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Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When her teacher assigns a report about animals and all the popular animals get snatched up, Ellie McDoodle is stumped for a topic. Then a neighbor asks Ellie to pet-sit her African gray parrot and it seems her problem is solved. But when the parrot flies the coop-literally-Ellie has an even bigger problem. With help from a librarian, a zookeeper, and Ellie's own pet-obsessed family, the bird comes home-but will Ellie finish her report on time?
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Mia's abuela has left her sunny house with parrots and palm trees to live with Mia and her parents in the city. The night she arrives, Mia tries to share her favorite book with Abuela before they go to sleep and discovers that Abuela can't read the words inside. So while they cook, Mia helps Abuela learn English ("Dough. Masa"), and Mia learns some Spanish too, but it's still hard for Abuela to learn the words she needs to tell Mia all her stories....
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015
Language
Español
Description
La abuela de Mia viene a vivir con Mia y sus padres. Cuando Mia eomparte con ella su cuento favorito a la hora de dormir, descubre que la abuela no entiende inglés. Mia la ayuda con el inglés y a la vez ella aprende algunas palabras en español. Pero la abuela no conoce suficientes palabras en inglés para compartir las historias de familia con su nieta. Un dia, Mia ve un loro en una tienda de mascotas y descubre la manera de ayudar a su abuela....
Author
Series
Ruby Valentine volume 1
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
After Ruby Valentine misses her favorite holiday of the year, her parrot, Lovebird, convinces her that every day is the perfect day to say "I love you."
8) Terrific
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nothing seems to go right for Eugene, even when he wins a free trip to Bermuda, but while he is stranded on a tiny, deserted island after being shipwrecked, a broken-winged parrot tells him how to build a boat so that they can both be rescued.
10) Comparrotives
Author
Series
Publisher
Abrams Appleseed, and imprint of ABRAMS
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In this oversize board book, young readers will learn about comparative adjectives via a very humorous parrot--from noisy and noisier, to messy and messier, to happy and happier when it finally finds a friend. As with the previous books in the series, Comparrotives features surprising touch-and-feel novelty elements throughout--making the comparatives concept easy and fun to learn."--
Author
Publisher
Barefoot Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Español
Description
A cumulative rhyme in which a greedy parrot keeps taking fruit from the other creatures of the rainforest until his beak can hold no more.
Un codicioso loro toma fruta de las otras criaturas de la selva hasta que su pico no puede contener mas.
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the third and most exotic Pansy tale, the little chocolate poodle and Avery are summoned to Venice, Italy, to help find a very important parrot. The beautiful bird, Penelope, is the cherished companion of the finest glass-blower in the city--and if he doesn't get her back, he may never make another work of art. Traveling by speedboat, gondola and their own six feet, Pansy and Avery follow a mysterious trail or ruby-tipped feathers all the way...
14) Parakeet
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The week of her wedding, the bride is visited by a bird she recognizes as her dead grandmother because of the cornflower blue line beneath her eyes, her dubious expression, and the way she asks: What is the Internet? Her grandmother is a parakeet. She says not to get married. She says: Go and find your brother. In the days that follow, the bride's march to the altar becomes a wild and increasingly fragmented, unstable journey that bends toward the...
Author
Publisher
Libros Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Lalo the parrot encourages the animals in the Ecuadoran jungle--including the hungry snake Yoli and the aged parrot, Teteté, who knows only an Indian language--to put on an opera until he hears about an old woman who speaks an unknown tongue.
Author
Series
Ruby Valentine volume 3
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ruby's pets compete for her affection on Valentine's Day.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this high-interest novel for middle readers, Ava's life suddenly becomes very complicated when she inherits a troublesome African Grey Parrot."--
Ava works hard at maintaining a certain image online and at school. As far as anyone else knows, life is great. But when she inherits an African gray parrot from her great-uncle Bernie (whom she barely remembers), Ava's carefully crafted world starts to crumble. The parrot, Mervin, is loud and messy...
19) El lorito pelón
Author
Publisher
Lectorum Publications
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Español
Description
Missing the trees, sun, and other parrots of his homeland, Puerto Rico, a lonely parrot in a luxurious Chicago apartment expresses his sadness by plucking his colorful feathers.
"Esta es la historia de un lorito que, de la noche a la mañana, se ve arrancado de su bella isla del Caribe y termina en un edificio de lujo, pero triste y gris, de la ciudad de Chicago. Aunque con feliz final, este cuento nos habla no sólo de lo difícil que es adaptarse...
20) Big star Otto
Author
Series
Elephants never forget volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this conclusion to the Elephants Never Forget graphic novel trilogy, big-hearted hero Otto and his parrot pal Crackers have landed in Hollywood, the final stop in their journey across America in search of their good friend Georgie the chimpanzee. They've been hot on Georgie's trail since he was abducted from Africa by the sinister Man with the Wooden Nose, and now they're sure they've finally found his location. Reaching him is going to be tough,...
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