Skates!


Skates!' is a 1973 children's picture book by American author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats.

Skates! is Keats’s second, nearly wordless, picture book, after Psst! Doggie-, that features animals rather than people as characters. Young readers are encouraged to participate in the action in their own way by the humorous story and engaging illustrations.

Skate

Skate or skates may refer to:

Biology

  • Skate (fish), a kind of fish belonging to the family Rajidae
  • Geography

  • Skate of Marrister, Shetland
  • Music

  • Skate (musician)
  • People

  • Bill Skate (1953 – 2006), Papua New Guinea politician
  • Ken Skates, a Welsh politician
  • Sports

  • Ice skate
  • Figure skate
  • Inline skates
  • Roller skates
  • Skateboard
  • Skate-skiing, a cross-country skiing technique
  • Oakland Skates, former professional roller hockey team
  • Ships

  • Skate (dinghy), national small sailboat class unique to Australia
  • HMS Skate (1895), a Victorian era destroyer of the United Kingdom
  • USS Skate, several submarines of the US Navy
  • Other

  • Skate (video game), developed by Electronic Arts for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3
  • Skates!, a book by Ezra Jack Keats
  • ZTE Skate, an Android-based smartphone
  • Skate, the code name for the Bombing of Braunschweig in World War II
  • See also

  • Skater (disambiguation)
  • Skating (disambiguation)
  • SK8, a multimedia environment developed by Apple
  • Sk8 (TV series), an American television series that aired from 2001 to 2001
  • Skate (fish)

    Skates are cartilaginous fish belonging to the family Rajidae in the superorder Batoidea of rays. More than 200 species have been described, in 30 genera. The two subfamilies are Rajinae (hardnose skates) and Arhynchobatinae (softnose skates).

    Genera

  • Amblyraja
  • Arhynchobatis
  • Atlantoraja
  • Bathyraja
  • Breviraja
  • Brochiraja
  • Cruriraja
  • Dactylobatus
  • Dentiraja
  • Dipturus
  • Fenestraja
  • Gurgesiella
  • Hongeo
  • Insentiraja
  • Irolita
  • Leucoraja
  • Malacoraja
  • Neoraja
  • Notoraja
  • Okamejei
  • Pavoraja
  • Psammobatis
  • Pseudoraja
  • Raja
  • Rajella
  • Rhinoraja
  • Rioraja
  • Rostroraja
  • Sympterygia
  • Zearaja
  • Skates versus Rays

    Conservation

    Skates have slow growth rates and, since they mature late, low reproductive rates. As a result, skates are vulnerable to overfishing and appear to have been overfished and are suffering reduced population levels in many parts of the world. The barndoor skate, Raja laevis, is currently listed with the IUCN as vulnerable due to being severely overfished. However, population data are lacking to determine the exploitation of the big skate at this time.

    Podcasts:

    PLAYLIST TIME:

    SKATES

    by: Hayden

    When I was younger, a part-time job worker
    Department store center, I saw a man enter
    He was middle-aged, deep lines on his face
    Tight mouth and eyes glazed, eyelids just half-raised
    And I looked at him, he looked at me
    He looked so sad, I had to see
    What did he want, what could it be
    What had he been through before me
    Seeing him in the store I worked for that year, that year
    Ice skates he asked for in the middle of summer
    He wanted a good pair, the price he did not care
    I looked for his size, our best pair he tried
    Custom back and sides, excitement in his eyes
    And I looked at him, he looked at me
    He looked so sad, I had to see
    What did he want, what could it be
    What had he been through before me
    Seeing him in the store I worked for that year, that year
    I asked are you a pro, he looked sad and said no
    These skates are my last hope, without them I cannot cope
    And he said my wife, she drowned this summer
    Behind our house, the river took her, I cannot swim
    I need to find her, I will wait till it freezes over
    And then I will skate, as far as it take
    I will skate as far as it takes, to bring her back home




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