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Who knew that crows are second only to humans as toolmakers and tool users, that they have complex family lives not unlike our own, and that their vocalizations resemble human languages? This witty, charming book introduces readers to these endlessly fascinating creatures. Author Candace Savage explores their evolution and basic biology, diet and food-gathering practices, incredible tool-using capabilities, crow languages,” tricky social...
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2013
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1 videodisc (55 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Ravens are members of the crow family. They are found everywhere in the northern hemisphere and can adapt from deserts to mountains a feat requiring high intelligence. As scavengers, ravens know how and when to take advantage of other animals. In Yellowstone National Park, animals that don't survive the winters attract coyotes who rip open the hides, making the meat accessible to ravens. Ravens not only follow wolves, even flying ahead and leading...
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[2015]
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1 volume (unnumbered pages) : color illustrations ; 24 x 27 cm.
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"In a story set deep in the wild winter wood, two hungry ravens fly in search of their next meal. A pack of wolves is on the hunt, too. Food is scarce, but, if they team up, the ravens and wolves just might be able to help each other. The ravens follow a pack of starving wolves on the hunt. The wolves come up empty handed and even lose one of their own in the chase but the ravens have better luck. The wolves hear the ravens cawing and investigate...
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Gumluck the wizard volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
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Gumluck, a young, naíve wizard, does his best to help the local townspeople (and a small friendly ghost) with his sometimes critical raven sidekick, Helvetica.
7) Snow ravens
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2002
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
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A raven who enjoys watching children play in the snow attracts their amazed attention after he tries to make a snow angel himself.
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"For centuries, the Tower of London has been home to a group of famous avian residents: the ravens. Each year they are seen by millions of visitors, and they have become as integral a part of the Tower as its ancient stones. But their role is even more important than that--legend has it that if the ravens should ever leave, the Tower will crumble into dust, and great harm will befall the kingdom. One man is personally responsible for ensuring that...
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[2013]
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32 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 19 x 24 cm.
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In the time before animals were as they are today, Raven and Loon were both white. Their feathers had no colour at all. Raven spent his days swooping through the sky trying to fight off his incessant boredom, while loon spent her days in her iglu working away on her sewing. One day, too bored to even fly, Raven visited Loon and suggested a sewing game that would give their feathers some much-needed colour. The results--not at all what the two birds...
10) Old wolf
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"A wolf and bird must fight the starving time and find food, while a human boy learns to hunt"--
13) Raven and river
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c1997
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
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Raven and the other animals try to awaken the frozen river to the coming Alaskan springtime.
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[2020]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 19 x 25 cm
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"A young girl discovers nature's surprising beauty in this tale from a renowned Inuit storyteller. When Aggataa goes for a cold winter walk with her grandmother, she's surprised by a sudden CRAH! All the birds have flown south for the winter except one kind--the tulugarguat, the ravens. They're the ugliest birds that Aggaataa has ever seen. They look like they slept in their coats--coats that don't even fit! However, as the winter slowly moves towards...
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Gumluck the wizard volume 2
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Helvetica the raven lays three eggs, but when she returns to her nest Viridian the dragon has moved in -- so Gumluck devises a series of contests to determine who should have custody of the eggs.
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There is a legend that if the ravens at the Tower of London ever leave then Britain will fall, so when somebody steals the birds, the Queen calls for Mac B. to find the thief and retrieve them--a mission that takes him to Iceland, where he encounters secret submarines, hungry polar bears, and his arch-nemesis from the KGB.
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Coast Salish tales volume 3
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2024.
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"In this picture book featuring Coast Salish art and Traditional Storytelling techniques, a little deer tricks a greedy raven into sharing his food."--
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2013.
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38 pages : colour illustrations ; 22 x 32 cm
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In a time when darkness covered the land, a boy named Weget is born who is destined to bring the light. With the gift of a raven's skin that allows him to fly as well as transform, Weget turns into a bird and journeys from Haida Gwaii into the sky. There he finds the Chief of the Heavens who keeps the light in a box. By transforming himself into a pine needle, clever Weget tricks the Chief and escapes with the daylight back down to Earth.
20) Coyote tales
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Two tales, set in a time when animals and human beings still talked to each other, display Thomas King s cheeky humor and master storytelling skills. Freshly illustrated and reissued as an early chapter book, these stories are perfect for newly independent readers.
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