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Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
100 Dogs Who Made a Difference
If you don’t believe that one dog has the power to alter civilization, then you’ve obviously never heard of Peritas (p. 166), the dog who saved Alexander the Great from being trampled by an elephant. Or Biche (p. 57), the Italian Greyhound who started a war between France and Russia. Or Urian (p. 74), the dog who bit Pope Clement VII and finalized England’s break with the Catholic church....
If you don’t believe that one dog has the power to alter civilization, then you’ve obviously never heard of Peritas (p. 166), the dog who saved Alexander the Great from being trampled by an elephant. Or Biche (p. 57), the Italian Greyhound who started a war between France and Russia. Or Urian (p. 74), the dog who bit Pope Clement VII and finalized England’s break with the Catholic church....
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
The ultimate gift for cat lovers everywhere—100 illustrated and unbelievably true tales of the remarkable felines who made their mark on science, history, art, government, and religion.
If you don’t believe that one cat has the power to alter civilization, then you’ve obviously never heard of Tibbles, the cat who single-handedly wiped out an entire species. Or Ahmedabad, a Siamese kitten who sparked riots throughout...
If you don’t believe that one cat has the power to alter civilization, then you’ve obviously never heard of Tibbles, the cat who single-handedly wiped out an entire species. Or Ahmedabad, a Siamese kitten who sparked riots throughout...
84) Hounds
Author
Series
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
"Engaging images accompany information about the hound group. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--
85) Terriers
Author
Series
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
pages cm.
Language
English
Description
"Engaging images accompany information about the terrier group. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--
86) Working dogs
Author
Series
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
pages cm.
Language
English
Description
"Engaging images accompany information about the working group. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--
87) Toy dogs
Author
Series
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
pages cm.
Language
English
Description
"Engaging images accompany information about toy dogs. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--
88) Herding dogs
Author
Series
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
"Engaging images accompany information about herding dogs. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--
89) Sporting dogs
Author
Series
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
pages cm.
Language
English
Description
"Engaging images accompany information about the sporting group. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishing Company Inc
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
As a little cat rushes in from a day’s adventuring, her owner asks her where she’s been and what she’s seen. Was she happy? Was she brave? Was she kind? The richly imagined answers—in Richard Jones’s gorgeous illustrations, beautifully complementing his own simple text—will surprise, delight, and melt hearts.
Author
Publisher
Allworth Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
206 p.
Language
English
Description
Here is a compelling meditation from renowned horseman Mark Rashid on all the ways that the principles we apply in our dealings with fellow humans can apply to our relationships with our horses, and vice versa. Horsemanship Through Life is about awareness, learning, teaching, honesty, integrity, and much more. It is about more than tips or technique; it is about principles to live by. It is about taking ownership of and responsibility for our lives...
Author
Series
Rainbow Street Shelter volume no. 4
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
When Mona McNeil returns to visit her grandparents' farm as an adult, she recalls the summer she spent there raising Kiki, a lion cub she got as an eighth birthday gift from her uncle Matthew--an experience the led her to open Rainbow Street Animal Shelter.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A little girl has a wonderful idea. With the help of her canine assistant, she is going to make the most magnificent thing! She knows just how it will look. She knows just how it will work. But making the most magnificent thing turns out to be harder than she thinks.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xii, 230 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"From Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Elephant in the Room comes the first inside account of the Westminster Dog Show-America's oldest and most beloved dog show-following one dog on his quest to become a champion"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Workman Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xiii, 210 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of stories about animals who have forged unlikely, abiding bonds with other animals of different species, from Koko the gorilla and All Ball the kitten to Owen the hippo and the tortoise Mzee.
Author
Series
Frank and the puppy volume 1
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
pages cm.
Language
English
Description
Frank the cat is happy at home with his two humans until they bring home a puppy who disturbs his entire way of life, so after running away and finding out how unwelcoming the world outside is he makes his way back to where he belongs.
98) Charlotte's web
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Help! This little girl has lost her best friend. He’s a dinosaur (not the extinct kind). He’s enormous (bigger than a panda!). He was last seen before she gave him a bath and washed off all the mud (maybe that wasn’t a good idea?). She’s tried to lure him with snacks and put up Lost Dinosaur posters, but nothing has helped. If only it weren’t such a clear day—if only it were raining, or snowing, or the leaves were falling, or . . . something....
Author
Publisher
Citadel Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
292 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the tradition of Marley & Me, "Cleo" is the story of an impish black kitten who teaches a grieving family to love and laugh again after the tragic loss of a child--
"'We're just going to look.' Helen Brown had no intention of adopting a pet when she brought her sons, Sam and Rob, to visit a friend's new kittens. But the runt of the litter was irresistible, with her overlarge ears and dainty chin. When Cleo was delivered weeks later, she had no...
