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Rabbit Hill
New folks are coming to live in the Big House. The animals of Rabbit Hill wonder if they will plant a garden and thus be good providers.
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The Bogan Mondrian
A powerful and heart-stopping young adult novel from a master storyteller. This is Steven Herrick at his best. 'There are worse things than school.' Luke sleepwalks through his days wagging school, swimming at the reservoir and eating takeaway pizza. That is until Charlotte shows up. Rumour is she got expelled from her city school and her family moved to the Blue Mountains for a fresh start. But when Luke's invited to her house, he discovers there's a lot more going on than meets the eye.
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Rabbit Hill
New folks are coming to live in the Big House. The animals of Rabbit Hill wonder if they will plant a garden and thus be good providers.
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Great Wolf and the Good Woodsman
Beloved nature writer Helen Hoover tells a children's fable that will stir a sense of wonder and discovery in anyone who has ever felt the magic of the forest. Great Wolf and the Good Woodsman, charmingly illustrated with hand-colored woodcuts by renowned artist Betsy Bowen, is a classic tale with a message of peace, tolerance, and kindness._x000B_
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Jan Brett's animal treasury
In this collection of four tales, \"the fun includes stories of two mice couples who agree to swap homes with unexpected results; an armadillo on a rootin'-tootin' adventure at the Curly H Rodeo; a crowd of rain-forest animals on a surprising river ride in an umbrella; and a snow bear family finding an Inuit girl asleep in their igloo\"--Amazon.com.
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Tricks of the light
Tricks of the Light explores the often fraught relationships between domestic animals and humans through mythological figurations, vibrant thought, and late-modern lyrics that seem to test their own boundaries. Vicki Hearne (1946–2001), best known and celebrated today as a writer of strikingly original poetry and prose, was a capable dog and horse trainer, and sometimes controversial animal advocate. This definitive collection of Hearne’s poetry spans the entirety of her illustrious career, from her first book, Nervous Horses (1980), to never-before-published poems composed on her deathbed. But no matter the source, each of her meditative, metaphysical lyrics possesses that rare combination of philosophical speculation, practical knowledge of animals, and an unusually elegant style unlike that of any other poet writing today. Before her untimely death, Hearne entrusted the manuscript to distinguished poet, scholar, and long-time friend John Hollander, whose introduction provides both critical and personal insight into the poet’s magnum opus. Tricks of the Light—acute, vibrant, and deeply informed—is a sensuous reckoning of the connection between humans and the natural world.
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Springtime babies
\"Join the barnyard parade as Pony and Gray Goose go in search of animal babies just born on the farm. There are 'bunnies in a basket and ducklings in a row,' and of course piglets and fluffy lambs. But there are more babies to love when all the animals find the farmer and his wife holding their very own twins\"-- Amazon.com.
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Talking (for, with) Dogs: Science Fiction Breaks a Species Barrier
This article is part of my ongoing study of a figure I call the amborg, which represents the interface between species in a variety of ways. One way in which humans and other animals interact is through the attempt to communicate, and we try most sincerely, perhaps, in the human/dog relationship. This attempt is explored in a number of science fiction stories, where scientific extrapolation and subjunctive \"what if\" speculation allow us to overhear how that communication might occur. The result sometimes reflects genuine grappling with questions of authority, otherness, consciousness, and embodiment. Working with Gayatri Spivak's concept of the subaltern and Donna Haraway's companion species, but also the observations and conclusions of animal ethologists, I look at three sf works: Clifford Simak's City (1952), Sheri S. Tepper's The Companions (2003), and Kij Johnson's \"The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change\" (2007). I explore ways in which sf allows writers to speculate on how species communicate, resulting in what Haraway might see as figurative interspecies epigenesis: not the speech of the subaltern, but speaking between \"alterns.\" To imagine this possibility is to break down one of the most common differentiations between the human (as unique possessor of language) and the separate, inferior category of animal, instead offering a more generous definition of language itself and a more observant description of the ways in which humans and other animal beings communicate with one another.
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