Showing results for "telephone" in Literature & Fiction

When the Southern Bells brought the telephone to rural North Carolina, it looked like a "big black daffodil". What the telephone company had not counted on in conceiving its eight-party line service was a pair of "past-middle-age, unmarried sisters", the chatty Misses Lucy and Lena Leatherwood. Once the Leatherwood sisters were connected by the Southern Bells, nobody else on that line had a chance!

Ayla and her best friend Kiri have always been tree people. They each have their own special tree, and neighbors and family know that they are most likely to be found within the branches. But after an accident on their street, Kiri has gone somewhere so far away that Ayla can only wait and wait in her birch, longing to be able to talk with Kiri again. Then a mysterious, old-fashioned telephone appears one morning, nestled in the limbs of Ayla's birch tree.

Téléphone fixe ou mobile. Quelle que soit la façon dont on appelle, le processus est le même : on compose le numéro et on attend que ça décroche. Mais ça n'a pas toujours été le cas. Pour Alexander Graham Bell, qui a inventé le téléphone en 1876, passer son premier appel téléphonique n'a pas été si facile. Surtout quand on sait que tout a commencé par deux tasses reliées par un fil.

Come and take a delightful ride on a telephone wire with five silly green parrots and a bluebird, who spend the day playing, singing, squawking, laughing, and most importantly, learning to be friends.

Litte Tiger feels so lonely, when Little Bear is away. "I wish, you'd write a letter home, to cheer me up. Please do!", he says. "All right," says Little Bear...