Bill Thompson
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
From the editor of the nation's premier birding magazine, a no-nonsense, no-fluff quick guide to the birds you see every day.
Of all the classic American pastimes, perhaps none is as widely accessible as watching birds. Our unusually vast, diverse environmental landscape supports fascinating species and variations exclusive to each region of the country. But while birders often spend their efforts in search of the rarest creatures, some
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Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xiii, 203 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Two of the best-known names in birding--Peterson and Bird Watcher's Digest--team up to provide reliable, expert advice on how to attract the birds you want into your yard. Which birds use nest boxes? What's required to maintain a birdhouse? What kind of habitat will attract which birds? What does it take to be a bluebird trail operator? What does it mean if baby birds or eggs disappear from their nest? Bill Thompson III answers all of these questions...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
160 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the editor of the nation's premier birding magazine, a no-nonsense, no-fluff quick guide to the birds you see every day. Of all the classic American pastimes, perhaps none is as widely accessible as watching birds. Our unusually vast, diverse environmental landscape supports fascinating species and variations exclusive to each region of the country. But while birders often spend their efforts in search of the rarest creatures, some of the most...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
364 pages : color illustrations, maps (some color) ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a field guide to the most common birds found in the United States and Canada, with information on physical features, coloring, bird songs, distinguishing marks, and locations where the species can usually be seen.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
x, 246 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In an easygoing and lighthearted style, the longtime editor of "Bird Watchers' Digest" covers all the elements needed to attract birds to a backyard (food, water, shelter) and addresses special cases and problems (keeping bees out of the hummingbird feeder, preventing birds from flying into windows, and much more). The auithor also profiles the 130 species that are most common at backyard feeders.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
xv, 288 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Hummingbirds and butterflies are some of the most beautiful visitors to a backyard, but they can also be some of the most elusive. This second collaboration between the Peterson Field Guide series and Bird Watchers Digest includes tips on how to attract hummingbirds and butterflies to backyards and how to identify them once they have arrived. Bill Thompson III and Connie Toops have decades of firsthand experience and have written the book in a fun,...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lady, a beautiful cocker spaniel, lives a proper and pampered life with her owners, Jim Dear and Darling. Then she stumbles across Tramp, a sweet-talking rough-and-tumble mutt from "the wrong side of the tracks". Tramp likes to have fun. He's foot-loose and fancy-free. And, as Lady discovers, he's nothing but trouble! But Tramp proves he's more than just a junkyard Romeo when he risks his life to save Jim Dear and Darling's baby ... and wins Lady's...
12) Peter Pan
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fantastic adventures await Wendy Darling and her brothers when Peter Pan whisks them away to the magical world of Never Land. After following Peter and his feisty sidekick Tinker Bell, they explore the island and Peter's secret hideout with the Lost Boys and leap into high-flying battles with swashbuckling pirates and the infamous Captain Hook.
13) Sleeping beauty
Language
English
Formats
Description
Princess Aurora is born to King Stefan & his wife. At a ceremony for her, fairies - Flora, Fauna and Merryweather - bestow gifts of magic on the child. But the evil sorceress, Maleficent, shows up and places a curse on the princess - where Aurora will die on her 16th birthday after touching a poisoned spinning wheel. Merryweather tries to undo the damage by casting a spell that will allow princess Aurora to awake from an ageless sleep with a kiss...
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (47 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Join Tom the Cat and Jerry the Mouse for the thrill of the chase with a few winter chills tossed in. Skate through the classic battle of wits in these seven classics filled with purrfect winter fun.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 75 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Alice is a bored schoolgirl who yearns for a more exciting life. Things get "curiouser and curiouser" after she follows the frantic White Rabbit down the rabbit hole and has a series of surreal misadventures in the madcap world of Wonderland, where "nothing's impossible." In Wonderland, Alice meets extraordinary characters such as Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the Queen of Hearts and the Cheshire Cat.
17) Peter Pan
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story begins when the hero of Wendy, John and Michael's bedtime stories--Peter Pan, the boy who refuses to grow up--returns to the nursery and invites them on a magical journey to Never Land. With the help of Tinker Bell, his feisty sidekick, a dazzling shower of pixie dust and some happy thoughts, Peter teaches them to fly. Off they soar to an enchanted island filled with wonder and adventure. Before they know it, they're knee-deep in a high-flying...
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 172 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sleeping Beauty: the evil and jealous fairy Maleficent casts a curse on the kingdom's beloved Princess Aurora. Hoping to save the princess, three Good Fairies, Merryweather, Flora and Fauna, spirit her off to the forest where they raise her as their own daughter. But it isn't enough, for, on her sixteenth birthday, Aurora pricks her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and falls into a deep, enchanted sleep just as Maleficent had intended.
Maleficent...