Pigeon English

Author: Stephen Kelman
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408815680
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
Eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku, the second best runner in Year 7, races through his new life in England with his personalised trainers - the Adidas stripes drawn on with marker pen - blissfully unaware of the very real threat around him. Newly-arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister Lydia, Harri absorbs the many strange elements of city life, from the bewildering array of Haribo sweets, to the frightening, fascinating gang of older boys from his school. But his life is changed forever when one of his friends is murdered. As the victim's nearly new football boots hang in tribute on railings behind fluorescent tape and a police appeal draws only silence, Harri decides to act, unwittingly endangering the fragile web his mother has spun around her family to keep them safe.

Pidgin Grammar

Author: Kent Sakoda
Publisher: Bess Press
ISBN: 9781573061698
Category : Creole dialects, English
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
Devoted to a serious description of Pidgin origins and grammar, this work on Pidgin grammar does not require knowledge of linguistics. This reference is useful for anyone wanting to know more about this unique language of the Hawaiian Islands.

Pidgin to Da Max

Author: Douglas Simonson
Publisher: Bess Press
ISBN: 9781573062503
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 218

Book Description
An alphabetical guide to words and phrases in Hawaiian Pidgin English, with comic strips illustrating usage.

It's a Busload of Pigeon Books! (NEW ISBN)

Author: Mo Willems
Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children
ISBN: 9781484725849
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
When Pigeon finds a delicious hot dog, he can't wait to devour it. But then along comes a sly duckling who wants a bite. Who will be the more clever bird?

Pigeon Post

Author: Arthur Ransome
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 1567926398
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 411

Book Description
Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series has stood the test of time. Ransome is not only a great storyteller, writing from first-hand experience, but each story celebrates eternally valuable qualities of practical knowledge, independence, and initiative. The twelve books are for children or grownups-anyone captivated by a world of sailing, adventure, and imagination. The crew's on holiday for their sixth adventure, and they turn their energies to mining for gold, aided by pigeon messengers Homer, Sophocles, and Sappho. The adventurers comb the nearby hills for a fabled lost claim, while being shadowed by a mysterious figure they dub "squashy hat." Undeterred by drought, sudden brushfires, and the continuing presence of Squashy Hat, the young prospectors persevere in their quest-with surprising results. Full of the dangers and dark adventures of old mines and forgotten claims, Pigeon Post has an irresistible appeal to the persistent explorer in all of us.

Gay-Neck

Author: Dhan Gopal Mukerji
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's books
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
Tells the story of Gay-Neck, a carrier pigeon raised and trained by an Indian boy in Calcutta. Gay-Neck flew messages for the Allies in France during World War I.

Da Jesus Book

Author: Joe Grimes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 762

Book Description
Da Good An Spesho Book is the full Bible in Hawaii Pidgin. It contains Da Befo Jesus Book (Old Testament) and Da Jesus Book (New Testament, revised).

Wringer

Author: Jerry Spinelli
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061757527
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 139

Book Description
Newbery Honor Book * ALA Notable Children's Book "Deeply felt. Presents a moral question with great care and sensitivity." —The New York Times "A spellbinding story about rites of passage." —Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A realistic story with the intensity of a fable." —The Horn Book (starred review) "Thought-provoking." —School Library Journal (starred review) In Palmer LaRue's hometown of Waymer, turning ten is the biggest event of a boy's life. But for Palmer, his tenth birthday is not something to look forward to, but something to dread. Then one day, a visitor appears on his windowsill, and Palmer knows that this, more than anything else, is a sign that his time is up. Somehow, he must learn how to stop being afraid and stand up for what he believes in. Wringer is a powerful tour de force from Newbery Medal winner Jerry Spinelli.

Pidgins and Creoles

Author: Jacques Arends
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027299501
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 429

Book Description
This introduction to the linguistic study of pidgin and creole languages is clearly designed as an introductory course book. It does not demand a high level of previous linguistic knowledge. Part I: General Aspects and Part II: Theories of Genesis constitute the core for presentation and discussion in the classroom, while Part III: Sketches of Individual Languages (such as Eskimo Pidgin, Haitian, Saramaccan, Shaba Swahili, Fa d'Ambu, Papiamentu, Sranan, Berbice Dutch) and Part IV: Grammatical Features (such as TMA particles and auxiliaries, noun phrases, reflexives, serial verbs, fronting) can form the basis for further exploration. A concluding chapter draws together the different strands of argumentation, and the annotated list provides the background information on several hundred pidgins, creoles and mixed languages. Diversity rather than unity is taken to be the central theme, and for the first time in an introduction to pidgins and creoles, the Atlantic creoles receive the attention they deserve. Pidgins are not treated as necessarily an intermediate step on the way to creoles, but as linguistic entities in their own right with their own characteristics. In addition to pidgins, mixed languages are treated in a separate chapter. Research on pidgin and creole languages during the past decade has yielded an abundance of uncovered material and new insights. This introduction, written jointly by the creolists of the University of Amsterdam, could not have been written without recourse to this new material.

Da Kine Talk

Author: Elizabeth Ball Carr
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824881249
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
Hawaii is without parallel as a crossroads where languages of East and West have met and interacted. The varieties of English (including neo-pidgin) heard in the Islands today attest to this linguistic and cultural encounter. "Da kine talk" is the Island term for the most popular of the colorful dialectal forms--speech that captures the flavor of Hawaii's multiracial community and reflects the successes (and failures) of immigrants from both East and West in learning to communicate in English.