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100 Birds and How They Got Their Names

📁 100 Birds and How They Got Their Names

✍ Diana Wells, Lauren Jarrett 📂 Library 📅 2001 🏛 Algonquin Books 🌐 English

<DIV> How did cranes come to symbolize matrimonial happiness? Why were magpies the only creatures that would not go inside Noah's Ark? Birds and bird imagery are integral parts of our language and culture. With her remarkable ability to dig up curious and captivating facts, Diana Wells hatches a tre

100 Birds and How They Got Their Names

📁 100 Birds and How They Got Their Names

✍ Diana Wells 📂 Library 📅 2002 🏛 Algonquin Books 🌐 English

100 Birds and How They Got Their Names

📁 100 Birds and How They Got Their Names

✍ Diana Wells 📂 Library 📅 2002 🏛 Algonquin Books 🌐 English

100 Flowers and How They Got Their Names

📁 100 Flowers and How They Got Their Names

✍ Diana Wells 📂 Library 📅 1996 🏛 Algonquin Books 🌐 English

<p>Illustrations by Ippy Patterson. From Baby Blue Eyes to Silver Bells, from Abelia to Zinnia, every flower tells a story. Gardening writer Diana Wells knows them all. Here she presents one hundred well-known garden favorites and the not-so-well-known stories behind their names. Not for gardeners o

100 flowers and how they got their names

📁 100 flowers and how they got their names

✍ Wells, Diana 📂 Library 📅 2014 🏛 Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 🌐 English

<p>Illustrations by Ippy Patterson. From Baby Blue Eyes to Silver Bells, from Abelia to Zinnia, every flower tells a story. Gardening writer Diana Wells knows them all. Here she presents one hundred well-known garden favorites and the not-so-well-known stories behind their names. Not for gardeners o

📁 100 birds and how they got their names

✍ Wells, Diana, 1940- 📂 Library 📅 2002 🏛 Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 🌐 English

xix, 297 p. : 19 cm