Jackie the Penguin Goes to Madagascar
Jackie the Penguin Goes to Madagascar

Author: Alex Shaland

Publisher: Adventures of Jackie the Penguin

Published: 2023-05-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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"Wonderful adventure to Madagascar! Safari to see frolicking lemurs, beautiful baobab trees, and changeable chameleons and learn all about them while you are reading! This book is fun for all ages." - Dr. Patricia Wright, Distinguished Professor of Conservation Biology at Stony Brook University, Founder and Executive Director of the Centre ValBio Research Station, Ranomafana Madagascar, and a winner of the Indianapolis Prize for Animal Conservation."Jackie the Penguin Goes to Madagascar takes children on a virtual visit to this amazing island. Details about the animals are fascinating, and the pictures take you along on a fun-filled and educational adventure. This heartfelt story also helps us all reflect on how fragile our planet is, and how we all can do our part, wherever we live, to preserve wildlife." ¬¬- Judy Wechter, Elementary School Teacher and Tutor.This book is for children and their parents who love animals and want to learn more about the diverse wildlife of our planet. It is a captivating story told by a small African penguin called Jackie who, together with his two human friends, departs on a journey throughout the magical island of Madagascar. Our heroes came in search of unusual and mysterious animals, and they will not be disappointed. Young readers are invited to join Jackie and meet adorable lemurs, colorful chameleons, tiny frogs, strange insects, beautiful birds, and other fascinating wildlife. No matter whether large or small, these creatures are very special because most of them do not exist anywhere else on Earth.It comes as no surprise that Jackie falls in love with these animals, especially after learning many interesting facts about them. But at the same time, he observes scorched and bare land, where not so long ago there stood a forest full of life. Eventually, Jackie begins to understand the importance of protecting the environment. A child's learning can and should be fun. With this idea in mind, I wrote Jackie the Penguin Goes to Madagascar and the previous book, Jackie the Penguin Goes on Safari. Both books are part of the Adventures of Jackie the Penguin series.

Suburbanites on Safari: Chasing Lions and Giraffes in South Africa and Zimbabwe
Suburbanites on Safari: Chasing Lions and Giraffes in South Africa and Zimbabwe

Author: Alex Shaland

Publisher: GTA Books

Published: 2019-04

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9781733624503

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"An amazing real life perspective on African safari that has been delightfully shared. Funny and witty. Footsteps well worth following." -Philip Coetzee, South Africa, Advanced Nature Guide, author of Birds for Beginners. Four friends, all big-city dwellers, embark on their first African safari. An internationally published travel writer and her husband, an award-winning travel photographer, are joined by their life-long friends on a journey to South Africa and Zimbabwe. Previously, their exploration of over 60 countries took them to big cities and historical monuments around the globe. But this trip is different. Traveling around Kruger National Park and Victoria Falls, they crisscross the bush and meet African wildlife in its natural habitat. Which predators, grass eaters, branch nibblers, and birds of prey did they find? What did the animals do in the presence of people? How did it feel to be only a few feet away from a pride of lions devouring their kill, a herd of suspicious elephants, an intimidating Cape buffalo, or an unpredictable rhinoceros? In an easy to read, conversational style, the author, Alex Shaland, delivers a fair mix of wildlife photography, animal and bird factual data, and practical information. Shaland shares his experiences as a first-time safari explorer and sprinkles the narrative with a good dose of humor and personal stories. If a trip to Africa is in your plans, this entertaining and informative book, jam-packed with photos of animals and birds, will help you make the first step on the way to your dream. If you are interested in wildlife, nature, and animal protection, the story will enrich your knowledge of the animal kingdom. At the very least, it is just fun to read.

Jackie the Penguin Goes to America
Jackie the Penguin Goes to America

Author: Alex Shaland

Publisher:

Published: 2024-09-30

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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A child's learning can and should be fun. With this idea in mind, Alex Shaland wrote "Jackie the Penguin Goes to America," a book about Yellowstone, Grand Teton, and Glacier National Parks.

How to Read a Folktale
How to Read a Folktale

Author: Lee Haring

Publisher: Open Book Publishers

Published: 2013-10-24

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 1909254053

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How to Read a Folktale offers the first English translation of Ibonia, a spellbinding tale of old Madagascar. Ibonia is a folktale on epic scale. Much of its plot sounds familiar: a powerful royal hero attempts to rescue his betrothed from an evil adversary and, after a series of tests and duels, he and his lover are joyfully united with a marriage that affirms the royal lineage. These fairytale elements link Ibonia with European folktales, but the tale is still very much a product of Madagascar. It contains African-style praise poetry for the hero; it presents Indonesian-style riddles and poems; and it inflates the form of folktale into epic proportions. Recorded when the Malagasy people were experiencing European contact for the first time, Ibonia proclaims the power of the ancestors against the foreigner. Through Ibonia, Lee Haring expertly helps readers to understand the very nature of folktales. His definitive translation, originally published in 1994, has now been fully revised to emphasize its poetic qualities, while his new introduction and detailed notes give insight into the fascinating imagination and symbols of the Malagasy. Haring’s research connects this exotic narrative with fundamental questions not only of anthropology but also of literary criticism.

The World Book Encyclopedia
The World Book Encyclopedia

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 554

ISBN-13:

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An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.

Elmo's Tricky Tongue Twisters (Sesame Street)
Elmo's Tricky Tongue Twisters (Sesame Street)

Author: Sarah Albee

Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Published: 2011-06-28

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 0375872493

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Packed into the pages of this sturdy Sesame Street board book is a collection of tongue-tripping rhymes about everyone's favorite Sesame Street Muppets, including Elmo, Grover, Ernie, Bert, Betty Lou, Herry, Hoots the owl, and Oscar. The rhyming language and singsong rhythm of tongue twisters are key concepts in language development for babies and toddlers. The humor and playfulness of the tongue twisters in this collection will give toddlers a fun into into the world of wordplay, the foundation of a lifelong enjoyment of the written and spoken word. This book is ideal for use in pre-school classrooms as well as parent/child sharing.

Jackie the Penguin Goes on Safari
Jackie the Penguin Goes on Safari

Author: Alex Shaland

Publisher: GTA Books

Published: 2023-01-12

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 1733624570

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This is a story of a small South African penguin called Jackie who had a dream of visiting wild animals of Africa and learning about their looks, behaviors, and characters. However, being a bird who could not fly, Jackie was terrified to meet the big, compared to him, scary, and possibly dangerous inhabitants of the African savannah. So, his wish remained just a dream. But one day, Jackie’s life changed when he met and instantly became friends with two world travelers, Irene and Alex, on the way to their first African safari. Packed with educational facts about Africa and its animal inhabitants, “Jackie the Penguin Goes on Safari” is told from the point of view of a little penguin called Jackie. In this book, filled with full-color pictures and vivid descriptions of African wildlife, kids will learn how relying on true friends helped Jackie overcome his fears and anxieties and realize his life's dream.

The Reef Guide
The Reef Guide

Author: Dennis King

Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781775840183

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The definitive guide to reef life off the eastern coast of southern Africa, it covers all the fishes, corals, nudibranchs and invertebrates you are likely to see.

When China Rules the World
When China Rules the World

Author: Martin Jacques

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2009-11-12

Total Pages: 631

ISBN-13: 1101151455

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Greatly revised and expanded, with a new afterword, this update to Martin Jacques’s global bestseller is an essential guide to understanding a world increasingly shaped by Chinese power Soon, China will rule the world. But in doing so, it will not become more Western. Since the first publication of When China Rules the World, the landscape of world power has shifted dramatically. In the three years since the first edition was published, When China Rules the World has proved to be a remarkably prescient book, transforming the nature of the debate on China. Now, in this greatly expanded and fully updated edition, boasting nearly 300 pages of new material, and backed up by the latest statistical data, Martin Jacques renews his assault on conventional thinking about China’s ascendancy, showing how its impact will be as much political and cultural as economic, changing the world as we know it. First published in 2009 to widespread critical acclaim - and controversy - When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order has sold a quarter of a million copies, been translated into eleven languages, nominated for two major literary awards, and is the subject of an immensely popular TED talk.

Random Kak
Random Kak

Author: Trevor Romain

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2013-07-06

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 0143531085

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This book is a foefie slide straight back to your youth in South Africa. Remember? When you wore bell bottoms and wound up cassette tapes with a Bic pen. When 'The World at War' was on TV and LM Radio played on the radiogram, and when there were call-up papers in the mailbox and 2 c stamps on letters. VW Beetles were everywhere, the Bay City Rollers were it, and the smell of Wintergreen filled the change rooms. On these pages, hundreds of the little things that made up the world for many in the 70s and 80s come to life in Trevor Romain's whimsical drawings and laugh-out-loud commentary. 'It's not inside, it's on top!' - or is it? In this book it's all inside. Enjoy the ride.