Resultados para "Homer" en Literatura y ficción

During a time when the world is uncertain, we need to become leaders and teachers. This book helps you do just that with your children. It teaches them (and you) how to handle some of the pandemic’s biggest buzzwords. Social distancing, shelter at home, quarantining, and something about washing your hands for 20 seconds! Hopefully, you and the kids learn something, because what we need now is a little bit of intelligent comic relief. That's why the main character, Mabel the Dog, is here.

“Finding Your Way Back Home” offers a nostalgic and intimate look into the journey of Sean Austin, a man who battled the depths of drug addiction and emerged into the light of redemption and unwavering faith. This compelling narrative chronicles Sean’s descent into darkness, grappling with the demons of addiction and the heart-wrenching consequences of his choices. Through the turmoil and despair, Sean’s story unfolds with raw honesty, revealing the devastating impact addiction has on loved ones and the soul-crushing battles fought within.

Felina the Florida panther loves growing up in her forest home - until the forest starts to shrink! Trees begin to disappear, and Felina doesn't understand the new busy highway in the neighborhood. Other animals are in danger, too. Will Felina find a way to survive as humans threaten to ruin her home?

Sho-comiで連載し長く愛されている、犬と人との絆を描いたものがたり。ゴールデンレトリーバーのラブを家族に迎えた若い香坂夫妻。仲良く暮らしていましたが、３年後、夫妻に赤ちゃんが生まれて４人家族になります。

Megan de-abia așteaptă să se mute la țară și să facă plimbări lungi în mijlocul naturii împreună cu Ellie, frumosul ei labrador. De teamă că Ellie îi va încurca, mama și tata trimit cățelușa la bunica pe perioada mutării. Despărțirea e foarte grea pentru Megan și Ellie, căci se pot întâmpla multe lucruri...

Homing pigeon Homer and his parrot friend Lulu learn something is afoul when they witness four-legged criminals stealing valuables from both the animal and human communities. Lulu and Homer track down the bandits, but need human help to stop them for good. Can they lead their human keepers to the culprits’ hideout and stop the thieves? Award-winning author-illustrator Henry Cole offers a fun, action-packed middle grade mystery that will keep listeners guessing if the crime-solving pigeon will get his guy

Baby Bat loves his cave home and never wants to leave. While practicing flapping his wings one night, he falls, and Pluribus Packrat rescues him. They then explore the deepest, darkest corners of the cave, where they meet amazing animals - animals that don't need eyes to see or colors to hide from enemies. Baby Bat learns how important bats are to the cave habitat and how other cave-living critters rely on bats for food. Will Baby Bat finally venture out of the cave to help the other animals?

Animals live in many kinds of homes. Some live under the sea. Others live high in the trees. Can you match each animal to its home?

The Little Helpers are doing all they can to look after the environment in their part of the world, and those living in it. The audio collection comprises all eight stories in the series so that children can listen along in school, at home or even at bedtime.

While school books help build knowledge in children, it is the story books that help enrich their moral behaviour and expand their horizons. In this book, you will come across many interesting characters in the form of sixteen short stories that will make you admire and learn from them.

A little goldfish dreams of leaving the crowded pet store fish tank and living in an aquarium of its own.

Caitlin and her father, an architect, plan and build a house for Lulu the dog. This audiobook includes suggestions for drawing a floor plan and making a model house.

Tomas is excited when he sees a poster for a bike race. But he doesn't have a bike! Luckily, he meets Miles, who has an old rusty bike that they can fix up. The boys become friends, but why won't Miles tell Tomas where he lives or invite him over? How are Miles and Tomas supposed to be a team when one of them is keeping secrets?

Pup doesn't want to live in a prairie dog hole anymore. It's deep and dark. Will a hungry, screeching hawk change his mind?

A book simple enough for a child to understand their journey through foster care and a beautiful story for a foster and/or adoptive parent to play for their child.

Traveling to be reunited with her family in the arctic, 10-year-old Margaret Pokiak can hardly contain her excitement. It’s been two years since her parents delivered her to the school run by the dark-cloaked nuns and brothers. Coming ashore, Margaret spots her family, but her mother barely recognizes her, screaming, “Not my girl”. Margaret realizes she is now marked as an outsider. And Margaret is an outsider: She has forgotten the language and stories of her people, and she can’t even stomach the food her mother prepares.

Just like humans, animals use their homes for shelter and to raise their young. Animal homes might be easy to see, or they may be hidden (camouflaged) for protection. Some animals are great builders, and other animals borrow homes that other animals have made. Different animals might just use natural places like caves or holes in trees to make a home. And some animals might even carry their home on their back! Sticks, mud, leaves, cotton, and grass are all things that animals might use to build a home.

On reunion morning, we rise before the sun. Daddy hums as he packs our car with suitcases and a cooler full of snacks. He says there’s nothing like going down home. Down home is Granny’s house. Down home is where Lil’ Alan and his parents and sister will join great-grandparents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. Down home is where Lil’ Alan will hear stories of the ancestors and visit the land that has meant so much to all of them.

Uncle Wiggily Longears is the main character and beloved icon of a series of children's stories by American author Howard R. Garis. He began writing the stories for the Newark News in 1910. Garis penned an Uncle Wiggily tale every day for more than 52 years, and published some 79 books in his lifetime. Along the road on his many joyous and exciting episodic adventures Uncle Wiggily has run into several very questionable characters including: the Woozy Wolf, Bushy Bear, Skillery Skallery Alligator, and the fierce Bobcat.

The Magic Home is a story for those who believe in magic to turn fear into bravery and let fantasies run wild! This is a tale of a little boy that lives with his family, plays happily in the courtyard with his brother, sister, a brown dog, and a fluffy white rabbit, and cannot wait to start school. Suddenly he has to leave for an unpredictable journey....