Literary Chickens
Title | Literary Chickens PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018-10-23 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0789213095 |
From the best-selling photographer of Ancient Trees, an arresting collection of black-and-white chicken portraits paired with quotations from classic literature Fierce, funny, and flamboyant, fifty-two heritage-breed chickens assess the camera with a keen gaze. By focusing on the faces of her avian subjects, Beth Moon reveals them to us not just as beautiful and exotic creatures, but as individuals in their own right. Moon’s intimate portraits capture a startling range of emotions and personalities, underscored by excerpts from literature. A martial Spanish White Face is flanked by a passage from Beowulf; a fantastical Buff-Laced Polish, by a line from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; and a refined Blue Polish, by a character sketch from Swann’s Way. An essay by chicken keeper and best-selling author Melissa Caughey and cultural critic Collier Brown sheds additional light on this fresh and remarkable body of work, which will appeal to animal lovers and literature buffs alike.
Barn 8
Title | Barn 8 PDF eBook |
Author | Deb Olin Unferth |
Publisher | Graywolf Press |
Pages | 263 |
Release | 2020-03-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 164445114X |
An unforgettably exuberant and potent novel by a writer at the height of her powers Two auditors for the U.S. egg industry go rogue and conceive a plot to steal a million chickens in the middle of the night—an entire egg farm’s worth of animals. Janey and Cleveland—a spirited former runaway and the officious head of audits—assemble a precarious, quarrelsome team and descend on the farm on a dark spring evening. A series of catastrophes ensues. Deb Olin Unferth’s wildly inventive novel is a heist story of a very unusual sort. Swirling with a rich array of voices, Barn 8 takes readers into the minds of these renegades: a farmer’s daughter, a former director of undercover investigations, hundreds of activists, a forest ranger who suddenly comes upon forty thousand hens, and a security guard who is left on an empty farm for years. There are glimpses twenty thousand years into the future to see what chickens might evolve into on our contaminated planet. We hear what hens think happens when they die. In the end the cracked hearts of these indelible characters, their earnest efforts to heal themselves, and their radical actions will lead them to ruin or revelation. Funny, whimsical, philosophical, and heartbreaking, Barn 8 ultimately asks: What constitutes meaningful action in a world so in need of change? Unferth comes at this question with striking ingenuity, razor-sharp wit, and ferocious passion. Barn 8 is a rare comic-political drama, a tour de force for our time.
Sonya's Chickens
Title | Sonya's Chickens PDF eBook |
Author | Phoebe Wahl |
Publisher | Tundra Books |
Pages | 34 |
Release | 2015-08-11 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1770497897 |
Sonya raises her three chickens from the time they are tiny chicks. She feeds them, shelters them and loves them. Everywhere Sonya goes, her chicks are peeping at her heels. Under her care, the chicks grow into hens and even give Sonya a wonderful gift: an egg! One night, Sonya hears noises coming from the chicken coop and discovers that one of her hens has disappeared. Where did the hen go? What happened to her? When Sonya discovers the answers, she learns some important truths about the interconnectedness of nature and the true joys and sorrows of caring for another creature.
The Long Night of White Chickens
Title | The Long Night of White Chickens PDF eBook |
Author | Francisco Goldman |
Publisher | Grove Press |
Pages | 622 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0802144608 |
It is the story of Roger Graetz, raised in a Boston suburb by an aristocratic Guatemalan mother, and his relationship with Flor de Mayo, the beautiful young guatemalan orphn sent by his grandmother to live with family as a maid.
Little Chicken's Big Day
Title | Little Chicken's Big Day PDF eBook |
Author | Jerry Davis |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 42 |
Release | 2011-04-19 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1442414014 |
Little Chicken is tired of being told what to do by Big Chicken, but when they become separated he misses all of the clucking.
Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks
Title | Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks PDF eBook |
Author | Gail Damerow |
Publisher | Storey Publishing |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2013-01-15 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 1612120148 |
Gail Damerow shows you how to incubate, hatch, and brood baby chickens, ducklings, goslings, turkey poults, and guinea keets. With advice on everything from selecting a breed and choosing the best incubator to feeding and caring for newborn chicks in a brooder, this comprehensive guide also covers issues like embryo development, panting chicks, and a variety of common birth defects. Whether you want to hatch three eggs or one hundred, you’ll find all the information you need to make your poultry-raising operation a success.
Funky Chickens
Title | Funky Chickens PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin Zephaniah |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 98 |
Release | 2018-10-04 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0241383889 |
Enter the crazy world of rap poet Benjamin Zephaniah! A reissue of the wonderfully irreverent collection of poetry for young people, touching on anything from vegetables to the Queen and from sewage to the sun. There's plenty of humour as well as poems on racism, pollution and the murder of a cat.