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Author: Lizzy Stewart
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Published: 2019-03-04
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 1786035618
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBoard book edition of the best-selling winner of the Waterstones Childrens Book Prize, Illustrated Book Category.
Author: John Vaillant
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Published: 2010-08-24
Total Pages: 407
ISBN-13: 0307375277
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt's December 1997 and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia's Far East. The tiger isn't just killing people, it's annihilating them, and a team of men and their dogs must hunt it on foot through the forest in the brutal cold. To their horrified astonishment it emerges that the attacks are not random: the tiger is engaged in a vendetta. Injured and starving, it must be found before it strikes again, and the story becomes a battle for survival between the two main characters: Yuri Trush, the lead tracker, and the tiger itself. As John Vaillant vividly recreates the extraordinary events of that winter, he also gives us an unforgettable portrait of a spectacularly beautiful region where plants and animals exist that are found nowhere else on earth, and where the once great Siberian Tiger - the largest of its species, which can weigh over 600 lbs at more than 10 feet long - ranges daily over vast territories of forest and mountain, its numbers diminished to a fraction of what they once were. We meet the native tribes who for centuries have worshipped and lived alongside tigers - even sharing their kills with them - in a natural balance. We witness the first arrival of settlers, soldiers and hunters in the tiger's territory in the 19th century and 20th century, many fleeing Stalinism. And we come to know the Russians of today - such as the poacher Vladimir Markov - who, crushed by poverty, have turned to poaching for the corrupt, high-paying Chinese markets. Throughout we encounter surprising theories of how humans and tigers may have evolved to coexist, how we may have developed as scavengers rather than hunters and how early Homo sapiens may have once fit seamlessly into the tiger's ecosystem. Above all, we come to understand the endangered Siberian tiger, a highly intelligent super-predator, and the grave threat it faces as logging and poaching reduce its habitat and numbers - and force it to turn at bay. Beautifully written and deeply informative, The Tiger is a gripping tale of man and nature in collision, that leads inexorably to a final showdown in a clearing deep in the Siberian forest.
Author: Dianne Hofmeyr
Publisher:
Published: 2021-06
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781913074753
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sam Kleiner
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2022-03-01
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0593511352
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe thrilling story behind the American pilots who were secretly recruited to defend the nation’s desperate Chinese allies before Pearl Harbor and ended up on the front lines of the war against the Japanese in the Pacific. Sam Kleiner’s The Flying Tigers uncovers the hidden story of the group of young American men and women who crossed the Pacific before Pearl Harbor to risk their lives defending China. Led by legendary army pilot Claire Chennault, these men left behind an America still at peace in the summer of 1941 using false identities to travel across the Pacific to a run-down airbase in the jungles of Burma. In the wake of the disaster at Pearl Harbor this motley crew was the first group of Americans to take on the Japanese in combat, shooting down hundreds of Japanese aircraft in the skies over Burma, Thailand, and China. At a time when the Allies were being defeated across the globe, the Flying Tigers’ exploits gave hope to Americans and Chinese alike. Kleiner takes readers into the cockpits of their iconic shark-nosed P-40 planes—one of the most familiar images of the war—as the Tigers perform nail-biting missions against the Japanese. He profiles the outsize personalities involved in the operation, including Chennault, whose aggressive tactics went against the prevailing wisdom of military strategy; Greg “Pappy” Boyington, the man who would become the nation’s most beloved pilot until he was shot down and became a POW; Emma Foster, one of the nurses in the unit who had a passionate romance with a pilot named John Petach; and Madame Chiang Kai-shek herself, who first brought Chennault to China and who would come to visit these young Americans. A dramatic story of a covert operation whose very existence would have scandalized an isolationist United States, The Flying Tigers is the unforgettable account of a group of Americans whose heroism changed the world, and who cemented an alliance between the United States and China as both nations fought against seemingly insurmountable odds.
Author: Various
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2018-08-28
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 1534428607
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new generation of children love Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, inspired by the classic series Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood! Twelve of Daniel Tiger’s most grr-ific adventures are now available in one dazzling edition—perfect for sleepy Daniel Tiger fans! Whether he’s playing in the snow, exploring nature at night, or visiting family, Daniel Tiger loves making friends and going on new adventures! Would you like to come along? This treasury includes twelve of Daniel’s most grr-ific stories, each of which can be read aloud in three minutes. This sweet collection is perfect for little tigers who are settling down for bedtime and want to hear just one more story! Daniel Tiger’s 3-Minute Stories features: Friends are the Best Snowflake Day Big Brother Daniel How Is Daniel Feeling? What’s Special at Night A Duckling for Daniel You’re Still You! Going to See Grandpere King Daniel the Kind Daniel Loves Fall A Sweet Trip to the Bakery Meet the Neighbors © 2018 The Fred Rogers Company
Author: Zanna Davidson
Publisher:
Published: 2021-06-02
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781474969192
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKatie Crocodile is having a tea party, when in storm three naughty tigers. "They gurgled and they guzzled and chortled till they spat! They drank straight from the milk jug... Then used it as a hat." It's time the tigers visited Miss Molly's School of Manners if they ever want to be invited out to tea again... A perfect introduction to table manners with humour, rhyme and a lively cast of animal characters.
Author: Mike Boldt
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2016-07-05
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 1481448862
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the creative mind of rising star Mike Boldt comes a hilarious and original tale about overcoming back-to-school jitters, making new friends, and taking things in stride. Anya wakes up to discover that she has grown a tiger tail. Yes, a striped tiger tail. It also happens to be the first day of school. What will the other kids think? Are girls with tiger tails even allowed to go to school?! Anya is about to find out.
Author: Téa Obreht
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2011-03-08
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0679604367
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Spectacular . . . [Téa Obreht] spins a tale of such marvel and magic in a literary voice so enchanting that the mesmerized reader wants her never to stop.”—Entertainment Weekly Look for Téa Obreht’s second novel, Inland, now available. NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times • Entertainment Weekly • The Christian Science Monitor • The Kansas City Star • Library Journal Weaving a brilliant latticework of family legend, loss, and love, Téa Obreht, the youngest of The New Yorker’s twenty best American fiction writers under forty, has spun a timeless novel that will establish her as one of the most vibrant, original authors of her generation. In a Balkan country mending from war, Natalia, a young doctor, is compelled to unravel the mysterious circumstances surrounding her beloved grandfather’s recent death. Searching for clues, she turns to his worn copy of The Jungle Book and the stories he told her of his encounters over the years with “the deathless man.” But most extraordinary of all is the story her grandfather never told her—the legend of the tiger’s wife. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal • O: The Oprah Magazine • The Economist • Vogue • Slate • Chicago Tribune • The Seattle Times • Dayton Daily News • Publishers Weekly • Alan Cheuse, NPR’s All Things Considered “Stunning . . . a richly textured and searing novel.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “[Obreht] has a talent for subtle plotting that eludes most writers twice her age, and her descriptive powers suggest a kind of channeled genius. . . . No novel [this year] has been more satisfying.”—The Wall Street Journal “Filled with astonishing immediacy and presence, fleshed out with detail that seems firsthand, The Tiger’s Wife is all the more remarkable for being the product not of observation but of imagination.”—The New York Times Book Review “That The Tiger’s Wife never slips entirely into magical realism is part of its magic. . . . Its graceful commingling of contemporary realism and village legend seems even more absorbing.”—The Washington Post
Author: Eric Carle
Publisher: Philomel
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 57
ISBN-13: 9780399232039
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author recalls experiences from his childhood in Germany and his later life in the United States, all in some way connected with various animals.
Author: Karl Newson
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespite the evidence Mouse insists that he is a tiger--or maybe a crocodile.
