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1) Peacocks
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46 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
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English
Description
"A look at peacocks, including their habitats, physical characteristics such as the male's colorful plumage, behaviors, relationships with humans, and the protected status of Congo and green peacocks in the world today"--
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263 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"An acclaimed journalist seeks to understand the mysterious allure of peacocks--and in the process discovers unexpected and valuable life lessons"--
Until Flynn's neighbor in North Carolina offered him one, he had never considered whether he wanted a peacock. His family became the owners of not one but three charming yet fickle birds: Carl, Ethel, and Mr. Pickle. Here he chronicles their first year as peacock owners, from struggling to build a pen...
3) Peacocks
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16 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
Description
"Engage your earliest readers with these nonfiction animal introductions! In Peacocks, emergent readers learn about the different parts of a peacock and see it in the wild. Carefully crafted text, high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references support emergent readers. Peacocks includes tools for caregivers as well as introductory nonfiction features such as labels, a table of contents, words to know, index, and review...
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29 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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English
Description
A peacock called Limelight Larry wants to be the star of the book named for him. But soon other animals are cluttering the pages. When the star finally has his moment in the spotlight, what has happened to all his friends?
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32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations; 24 cm
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English
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A fame-seeking peacock discovers the fleeting nature of social stardom and the importance of real-world friendship. Includes note to parents on the benefits and risks of social media and how fame cannot replace friendship.
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114 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm
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English
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Every day at the Athensville Zoo the peacocks are allowed to wander freely among the visitors, delighting and guiding kids and grownups alike, and kind, curious Plum is the peacock most proud of their responsibility. But Itch the ningbing--a type of very small marsupial--doesn't understand why those birdbrains should get so much freedom while he's all cooped up. So he plots and plots, sure that he will escape and become the zoo ambassador!
11) The peacock
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English
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"In this partially illustrated early chapter book set in 1947, when a young girl's father is away in Europe helping refugees, she is left to deal with a stray peacock who has arrived in her family's yard, much to her mother's dismay. The girl devises a plan to earn the peacock's trust and return it to its home at the zoo."--
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xiv, 151 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm
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English
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"From morning to night and from the Antarctic to the equator, birds have busy days. In this short book, ornithologist Mark E. Hauber shows readers exactly how birds spend their time. Each of the book's twenty-four brief chapters covers a single bird and a single hour. At 1:00 in the night, we meet a nearly-blind kiwi, hunting with smell for earthworm prey. Later that morning, at 11:00, we float alongside a common pochard, a duck that can sleep with...
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