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Author
Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Animals living in one country don't always talk the same language as animals from somewhere else. Take a rooster, for instance. In English-speaking countries, he says cock-a-doodle-doo when he has a notion to announce himself or to greet the dawn. But in Spanish-speaking countries, he says ki-kiri-ki. Emerging readers will delight in identifying the animals depicted on each new page. The bilingual text invites parent and child into an interactive...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From leading zoologist Arik Kershenbaum, a delightful and groundbreaking exploration of animal communication and its true meaning Animal communication has forever seemed intelligible. We are surrounded by animals and the cacophony of sounds that they make-from the chirping of songbirds to the growls of lions on the savanna-but we have yet to fully understand why animals communicate the way they do. What are they saying? This is only part of the mystery....
Author
Series
Chronicles of Narnia volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Illustrations in this ebook appear in vibrant full color on a full-color ebook device and in rich black and white on all other devices.
Narnia . . . where animals talk . . . where trees walk . . . where a battle is about to begin.
A prince denied his rightful throne gathers an army in a desperate attempt to rid his land of a false king. But in the end, it is a battle of honor between two men alone that will decide the fate of an entire
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Series
Magic animal friends. Main series volume 8
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Welcome to a magical world where animals talk and play - just like you and me! There's a wild wind blowing in Friendship Forest, as Grizelda's storm dragon takes over the magical windmill that controls the forest's breezes! Lily and Jess must help little guinea pig Rosie rescue her family and save the forest - before Grizelda takes over once and for all!
Author
Series
Magic animal friends. Main series volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Welcome to a magical world where animals talk and play - just like you and me! Best friends Jess and Lily love all animals. But when they follow a mysterious golden cat into Friendship Forest - a place where animals live in tiny cottages and sip dandelion tea at the Toadstool Cafe - their summer holidays suddenly become much more magical! On their first adventure in Friendship Forest, can the two friends rescue adorable baby bunny Lucy Longwhiskers...
10) Dr. Dolittle
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Step into the English country home of the good doctor as he performs remarkable treatments on a variety of four-legged, fine-feathered patients. See his secret cures and watch as ordinary and exotic animals talk, dance, and sing.
Author
Series
Magic animal friends. Main series volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic, by arrangement with Working Partners Limited
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Welcome to a magical world where animals talk and play - just like you and me! Lily and Jess are delighted to return to their friends in Friendship Forest. But wicked witch Grizelda has some scary new helpers - dragons! When Grizelda's ice dragon casts a spell on the Flufftail family, they can't use the Shining House to spread sunshine through the forest. Can Lily and Jess help Sophie Flufftail fix the Shining House and get her family back?
Author
Series
Magic animal friends. Main series volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
© 2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Welcome to a magical world where animals talk and play - just like you and me! Best friends Jess and Lily love all animals. But when they follow a mysterious golden cat into Friendship Forest - a place where animals live in tiny cottages and sip dandelion tea at the Toadstool Cafe - their summer holidays suddenly become much more magical! Goldie has invited Lily, Jess and kitten Bella Tabbypaw for a sleepover! The girls can't wait to spend a night...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
While on a trip to Hollywood to help a celebrity starlet's depressed Chihuahua, Maya Dolittle gets caught up in the Hollywood glitz. Dropping her dreams of becoming a vet, Maya lands a job hosting an animal talk show with famous heiress Tiffany Monaco. Lucky starts falling in love with a pedigreed pooch and Maya falls out of love with the ideas about how to help animals. Just when Maya thinks she'll be trapped forever in Tinseltown, Lucky, his new...
Author
Series
Cold storage novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Cold Storage, Alaska, is a remote fishing outpost where salmonberries sparkle in the morning frost and where you just might catch a King Salmon if you're zen enough to wait for it. Settled in 1935 by Norse fishermen who liked to skinny dip in its natural hot springs, the town enjoyed prosperity in the mid-20th Century, at the height of the frozen fish boom. But now the cold storage plant is all but abandoned and the population is shrinking every...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York Times bestselling author Jon Katz—"a Thoreau for modern times" (San Antonio Express-News)—offers us a deeper understanding of the inner lives of animals and teaches us how we can more effectively communicate with them, made real by his own remarkable experiences with a wide array of creatures great and small.
In Talking to Animals, journalist Jon Katz—who left his Manhattan life behind two...
In Talking to Animals, journalist Jon Katz—who left his Manhattan life behind two...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Did you know that animals each have their own unique way to communicate? Birds sing, dogs bark, cows mooand animals use their ears, tails, feet, and bodies to communicate, too! But what is everybody saying? Lets read and find out about how animals communicate and what theyre talking about!
17) Saving Winslow
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When his father brings home an ailing, newborn donkey, Louie names the animal Winslow and takes care of him, but everyone, including Louie's quirky friend Nora, thinks Winslow is not going to survive.
18) Stop, Fox!
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Fox talks a LOT! All the other animals are tired of hearing him talk. But Sloth doesn't want Fox to stop talking--it helps him sleep! That's perfect for Fox! Or is it?"--Amazon.
19) Talking animals
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Talking Animals is a Kafkaesque tale about the radical awakening of an alpaca and a llama who live within a crumbling city. Together with their friends and comrades, these animals search for a form of resistance that fits with their time"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"Bookish high school student Rintaro Natsuki is about to close the secondhand bookstore he has inherited from his beloved bookworm grandfather. However, one day, a talking cat named Tiger appears and asks Rintaro to save books with him. Of course, "ask" is putting it politely -- Tiger is demanding Rintaro's help. The world is full of lonely books, left unread and unloved, and only Tiger and Rintaro can liberate them from their neglectful owners. And...
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