Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} The Night Creepers by James Tingle The Night Creepers: by James Tingle. Tudley, a pond-living painted turtle, adopts other animals’ behaviors—simply because he doesn’t know he can’t! He flies like a bird, sings like a katydid, hops like a frog, and glows like a . All the while, he uses his special behaviors to help other animals. But will Tudley’s new friends help him when he needs help? The “For Creative Minds" education section includes fun facts about painted turtles, rubythroated hummingbirds, fireflies, leopard frogs, and true katydids. It also contains a “Make a Hopping Tudley" craft, a recipe for hummingbird sugar water, a “Creative Sparks" section, and a “Food for Thought" section. This fictional story includes a 3-page For Creative Minds section in the back of the book and a 27-page cross-curricular Teaching Activity Guide online. Tudley Did’'t Know is vetted by experts and designed to encourage parental engagement. Its extensive back matter helps teachers with time-saving lesson ideas, provides extensions for science, math, and social studies units, and uses inquiry-based learning to help build critical thinking skills in young readers. The Spanish translation supports ELL and dual-language programs. The interactive ebook reads aloud in both English and Spanish with word highlighting and audio speed control to promote oral language skills, fluency, pronunciation, text engagement, and reading comprehension. Written by John Himmelman, Illustrated by John Himmelman 32 pg, 10 x 8.5, Ages 4-8, Grades PK-3, Lexile: AD 520, AR: 2.8, F&P: L. Reviews: Tudley is full of exuberance and joy at helping his friends, and the look on the faces of the older turtles when he flies above them is priceless. The book also includes information about the animals mentioned and activities related to the story. - School Library Journal. This is a great book to read to children as we ask them to not consider their limitations, but their possibilities?. The illustrations are detailed and adorable, and readers will love Tudley. - Library Media Connection. Tudley, a painted turtle, adopts other animals' behaviors simply because he doesn't know he can't. He flies like a bird, sings like a katydid, and makes his tail glow like a firefly. He uses his special behaviors to help other, and when the need arises, they return the favor. This book opens the door to a discussion about animal behaviors and adaptations. - Learning Magazine. Author/Illustrator Info: John Himmelman (Tudley Didn't Know) has written and/or illustrated over 60 children's books since 1981. His award-winning book "Pipaluk and the Whales" (published by National Geographic) is based on the true story of how far people will go to save their wild neighbors. John's series of 13 different books (published by Children's Press, a division of Scholastic) includes such titles as: A Monarch Butterfly's Life, A Pillbug's Life, A Luna Moth's Life , and A Woodfrog's, Life . He based his Animal Rescue Club (Harper Collins) beginning reader book on a group of real children who rescued orphaned and injured wildlife. John's first book for adults, Discovering Moths , was recently published by Downeast Books. Most of John's book stem from his obvious passion for animals and nature. When John isn't busy writing or illustrating his books, he is involved with the CT Butterfly Association; the Killingworth Land Conservation Trust leads nature walks and gives natural history lectures throughout the country. He works with schools by offering special science observation programs, and teaches courses on children's book writing. 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The man is very tall, about 6’5 and skinny as a rail. I call him Beanpole. He talks to himself while walking past and ALWAYS seems to stare into my front window as he passes. He gives me the creeps but when I encounter him I make like a big mouse and roar at him so he doesn’t know he unnerves me sometimes. Dominatrix, I like to think. The dog is crazy. It’s actually a pretty pup, a black and white Australian shepherd type of dog that chases things. This dog chases cars, but in a really mean sort of way. I mean, like this morning, I’m backing out of my garage and there they are ready to cross behind me on the sidewalk. I pull out into the street and begin to go from reverse to forward when this manic dog on a very long leash comes lunging at me from the curb. The dude maintains his grip on the leash by why the hell does he have to let the dog lunge forward like that? I don’t know; bad manners to say the least. But I snarl back at the dog and hit the gas watching the damn dog in my rearview mirror trying to run behind me with the Beanpole holding on for dear life. So I’m sitting here at my desk, you know the one, in my guestroom looking out my front window. The gardeners are here today chasing bougainvillea blossoms with the leaf blower and making sure everything is tidy as they sweat up a storm in today’s 100 degree afternoon. Time to grab a couple Gatorade’s and go say hello. So I’m settled back down at my desk and who walks by but the Beanpole. Did he stop? Sorta. Is he looking at my house? Yup. Besides the fact he’s a bit off, I know the reason he stands and looks at my house. A month or so ago I caught him way up in my yard letting the crazy dog do his business as he stood there and watched. I happened to see this in progress and so without hesitation I went outside to “greet” him. (I had been warned by another neighbor that this was a common occurrence, and learned the Beanpole had been warned by the Association powers-that-be to cease and desist.) I still had some gunslinger mojo in me so I raised holy hell with him and off he went, dragging his snarling piece of shit dog. Today, however, he just stood there - looking for a moment - half expecting me to come outside again. Upon seeing him looking in my window from the sidewalk I had a from the past and my mind jumped back several years to the last time the Viking and I were in Hopetown, Abaco, Bahamas. We always rented the same house on the beach, but this time it was unavailable so we took a house closer into the village. If Hopetown had “neighborhoods” this would be it. All the houses, painted pastel rainbow colors, were neatly lined up along the Queen’s Highway, some on large parcels but most on small. Yards were fairly non-existent save the few who had a scratchy lawn of St. Augustine grass and a few native flowering buses. There were plentiful hibiscus bushes all over and the colors reminded me of my own yard full of pinks, whites and yellows. There is something peaceful about a ramshackle garden surrounding an old Bahamian cottage built well before the 1940’s. The rental house we were in for our four weeks of heaven was newly renovated but still had the look of a charming cottage. Two stories with an upper deck overlooking the harbor, the main living area was on the upper floor with the two bedrooms side-by-side on the ground floor separated by a large shared bathroom. Being on a smaller lot there was a narrow pathway with neglected bushes alongside the house where the bedroom windows faced the neighboring house. Nice shade trees filled in the area which kept the rooms cool. We had guests with us that trip – the Viking’s adult son and his girlfriend. We thoroughly enjoyed their company at home and thought it a good idea to share with them our spot of paradise as they were like minded when it came to sun, sand, ocean and rum. By the end of the first night we could tell they were as smitten with the place as we were on our first trip. It was going to be a fun time. We settled into our bedrooms late the first night and soon snoring was rocking the house brought on by a very long day of travel followed by a number of cold libations at Cap’n Jack’s bar on the harbor. Personally, having been that route before, I knew enough to respect the fact I was dehydrated from long hours in the air and kept my imbibing to a minimum. I hated cooking breakfast with a hangover and hadn’t done so for years – and was not going to start now either! Soon the house quieted and the only sounds besides the trees rustling in the breeze and the faint sound of crashing waves was the raucous snoring coming from the other side of the bed, and also from the bedroom down the hallway. Like Father, like Son! It was a comfortable night, somewhat humid, but nice enough to turn off the AC and let the breeze flow through the open windows covered by thin, lacy white curtains. I lay in bed watching the curtains bend back and forth in the breeze. I noted it was pretty dark outside as the moon was on the wane with no real ambient light sneaking in the room. Now close to midnight, I felt myself relax and doze off a bit when I was startled awake by a noise not unlike a branch snapping. I tensed and lay there listening intently to try and recognize the sound I had heard. Being the first time in this rental house I knew what I was hearing was just unfamiliar sounds in an unfamiliar setting, yet I had a discomforting feeling as I tried to go back to sleep. The next morning I made mention at breakfast of being woken by the sound and commented that I hoped it wouldn’t be a regular occurrence. We went on to plan our day which would start shortly by a visit to Dave’s Boat Rentals down at the harbor, a mere 75 yards away. We had met up with our now friend Dave the night before at Cap’n Jack’s. Our friend the boat rental guy and Chief of Police was happy to see us as he knew we had brought with us a supply of frozen Delmonico steaks which was his annual request. Boat rental secured and a picnic lunch packed, we headed out into the Sea of Abaco toward Tilloo Cut in search of a nice beach for our picnic lunch. We spent the day in the hot sun and came home ready for fresh grouper and some gin and tonics. It would be a fun evening and again when time for bed everyone was dog-tired and ready to sleep. Rested and relaxed from a lovely day, the Viking and I were enjoying one another’s company in the bedroom after lights out when I heard the familiar snap of a branch. I “shushed” the Viking in the middle of an inopportune moment and said, “listen, there’s someone out there”! As we lay still trying to peer through the lace curtains we unmistakably saw the shadow of a person standing at our window. The Viking jumped up and ran at the window yelling and then went out the front door in all his glory to try and catch the perp but it was too late. He had fled. After several minutes of swearing and explaining to our guests what all the commotion was about we all went back to bed. Before jumping in bed however I shut the windows just to make sure the breeze didn’t swing the curtains open just in case the perp decided to return later that night. The next morning the Viking and son went down to Dave’s Boat Rentals to make a report about the Peeping Tom to Dave the Chief of Police. They found Chief Dave knee deep in a boat cleaning a fish hold. The report was made with the utmost accuracy while Chief Dave listened intently. “Yep” he said, “that’s Peedy, the local peeping Tom. If I can find him I’ll have a word with him, but he’s harmless – actually the town quack and everybody knows he’s a “peeper”. We just don’t like the tourists to know.” Dave went on to say that if he was unable to locate Peedy before tonight there was a sure fire way to make sure it didn’t happen again, so he hatched a planned with the Viking and Son and the wheels were set in motion to trap Peedy should he return. Before sun set that evening the Viking and Son had gathered the necessary accoutrements to ensure the safety of their lovely damsels later that night. With twine, empty cans, a few bottles and many fish hooks at the ready, they set about building a snare across the path alongside the cottage where the bedroom windows were located. Seriously intent on capturing Peedy, the Viking used all his fishing skills to make an undetectable fishnet capable of snaring a 160 pound skinny Bahamian. We were all excited and lay in wait for the hook to be set. We shut the lights off at 11pm and lay in wait – everyone in their clothes but on their beds. A short time later we began to make sound effects such as one would hear during a nighttime romp and as Peedy had heard the night before. The windows were not only wide open but we had pulled the curtains aside as a double enticement for our midnight visitor. Not too long after the lights went out and we began our sound effects show I heard a branch snap in the not too distant yard. “He’s here” I whispered and we continued our noise making at a lower level – waiting. The next thing we knew the tins cans were rattling, bottles bashing against one another and a crashing noise into the bushes told us Peedy was caught! But before the Viking and Son could get out the front door of the cottage and around to the side, Peedy was off and running down the Queen’s Highway dragging bottles and cans behind him like a “Just Married” automobile driving the bride and groom away from the church. We all collapsed in laughter and took Chief Dave at his word knowing that Peedy would now never return to the scene of the crime. The next morning the Viking found Chief Dave enjoying a cuppa coffee at Cap’n Jack’s where he regularly enjoyed breakfast with some other locals. The Viking recounted the events from the night before and Dave reported that he had already counseled Peedy that morning as Peedy had reported early to the clinic to get patched up and have a few fish hooks removed. The locals gathered there had a good laugh and the Viking was thereafter always proud to report he had caught a 160 pound rare Bahamian Peeper Fish on his trip to the Bahamas. EPILOGUE: As for my own “peeper” I am really not worried. Besides the fact I know one cannot see into my front windows, my rear yard is well-secured. However, should anyone want to peep into my bedroom windows in the rear they would not be met with bottles, cans and fish hooks, but rather, a pointy, cylindrical projectile dispatched from my cold steel friend who sleeps cozily next to my silk covered pillow. The Night Creepers: by James Tingle. Unlimited books, magazines and comics wherever and whenever you are: directly in your browser on your PC or tablet . Over 10 million titles that have every genre imaginable at your fingertips & New titles added every day! All platforms. Fully Optimized. Access your titles anywhere on any device including PC, Tablet, Mobile, PS4, Xbox One, and Smart TVs. No Ads. 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