Pond Walk

Pond Walk

Author:

Publisher: Marshall Cavendish

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 9780761458166

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Buddy Bear and Mama spend the day at a pond learning about wildlife.


A Walk around the Pond

A Walk around the Pond

Author: Gilbert Waldbauer

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 9780674022119

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A water strider darts across a pond, its feet dimpling the surface tension; a giant water bug dives below, carrying his mate’s eggs on his back; hidden among plant roots on the silty bottom, a dragonfly larva stalks unwary minnows. Barely skimming the surface, in the air above the pond, swarm mayflies with diaphanous wings. Take this walk around the pond with Gilbert Waldbauer and discover the most amazingly diverse inhabitants of the freshwater world. In his hallmark companionable style, Waldbauer introduces us to the aquatic insects that have colonized ponds, lakes, streams, and rivers, especially those in North America. Along the way we learn about the diverse forms these arthropods take, as well as their remarkable modes of life—how they have radiated into every imaginable niche in the water environment, and how they cope with the challenges such an environment poses to respiration, vision, thermoregulation, and reproduction. We encounter the caddis fly larva building its protective case and camouflaging it with stream detritus; green darner dragonflies mating midair in an acrobatic wheel formation; ants that have adapted to the tiny water environment within a pitcher plant; and insects whose adaptations to the aquatic lifestyle are furnishing biomaterials engineers with ideas for future applications in industry and consumer goods. While learning about the evolution, natural history, and ecology of these insects, readers also discover more than a little about the scientists who study them.


In the Pond

In the Pond

Author: Anna Milbourne

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 9780746070734

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Follow the adventures of a wriggly tadpole as it grows up and encounters enormous fish, fluffy ducklings and shimmering dragonflies before turning into a fully grown frog.


A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

Author: George Saunders

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2021-01-12

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 1984856049

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves—and our world today. LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, Time, San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Town & Country, The Rumpus, Electric Lit, Thrillist, BookPage • “[A] worship song to writers and readers.”—Oprah Daily For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it’s more relevant than ever in these turbulent times. In his introduction, Saunders writes, “We’re going to enter seven fastidiously constructed scale models of the world, made for a specific purpose that our time maybe doesn’t fully endorse but that these writers accepted implicitly as the aim of art—namely, to ask the big questions, questions like, How are we supposed to be living down here? What were we put here to accomplish? What should we value? What is truth, anyway, and how might we recognize it?” He approaches the stories technically yet accessibly, and through them explains how narrative functions; why we stay immersed in a story and why we resist it; and the bedrock virtues a writer must foster. The process of writing, Saunders reminds us, is a technical craft, but also a way of training oneself to see the world with new openness and curiosity. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is a deep exploration not just of how great writing works but of how the mind itself works while reading, and of how the reading and writing of stories make genuine connection possible.


Walking the Cape and Islands

Walking the Cape and Islands

Author: David Weintraub

Publisher: Menasha Ridge Press

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0897328477

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The Cape and Islands--Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket--provide some of the best walking and hiking in coastal New England. There is a great variety of terrain and scenery, from the crashing Atlantic Ocean to pristine kettle ponds, from densely wooded tracts to open expanses of salt marsh, and from sandy shorelines to wildflower-carpeted grasslands. Walking the Cape and Islands is the first comprehensive guide to the area's best walking and hiking trails. In includes: 72 walks ranging in length from 0.4 miles to 11.2 miles and in difficulty from easy to difficult; for each walk, a complete route description, driving directions to the trailhead, and a detailed, easy-to-read map; at-a-glance Info providing essential information such as distance, difficulty, time to walk, trail surface, and more; trail-use data showing whether bicycles, dogs, or hunting are allowed on the described route; and health stats showing the number of steps and estimated calories burned. Although designed primarily for walkers and hikers, this book will also appeal to joggers and mountain bicyclists. The book is illustrated with photographs by the author, a professional photographer.


Henry David Thoreau Bell Ringer for Justice

Henry David Thoreau Bell Ringer for Justice

Author: Donna Marie Przybojewski

Publisher:

Published: 2019-04-18

Total Pages: 58

ISBN-13: 9781732519138

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In his lifetime, Thoreau found against slavery and injustice. His words challenge us to live according to conscience and act upon the principles of justice.


Good Morning, Pond

Good Morning, Pond

Author: Alyssa Satin Capucilli

Publisher: Hyperion

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9781562826758

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The leap of a little green frog signals the start of a new day as the creatures of the pond awaken and go through a variety of morning rituals.


A Long Walk to Water

A Long Walk to Water

Author: Linda Sue Park

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 0547251270

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When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, 11-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan. By a Newbery Medal-winning author.


The Guide to Walden Pond

The Guide to Walden Pond

Author: Robert M. Thorson

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1328489175

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The first guidebook to the landscape and history of the literary shrine to Thoreau, Walden Pond.


In the Small, Small Pond

In the Small, Small Pond

Author: Denise Fleming

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1993-09-15

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 0805022643

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In the Small, Small Pond is a 1994 Caldecott Honor Book.