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Author : Joseph Bruchac
Publisher : Greenfield Review Press
ISBN 13 : 9781312514263
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Songs from This Earth on Turtle's Back written by Joseph Bruchac and published by Greenfield Review Press. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carol Pugliano-Martin
Publisher : Benchmark Education Company
ISBN 13 : 1616726741
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (167 download)
Download or read book The Earth on Turtles Back written by Carol Pugliano-Martin and published by Benchmark Education Company. This book was released on 2011 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the Native American legend that planet earth is formed from a small lump of dirt placed on a giant turtle's back.
Author : Joseph Bruchac
Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781555910945
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Native American Stories written by Joseph Bruchac and published by Fulcrum Publishing. This book was released on 1991 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Native American tales and myths focusing on the relationship between man and nature.
Author : Carl Safina
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1429900865
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Voyage of the Turtle written by Carl Safina and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of an ancient sea turtle and what its survival says about our future, from the award-winning writer and naturalist Though nature is indifferent to the struggles of her creatures, the human effect on them is often premeditated. The distressing decline of sea turtles in Pacific waters and their surprising recovery in the Atlantic illuminate what can go both wrong and right from our interventions, and teach us the lessons that can be applied to restore health to the world's oceans and its creatures. As Voyage of the Turtle, Carl Safina's compelling natural history adventure makes clear, the fate of the astonishing leatherback turtle, whose ancestry can be traced back 125 million years, is in our hands. Writing with verve and color, Safina describes how he and his colleagues track giant pelagic turtles across the world's oceans and onto remote beaches of every continent. As scientists apply lessons learned in the Atlantic and Caribbean to other endangered seas, Safina follows leatherback migrations, including a thrilling journey from Monterey, California, to nesting grounds on the most remote beaches of Papua, New Guinea. The only surviving species of its genus, family, and suborder, the leatherback is an evolutionary marvel: a "reptile" that behaves like a warm-blooded dinosaur, an ocean animal able to withstand colder water than most fishes and dive deeper than any whale. In his peerless prose, Safina captures the delicate interaction between these gentle giants and the humans who are finally playing a significant role in their survival. "Magnificent . . . A joyful, hopeful book. Safina gives us ample reasons to be enthralled by this astonishing ancient animal—and ample reasons to care." -- The Los Angeles Times
Author : Eldon Yellowhorn
Publisher : Annick Press
ISBN 13 : 1554519454
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (545 download)
Download or read book Turtle Island written by Eldon Yellowhorn and published by Annick Press. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike most books that chronicle the history of Native peoples beginning with the arrival of Europeans in 1492, this book goes back to the Ice Age to give young readers a glimpse of what life was like pre-contact. The title, Turtle Island, refers to a Native myth that explains how North and Central America were formed on the back of a turtle. Based on archeological finds and scientific research, we now have a clearer picture of how the Indigenous people lived. Using that knowledge, the authors take the reader back as far as 14,000 years ago to imagine moments in time. A wide variety of topics are featured, from the animals that came and disappeared over time, to what people ate, how they expressed themselves through art, and how they adapted to their surroundings. The importance of story-telling among the Native peoples is always present to shed light on how they explained their world. The end of the book takes us to modern times when the story of the Native peoples is both tragic and hopeful.
Author : Thomas King
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 1443431648
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (434 download)
Download or read book The Back Of The Turtle written by Thomas King and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Thomas King’s first literary novel in 15 years and follows on the success of the award-winning and bestselling The Inconvenient Indian and his beloved Green Grass, Running Water and Truth and Bright Water, both of which continue to be taught in Canadian schools and universities. Green Grass, Running Water is widely considered a contemporary Canadian classic. In The Back of the Turtle, Gabriel returns to Smoke River, the reserve where his mother grew up and to which she returned with Gabriel’s sister. The reserve is deserted after an environmental disaster killed the population, including Gabriel’s family, and the wildlife. Gabriel, a brilliant scientist working for DowSanto, created GreenSweep, and indirectly led to the crisis. Now he has come to see the damage and to kill himself in the sea. But as he prepares to let the water take him, he sees a young girl in the waves. Plunging in, he saves her, and soon is saving others. Who are these people with their long black hair and almond eyes who have fallen from the sky? Filled with brilliant characters, trademark wit, wordplay and a thorough knowledge of native myth and story-telling, this novel is a masterpiece by one of our most important writers.
Author : David McLimans
Publisher : Walker Childrens
ISBN 13 : 9780802722836
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (228 download)
Download or read book Big Turtle written by David McLimans and published by Walker Childrens. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breathing new life into traditional storytelling, David McLimans takes an exciting step into the world of folktales with another stunning visual feast. At the start of Big Turtle, the world only had two parts: the animals in the lower Water World and the people above in the Sky World. When Sky Girl falls to the sea, she is saved by two beautiful swans but is unable to return to her sky home. Big Turtle suggests building a new home for Sky Girl on his great shell using earth from the bottom of the sea, so Otter, Muskrat, and Beaver each attempt to reach the ocean's bottom. Only little Toad is able to bring enough earth to the surface to place on Big Turtle's back-creating a new world between the sea and sky for Sky Girl, who becomes the Earth's first person.
Author : Joseph Bruchac
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0142404667
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (424 download)
Download or read book Turtle's Race with Beaver written by Joseph Bruchac and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-10-06 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turtle lives in a beautiful little pond with everything a happy turtle needs. But one spring, Turtle awakes from hibernation to discover that her lovely home has been invaded! A pushy beaver takes over Turtle's beloved pond and refuses to share. Instead, he challenges her to a race to determine who can stay. But how can a little turtle outswim a big, powerful beaver? This charming fable of brains versus brawn is a great read for all the young readers in the forest to share!
Author : Alan Brown
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 9780702231537
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Turtle's Song written by Alan Brown and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am Turtle. My eyes are black, my shell is green. Wide ocean calls me, as I lie curled in the dark. Tides roar in my blood, surf pounds in my heart. A lyrical journey of the life of a Green Turtle from hatchling beneath the sand of a coral beach, through wanderings at sea, to adulthood and returning to lay eggs of its own. Award winning illustrator Kim Toft's magnificent silk painting perfectly capture the precarious life of the Green Turtle, while author Alan Brown's poignant, mythical story sounds a hymn to this ancient but now endangered creature.
Author : Michael J. Caduto
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781938486685
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (866 download)
Download or read book Keepers of the Earth written by Michael J. Caduto and published by . This book was released on 2014-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This environmental classic teaches children respect and stewardship for the Earth and all living things. Joseph Bruchac's lyrical retellings set the stage for Michael J. Caduto's abundance of related activities. This twentieth anniversary edition will contain new content aimed at the Common Core for today's teachers. Joseph Bruchac, coauthor of The Keepers of the Earth series, is an internationally acclaimed Native American storyteller and writer who has authored more than seventy books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for adults and children. Michael J. Caduto is an award-winning and internationally known author, master storyteller, poet, musician, educator, and ecologist.
Author : Joseph Bruchac III
Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1682752054
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (827 download)
Download or read book Native American Animal Stories written by Joseph Bruchac III and published by Fulcrum Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-16 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Papago Indians of the American Southwest say butterflies were created to gladden the hearts of children and chase away thoughts of aging and death. How the Butterflies Came to Be is one of twenty-four Native American tales included in Native American Animal Stories. The stories, coming from Mohawk, Hopi, Yaqui, Haida and other cultures, demonstrate the power of animals in Native American traditions.Parents, teachers and children will delight in lovingly told stories about "our relations, the animals." The stories come to life through magical illustrations by Mohawk artists John Kahionhes Fadden and David Fadden."The stories in this book present some of the basic perspectives that Native North American parents, aunts and uncles use to teach the young. They are phrased in terms that modern youngsters can understand and appreciate ... They enable us to understand that while birds and animals appear to be similar in thought processes to humans, that is simply the way we represent them in our stories. But other creatures do have thought processes, emotions, personal relationships...We must carefully ccord these other creatures the respect that they deserve and the right to live
Author : Dr. Seuss
Publisher : RH Childrens Books
ISBN 13 : 0385373635
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)
Download or read book Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories written by Dr. Seuss and published by RH Childrens Books. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Seuss presents three modern fables in the rhyming favorite Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories. The collection features tales about greed (“Yertle the Turtle”), vanity (“Gertrude McFuzz”), and pride (“The Big Brag”). In no other book does a small burp have such political importance! Yet again, Dr. Seuss proves that he and classic picture books go hand in hand.
Author : Peter Laufer
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250128099
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Dreaming in Turtle written by Peter Laufer and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating exploration into the world of turtles across the globe; Laufer charts the lore, love, and peril to a beloved species. Dreaming in Turtle is a compelling story of a stalwart animal prized from prehistory through to today—an animal threatened by human greed, pragmatism, and rationalization. It stars turtles and shady and heroic human characters both, in settings ranging from luxury redoubts to degraded habitats, during a time when the confluence of easy global trade, limited supply, and inexhaustible demand has accelerated the stress on species. The growth of the middle class in high-population regions like China, where the turtle is particularly valued, feeds this perfect storm into which the turtle finds itself lashed. This is a tale not just of endangered turtles but also one of overall human failings, frailties, and vulnerabilities—all punctuated by optimistic hope for change fueled by dedicated turtle champions.
Author : Michael J. Caduto
Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781555913854
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (138 download)
Download or read book Keepers of the Earth written by Michael J. Caduto and published by Fulcrum Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The flagship book in the "Keepers of the Earth" series is an environmental classic for teaching children to respect the Earth.
Author : Eve Bunting
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0064436195
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (644 download)
Download or read book Moonstick written by Eve Bunting and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2000-02-16 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My father cuts a moon-counting stick that he keeps in our tipi. At the rising of the first moon he makes a notch in it. "A new beginning for the young buffalo," he says. "And for us." In this beautifully written story by acclaimed author Eve Bunting, a young boy comes of age under the thirteen moons of the Sioux year. With each notch in his father's moon-counting stick, the boy marvels at the world around him, observing the sometimes subtle, sometimes remarkable changes in the seasons and in his own tribe's way of living. With rich and carefully researched paintings by artist John Sandford, Moonstick: The Seasons of the Sioux is a glorious picture book about one boy's journey toward manhood.
Author : George W. Cronyn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (468 download)
Download or read book American Indian Poetry written by George W. Cronyn and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Bruchac
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780613882996
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (829 download)
Download or read book The Earth Under the Sky Bear's Feet: Native American Poems of the Land written by Joseph Bruchac and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1998-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A retelling of twelve tales from various North American Indian cultures describing how Sky Bear, the Big Dipper, sees the Earth from the sky
