Twelve-year-old Suzy Bowles dreams of life outside the small town of Burr Oak, Michigan, but when she stumbles on the opportunity to learn ostrich-riding with the infamous Madame Marantette her obligations to her family on the farm threaten to derail her dreams of a bigger life. Includes photographs and information on Madame Marantette.

"When Tallulah Jones was thirteen, her grandmother plucked her from the dank Oakland apartment she shared with her unreliable mom and brought her to the family ostrich ranch in the Mojave Desert. After eleven years caring for the curious, graceful birds, Tallulah accepts a job in Montana and prepares to leave home. But when Grandma Helen dies under strange circumstances, Tallulah inherits everything--just days before the birds inexplicably stop laying...

Told in rhyming text, five little ostriches enjoy running through the bush, but when a lion comes near they hide.

"Two baby giraffes meet a baby ostrich and must guess how their potential new friend is feeling"--

In this book with minimal text Flora, a young dancer, learns about opposites with her new bird friend, an ostrich. Features fold-out pages.

As monkey gymnast Pip flips , ostrich spectator Kip trips, thereby getting into the act.

Ostrich and Lark spend their days together, Lark singing from his perch in the tree and Ostrich silent, until Ostrich finds his voice.

The Easter Bunny is pleased to find a gigantic egg on his doorstep, but the baby ostrich who soon hatches gets in the way of his preparations for Easter egg deliveries.

Oliver the ostrich is convinced that his friends have forgotten his birthday when no one seems to come to help him celebrate.

Mariluz the ostrich is very proud of her beautiful tail and even sleeps with her head in the sand so the feathers will still be visible, but one morning her head is stuck and all the savanna animals cannot get her free.