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The boy who drew birds: a story of John James Audubon / by Jacqueline Davies
By Jacqueline Davies, Melissa Sweet. 2004
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Historical fiction, General fiction, Animal storiesBiography, Animals and wildlife, Nature, Science and medicine biography, Fine arts biography, Arts and entertainment
Human-narrated audio
Recounts how passionately the young Frenchman who made his home in America loved birds. Describes the numerous drawings and paintings…
he made of birds, their nests, and eggs and reveals the way he determined whether migrating birds return to the same place in the spring. For grades 2-4. 2004My mastodon
By Barbara Lowell, Antonio Marinoni. 2020
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Family stories, Animal stories, Historical fiction, General fictionScience and medicine biography
Human-narrated audio
Inspired by the 19th-century lives of artist and scientist Charles Wilson Peale's family, this is a tale of a girl and her favorite companion-a fossilized mastodon! For grades K-3. Unrated
Timothy, 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
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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.