The Thunderstruck Stork - Couverture rigide

Olson, David J.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0807579106 ISBN 13 : 9780807579107

Editeur : Albert Whitman & Company, 2007

Synopsis

Webster the stork is proud of his work delivering animal babies. But when he crashes into a hot-air balloon, something goes wrong. Soon the bats get a moose and two tiny frog parents receive an enormous newborn elephant!

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The Thunderstruck Stork

By David J. Olson, Lynn Munsinger

ALBERT WHITMAN & Company

Copyright © 2007 David J. Olson
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-0-8075-7910-7

CHAPTER 1

All the new babies west of New York were delivered by Webster, the white-feathered stork. Webster had never, not ever gone wrong—until the strange eve of May first came along.

Webster was soaring up high by the moon when out of the clouds came a hot-air balloon. The stork squawked aloud and tried to fall back, but the two flying objects hit hard with a SMACK! And Webster's stunned brain got knocked out of whack.

The following Sunday, seven days later, deep in the Swamp of the Giggling Gator, two anxious frogs sat waiting around for their newly born baby to float to the ground.

The parents-to-be turned their eyes to the sky, watching for Webster the stork to fly by.

The bird dropped a package all bundled in white, attached to a parachute slowing its flight.

They quickly unfastened the small safety pin, and gaped at the odd-looking baby within. The kid was enormous—gigantic and tall. His body was bulky, not small, not at all.

His ears were as big as a ship's flapping sails, and his skin was as gray as rain clouds and nails. And his nose, I believe it's important to note, hung down past his lips and his chin and his throat!

The two Ribberts gasped, and their eyeballs bulged out. Dad said, "He's somewhat peculiar, no doubt. He's not like the rest of the frogs that we know, but Honey, he's ours, and we'll cherish him so."

Meanwhile, high in the trees of Old Twig, a family of sparrows received a young pig. "Good-bye!" Webster cried to the pleased mother bird, but the sparrows soon questioned the oinks that they heard.

The sharks in Blue Bay were deeply love-stricken when Webster delivered a chirping new chicken.

(Continues...)

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Albert Whitman & Company
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0807579106
• ISBN 13: 9780807579107
• Reliure: Relié
• Illustrateur: Munsinger Lynn
• Nombre de pages: 30
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible