Noun: gender - Grammar short lesson-

Living beings are of either the male or the female sex. Now compare the following pairs of words.

    Boy, girl
    Man, woman
    Husband, wife
    Lion, lioness...

The Lonely Lioness and the Ostrich Chicks

Beloved storyteller Verna Aardema is at her finest in this African animal tale, weaving charm and suspense with a delightfully satisfying resolution. Peering down from her treetop perch, a lonely lioness admires the noisily cheeping clan of Mother Ostrich and thinks, "I would be happy to have just one child." So she leaps down, gurum! and steals all four ostrich chicks. Accepting the lioness as their mother, the chicks follow right behind he. Mother Ostrich is frantic! As she chases after the lioness, she enlists the help of gazelle, hyena, jackal, and mongoose. But which one can help her to get her chicks back?