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Carnosaur (1984) is a horror novel written by Australian author John Brosnan, under the pseudonym of Harry Adam Knight.A film adaptation was made in 1993 by Adam Simon.. The novel bears several similarities to Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park, though Carnosaur preceded the latter work by six years.
In a jungle of Africa, a mother fruit bat has a new baby, and names her Stellaluna. One night, an owl attacks the bats, knocking Stellaluna out of her mother's embrace, and she falls into the forest below. Soon the baby bat ends up in a sparrow's nest filled with three baby birds named Pip, Flitter and Flap.
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The baby bird hatches while the mother is away. The hatchling does not understand where his mother is so he goes to look for her. While he cannot yet fly, he walks, and in his search, he asks a kitten (who did not hear a word the baby bird said because he says nothing), a hen, a dog, and a cow if they are his mother, but none of them are.
"The Widow and the Parrot" is a children's story by Virginia Woolf composed in 1922 or 1923 for a family newspaper. [1] The story follows Mrs. Gage, an elderly widow, as she goes to collect an inheritance left to her by her miserly brother, Mr. Joseph Brand. In addition to a small cottage and £3,000, Mrs. Gage also inherits a parrot named ...
“A lot of your memories when you read a book are because you’re sitting next to someone or you’re sitting in their lap,” she said. “There’s a kind of coziness to it, too.” ...
African Grey and Amazon parrots are considered among the best talking parrots. Younger parrots have an easier time with speech training , A baby parrot will carefully listen to the sounds in its ...
The boys soon discover that his parrot was one of a group of seven, trained by their former owner to each repeat a specific message. The focus of the investigation shifts from finding the single lost parrot to discovering the secret behind these cryptic messages. The boys aren't the only ones who want to hear the dead man's secret.