Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Toads
    Toads
    Toads
    Ebook20 pages4 minutes

    Toads

    By Kari Schuetz

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Toads are masters of self-defense. When they face predators, they have several survival strategies. They can ooze poison, puff up their bodies, or play dead! This book introduces young readers to toads—creatures with warty skin, long, sticky tongues, and a unique life cycle.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBellwether Media
    Release dateJan 1, 2012
    ISBN9781612115764
    Toads

    Read more from Kari Schuetz

    Related to Toads

    Related ebooks

    Children's Animals For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Ideas To Help Polish Your Writing

      Aug 3, 2023

      For many people, ‘Give me a vowel’ will bring up an instant reference to the TV programme Countdown. In the context of the game show, vowels and consonants were linked to letters of the alphabet, with A-E-I-O-U being vowels and the other 21 letters c

      3 min read

    • Article

      Listening for Extraterrestrial Blah Blah: At the cosmic dinner party, intelligence is the loudest thing in the room.

      Dec 15, 2016

      If one is looking for signals from an extraterrestrial civilization, why not practice on some of the non-human communication systems already known on our own planet? Whales have had a global communication system for millions of years—longer than Homo

      8 min read

    • Article

      Stories Worth Telling

      Oct 31, 2023

      Stories Worth Telling
      5 min read

    • Article

      The Youngest Code-Makers: We learn as kids that knowledge is power—secret knowledge even more so.

      Oct 31, 2013

      Kids love secrets. There’s something deeply exciting about trying to keep information from others—especially adults—whether it’s with a code from a cereal box or one invented by a group of friends. We asked our readers whether they had used any codes

      3 min read

    • Article

      A Visit To The Villanelle

      Mar 3, 2022

      Ask a group of writers to name the most popular traditional style of poetry, and you will find the sonnet high on the list. Ask a group of poets the same, and there will be more than a few who suggest the villanelle, the form required for our next co

      3 min read

    • Article

      The Final Word

      Mar 13, 2020

      It seems strange to be writing an article extolling the virtues of preparatory reading in a magazine devoted to opera. Indeed, readers engage with Opera Canada to learn about singers, productions, recordings, and other aspects of the art form. Yet le

      2 min read

    • Article

      Is the Chinese Language a Superstition Machine?: How ambiguity in language can create unique taboos.

      Jan 5, 2017

      Every year, more than a billion people around the world celebrate Chinese New Year and engage in a subtle linguistic dance with luck. You can think of it as a set of holiday rituals that resemble a courtship. To lure good fortune into their lives, th

      9 min read

    • Article

      Yachtmaster In Obfuscation

      Sep 6, 2019

      Yachtmaster In Obfuscation
      3 min read

    • Article

      Is the Chinese Language a Superstition Machine?

      Apr 12, 2018

      Every year, more than a billion people around the world celebrate Chinese New Year and engage in a subtle linguistic dance with luck. You can think of it as a set of holiday rituals that resemble a courtship. To lure good fortune into their lives, th

      9 min read

    • Article

      Talking Heads

      Jul 2, 2020

      A weakness of novice writers – and also pot-boiler novelists with million-dollar publishing deals – is to use dialogue to divulge information. This is sometimes referred to as being expositional or explicatory. It is when characters tell the reader w

      9 min read

    • Article

      How to, Like, Speak Better

      May 2, 2023

      How to, Like, Speak Better
      8 min read

    • Article

      Haunting Words

      Oct 6, 2022

      Haunting Words
      6 min read

    • Article

      Cursive Handwriting and Other Education Myths: Teaching cursive handwriting doesn’t have nearly the value we think it does.

      Sep 8, 2016

      A recent newcomer at one of the home-education groups my family attends explained that one of the frustrations that led her to take her son out of the school system was that he wasn’t being allowed to write stories. It’s something he loves to do, and

      12 min read

    • Article

      In This Issue…

      Sep 20, 2022

      When I was nine, my schoolteacher had all the children in my class put together presentations on their “passions”. Over the next few weeks, I meticulously researched the thing that excited me most in the world: killer whales. For some reason, my chil

      1 min read

    • Article

      Dawn Neesom Mind Of My Own

      Mar 5, 2024

      I was this old when I realised that the famous lion in the logo on tins of Lyle’s Golden Syrup was dead! I mean, seriously, is this just me? My entire childhood of Nan and Grandad putting syrup on pretty much everything is based on a fantasy. In my

      3 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Toads

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Toads - Kari Schuetz

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1