Is There A Pigeon In The Room

Author : Stephen Kelman
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408815680
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pigeon English written by Stephen Kelman and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-01-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku, the second best runner in Year 7, races through his new life in England with his personalised trainers - the Adidas stripes drawn on with marker pen - blissfully unaware of the very real threat around him. Newly-arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister Lydia, Harri absorbs the many strange elements of city life, from the bewildering array of Haribo sweets, to the frightening, fascinating gang of older boys from his school. But his life is changed forever when one of his friends is murdered. As the victim's nearly new football boots hang in tribute on railings behind fluorescent tape and a police appeal draws only silence, Harri decides to act, unwittingly endangering the fragile web his mother has spun around her family to keep them safe.

Author : Stella Gurney
Publisher : Phaidon
ISBN 13 : 9780714863535
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture According to Pigeons written by Stella Gurney and published by Phaidon. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's most beautiful buildings are described from a bird's eye view by Speck Lee Tailfeather, a pigeon who is also an aficionado of architecture.

Author : Cameron Wyllie
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788854993
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Is There a Pigeon in the Room? written by Cameron Wyllie and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is There a Pigeon in the Room? is a deeply personal book about Cameron Wyllie's remarkable four-decade career in teaching. It's a tapestry of anecdotes and reflections on topics like drugs, parenting and sex education, laced with stories about memorable individuals. What did he say to the Third Year after drinking too much gin with the Head? Who was Adolf? What happened to the horrible bus driver? While the intention is to make the reader laugh plenty, Cameron also deals with discipline, refugees, tragic events, his own status as a gay man and tells us the story of Tes, an Eritrean boy who inspired hundreds of young people with his love of education. Cameron taught over 8,000 students in his career. Having been once described as 'the place where Jean Brodie meets Kenneth Williams' the book also charts the surprising trajectory of a career which culminated in his appointment as Principal of George Heriot's, one of Edinburgh's most prestigious schools.

Author : William Edward Birkhimer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoir on the Use of Homing Pigeons for Military Purposes written by William Edward Birkhimer and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joshunda Sanders
Publisher : Six Foot Press
ISBN 13 : 164442035X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Can Write the World written by Joshunda Sanders and published by Six Foot Press. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lovely and timely. So glad Joshunda is telling our stories." - Jacqueline Woodson Eight-year-old Ava Murray wants to know why there’s a difference between the warm, friendly Bronx neighborhood filled with music and art in which she lives and the Bronx she sees in news stories on TV and on the Internet. When her mother explains that the power of stories lies in the hands of those who write them, Ava decides to become a journalist. I Can Write the World follows Ava as she explores her vibrant South Bronx neighborhood - buildings whose walls boast gorgeous murals of historical figures as well as intricate, colorful street art, the dozens of different languages and dialects coming from the mouths of passersby, the many types of music coming out of neighbors’ windows and passing cars. In reporting how the music and art and culture of her neighborhood reflect the diversity of the people of New York City, Ava shows the world as she sees it, revealing to children the power of their own voice.

Author : Mo Willems
Publisher : Hyperion Books for Children
ISBN 13 : 9781484798164
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We Are in an ART-ivity Book! written by Mo Willems and published by Hyperion Books for Children. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the must-see, must-do event of the season! Starring Elephant & Piggie and YOU! Draw portraits, design sculptures, create collages, build a Mo-bile, color, puzzle, and go bananas being an artist! It all adds up to your awesome art exhibit at the Museum of Wonderfull Interesting Life Like Excellent Museum Stuff! But who is the super-secret, super-surprise ART CRITIC, and what will he think?!

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bird Notes written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lloyd Maier
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1452083290
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lloyd Leroy Pigeon written by Lloyd Maier and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006-11-16 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deprived, dejected and disheartened bird. His quest to find excitement, happiness and love leads him on an unbelievable odyssey. His encounters are incredible. His desire to be the finest Pigeon in the air takes him on a journey away from his horde that he has not anticipated. His desire to be cool, often leads him to incomprehensible humiliation.

Author : Andrew D. Blechman
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 9780702236419
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pigeons written by Andrew D. Blechman and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They have been worshipped as fertility goddesses and revered as symbols of peace. Domesticated since the dawn of humankind, they have been crucial to wartime communications for every major historical superpower from ancient Egypt to the United States and are credited with saving thousands of lives. One delivered the results of the first Olympics in 776 BC and another brought the news of Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo more than 2500 years later. Charles Darwin relied heavily upon them to help formulate and support his theory of evolution. Yet today the pigeon is reviled as a rat with wings. How did we come to misunderstand one of humanity's most steadfast companions?In Pigeons, Andrew D. Blechman travels across the United States and Europe in a quest to chronicle the bird's transformation from beloved friend to feathered outlaw.

Author : Rosemary Mosco
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1523515570
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching written by Rosemary Mosco and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part field guide, part history, part ornithology primer, and altogether fun. Fact: Pigeons are amazing, and until recently, humans adored them. We’ve kept them as pets, held pigeon beauty contests, raced them, used them to carry messages over battlefields, harvested their poop to fertilize our crops—and cooked them in gourmet dishes. Now, with The Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching, readers can rediscover the wonder. Equal parts illustrated field guide and quirky history, it covers behavior: Why they coo; how they flock; how they preen, kiss, and mate (monogamously); and how they raise their young (on chunky pigeon milk). Anatomy and identification, from Birmingham Roller to the American Giant Runt to the Scandaroon. Birder issues, like what to do if you find a baby pigeon stranded in the park. And our lively shared story together, including all the things we’ve taught them—Ping-Pong, for example. “Rats with wings?” Think again. Pigeons coo, peck and nest all over the world, yet most of us treat them with indifference or disdain. So Rosemary Mosco, a bird-lover, science communicator, writer, and cartoonist (and co-author of The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the World’s Most Adventurous Kid) is here to give the pigeon's image a makeover, and to help every town- and city-dweller get closer to nature by discovering the joys of birding through pigeon-watching.