senses compare with our own? And what about a birds' sense of taste, or smell, or touch or the ability to detect the earth's magnetic field? Or the extraordinary ability of desert birds to detect rain hundreds of kilometres away - how do they do it?Bird Sense is based on a conviction that we have consistently underestimated what goes on in a bird's head. Our understanding of bird behaviour is simultaneously informed and constrained by the way we watch and study them. By drawing attention to the way these frameworks both facilitate and inhibit discovery, it identifies ways we can escape from them to seek new horizons in bird behaviour.There has never been a popular book about the senses of birds. No one has previously looked at how birds interpret the world or the way the behaviour of birds is shaped by their senses. A lifetime spent studying birds has provided Tim Birkhead with a wealth of observation and an understanding of birds and their behaviour that is firmly grounded in science.


The Day I Became a Bird

The Day I Became a Bird

Author: Ingrid Chabbert

Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd

Published: 2016-09-06

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 1771386215

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What will a boy do for love? The day he starts school, a young boy falls in love for the very first time. He’s so in love, in fact, that Sylvia is all he can see. But Sylvia doesn’t see him. Sylvia has eyes only for birds. So in a bold gesture to get her attention, the boy goes to school dressed up as a bird. It isn’t easy, but he doesn’t care. When your heart takes flight, playing it safe is for the birds!


Free To Love: Free As A Bird (Book One)

Free To Love: Free As A Bird (Book One)

Author: S. Hamil

Publisher: Frog Haven Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 1955084491

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A perfect being who is not human... Set free upon the death of his maker, Adamis begins a life he has never imagined nor trained for. Stunningly handsome and nearly impossible to detect as an android by the human eye, he has been told to stay away from any medical facility and never to submit to bloodwork or DNA testing so that his secret will remain safe. Armed with his maker’s research notes and special unpatented enhancements he has yet learned to use, he sets upon a journey of self-discovery and learning, growing into the near-perfect being he was intended to be. On Day One of his new life he is presented a problem. He rescues a human woman left for dead. “You want her? Here, I give her to you!” her abuser tells him. How will he reconcile his own freedom with this new wrinkle—being given a human woman to own? And what happens next as he begins to heal her, when she falls in love with him? Book 1 of a brand new Futuristic Sci-Fi series by NYT bestselling author Sharon Hamilton, writing as S. Hamil.