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Make Way for Ducklings is an American children's picture book written and illustrated by Robert McCloskey.First published in 1941 by the Viking Press, the book centers on a pair of mallards who raise their brood of ducklings on an island in the lagoon in the Boston Public Garden.
Although a French national, Cousteau wrote the book in English. [2] Cousteau and Émile Gagnan designed, built, and tested the first "aqua-lung" in the summer of 1943, off the southern coast of France. In the opening chapters, Cousteau recounts the earliest days of scuba diving with his diving companions Frédéric Dumas and Philippe Tailliez ...
An illustration from a 1902 printing of Moby-Dick, one of the renowned American sea novels. Nautical fiction, frequently also naval fiction, sea fiction, naval adventure fiction or maritime fiction, is a genre of literature with a setting on or near the sea, that focuses on the human relationship to the sea and sea voyages and highlights nautical culture in these environments.
A sea turtle who is 150 years old in the film. He has a son named Squirt. Gamera: Daiei Motion Picture Company: A giant, flying, fire-breathing turtle. Giant sea turtle The Bermuda Depths: A supernatural sea monster. Grand Master Oogway Kung Fu Panda: An aged giant tortoise, who was the kung fu master of Shifu. Granny Pearl Pajanimals: Howard ...
a fictional creature native to the northern regions of North America. Ikaroa: Māori Mythology: A long fish said to have given birth to all the stars in the Milky Way or to be the Mother Goddess of all the stars. Jasconius: An enormous fish in the story of Saint Brendan: Leviathan: A biblical sea creature from Talmud. Namazu: Catfish: Japanese ...
Mice of the Herring Bone, Mice of the Nine Lives, Mice of the Seven Seas, Mice of the Westing Wind - Book 1, Mice of the Westing Wind - Book 2: With his friend, Oliver, Charles joins a feline navy ship to save Her Majesty's treasure from a band of sea dogs. Christopher William Wise: Christopher Mouse: The Tale of a Small Traveler
Animalia is an alliterative alphabet book and contains twenty-six illustrations, one for each letter of the alphabet. Each illustration features an animal from the animal kingdom (A is for alligator and armadillo, B is for butterfly, C is for cat, etc.) along with a short poem utilizing the letter of the page for many of the words.
In the Imperial China of the Qing dynasty, there are five brothers who "all looked exactly alike."They each possess a special talent: the first brother can swallow the sea, the second has an unbreakable iron neck, the third can stretch his legs to incredible lengths, the fourth is immune to burning, and the fifth can hold his breath forever.