Fluffy the Vulture is no longer on facebook

Why? Mainly, because sharing personal data to help advertisers target their messages does not help children learn other languages. Giving away free e-books for iPad and Kindle does!

Free e-book for your iPad

http://www.archive.org/download/Fluffy-The-Vultue/fv-ebook.epub

Free e-book for your Kindle

http://www.archive.org/download/Fluffy-The-Vultue/fv-ebook.mobi

Here’s a scenario:

1) you post a photo on facebook
2) you tag that photo “coca-cola,” the name of the beverage you and some friends pictured were enjoying
3) facebook makes an advertisement for Coca-Cola primarily consisting of your photo
4) facebook delivers this advertisement to all of your “friends” on facebook

…is that OK?

http://www.businessinsider.com/10-reasons-to-delete-your-facebook-account-2010-5

Thank you to the 26 people who “liked” Fluffy the Vulture on facebook.

Fluffy the Vulture 2010 Holiday Fundraiser at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, London

Buy a book to support Bone Cancer Research

SCAT, Skeletal Cancer Action Trust, is dedicated to the advancement of bone cancer research, to understanding further the causes and process of bone cancer and its management and to working towards a better outcome for patients.

Fluffy the Vulture is a new children’s book in nine languages, written by Bill Zicker who is working for the Histopathology Department at the RNOH.

£3 will be donated to SCAT for every book sold in the UK during May, June and July 2010.

Tell your family and friends – let’s work together to make this fundraiser a big success for SCAT!

Amazon.co.uk has free shipping:

“Fluffy the Vulture,” by William Zicker
ISBN 978-0-615-26687-9
retail price: £8.99

Google “Fluffy the Vulture” for links to related web pages and videos on the web.

More info at the SCAT Bone Cancer Trust website:

http://www.scatbonecancertrust.org/

Fundraiser supporting UK bone cancer research

SCAT, the Skeletal Cancer Action Trust will get £3 for every copy of the first book, “Fluffy the Vulture,” sold in the UK during the months of May, June and July 2010.

“Fluffy the Vulture,” by William Zicker
ISBN 978-0-615-26687-9

Skeletal Cancer Action Trust

Press Release

Enoch Pratt Free Library, Balitmore, Maryland, USA added 6 copies of Fluffy the Vulture to their childrens’ collection.

Fluffy the Vulture, by William Zicker
ISBN 978-0615266879

Nine languages in color-coded, parallel translation, narrate a day in the life of Fluffy the Vulture. By looking at the color-coded text, it is easy to see how one word or phrase in one language appears as different characters in another. Fluffy the Vulture seeks to make languages familiar, in his confortably unfamiliar world.

A painter, designer and inventor, William Zicker decided one day to get a pet vulture. Realizing the actual birds were wild and not able to be kept as pets, he painted one instead. This imagined pet vulture comes to life in a book about Fluffy the Vulture’s day, starting with a good night’s rest. From pizza to flamingos, Fluffy engages the reader’s imagination. Fly with Fluffy through a comfortably unfamiliar world of ink and colored pencil… in nine languages!

Visit FluffyTheVulture.com to listen to the story read aloud in each of the languages, and follow along in the book!

Bill Zicker is a patented inventor, painter, designer and author with an interest in language.
email: bill@fluffythevulture.com

Fluffy the Vulture is available to order at bookstores online and offline, worldwide!
Distribution partners include:

·   Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.ca
·   Baker & Taylor
·   Barnes & Noble
·   Bertram’s – major trade wholesaler in the UK (servicing over 1,000 booksellers) with links to major traders in Western Europe.
·   Blackwell Book Services – international library supplier
·   Coutts – library supplier and retailer
·   Cypher Library Supplier – a leading supplier to UK public libraries
·   Dawson Library Supplier – supplier to academic, institutional and specialist libraries in the UK and mainland Europe.
·   Gardner’s – major trade wholesaler, servicing the major UK book chains and internet shops as well as European booksellers.
·   Holt Jackson – January 2005, a leading library supplier
·   Ingram Book Company & Spring Arbor Distributors, Ingram International (Chapters-indigo.ca)
·   NACSCORP
·   Nielsen BookData – the UK’s main bibliographic company (not a trader)
·   Paperbackshop.co.uk – January 2005, a major e-retailer and Marketplace trader on Amazon
·   The Book Depository – a major e-retailer and marketplace trader on Amazon

YouTube channel

Fluffy the Vulture’s videos are on YouTube!

Be sure to check out the Fluffy the Vulture channel:
http://www.youtube.com/fluffythevulture

Twitter … follow FluffyVulture!

Fluffy the Vulture now has a Twitter feed!

http://twitter.com/fluffyvulture

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