If You Should Meet a Crocodile and Other Poems

If You Should Meet a Crocodile and Other Poems

Author: Tig Thomas

Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP

Published: 2014-12-15

Total Pages: 42

ISBN-13: 148242150X

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Animals, such as the crocodile in “If You Should Meet a Crocodile,” make great subjects of poetry. They can be assigned human feelings or even talk and are fun to describe in colorful, interesting language. Readers can not only read about many animals and characters in these poems, but also find inspiration for their own creative writing. Furthermore, this volume contains complementary illustrations with every poem bound to spark readers’ imagination. With more than a dozen poems to read and enjoy, readers are sure to find a new favorite!


If You Should Meet a Crocodile

If You Should Meet a Crocodile

Author: Joy Peskin

Publisher: Puffin

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780140568103

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This collection of 27 poems includes odes to elephants, penguins, polar bears, and other animals, great and small. Full-color illustrations.


When a Crocodile Eats the Sun

When a Crocodile Eats the Sun

Author: Peter Godwin

Publisher: Back Bay Books

Published: 2008-04-10

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 0316032093

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After his father's heart attack in 1984, Peter Godwin began a series of pilgrimages back to Zimbabwe, the land of his birth, from Manhattan, where he now lives. On these frequent visits to check on his elderly parents, he bore witness to Zimbabwe's dramatic spiral downwards into the jaws of violent chaos, presided over by an increasingly enraged dictator. And yet long after their comfortable lifestyle had been shattered and millions were fleeing, his parents refuse to leave, steadfast in their allegiance to the failed state that has been their adopted home for 50 years. Then Godwin discovered a shocking family secret that helped explain their loyalty. Africa was his father's sanctuary from another identity, another world. When a Crocodile Eats the Sun is a stirring memoir of the disintegration of a family set against the collapse of a country. But it is also a vivid portrait of the profound strength of the human spirit and the enduring power of love.


Kylie the Crocodile in Paris, Volume 1

Kylie the Crocodile in Paris, Volume 1

Author: Oliver Gee

Publisher: Paris Animal World

Published: 2021-03-15

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9781098361198

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Kylie the Crocodile in Paris follows the a crocodile that lives in the Canal Saint-Martin and explores Paris secretly by day, and rather lavishly by night. And it's based on an absolutely true story. Written and illustrated by Paris couple Oliver and Lina Gee.


How to Hold a Crocodile

How to Hold a Crocodile

Author: Diagram Group

Publisher: Firefly Books

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9781552978054

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Explains how to do practical and improbable things, such as how to roast an ox, handle a hamster, photography a fish, play the bagpipes, and vanquish a vampire.].


Crocodile on the Sandbank

Crocodile on the Sandbank

Author: Elizabeth Peters

Publisher: C & R Crime

Published: 2011-09-01

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 178033446X

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Amelia Peabody is Elizabeth Peters' most brilliant and best-loved creation, a thoroughly Victorian feminist who takes the stuffy world of archaeology by storm with her shocking men's pants and no-nonsense attitude! In this first adventure, our headstrong heroine decides to use her substantial inheritance to see the world. On her travels, she rescues a gentlewoman in distress - Evelyn Barton-Forbes - and the two become friends. The two companions continue to Egypt where they face mysteries, mummies and the redoubtable Radcliffe Emerson, an outspoken archaeologist, who doesn't need women to help him solve mysteries -- at least that's what he thinks!


Favorite Poems

Favorite Poems

Author: Tig Thomas

Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing

Published: 2014-12-30

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781482421699

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Poetry is a powerful means of expression that has inspired readers' imaginations for generations. From "Jabberwocky" to Shakespeare's sonnets, many poems became famous because of their innovative language, incredible imagery, or exceptional beauty. Reading poetry is a great way to learn more about writing and expressing feelings and situations. This set offers an introduction to some of the best-known poems from around the world, including entries by John Keats, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and lighthearted story poems like "The Owl and the Pussycat." Colorful, creative illustrations accompany each poem, giving readers beauty to look at and read. Features include: Addresses the Common Core Language Arts Standards on poetry and poetic devices such as imagery, word choice, and form. Short fact boxes explain historical concepts and difficult terms. The poems' emphasis on rhyme and rhythm aid language and reading development in young readers.


Notes of a Crocodile

Notes of a Crocodile

Author: Qiu Miaojin

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Published: 2017-05-02

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1681370778

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WINNER OF THE 2018 LUCIEN STRYK ASIAN TRANSLATION PRIZE The English-language premiere of Qiu Miaojin's coming-of-age novel about queer teenagers in Taiwan, a cult classic in China and winner of the 1995 China Times Literature Award. An NYRB Classics Original Set in the post-martial-law era of late-1980s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile is a coming-of-age story of queer misfits discovering love, friendship, and artistic affinity while hardly studying at Taiwan’s most prestigious university. Told through the eyes of an anonymous lesbian narrator nicknamed Lazi, this cult classic is a postmodern pastiche of diaries, vignettes, mash notes, aphorisms, exegesis, and satire by an incisive prose stylist and major countercultural figure. Afflicted by her fatalistic attraction to Shui Ling, an older woman, Lazi turns for support to a circle of friends that includes a rich kid turned criminal and his troubled, self-destructive gay lover, as well as a bored, mischievous overachiever and her alluring slacker artist girlfriend. Illustrating a process of liberation from the strictures of gender through radical self-inquiry, Notes of a Crocodile is a poignant masterpiece of social defiance by a singular voice in contemporary Chinese literature.