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This picture book distils the essence of summer at the beachskin sticky with salt, sandy feet, waves hush-hushing and a shell under the pillow. This simple poem by internationally renowned Joy Cowley transports the reader instantly to a childhood summer. Summer holidays by the sea have a rhythm all their own. With a few well chosen images Cowley takes us straight to the end of a long hot day, with beach treasures under the pillow, the sound of the...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Danger lurks everywhere as the ever-cautious chameleon braves strange-looking geckos and poisionous scorpions in search of a new home. But the journey's end brings him a meal and a new friend too. Suggested level: junior, primary.
12) Snake and lizard
Author
Publisher
Kane Miller Book Pub
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories about the friendship between Snake and Lizard.
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
"She is the lead mare of a herd of wild horses that run the range. When people come to capture them, she leads the herd in a run for safety. But trucks and helicopters drive the horses into pens. Imprisoned behind barbed wire, the fire in the mare's heart is reduced to embers. Her spirit is almost broken, until a cowboy comes and promises to set the horses free."--Jacket. Based on the true story of Dayton O. Hyde and how he came to establish the Black...
18) Sleeping Beauty
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Series
Publisher
Big & Small
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Retells the Charles Perrault's version of Sleeping Beauty, in which a wicked fairy casts a spell that dooms a princess to sleep for one hundred years.
19) The farm concert
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Series
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Shortland Publications
Pub. Date
1984, c1983
Language
English
20) Chicken feathers
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Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
The story of the summer Josh spends while his mother is in the hospital awaiting the birth of his baby sister, and his pet chicken Semolina--who talks but only to him--is almost killed by a red fox.
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