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15,500 | 5 | The poor but worthy hero who, after others have failed, cures a sick royal child with some special food or drink from a magic place appears in many folktales in many places. In this particularly satisfying Ecuadoran Inca variant, the hero is a girl who can talk with the birds and run as swiftly as her brothers. To heal... | [
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15,501 | 2 | "A welcome addition to Watson's attractive holiday books." -- ReviewWendy Watson is the author and illustrator of Hurray for the Fourth of July. She was raised with seven brothers and sisters on a farm in Vermont, where she received her early education and art training from her mother and father. She studied painting i... | [
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15,502 | 14 | Ages 5^-8. Not many children would relish sleeping in an igloo atop a freezing mountain, but that's where Lizzie happily spends Christmas Eve when she volunteers to help her grandfather search for his "old three-legged fool" dog, Mr. Biggins. Fatigue and bitter cold are countered by the joy of eating venison fried over... | [
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15,503 | 0 | Kindergarten-Grade 3?This endearing tale is sure to find favor wherever cat stories are in demand. Worshipped as a god with servants to coddle him, a temple cat in ancient Egypt yearns for the freedom to live as a normal feline. So he slips away and travels until he reaches a fisherman's hut by the sea, where he discov... | [
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15,504 | 15 | Kindergarten-Grade 2?Large, clear print; fascinating facts; and beautiful, detailed, cut-paper collages make this excellent title a delight. One main fact is presented per spread about each of 14 animals, e.g., "The Etruscan shrew, the world's smallest mammal, could sleep in a teaspoon." Two more relevant facts are giv... | [
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15,505 | 1 | The much-loved crocodile of Manhattan engages in a quintessential venture: visiting a grown-up (in Lyle's case, Mr. Primm) at work (an advertising agency). Affable Lyle has a grand time delivering memos, working the copy machine, sitting in on "a very important meeting" and, most of all, playing with the children in th... | [
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15,506 | 0 | "Children will delight in the sheer audacity of the irrepressible red cat -- who absolutely refuses to play by human rules." -- Review; Title: Happy Birthday Rotten Ralph | [
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15,507 | 18 | Grade 4-8?Between 1854 and 1930, more than 200,000 orphaned and abandoned children from the cities of the eastern seaboard were "placed out" to new homes and families in the midwest and western states. Warren's account of the "orphan-train" phenomena, and of one man's story of how it affected his life, is an excellent ... | [
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15,508 | 7 | "The telling is smooth, and Galdone is ever the master of visual pacing, with action and drama heightened through astute composition." -- ReviewPaul Galdone was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1907 and emigrated to the United States in 1928. After finishing his studies at the Art Student League and the New York School of ... | [
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15,509 | 2 | Sookan, the young Korean heroine of Year of Impossible Goodbyes and Echoes of the White Giraffe, has arrived in the United States to attend a women's college at the start of Choi's latest novel, set in 1954-1955. Having survived the war in her homeland, Sookan now faces the challenges of learning English and adapting t... | [
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15,510 | 0 | Grade 1-4-A poignant look at the pain inflicted upon one child by a dominant culture's heavy-handed attempt to "help." Near the turn of the century, a Cheyenne boy, Young Bull, is forced to attend the off-reservation Indian school so that he can learn to become a part of the white world. He is housed in soulless barrac... | [
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15,511 | 14 | "Blink, blink, dazzle, flash./ Gleam, glow, sparkle, shine!"?so Fearrington describes the electrical extravaganza that is a community decorated for Christmas. Midnight-blue canvases flicker with swatches of bright pastel, transforming nighttime streets into a radiant festival. This high- wattage account of a familiar f... | [
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15,512 | 1 | "When you feel bored, you read a book. But dogs can't read," Miller points out. Lest people have all the fun, she's designed this chapter book with canine sensibilities in mind. Each tale is addressed to "you good dog," enabling readers to speak directly to a pet. "The Burglar" testifies to the fierceness and bravery "... | [
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15,513 | 18 | Laura Ingalls Wilder meets David Macaulay in this thoroughly engaging book. Greenwood combines a fictional account of a hardworking settler family with detailed descriptions of nearly every aspect of pioneer life, from the working of a gristmill to making cheese, dyeing wool, sugaring off and building a house. Recipes ... | [
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15,514 | 1 | PreSchool-Grade 3?A very contemporary-sounding Gritch the Witch sets out for Old MacDonald's Farm to get herself a meal of plump piggies. Alerted, however, by her skywritten "Surrender Piggies!," the swine hastily don sheep, cow, and other barnyard disguises and fool her with their good acting (moos, quacks, etc.) and ... | [
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15,515 | 12 | In her first, tenuous book for children, Brook sets out to track the evolution of today's English from its prehistoric Indo-European roots. Unfortunately, the author leads young readers down a circuitous, rocky road. Her dry and rather choppy chronicle of the ways in which such peoples as the Celts, Anglo-Saxons, Vikin... | [
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15,516 | 0 | Grade 2-4?An appealing picture-book biography about a nine-year-old Mexican Rodeo charro (cowboy) who lives in a small town outside of Phoenix. In addition to discussing roping practice and competition, Anthony Reynoso tells of his school, his Mexican American and Yaqui Indian town, and his close-knit family. The first... | [
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15,517 | 0 | Grade 1-3-This six-chapter, easy-to-read mystery full of tongue twisters will delight young readers. Bashful Beaver's "big black bag of beautiful bright blue buttons" has been stolen. Detective Flatfoot Fox starts to investigate, only to be interrupted by Secretary Bird, who wants to solve the case alone. He tracks dow... | [
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15,518 | 2 | PreSchool-K. Many expecting parents will applaud the arrival of this addition to the existing body of literature. Unique in its focus on young children's separation from their mothers who are about to give birth, it depicts a traditional birth experience in terms of being hospital centered with newborns kept mainly in ... | [
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15,519 | 12 | Using the format and style of an ``adult'' dictionary, The American Heritage Children's Dictionary is one that respects the intellects of its users. Each of the 37,000 entries is well defined, grammatically categorized and phonetically rendered. Additions such as a thesaurus, word histories, and an expanded ``How to Us... | [
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15,520 | 0 | Bunting's (Smoky Night) eloquent yet spare narrative introduces nine-year-old Laura, who recounts her family's 1972 visit to the site of the former Manzanar War Relocation Camp in eastern California. Thirty years earlier, her father and his parents were interned there, along with 10,000 other Japanese Americans. Soon t... | [
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15,521 | 1 | Jones's charmingly illustrated, engagingly straightforward work retells the beloved Aesop fable about two mice who discover that indeed "there's no place like home." As in her earlier peep-hole books, two-inch openings in the center of alternate pages offer tantalizing glimpses of things to come and provide cheery "bac... | [
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15,522 | 15 | Kindergarten-Grade 3. Lember uses a set of 14 hand-tinted still-life photographs to introduce a selection of sea shells that can be found along the North American coastline. Double-page spreads feature a photograph on the right and an explanation on the left. Though brief, the text contains numerous bits of information... | [
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15,523 | 2 | PreSchool-Grade 2?Jamaica is not thrilled about having to share her blue marker with Russell. He never has the supplies he needs, and this time he takes the marker and draws all over her picture. The next day, she discovers that he is moving. With the help of her father, she begins to understand that her classmate is m... | [
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15,524 | 13 | Grade 4 Up-Clementine Hunter was an African-American primitive painter who lived all of her 101 years in Louisiana as a manual laborer. Born in 1886, she began painting late in her life. Although untrained, she created works of art now owned by many American museums. The story of her life and art is fascinating, and Ly... | [
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15,525 | 15 | PreSchool-A short rhyming text captures a little girl's delight as she romps with her dog in a wintry landscape. The heavily bundled youngster counts, touches, and tastes the snowflakes as they fall around her. Linda Brennan's Flannel Kisses and Lezlie Evans's Snow Dance (1997, both Houghton) both welcome winter in rhy... | [
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15,526 | 5 | Carol Ober's stunning cutout oil pastels just might overcome the tedium of this wordy retelling of a Mexican legend. Ancient Mexican images become remarkably kid-accessible with her vibrant, fluidly patterned compositions; her assemblages of cutouts create an energetic and appealing 3-D, puppet-show effect. With its mi... | [
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15,527 | 10 | Margot Apple is a freelance illustrator, havingillustrated more than fifty books for childrenwhile also producing illustrations for "Cricket" and "Ladybug" magazines. She now lives in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, with her husband and their pets, a dog and a cat.; Title: Sheep in a Shop (Sheep in a Jeep) | [
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15,528 | 5 | Golem is the Hebrew word for shapeless man. According to Jewish legend, the renowned scholar and teacher Rabbi Loew used his powers to create a Golem from clay in order to protect his people from persecution in the ghettos of 16th-century Prague. (This was the time of the Blood Lie, when hostile gentiles claimed that J... | [
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15,529 | 15 | No Bio; Title: Maps: Getting from Here to There (Sandpiper Paperbacks) | [
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15,530 | 0 | In this lyrical homage to humankind's relationship to the land, "this spot" is the farm belonging to the narrator's grandfather, and as Grandpa digs a ditch, he discovers clues to its past. The story of the land begins with the Paleo-Indians of the Ice Age: "Indians in ancient times/ lit a campfire/ on a glacial beach.... | [
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15,531 | 15 | PreSchool-Grade 3-The Earth floats in space, a small blue marble, growing with each turn of the page. The North American continent swells until the streets of a (fictional) coastal town become visible, then a particular neighborhood; a dot on the sidewalk becomes a boy with a magnifying glass, viewing-what? A ladybug f... | [
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15,532 | 16 | PreSchool-K?A visually striking introduction to pairs of animals that are related but greatly disparate in size. A sentence offering a fact about and the size relationship between each set of creatures curves around the larger one, accentuating its shape and becoming part of the graphic design. The distinctive cut-pape... | [
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15,533 | 15 | Grade 2-5. A complete history of the peanut that could be used for reports or read for pure pleasure. A multitude of bright watercolor drawings extend the text. The author not only shows where and how a peanut is grown, but also explains how it is harvested and how peanut butter is made. New vocabulary is explained wit... | [
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15,534 | 1 | Margot Apple is a freelance illustrator, havingillustrated more than fifty books for childrenwhile also producing illustrations for "Cricket" and "Ladybug" magazines. She now lives in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, with her husband and their pets, a dog and a cat.; Title: Sheep Out to Eat (Sheep in a Jeep) | [
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15,535 | 15 | Grade 4-8-After discussing the chemical properties of fire, Patent challenges assumptions about it as a harmful force and shows how it is a natural and productive part of the Earth's growth cycles. The clear, unsensationalized text is both informative and lively, with general statements often followed up with examples ... | [
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15,536 | 11 | Grade 3-7?This attractive volume showcases great full-color photographs and lots of interesting facts about farms. Featuring 12-year-old Mark and his 7 sisters and brothers, the book provides a realistic and touching portrait of life on a family-run dairy farm. The demanding daily work is discussed and illustrated, alo... | [
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15,537 | 14 | "The rhythm is infectious. . . . This should keep the storytime set jiggling to the last scoo-bee-doo-bee-doo-wah. Yeah!" Horn Book -- Review; Title: Shake Dem Halloween Bones | [
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15,538 | 1 | In this playful animal name-game, first-time picture book author Walsh poses obvious but entertaining questions and answers sure to elicit giggles from the preschool set. Each sequence requires two spreads: the first displays just a bit of a mystery beast ("Does a bird have a big black wet nose?"), and the turn of a pa... | [
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15,539 | 13 | It is turn-of-the-century Paris, and Danielle loves to draw: "dancing storks and dashing foxes?the more fantastic the better." Her photographer father encourages her to try realistic pictures, but Danielle's imagination is so wild it can't be restrained. An attempt to sketch Parisians strolling along the Seine results ... | [
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15,540 | 13 | As a small child, Emma has two noteworthy practices: she stares for long periods at the fuzzy white rug she has had since birth, and she spends quite a bit of time drawing intently. When she enters school and garners many prizes for her artwork, it becomes clear that the seemingly blank rug is the source of her inspira... | [
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15,541 | 0 | No Bio; Title: Enemy Among Them Pa (Sandpiper Houghton Mifflin Books) | [
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15,542 | 2 | "This froggy folly makes the grade . . . Joe's actions are so exactly rebellious-child like (with a few unique amphibious touches) that kids will cheer his stretchy slapstick struggles and temporary victories." -- Review; Title: Time for Bed, The Babysitter Said (Sandpiper Paperbacks) | [
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15,543 | 14 | Eve Bunting has writtenover two hundredbooks for children, including the Caldecott Medal-winning Smoky Night, illustrated by David Diaz, The Wall, Fly Away Home, and Train to Somewhere. She lives in Southern California.; Title: A Turkey for Thanksgiving | [
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15,544 | 18 | This sketchy, ultimately unfocused picture book introduces the spirited British exile who would become grandmother to Benjamin Banneker, the first black man to publish an almanac. After a cow knocks over a pail of milk, Molly, a 17-year-old dairy maid, must go on trial for theftAa crime punishable by death in 1683 Engl... | [
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15,545 | 1 | "What a scandal! What a calamity!" Someone has spotted a mouse in the ultra-chic Park Snoot Hotel. Everyone else says it ain't so. Says Simon the doorman, "Do you see a mouse? I do not see a mouse"-a refrain echoed by other hotel employees and guests. Delighted youngsters, however, will squeal "Yes!" as they spy the mo... | [
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15,546 | 13 | In another wondrous, wordless picture book by Caldecott Medal winner David Wiesner (Tuesday and June 29, 1999), a class visiting the Empire State Building finds complete cloud cover and no visibility. One boy makes friends with a cloud (identifiable in the mists by the red mittens, hat, and scarf and swipes from the bo... | [
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15,547 | 2 | Kindergarten-Grade 2. A whimsical tale in which an old Eskimo-Inuit woman adopts an orphan polar bear cub that provides food for her as it grows up. When the men of the village grow jealous of the animal's superior hunting ability and decide to kill it, she sends it away. For years afterward, she walks far out on the i... | [
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15,548 | 14 | Book Sense "Book of the Year" FinalistNick Jr. Family Magazine "Best Book of the Year" Finalist --Book Sense and Nick Jr. Family MagazineJana Dillon is a contributor for Houghton Mifflin Company titles including: 'Jeb Scarecrow's Pumpkin Patch.' Jana Dillon has also written Upsie Downsie, Are You Asleep?, Lucky O'Lepre... | [
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15,549 | 2 | PreS. Charming watercolor drawings accompany the story of two children spending a winter day both indoors and out. After waking up to a chilly house and a warm breakfast, the youngsters dash outside to have fun building a snowman, throwing snowballs, etc. Then it's time to go back inside for some hot soup for lunch. Af... | [
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15,550 | 0 | Readers familiar with Lester's Clive Eats Alligators or Tessa Snaps Snakes will recognize the affable characters whose anecdotal childhood experiences are so fondly celebrated here. Accompanied by single sentences, Lester's characteristically streamlined panel pictures spotlight feats performed by each of seven childre... | [
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15,551 | 2 | PreSchool-Grade 2-When five bored little monkeys complain of nothing to do, their mother gladly enlists their help in getting ready for Grandma's visit. In a great scurry, they clean their room, scrub the bathroom, beat the rug, and pick berries for dessert. Unfortunately, when they turn to readying themselves, they un... | [
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15,552 | 13 | Grade 2-5. According to an author's note, many stories exist about the esteemed Louis Armstrong, especially in regard to his first encounters with a trumpet. To tell a story that is as "true as possible" to Armstrong's character, Orgill has sifted through his autobiographies and through various biographies to fashion t... | [
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15,553 | 15 | "Nostalgia and timeliness merge seamlessly in this uncommonly evocative picture book," said PW in a starred review. "The story's emotional impact-and environmental message-are movingly reinforced by Himler's delicate paintings." Ages 5-8. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.; Title: Someday a Tree | [
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15,554 | 18 | Alternating informative commentary with humorous, action-filled cartoons, Christelow (Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree) light-heartedly explains how books are created and produced. "Authors get ideas for books at the strangest moments!" announces the headliner text; below, cartoon panels show neighboring authors w... | [
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15,555 | 1 | Kindergarten-Grade 3. Lizard is off to see the whole world. Along the way, the animals he meets tell him what they think he will find: Trout explains that the world is "wet and bubbly" and full of currents, while Hummingbird informs him that it is "breezes and gusts." All seem content in their small view except for Liz... | [
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15,556 | 1 | Jewell's (Sailor Song) cozy, lilting text traces a day in the lives of five winsome kittens. The sleepy quintet begins each morning standing in line as their mother bathes each "with her rough, pink tongue," and ends the day as their parents give them "five kisses,/ and [turn] out the light." Like a lullaby, the tone o... | [
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15,557 | 0 | Kindergarten-Grade 3. Seasonal books are always in demand and this alphabet acrostic will be especially welcome. In clever, poetic verse, a fall riddle is presented for each letter of the alphabet. The answer is spelled out in the first letter of each line. The riddles are spare with striking images as seen in "Bats/An... | [
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15,558 | 11 | almost new; Title: We The People, Level 5: Build Our Nation | [
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15,559 | 11 | Grade 1-3?Set in Ireland, this poetic story follows the steps by which a sheep's woolly coat is transformed into cloth and sweaters. Similar to Tomie dePaola's Charlie Needs a Cloak (S&S, 1973), the narrative begins with a tribute to the sheep and goes on to the work of shearing, carding and spinning, weaving, and ... | [
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15,560 | 2 | PreSchool-Grade 1?This amusing story begins with a trumpeting delivery man loudly taking a package to Filbert MacFee, who is in the hospital. The boy is frustrated because he wants to go home and the nurses say he must stay a little longer. When the box arrives with magic animal crackers inside, he eats one and changes... | [
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15,561 | 2 | Grade 3-6. An extremely well-written and informative book that tells about Braille's life and the development of his alphabet system for the blind. Freedman's gift for making his subjects both accessible and intriguing comes through wonderfully in this book. Readers learn not only about Braille and his struggle to comm... | [
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15,562 | 18 | Grade 5-9-In this well-organized and thorough resource, Trumble delves into the people, legends, and politics surrounding the creation and ruin of the largest library in the ancient world. The chapter on collecting books details its methods of acquisition, which ranged from payment to thievery. A section on Alexandria'... | [
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15,563 | 1 | Kindergarten-Grade 2?Mrs. Brown has an accident while riding her bicycle and ends up in the hospital. While she's away, her animals (a cow, two pigs, three ducks, and a yak) move into her house and wreak havoc, flushing the toilet 100 times, sliding down the banister, and trying on the woman's clothes. Tired out, they ... | [
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15,564 | 15 | A rhyming celebration of snow that covers just about every playtime activity possible before, during, and after a snowstorm. ``Pressure's falling/forecast's calling/for a snowstorm late today./`Find your warm boots/lay out snowsuits/do a snow dance and it may!' '' The territory is so familiar that it may not matter tha... | [
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15,565 | 2 | The creators of Big Boy place this story of a resourceful and thoughtful boy in the 1960s Tanzania of Mollel's childhood. Saruni receives coins from his mother for helping her to cart goods to town each market day. His goal is to save enough money to buy a bicycle to transport these loads more efficiently and to run ot... | [
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15,566 | 2 | Grade 3-6. Atmospheric paintings and crystal-clear imagery uncover the magic and dreams of ordinary things, from polliwogs to a spring wind to a garden hose. Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.Gr. 4^-6, younger for reading aloud. Outdoors at night under a full moon, children gather to watch captured frogs ra... | [
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15,567 | 5 | Readers of Morpurgo's Waiting for Anya (1990), which also featured an orphaned bear cub, may feel this novella is set in the same tiny, sheepherding village in the French Pyrenees. Roxanne, a sweet girl who sings like an angel, adopts a gentle abandoned cub that adores her. Years later, when a famous pop singer and his... | [
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15,568 | 2 | Grade 2-4?A picture book about peer pressure and understanding the handicapped. The setting is Jamaica and all conversation is in dialect that is sometimes heavy. Dora is teased and shamed by two older classmates until she follows their lead. She throws a stone and knocks a mango out of a tree in the yard of a mentally... | [
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15,569 | 0 | Grade 5-8. One of the earliest prehistoric European sites found, Skara Brae is located on the coast of one of Scotland's Orkney Islands. It was inhabited from 3100 to 2500 B.C., then abandoned; the settlement lay buried for centuries until it was uncovered by a storm in 1850. In an accessible and interesting manner, Ar... | [
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15,570 | 18 | Grade 6-10-If surviving the first 20 years of a new nationhood weren't challenge enough, the yellow fever epidemic of 1793, centering in Philadelphia, was a crisis of monumental proportions. Murphy chronicles this frightening time with solid research and a flair for weaving facts into fascinating stories, beginning wit... | [
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15,571 | 2 | Bunting's provocative allegory uses a tiger to personify the powerful allure of the gang. When the tiger calls Danny by name and invites him for a ride through their tough city neighborhood, the boy accepts, but soon learns that he has made a dangerous mistake. The tiger talks about respect, but wins it through taunts ... | [
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15,572 | 3 | Kindergarten-Grade 3. Arthur Crandall's life turns topsy-turvy when a bumbling fly offers to grant three wishes and the urbane canine gives flip responses. Deadpan delivery, with droll watercolors that suit the tale to a tee. Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.Ages 5^-7. Egan is one of the most interesting a... | [
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15,573 | 1 | Grade 3-6?In this fast-paced, satisfying animal adventure, a young Siberian husky becomes an accepted member of an Alaskan wolf pack. Granite is the oldest of a litter bred to be sled dogs, but he does not take naturally to the harness and training. At the first opportunity, he escapes into the wilderness where, near s... | [
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15,574 | 1 | PreSchool-Grade 1?Four bustling mice deliver Valentine's Day cards to animals living in a snowy forest. The rhyming text is cheerful and moves along quickly: "More to deliver. Cross the pond./Slide. Glide. Slip! Flip!" The smallest mouse is temporarily buried in snow, causing the only moment of anxiety in the story. Wi... | [
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15,575 | 11 | Grade 1-3?In Halmoni and the Picnic (Houghton, 1993), Yunmi's grandmother went to New York City to take care of her while her parents worked, and charmed Yunmi's classmates during a class trip. Now Halmoni is taking the girl back to Korea for a memorial celebration of her late husband's birthday, and it is Yunmi's turn... | [
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15,576 | 18 | Grade 5-8. Bartoletti uses oral history, archival documents, and an abundance of black-and-white photographs to make turn-of-the-century mining life a surprisingly compelling subject for today's young people. Zooming in on northeastern Pennsylvania in general, and the perspective of children in particular, she writes o... | [
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15,577 | 2 | A matter-of-fact tone and brisk pace keep Winthrop's (The Little Humpbacked Horse) story of a girl dealing with her mother's chemotherapy treatments from slipping into the maudlin or melodramatic. Related in the first person, the tale convincingly covers young Sarah's gamut of emotions, from simply missing her mother d... | [
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15,578 | 2 | Kindergarten-Grade 2AA poignant, thought-provoking story that tells, in the simplest terms, about a little girl whose mother is seriously ill in the hospital. The child misses her mom's laughter and the games, books, and conversations they shared. To cheer the patient, she sews a colorful pillow for her hospital bed. T... | [
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15,579 | 0 | Grade 1-4. Flatfoot Fox's latest outing is perhaps the funniest and best yet in the easy-reader series. Wacky Weasel, furious that Principal Porcupine would ridicule his claim to being a magician, promises to make the schoolhouse disappear. And it looks as though he has done just that. Flatfoot Fox agrees to find it, b... | [
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15,580 | 5 | PreSchool-Grade 3?Jones applies the same peek-hole format she used in This Old Man (1990) and The Cat Sat on the Mat (1994, both Houghton) to her version of this classic fable. Here, the die-cut holes are more of an ornamental gimmick than an integral part of the book. The visual strength lies in the colorful line-and-... | [
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15,581 | 1 | This adventure lacks the comic fullness of the best of Shaw and Apple's work, said PW, but the light verse "is as snappy as ever" and the sheep's facial expressions remain "delightfully emotive." Ages 2-6. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.; Title: Sheep Take a Hike (Sheep in a Jeep) | [
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15,582 | 2 | Kindergarten-Grade 2-A young girl tells the story of a special relationship over four seasons. Summer brings the promise of a whole month at her grandparents' country cottage, where days are spent playing cards, enjoying the outdoors, and simply talking. Grandpa delights in telling whimsically creative tales to answer ... | [
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15,583 | 1 | PreSchool-Grade 3. A simple pourquoi story, based on a Seneca legend. Rabbit, who once had a long bushy tail like a squirrel, believes for a foolish moment that his fast running has made the snow fall. He hops onto a snow drift and then to a willow tree branch to take a nap. When he awakens, it is spring, the snow drif... | [
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15,584 | 13 | "Somewhere in the Italian hills, a homing pigeon is released. She soars quickly and follows an old road, which (of course) leads to Rome." So begins Caldecott Medal-winning artist David Macaulay's visually festive journey that tracks the whimsical flight of a homing pigeon through the archways, over the terra-cotta roo... | [
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15,585 | 1 | Experienced dog owners will recognize the familiar behavior of a winsome brown puppy as it attacks the "enemy" vacuum cleaner until it "stops growling," or as it barks until its owner "witness[es]/ the triumphA/ one cornered beetle." Otani's (Chibi: A True Story from Japan) skillful watercolors of the girl and her fluf... | [
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15,586 | 5 | Grade 2-4-Ahmed's wife, Jamell, is not satisfied with her humble existence, and insists that her husband become a fortune-teller to earn more money. Ahmed reluctantly agrees and, through a stroke of luck, succeeds in solving the first problem put to him. When 40 treasure chests are stolen from the King and his diviners... | [
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15,587 | 2 | Susan Meddaugh was born and raised in Montclair, New Jersey. She graduated from Wheaton College, where she studied French literature and fine arts. After working briefly with an advertising agency in New York, she moved to Boston and worked at a publishing company for ten years, first as a designer, then art editor, an... | [
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15,588 | 2 | Grade 2-5-Francisco is excited about going to school-until he gets on the bus. The cacophony of voices all speaking English, a language he doesn't understand, leaves him apprehensive and headachy. He fares no better in the classroom. Though he tries to listen, he is often overwhelmed and his mind drifts. His only solac... | [
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15,589 | 18 | Grade 6-9. The rectangular picture-book format is perfect for a book that describes the incredibly long history of the Roman games. In Watkins's dramatic and realistic charcoal-and-pencil drawings, placed against stark white pages, readers see the bizarre equipment of the gladiators, the exotic animals brought to the a... | [] | Train |
15,590 | 0 | The creature parade to Bethlehem continues (see The Animals' Christmas Carol, reviewed above) in Bunting's (Smoky Night) somewhat self-conscious poems about the lowliest beings to have witnessed Jesus' birth ("I am Rat./ Colorless/ as darkening dirt"). Minor's (Pumpkin Heads!) shimmering watercolors, lit as if by moon ... | [
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15,591 | 2 | Based on debut author Prigger's family history, this tale of an elderly spinster who inherits nine children overflows with energy, affection and humor. The epitome of tidiness, Aunt Minnie has a "system" for maintaining order in her neat little world. "It's lucky she has no children," her neighbors cluck. "Children mig... | [
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15,592 | 2 | First-grader Melissa Hermann needs something for show and tell. In her dentist dad's office, with the help of her brother Norman she finds a bottle full of pulled teeth. Melissa carefully washes enough teeth to give one to every member of her class, then disguises the bottle in a brown bag. In a suspenseful scene?rende... | [
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15,593 | 2 | Tacky the penguin unexpectedly leads his squad to victory in a cheerleading contest; PW praised the "pithy" text and "winsome" pictures. Ages 4-8. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.; Title: Three Cheers for Tacky (Tacky the Penguin) | [
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15,594 | 12 | Gr. 3^-4, younger for reading aloud. In this picture book for older readers, Kabibona'kan, Winter Maker, seems determined to let Shingebiss, a merganser duck, freeze to death. But even though the plucky bird has only four logs to warm his lodge during the winter months, he is still able to stand strong against his grea... | [
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15,595 | 6 | Kindergarten-Grade 4-Schnur and Evans have combined their considerable talents to create a picture book that is both innovative and lovely. Done in the form of acrostics, the poems are a visual as well as a literary delight. Their style is simple, yet capable of evoking myriad images and feelings, similar in many ways ... | [
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15,596 | 1 | Hans and Margret Rey created many books during their lives together, includingCurious George, one of the most treasured classics of all time, as well as other favorites likeSpottyandPretzel.But it was their rambunctious little monkey who became an instantly recognizable icon. After the Reys escaped Paris by bicycle in ... | [
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15,597 | 0 | PreSchool-Grade 2. Ten shapes are presented in picture and verse. Along with the familiar circle, square, triangle, diamond, rectangle, octagon, and oval are the less frequent star, heart, and crescent. Each shape has its own verse and double-page spread packed with visual examples. There are even some extras for obser... | [
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15,598 | 2 | PreSchool-Grade 2. Animal Dads takes a refreshing look at the natural world with fathers cast in the caregiver role. Fish, birds, and mammals demonstrate a wide array of parenting skills as the male of the species protects, feeds, and teaches. Each father and his offspring are presented on a single or double-page sprea... | [
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