Peacocks Kill

When Matilda discovers a young mans corpse in her lounge in England, this is the start of an amazing adventure for Matilda and her niece Ella as they travel through Africa, being pursued by thieves who want them dead!

Tom Thumb Essays have been written for younger children who have just begun to do a bit of English Composition. The essays given in the book are descriptive, reflective and biographical. The language is simple and easy-to-understand.

A pet Peacock Pete is kept on a farm on the second ridge of the Sierra Mountains. He is very lonely and yearns for other birds like himself. One day, he jumps up and over the high barnyard fence that cages him and begins his journey to fulfill his loneliness. This story is about Pete’s courageous adventure and his struggle and survival with the other birds he meets along the way. It is mostly a true story about Peacock Pete...but truly a real story about the survival of birds in the wild. The book is both entertaining and educational for children and many facts about peacocks are brought to life. Included in the book are twenty-one known facts about this magnificent bird. This is a perfect bedtime or circle time story!

Breathtakingly beautiful and exotic, the peacock inspires devotion among both artists and bird lovers. Its iridescent plumage, when fully displayed, is a delight to behold. The bird itself, as Christine E. Jackson notes in Peacock, appears to enjoy its audience, preening and strutting about within a few feet of humans. It is not surprising, then, that these vain birds and their distinctive feathers have been the prized possessions of kings for nearly three thousand years. Jackson here explores the peacock’s beauty—and its apparent attitude—through fairy tales, fables, and superstitions in both Eastern and Western cultures. Peacock takes stock of the bird as it appears within art, from the earliest mosaics to medieval illuminated manuscripts to modern graphics, with a special emphasis on the peacock’s symbolic value in the nineteenth-century arts and crafts and art nouveau movements. Jackson further details the peacock’s colorful presence in hats, clothing, and even sports equipment. A sweeping combination of social and natural history, Peacock is the first book to bring together all the shimmering, colorful facets of these magnificent birds.

Until Flynn’s neighbor in North Carolina offered him one, he had never considered whether he wanted a peacock. His family became the owners of not one but three charming yet fickle birds: Carl, Ethel, and Mr. Pickle. Here he chronicles their first year as peacock owners, from struggling to build a pen to assisting the local bird doctor in surgery to triumphantly watching a peahen lay her first egg. He also examines the history of peacocks, from their appearance in the Garden of Eden. And Flynn travels across the globe to learn more about the birds firsthand. His book offers surprising lessons about love, grief, fatherhood, and family. -- adapted from jacket.

JOIN THE JEACs J Junior E Environmentalists A And C Conservationists in their first exhilarating adventure! The Patels Rohan, Anu, Gina and their cousin, Nimal live on a wildlife conservation in North India. Travelling home by train for the summer holidays, the children not only acquire a new addition to their family Hunter, the dog but also meet Peter, a young detective, who grew up on the Patiyak Wildlife Conservation with them. Peter has been assigned to their Conservation to deal with the problem of peacocks being killed for their feathers peacock feathers can be sold at exorbitant prices! Angry and upset, the youngsters assure Peter they will assist him, to the best of their ability, in saving the birds. While making plans to save the peacocks, the Patels decide to form a group called the Junior Environmentalists and Conservationists (the JEACs), and invite young people who want to protect animals and save the planet from further destruction to join up. Upon reaching home, the JEACs set off on their investigation to discover the crooks and bring them to justice. Website: http://www.jeacs.com

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