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Belly button book!
By Sandra Boynton. 2005
Printbraille
Alphabet, number and picture books, Animal storiesLiterature, Poetry
Human-transcribed braille
Hoping for hippos? Take a look! They're all in this belly button book! Grades P-2. 2005.
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The three bears & 15 other stories (A trophy Bk.)
By Anne F Rockwell. 1984
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
Folklore, fables and fairy tales, General fiction, Animal storiesLiterature
Human-transcribed braille
Sixteen famous tales retold in the spirit of the originals. In "The Lion and the Mouse" a small creature rescues…
a strong one. In "The Gingerbread Man" a clever fox has a tasty treat. In "The Three Billy Goats Gruff" a troll has an unfortunate encounter. For grades 2-4. 1975Timothy, or, Notes of an abject reptile
By Verlyn Klinkenborg. 2006
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
Animal storiesEssays, Nature, Animals and wildlife
Human-transcribed braille
Selborne, England; late 1700s. Timothy, a tortoise living in naturalist Gilbert White's garden, reports his observations on humans and the…
natural world from his unique, on-the-ground perspective. He explains, for instance, the advantages of hibernating for the winter over being awake and toiling, like people do. 2006Personhood
By Thalia Field. 2021
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (CD), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
Animal storiesAnthologies, Essays
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
A remarkable and moving cross-genre work about animal rights by one of America’s foremost experimental writers Whether investigating refugee parrots,…
indentured elephants, the pathetic fallacy, or the revolving absurdity of the human role in the "invasive species crisis," Personhood reveals how the unmistakable problem between humans and our nonhuman relatives is too often the derangement of our narratives and the resulting lack of situational awareness. Building on her previous collection, Bird Lovers, Backyard, Thalia Field's essayistic investigations invite us on a humorous, heartbroken journey into how people attempt to control the fragile complexities of a shared planet. The lived experiences of animals, and other historical actors, provide unique literary-ecological responses to the exigencies of injustice and to our delusions of special status.