There are lots of animals on Grandfather's farm, but Anna loves geese best of all. One day Grandfather finds an injured snow goose. Although Anna carefully nurses the bird, it dies that night. Then Grandfather finds Anna's goose has left her something.
The moving wartime story of friendship and heroism, set against the dramatic backdrop of the World War II Battle of Dunkirk In the marshes of Essex, one of the last wild places left in England, a disfigured artist lives alone in an ...
Can Rhayander be among those hundreds he has saved? This is the original version first published in 1940 in The Saturday Evening Post, later expanded into a longer version and published in book form in 1941.
Sometimes I turned my head, looking back over the hood's coyote fur trim at Paula—her antique snow goggles, her face's beaming eggshell glaze, the Ruger's barrel poking at an angle from her right shoulder. Each qamutiik's load of dead ...
Three famous classical short stories.
In this book he recounts the story of one year in the life of a pair of snow geese-the incubation and breeding of the young in the Arctic, their hazardous migration to winter quarters near the Gulf of Mexico, and the spring migration back ...
Follows a flock of snow geese as they fly from their Arctic nesting ground to the New Mexico desert where they spend the winter.
“If in doubt, wash!” What is it like to be a cat? Find out in this classic animal story from the renowned writer Paul Gallico.
Journey of the Snow Goose chronicles the spiritual and physical sojourn of Barbary and Bill Chaapel, who leave land and everything it represents behind them to sail away in a tiny sailboat for 7 1/2 years.
If we really want Peace and Harmony on the earth, let's take our U. S. celebration of Thanksgiving and go global with it, inviting all God's children to join us on one day a year giving thanks for all the good things we already have on ...
Yaotl and Sascho splashed along the shores of the behchà, spears hefted, watching for the flash of fin to rise to the surface and sparkle in the sunlight.