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The Stits DS-1 Baby Bird is a homebuilt aircraft built to achieve a "world's smallest" status. The Baby Bird is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the “Smallest Airplane in the World.” as of 1984. The title was later defined as "world's smallest monoplane" to acknowledge Robert H. Starr's Bumble Bee II as the world's smallest biplane. [1]
The Little White Bird is a novel by the Scottish writer J. M. Barrie, ranging in tone from fantasy and whimsy to social comedy with dark, aggressive undertones. [3] It was published in November 1902, by Hodder & Stoughton in the UK and Scribner's in the US (and the latter also published it serially in the monthly Scribner's Magazine from August to November). [1]
Skellig is a children's novel by the British author David Almond, published by Hodder in 1998.It was the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year and it won the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's outstanding children's book by a British author. [3]
Flight is a 2007 novel written by Sherman Alexie. It is written in the first-person , from the viewpoint of a Native American teenager who calls himself Zits. Zits is a foster child, having spent the majority of his life moving from one negative or abusive family experience to another.
The book is a collection of thirteen short stories. The sexual topics covered are quite varied, ranging from pedophilia to lesbianism, but linked by an interest in female subjectivity [3] and in the dialectic of discourse and intercourse. [4] Many of the same characters that appear in Delta of Venus, her first published book of erotica ...
The Summer Birds is a children's novel by British writer Penelope Farmer, published in 1962 by Chatto & Windus, and receiving a Carnegie Medal commendation.. It is the first of three books featuring the Makepeace sisters, Charlotte and Emma, [1] These three books are sometimes known as the Aviary Hall books.
Birders often use “spark bird” to denote the first one that ignited their passion for birds. Mine’s a no-brainer: a wood thrush in Harriet’s forest. My late mom had a woodland.
The Horn Book Magazine noted that the age of the book's intended audience was unclear but that it should still be read. [1] The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books called it an "excellent selection for early chapter book readers". [2] The International Reader's Association put it on its 1994 list of books good for teaching. [3]