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15,900	0	Mitsumasa Anno was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Medal, the highest honor attainable in the field of children's book illustration, in 1984. He original art will be displayed at the gallery opening of The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Northhampton, MA.; Title: Anno's Journey	[ 1612, 2840, 4737, 5348, 5366, 6212, 10099, 10269, 15321, 15364, 15546, 15908, 15915, 16319, 17137, 21501, 25008, 25129, 25294, 25306, 25956, 26694, 28998, 32951, 33047, 33326, 45884, 52478 ]	Train
15,901	2	Eric Hill (www.funwithspot.com) left school when he was fifteen and took up cartooning while working as a messenger at an art studio. He created Where's Spot? as a bedtime story for his two-year-old son. It was published four years later, and the rest is history. Eric Hill passed away in July 2014.; Title: Puppy Love (...	[ 2722, 2917, 5809, 5824, 5975, 6761, 9968, 12569, 13140, 16298, 16416, 19604, 26462, 49817, 53403 ]	Train
15,902	1	"A dinosaur mystery for sleuths and dino fans."Kirkus Reviews"Devlin is a smart, resourceful girl who is easy to root for...readers will blaze through the pages at lightning speed."BooklistLinda Fairstein worked in the district attorneys office in Manhattan for more than two decades. Her Alexandra Cooper novels are int...	[ 3793, 3847, 11418, 11511, 11575, 15855, 15878, 15903, 21739, 23906, 23949, 45642, 45993, 55496, 68408, 68460 ]	Validation
15,903	10	Gr 36Readers meet 12-year-old Devlin Quick, girl detective and book lover, in this new series. Devlin's friend Liza thinks she has seen someone slice a page from a rare book in the New York Public Library. Unfortunately, this crime was committed with no grown-up witnesses present. Devlin, knowing that defacing a book i...	[ 4121, 4266, 6664, 9639, 11194, 11302, 11330, 13510, 15855, 15878, 15902, 19412, 20899, 23827, 45642, 45731, 45869, 45965, 51565, 55053, 55496, 58157, 58204, 67636, 68408 ]	Validation
15,904	0	Book by Watson, Clyde; Title: Catch Me Kiss Me	[ 25840 ]	Train
15,905	11	Thick clusters of vivid blue flowers, which resemble old-fashioned sunbonnets, cover the Texas hills in the springtime every year. These lovely wild flowers, known by the name of bluebonnet, are the state flower of Texas, This favorite legend based on Comanche Indian lore, tell the story of how the bluebonnet came to b...	[ 199, 546, 769, 5330, 5352, 5449, 5554, 5583, 5977, 5991, 6236, 7023, 7161, 7284, 7782, 10269, 14018, 15130, 15290, 15854, 15896, 15929, 15931, 15942, 15996, 16113, 18048, 20758, 20820, 26030, 26031, 26196, 26612, 26677, 27009, 27234, 35089, 3...	Train
15,906	2	Barbara Helen Berger lives on Bainbridge Island, Washington.; Title: Grandfather Twilight	[ 726, 796, 902, 1364, 4423, 4671, 5348, 5366, 7174, 11356, 14695, 15364, 15393, 15396, 15414, 15461, 15492, 15600, 15613, 15911, 15915, 15943, 15974, 16020, 16102, 16108, 20257, 21504, 23235, 25592, 26051, 26789, 27263, 28927, 40723, 40757, 4193...	Train
15,907	21	Kindergarten-Grade 2 In these poems, readers will find children building castles, writing letters, playing mommy, taking imaginary horse and cart rides and singing lullabies to their dolls. Each cheerful, bouncy verse is accompanied by an elaborately framed reproduction of Nister ' s 19th - Century paintings depicting ...	[ 64519 ]	Test
15,908	12	By reinventing the wheel, the author of Anno's Counting House, Anno's Mysterious Multiplying Jar and the recent Socrates and the Three Little Pigs brings to math an intuitive understanding of numbers, sequence and order, which he passes on to readers. He starts with the concept of comparison and difference: in a row of...	[ 7731, 17397, 17996, 27024, 27026, 28998, 29732, 36862, 38695, 45627, 45653, 58111, 59918, 61245, 61312, 61363, 62215, 64978 ]	Validation
15,909	0	Wolf loves to eat almost more than anything else in the world. No sooner does he finish a meal, he's planning his next. He searches all day for a chicken for his stew. When he finally spies one, he hesitates and hatches a plan to fatten the bird, which will mean more stew. So he marshalls his considerable culinary skil...	[ 769, 3350, 5413, 6086, 6241, 6346, 6351, 6771, 7174, 15393, 15808, 15915, 15935, 16046, 16093, 16133, 16147, 16444, 16489, 16548, 26031, 27024, 28993, 31355, 65015, 70577 ]	Train
15,910	0	Eric Carle and Tomie dePaola: Author One-on-One Eric Carle is the creator, author, and illustrator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and many other childrens books. Tomie dePaola is the author and illustrator of Strega Nona: Her Story and countless other books. They recently had a conversation about their careers as pictu...	[ 577, 884, 2762, 3593, 4600, 5348, 5371, 5591, 5959, 5991, 6236, 6796, 7782, 8291, 15164, 15228, 15585, 15849, 15854, 15914, 15926, 15929, 15931, 15965, 16299, 16470, 16567, 18732, 18797, 21515, 25971, 26030, 26031, 26420, 29008, 38278, 39032, ...	Train
15,911	2	As in her earlier Grandfather Twilight, Berger has created a picture book dreamscape, full of radiant colors and intriguing possibilities. Alone with her doll in a playhouse, the young narrator receives an unusual visitor who comes calling "in a carriage bright as the sun." The visitor's consort is a lemon-yellow lion ...	[ 1364, 5348, 5366, 5373, 5385, 9561, 13153, 15906, 15915, 15943, 16020, 16102, 16108, 26031, 28983, 40757, 41932, 52484 ]	Train
15,912	0	Will is trying to fish, but his younger sister Mabel keeps scaring away the fish with her noisy questions, like, "What makes it rain?" and, "Where does the wind come from?" Out from the bushes comes Lillian Two Blossom, an old Indian woman who offers to take them for a boat ride to find the answers. Off they go, with W...	[ 5990, 6068, 6101, 6126, 6308, 6378, 14328, 15741, 15809, 16042, 16069, 16142, 16259, 16278, 16299, 16313, 16317, 16330, 16356, 16396, 16425, 16468, 16475, 16529, 16542, 18018, 18046, 22261, 26095, 51584, 51954, 54567, 54648, 72184 ]	Validation
15,913	13	Kindergarten-Grade 3-- Tanya, a vivacious preschooler, is bitten by the ballet bug before she is old enough to take lessons. She helps her big sister, Elise, practice and hangs around to watch Elise's class go through their jetes and plies . Best of all, Tanya likes to create her own dances either alone or in a pas de ...	[ 16037, 16060, 16223 ]	Train
15,914	5	PreSchool-Grade 4 Like a good winter coat in a large family, this anthology can be passed along to many children. The smallest can listen to ``The Three Bears,'' the middle-sized ones will enjoy ``The Owl and the Pussycat,'' and the older ones will puzzle out ``Rumpelstiltskin.'' Jacobs, Andersen, and Grimm account for...	[ 6796, 15854, 15910, 15926, 15929, 16274, 16493, 18797, 26031, 26606, 39032 ]	Train
15,915	1	Among the greatest charms of children is their ability to view a simple activity as a magical adventure. Such as a walk in the woods late at night. Jane Yolen captures this wonderment in a book whose charm rises from its simplicity. "It was late one winter night, long past my bedtime, when Pa and I went owling." The tw...	[ 865, 1663, 3930, 4625, 5348, 5349, 5353, 5366, 5385, 5387, 5479, 5507, 6212, 8539, 9561, 10099, 10269, 10841, 11254, 13723, 15396, 15415, 15614, 16093, 17137, 23235, 24247, 26728, 27246, 33047, 33063, 33099, 33211, 36569, 39338, 45727, 47868, ...	Train
15,916	6	Hissey's textured illustrations, so lifelike that they resemble hand-tinted photographs, are as remarkable here as in her Old Bear. All the toy characters are back, helping Little Bear locate lost trousers, which everyone has used differently: Camel as hump-warmers, Rabbit as a holey ski hat, Dog as a two-bone bone-hol...	[ 5113, 5356, 15921, 16200, 26433, 73043, 73094 ]	Train
15,917	2	An old woman named Babushka always wins first prize in the Easter festival for her exquisitely painted Ukrainian eggs. When she finds a wounded goose outside her house, Babushka takes her in, cares for her until she is strong again, and names her Rechenka. The goose lays an egg each morning for the old woman, but as sh...	[ 148, 899, 1279, 5348, 5387, 6068, 6101, 6126, 6308, 6327, 6362, 6378, 6805, 8539, 8931, 9013, 9334, 15057, 15741, 15749, 15755, 15790, 15809, 15944, 15967, 15974, 16004, 16062, 16183, 16278, 16299, 16317, 16322, 16424, 16468, 16529, 16542, 16...	Train
15,918	0	Gr 25As Winnie-the-Pooh turns 90 years old, four respected children's authors have imagined entertaining new adventures for the iconic bear and his friends. Echoing the voice of A.A. Milne and illustrated in the style of E.H. Shepard, this new volume invites readers to "join Winnie-the-Pooh for a year of adventures in ...	[ 4274, 5366, 8676, 11254, 20753, 20840, 20938, 21088, 21098, 22984, 33063, 33559, 33680, 33960, 37236, 52608, 52649, 52701, 53398, 70243, 73782, 75196 ]	Test
15,919	1	Text: Spanish (translation) Original Language: English; Title: Spot Va a la Granja	[ 540, 5483, 5539, 12820, 12867, 15166, 28224, 28352, 28353, 33314, 33470, 33704, 34538, 76245 ]	Validation
15,920	5	Born and raised in New York City, Jane Yolen now lives in Hatfield, Massachusetts. She attended Smith College and received her master's degree in education from the University of Massachusetts. The distinguished author of more than 170 books, Jane Yolen is a person of many talents. When she is not writing, Yolen compos...	[ 899, 1364, 5348, 5352, 5353, 5387, 5419, 5446, 5449, 5479, 8539, 9561, 9563, 10269, 10589, 11976, 15057, 15360, 15915, 17558, 22672, 25008, 27234, 27435, 33211, 33363, 36356, 45727, 48351, 62297, 65174, 66161 ]	Train
15,921	0	PreSchool-K Hissey's artistic talent is worthy of a more substantial story. Utterly adorable and realistic stuffed animals are scruffy and frayed in the superb full-color drawings that flesh-out this slim tale of toys with lives of their own. Bramwell Brown suddenly remembers one day that his good friend Old Bear had b...	[ 5113, 5348, 5385, 15916, 16200, 26433, 73043 ]	Train
15,922	16	In the latest Spot book, the famous brown-and-yellow puppy and his friends help young readers learn over 500 words and identify objects. Some of the words, such as "tree," "bird" and "flower," will be familiar, but others, such as "horseshoe," "horizon" and "recorder," won't be as well-known. Instead of a single story ...	[ 29267 ]	Train
15,923	0	This sentimental, neo-Victorian rendering of the Lord's Prayer does an injustice to the psalm it illustrates. Angelic 19th century children scamper through most of the volume, observing with reverence God's luminous creations. Then the phrase "Thy will be done, On earth as it is in heaven" is illustrated by a picture o...	[ 4570, 11752, 15924, 15929, 15938, 26441, 27435, 27611, 27614, 27627, 27630, 57396, 73635 ]	Validation
15,924	0	No better combination of artist and poet can celebrate nature more aptly than Emily Dickinson and Tasha Tudor. Ackerman has selected 23 of Dickinson's works from the almost 2,000 that have been published in order to share Dickinson's love of nature with today's children. However, 14 of these poems are excerpts. A note ...	[ 15923, 26606, 27435, 27614, 48950 ]	Test
15,925	2	A girl who is afraid to go to sleep asks for the familiar story of Charlotte, her handmade stuffed elephant. It is the mother's own story, and though it is late, she tells it to her daughter. When she was five, her grandmother made her an elephant out of sewing box scraps and she named it Charlotte, "the prettiest name...	[ 5348 ]	Validation
15,926	0	In this engaging poetry collection, popular children's book illustrator Tomie dePaola succeeds again in creating cheerful, rib-tickling animal characters, from the renegade reptile in Eve Merriam's "Alligator in the Escalator" to the cavorting cats in T. S. Eliot's "The Song of the Jellicles." This thoughtful selection...	[ 6649, 6796, 15164, 15854, 15910, 15914, 15929, 16323, 16470, 16567, 18797, 26031, 39032 ]	Train
15,927	14	In the tradition of his The Legend of the Bluebonnet and The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush, dePaola offers another gracious retelling of a timeless folktale. His skillfully pared-down narrative and paintings that glow with strong colors present the story of a well-intentioned Mexican child, Lucida. Distressed because...	[ 1145, 5371, 5494, 5591, 5978, 6796, 6945, 6981, 12589, 16187, 16299, 16567, 21438, 22970, 23348, 23683, 25323, 27026, 28983, 33851, 38204, 53999, 60434, 65521, 71190, 74261 ]	Train
15,928	2	He has received virtually every major award in the television industry for work in his field, and dozens of others from special-interest groups.Fred Rogers lives in Pennsylvania.; Title: Going to the Dentist (Mr. Rogers)	[ 8280, 28975, 28984, 28985, 28986, 29004, 70962 ]	Train
15,929	0	In this 128-page anthology of 37 Bible stories and prayers, dePaola wisely works from the New International Version, the contemporary translation of the Bible, to make these tales accessible to young readers. Jonah in the whale, Noah and his animal pairs headed for the ark, Moses with the burning bush: all are presente...	[ 4577, 4830, 5366, 5591, 5991, 6236, 6649, 6796, 7782, 9179, 9253, 9332, 9518, 11579, 12378, 14294, 15854, 15896, 15905, 15910, 15914, 15931, 15985, 16323, 16435, 16470, 16493, 16567, 18732, 18797, 18834, 26030, 26031, 26606, 28565, 29008, 31956...	Train
15,930	13	Eric Carle's distinctive art holds a place of honor in the world of children's books. (He is the creator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and the illustrator of Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?.) In this thoughtfully selected collection of poems about animals, you'll meet creatures of every sort, from an ant to a...	[ 758, 969, 1445, 5225, 5394, 5949, 6194, 8297, 12770, 14295, 15778, 15843, 15951, 16034, 16048, 16127, 16129, 16361, 17283, 18316, 18672, 20155, 20727, 23860, 25054, 26279, 26606, 27478, 30473, 32018, 33933, 37912, 38522, 40272, 40668, 48383, 49...	Train
15,931	13	This is a charming exercise in autobiography (one of several) by the great author-illustrator Tomie dePaola. "Tommy" is consumed with a passion for drawing. Although encouraged by his family, who treat his pictures with respect and decorate their houses and workplaces with them, he encounters misunderstanding and frust...	[ 769, 884, 3293, 4002, 4006, 4011, 4017, 4600, 4840, 5449, 5959, 5991, 6236, 6649, 6765, 6796, 6989, 7782, 8279, 10117, 10570, 15854, 15896, 15905, 15910, 15929, 15942, 16031, 16039, 16068, 16323, 16470, 16567, 18460, 20548, 22997, 26030, 2603...	Train
15,932	0	Grade 2-5 An informative, interesting, and immensely readable account of the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Aimed at the same audience as Fritz' well-known series on Revolutionary heroes (Coward), this is every bit as good as those acclaimed titles, although younger children might need to have some terms clarified....	[ 3857, 5238, 5472, 6014, 6511, 8079, 9328, 10055, 14203, 15154, 18768, 19331, 20246, 20796, 24331, 26777, 28962, 28980, 28981, 28991, 29011, 29025, 34150, 34167, 46720, 47844, 58269 ]	Train
15,933	2	An abridgement of the novel Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes combined with images from a film adaptation of the work yields a complex and somewhat abstract picture book. Using a sampling of the illustrations he created for the movie version, Young ( Seven Blind Mice ) subtly accentuates the poignancy of the story w...	[ 5967, 10589, 17941, 26690, 45869 ]	Train
15,934	0	"On the whole," Theodore Roosevelt once wrote, "I have continued all my life to have a better time year after year." Roosevelt lived his life like the hero of a classic children's tale: he was a small, ailing boy who overcame his physical problems--seemingly by sheer enthusiasm and will power--to achieve a career fille...	[ 1594, 4845, 5238, 5279, 6301, 6511, 7486, 11138, 12462, 13999, 19127, 28979, 29029, 36570, 49470, 59960, 73593 ]	Train
15,935	2	PreSchool-K --Fans of Kasza's previous picture books will welcome this latest effort. Cheerful, energetic illustrations decorate the simple but charming taleof a youngster's search for a loving parent. A chubby-faced yellow bird with blue-striped feet, Choco believes that physical similarity is a prerequisite for famil...	[ 809, 1880, 2209, 4392, 6086, 6134, 6241, 6346, 6351, 6771, 7204, 9238, 10278, 10339, 10443, 15808, 15909, 16352, 16489, 16548, 21136, 26219, 26755, 27068, 28468, 28993, 32724, 36797, 36827, 37795, 42649, 42965, 43149, 43301, 44073, 45957, 48591...	Test
15,936	14	" 'Who is coming to our house?' 'Someone, someone,' says Mouse." In trusting anticipation, the animals ready the stable, cleaning, sweeping, stacking hay, and lining a crib. The visitors are, of course, Mary and Joseph, as weand the animalslearn in the book's closing pages. Simple, cleanly rhyming verses give the text ...	[ 2405, 5494, 5591, 8743, 8907, 9238, 9443, 9655, 10064, 13251, 14412, 15843, 19616, 39687, 39707, 39820, 45737, 46013, 55024, 55262, 56745, 66064, 69437, 69442, 69490, 70838, 72086 ]	Train
15,937	2	Verse (often verging on doggerel) conveys this forced narrative about a boy who asks members of his family, "What did you do on the day Grandad died?" Mama, for example, responds, "I looked in the mirror, and then, son, I lied. / I said to myself that my daddy's not dead. / But the mirror looked back at me, shaking its...	[ 16347 ]	Train
15,938	20	two hardcovers in slipcase; Title: The Tasha Tudor Mini Gift Set: The Lord Is My Shepherd, Give Us This Day	[ 15923 ]	Train
15,939	0	Fritz ( Shh! We're Writing the Constitution! ) here presents a brisk, highly accessible biography of James Madison. Sickly as a child, Madison was a short, frail man with a wispy, small voice. His successes in incorporating personal freedoms into a reasonably strong centralized government and his enormous appetite for ...	[ 4845, 5238, 5330, 5338, 6511, 8079, 13510, 14203, 15154, 16715, 17432, 18499, 18768, 19144, 28962, 28980, 28981, 29025, 39346, 47844, 61788 ]	Train
15,940	0	Sexual equality comes to fairy tales in this jaunty, contemporary version of the put-upon sibling. Ages 4-8. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.; Title: Prince cinders (sandcastle)	[ 3205, 4577, 4646, 5413, 5487, 5533, 5569, 5878, 5991, 6493, 13868, 13940, 15760, 16289, 16476, 18150, 24247, 26449, 27523, 33234, 39030, 46876, 46912, 46919, 46955, 48188, 49598, 54345, 54374, 60348, 61915 ]	Test
15,941	1	"When the Elephant walks . . . he scares the Bear," begins this whimsical chain-reaction story. Bear, who is interrupted as he tries to raid a beehive for honey, runs away from the Elephant. Bear then scares the Crocodile, who is relaxing and reading a newspaper. The Crocodile dives into the water and swims for his lif...	[ 6086, 6241, 6346, 6351, 6771, 8264, 8666, 9012, 9499, 9683, 11904, 15808, 16046, 16048, 16133, 16489, 16548, 17602, 25966, 26900, 28993, 33605, 38301, 40321, 54236, 55804, 60742, 62726 ]	Train
15,942	11	In this companion to The Legend of the Bluebonnet, Little Gopher is smaller than the rest of the children in his tribe and can't keep up with those who ride, run, wrestle or shoot with bows and arrows. But, he has a talent of his ownhe is an artist. When he grows older, a Dream-Vision comes to him: a young Indian maide...	[ 199, 5330, 5352, 5449, 5583, 5991, 6719, 6796, 7183, 7284, 7782, 8745, 10271, 10570, 15130, 15854, 15905, 15929, 15931, 15996, 16068, 16113, 26031, 26196, 26263, 26612, 27009, 27234, 34580, 37723, 37807, 38090, 39032, 42605, 46433, 48633, 59255...	Validation
15,943	7	In Gwinna, Berger (Grandfather Twilight; The Donkey's Dream; When the Sun Rose) has written and illustrated a magnificent fairy tale of wonder, beauty and power. Gwinna, an en chanted child with wings growing from her back, is given as a fosterling to a childless human couple by the Mother of the Owls. As Gwinna grows,...	[ 2840, 5225, 5366, 5385, 5436, 15906, 15911, 16020, 16102, 16108, 26031, 28983, 40757, 40815, 41932, 45993, 62355, 65142 ]	Train
15,944	2	The newest gem from Polacco's treasure chest of family stories extolls the virtues of reading--and of taking a study break. Young Mary Ellen would rather be "outdoors running and playing" than indoors with a book. Sympathetic to her feelings, her grandfather suggests that they find a bee tree. The Michigan woods litera...	[ 564, 1445, 5357, 5366, 5479, 6068, 6308, 6327, 6362, 14294, 15007, 15115, 15381, 15615, 15741, 15749, 15790, 15809, 15917, 15967, 15974, 15978, 16062, 16183, 16299, 16313, 16322, 16529, 16542, 16550, 16909, 18018, 18316, 18327, 23860, 25054, 25...	Train
15,945	15	Every young child should be introduced to this story, as great a classic as its predecessor, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. This colorful picture book describes a spider's day. Blown onto a farmyard fence, she starts to spin a web. The other animals ask if she wants to play, but in every case "the spider didn't answer. S...	[ 758, 767, 969, 4000, 4840, 5620, 6030, 7455, 7799, 12022, 15778, 15843, 15930, 15951, 16034, 16093, 16127, 16129, 16146, 16326, 16361, 16402, 18671, 18709, 25657, 27854, 28166, 28375, 39061, 39131, 48383, 49573, 49640, 54149, 58172, 73991 ]	Train
15,946	13	When Uncle Satie, a debonair cat-about-town, comes to visit his niece and nephew, he regales the youngsters with tales of his escapades in Gay Paree. Satie ran with quite a crowd, it seems--numbering among his friends and acquaintances Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas and a host of others. (A key on the back flap identi...	[ 5959, 6181, 15750, 16567, 26025, 26030, 39052 ]	Train
15,947	2	Patrick Edward's mother is a monster--literally. An impish-faced woman experiencing a decidedly bad hair day and needing a manicure, "Monster Mama" lives in a cave behind the family house. In addition to her roaring and spell-casting skills, this unique parent bakes cookies, drives Patrick Edward to school in bad weath...	[ 593, 7114, 7282, 7296, 27246, 31568, 40006, 48662, 51705, 56460 ]	Train
15,948	1	"What did you do today, Will?" ask a literal-minded mother and father. Their son replies, "I rode my mammoth." Chronicling most of this boy's fantastic voyage in very few words and superb watercolors, Martin ( Foolish Rabbit's Big Mistake ) and Gammell ( Song and Dance Man ) evoke a prehistoric landscape vast in scope ...	[ 7414, 15915, 16007, 16052, 40702 ]	Train
15,949	2	In this touching picture book, a girl discovers a new capacity for friendship when she spends some time with a neighbor boy who has Down's Syndrome. Christy's mother has told her to "be good to Eddie Lee," because he is "lonesome" and "different." Christy, however, would rather go wading with her friend JimBud than be ...	[ 6485, 7111, 8529, 10918, 12414, 15600, 16061, 16147, 16344, 21109, 21955, 24132, 25152, 28795, 31862, 34042, 34146, 36885, 38275, 41166, 41172, 41778, 42263, 43516, 46780, 47864, 50604, 55580, 62709, 66428, 72476, 72624, 72629, 72632, 75162, 7538...	Train
15,950	0	Grade 1-4-Boulton has successfully adapted this picture book from her longer work, Opal (Tioga, 1984). Opal Whitely, born around 1900, was orphaned and brought up by foster parents in Oregon. These selections from the diary she kept "in her fifth and sixth year" bring to life an extraordinary child and evoke images of ...	[ 148, 1364, 4547, 5366, 5387, 5396, 5431, 5479, 5494, 5497, 5566, 11763, 25847, 27331 ]	Train
15,951	13	During his youth, this gifted authorartist explains in his newest book's afterword, his German grandmother would often draw him a star while chanting a nonsense rhyme. Taking that symbol as his foundation, Carle here creates a world pulsating with life and color-a world that bursts forth from a good star sketched by a ...	[ 758, 969, 1663, 5949, 6194, 7692, 15778, 15843, 15879, 15930, 16019, 16034, 16048, 16127, 16129, 16268, 16361, 16952, 18672, 27478, 39113, 44463, 46630, 48383, 58247, 58495, 61913, 68210 ]	Train
15,952	2	From the creator of The Wolf's Chicken Stew comes the story of Mr. Pig, who decides in a bold move to ask Miss Pig out for a picnic. On his way to the picnic, he meets a fox and tells him about the date; the fox, sensing Mr. Pig ' s insecurity, offers his lovely tail to further impress Miss Pig. Mr. Pig gratefully acce...	[ 6086, 6241, 6346, 6351, 6771, 15808, 16133, 16444, 16489, 16548, 28993 ]	Train
15,953	1	Three little girls spare no mercy to Lon Po Po, the granny wolf, in this version of Little Red Riding Hood where they tempt her up a tree and over a limb, to her death. The girls' frightened eyes are juxtaposed against Lon Po Po's menacing squint and whirling blue costume in one of the books numerous three-picture sequ...	[ 769, 1663, 4577, 5352, 5413, 5419, 5446, 5449, 5509, 5533, 5991, 6212, 6748, 9561, 10269, 10279, 10589, 10841, 10882, 11254, 11356, 12130, 13723, 14294, 15286, 15321, 15364, 15398, 15528, 15614, 15760, 15915, 15968, 15987, 15992, 15996, 16430, ...	Train
15,954	5	Misty, jewel-like illustrations evoke the mythic past in this Chinese Cinderella story. Ages 4-8. Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.; Title: Yeh Shen	[ 690, 4577, 4646, 5413, 5446, 5449, 5487, 5533, 5569, 5878, 5991, 9561, 11653, 12111, 13940, 15920, 15953, 15996, 16561, 18150, 25267, 26589, 26842, 27330, 27515, 29334, 36781, 39030, 39112, 46919, 46955, 55383, 55939, 61153, 72441, 72442, 72451...	Train
15,955	5	How did panettone , the rich Italian Christmas bread, get its name? With tongue firmly in cheek, dePaola provides this confection as a reply. Chubby Serafina, the baker Antonio's daughter, spends her days eating candy and weeping by the window. For although her father adores her and gives her the best of everything, To...	[ 5943, 5959, 5991, 6236, 6283, 6649, 6765, 6796, 7782, 7990, 9561, 15750, 15854, 15910, 15929, 16493, 26025, 26030, 26031, 28997, 29003, 29008, 33260, 39032, 39048, 39596, 41231, 55425, 55433, 62148, 62727 ]	Train
15,956	2	This old-fashioned dog story by the author of Karen and With Love from Karen exhibits the pathos of Lassie's adventures without the sentimentality. Sure to tug at animal-lovers' hearts, the tale concerns the tenderly burgeoning friendship of its only characters: a burly Newfoundland dog that emerges from the sea--it wa...	[ 28239, 72791 ]	Validation
15,957	0	PreSchool-- Although this familiar poem from the late 1800s may read nicely when in a collection, as a picture book the breadth of the story is limited. Plus, because of the way the text is divided among the pages, it takes several readings to catch the rhythm of the rhyme. The setting is a toy shop in which the two ne...	[]	Test
15,958	0	A donkey wakes from a dream of unusual burdens to find that he has carried Mary to the stable where Jesus was born. PW praised the "glorious, reverent" paintings, "in which colors intensify the impact of visions and reality." Ages 4-8. Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.; Title: Donkey's Dream	[ 1145, 4570, 5371, 5494, 5591, 6327, 6796, 6981, 9443, 9655, 14412, 15590, 15873, 16020, 16041, 16102, 16187, 16299, 16501, 20903, 29993, 36340, 38363, 39085, 41932, 45333, 60390, 63264, 67820, 73345, 74261 ]	Train
15,959	21	This blithesome tale of canine ingenuity offers midwinter warmth to those who begin thinking of island getaways even before the first snowflakes fall. While blizzard-like conditions prevail, scruffy mutt Moe and his springer spaniel pal Arlene work in the Frozen Cow Ice Cream Company's nippy climes. Given a week's vaca...	[ 15997 ]	Train
15,960	2	Maria is feeling so grown-up, wearing her mother's apron and helping to knead the masa for the Christmas corn tamales. Her mother even let Maria wear some perfume and lipstick for the big family celebration that evening. When her mother takes off her diamond ring so it won't become coated with the messy masa, Maria dec...	[ 4250, 4324, 5400, 5442, 5493, 5494, 5515, 6086, 6901, 6981, 7111, 7423, 14412, 15049, 15393, 15682, 16061, 16347, 16695, 17700, 19538, 19611, 21344, 21438, 25152, 25323, 26489, 27026, 27168, 27313, 29558, 33425, 33656, 33680, 33981, 34708, 3807...	Test
15,961	14	PreSchool-- Easter delights--egg-dyeing and hunting, blooming potted bulbs, new clothes, the Bunny, and goody-filled baskets--as well as a centerfold of newborn animals and newly hatched birds--are winningly depicted in flat perspectives and a warm palette. A cheery farm family of young parents and four children celebr...	[ 2630, 3306, 3340, 3977, 5818, 6236, 6796, 8235, 8257, 8264, 8433, 8869, 9206, 9768, 9777, 9811, 9913, 10232, 11974, 12742, 13402, 14135, 15181, 16323, 16470, 18725, 18732, 18738, 18797, 18834, 18904, 19017, 19604, 19605, 19681, 21377, 23305, ...	Test
15,962	2	"My mother and Bootsie Barker's mother are best friends," begins the diminutive narrator of this uproariously illustrated story. Bootsie stops short of actually biting, but she bares her teeth in a gleeful lethal grin as the daily mom-and-daughter visit begins. Wearing her broad-brimmed black hat and wickedly pointy ho...	[ 2772, 3990, 4601, 4625, 4634, 4671, 4705, 4870, 5376, 5384, 5408, 5413, 5416, 5457, 5512, 5611, 5631, 6064, 6086, 6245, 7302, 7305, 8271, 10099, 10139, 10202, 10841, 15414, 15987, 16046, 16075, 16147, 16344, 16550, 17544, 21109, 21537, 22348,...	Train
15,963	11	To many Native Americans, the 13 cycles of the moon represent the changing seasons and the passage of time. Each moon has its own special name that, while varying among the tribal nations, is consistent with the legend that the 13 scales on Old Turtle's back hold the key to these moons. The authors present 13 poems tha...	[ 4728, 5225, 5330, 5352, 5428, 5449, 5583, 6719, 7232, 7284, 7506, 10271, 10401, 12430, 20727, 21395, 26196, 26910, 27009, 27234, 27606, 37723, 38090, 42605, 46292, 48585, 49624, 49636, 49713, 53334, 53415, 59255, 61091, 72272, 72500, 72514, 762...	Train
15,964	0	With over thirty four million books in print, Jan Brett is one of the nation's foremost author illustrators of children's books. Jan lives in a seacoast town in Massachusetts, close to where she grew up. During the summer her family moves to a home in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts.As a child, Jan Brett decided t...	[ 1746, 5225, 5371, 5494, 5591, 6796, 6981, 8188, 8779, 9006, 9443, 14412, 15755, 15823, 15849, 15873, 15965, 15969, 15986, 16033, 16093, 16122, 16124, 16146, 16187, 16224, 16254, 16293, 16420, 16424, 16446, 16501, 16536, 16561, 16578, 20316, 215...	Train
15,965	1	Children find the story of Goldilocks delightful for so many reasons. There's a trespassing little girl, for starters, who barges into the bears' house uninvited and not only snoops around, but eats the bears' food! The suspense of wondering whether she'll get caught only adds to the thrill of the trespassing itself, a...	[ 3205, 5395, 5413, 5446, 5907, 5977, 5997, 6030, 6348, 6852, 6989, 8199, 10269, 11282, 15755, 15823, 15849, 15873, 15910, 15964, 15969, 15986, 16001, 16033, 16067, 16093, 16122, 16124, 16146, 16187, 16224, 16254, 16293, 16331, 16420, 16424, 1644...	Train
15,966	0	PreSchool-Grade 1-- A crew of kids and animals, dressed in appealing combinations of comfortable odds and ends of clothing, responds to suggestions from Cauley's verse. They wiggle, purr, fly, tickle, somersault, kiss, and spin against the white background of double-page spreads. In a style much like Bruce Degen's, Cau...	[ 6030, 7038, 7698, 8487, 8543, 12261, 12847, 13614, 15754, 16326, 18329, 20938, 25885, 28274, 30940, 33340, 38603, 40362, 40653, 48229, 51730, 60742, 69413 ]	Test
15,967	2	Polacco--in the role of young narrator--introduces another cast of characters from her fondly remembered childhood. Brothers Stewart and Winston often invite the girl to join them and their Gramma Eula Mae--whose choir singing is "like slow thunder and sweet rain"--at the Baptist church and to come for Miss Eula's boun...	[ 705, 726, 2772, 5349, 5479, 6068, 6126, 6327, 6362, 9563, 15289, 15364, 15393, 15414, 15600, 15741, 15749, 15790, 15809, 15917, 15944, 15974, 15996, 16061, 16062, 16098, 16183, 16278, 16299, 16317, 16322, 16330, 16396, 16468, 16529, 16542, 1655...	Train
15,968	13	Mirette and the "Great Bellini" traverse the Paris skyline on high wire in the climactic scene of this picture book about conquering fear. The two meet at Mirette's mother's boarding house, where Bellini is staying with a troupe of traveling performers. Mirette persuades Bellini to teach her his art, and soon enough th...	[ 198, 1663, 4436, 5353, 5366, 5387, 5389, 5449, 5479, 7194, 8539, 9563, 9577, 9581, 10099, 10269, 10841, 10882, 11254, 11356, 11627, 12130, 12198, 12306, 13723, 14294, 15286, 15289, 15358, 15398, 15424, 15528, 15614, 15915, 15953, 15987, 16101, ...	Train
15,969	14	"Teeka was excited. And a little afraid. This year Santa had asked her to get the reindeer ready to fly on Christmas Eve." Teeka, an Arctic girl who lives "in the shadow of Santa's Winterfarm," knows it will be a struggle to round up the reindeer who'd roamed wild on the tundra since last Christmas. Reindeer training i...	[ 375, 1044, 1145, 1746, 5494, 6981, 7701, 9006, 13217, 14412, 14540, 15755, 15823, 15843, 15849, 15873, 15915, 15964, 15965, 15986, 16001, 16033, 16067, 16093, 16122, 16124, 16146, 16187, 16224, 16254, 16299, 16420, 16424, 16446, 16449, 16501, 1...	Train
15,970	18	Even the awkward style here (a choppy, breathless tone is exacerbated by the relentless use of fragments and single- sentence paragraphs) conveys the excitement of Lindbergh's historic flight at the age of 25, but Wimmer's double-spread paintings steal the show: from the first glimpse of the aircraft through an arch fo...	[ 5895, 17700, 22984, 24390, 26650, 35930 ]	Test
15,971	3	A group of children stuck in the drabbest of villages share a secret: when their friend Appelemando dreams, they can actually see brightly colored, amazing objects float out of the top of his head. Soon they discover that the images stick to anything moist, and disaster strikes one rainy day when--in a place that frown...	[ 5529, 5533, 6068, 6101, 6126, 6308, 6327, 6362, 6378, 6759, 9581, 14328, 15741, 15749, 15790, 15809, 15912, 15931, 15976, 16042, 16062, 16069, 16142, 16147, 16183, 16259, 16278, 16299, 16313, 16317, 16330, 16356, 16396, 16425, 16468, 16475, 165...	Validation
15,972	7	Swift's classic novel provides excellent fodder for this intelligent picture book, rendered as Gulliver's account of his time in Lilliput. Without sacrificing Swift's leonine wit, Beneduce minimizes the political themes, presenting the work as a satisfyingly fanciful adventure story. Spirin's lustrous, painterly art ha...	[ 8901, 16056, 16110, 16150, 16159, 16194, 25753, 27534, 31776, 36208, 38274, 72788 ]	Train
15,973	13	Who can resist a peek at young artists in training? Isadora gifts her heroine, Lily, with a quintessential combination of dreams and determination, then allows us to sit in on the ballet class that Lili attends four times a week. Lili and fellow students model their dance wardrobes, demonstrate their exercises and step...	[ 1790, 3188, 6743, 9647, 13986, 14533, 14695, 15259, 15805, 16002, 16428, 18352, 23291, 23665, 30908, 34210, 34232, 34239, 61992 ]	Train
15,974	2	In Thunder Cake , a grandmother helps her granddaughter overcome her fear of thunder by baking a special cake while a storm threatens. Although the book's concept is good, it does not fulfill its promise. The story is poorly paced: the storm approaches rapidly, but does not break for several pages as Polacco crams in d...	[ 384, 726, 742, 4569, 5366, 5385, 6068, 6101, 6126, 6327, 6362, 6378, 6973, 7011, 7127, 7782, 8745, 15321, 15492, 15600, 15614, 15741, 15749, 15755, 15790, 15809, 15915, 15917, 15944, 15967, 16062, 16183, 16278, 16299, 16317, 16322, 16330, 163...	Test
15,975	14	PreSchool-- In just six double-page spreads and fewer than ten sentences, dePaola tries to capture some of the historical significance and manifestations of the holiday and to relate them to contemporary celebrations. Pilgrims are depicted on the first spread (dressed in a variety of pastel tones?), but there is no att...	[ 667, 1442, 2405, 2510, 3278, 3347, 5818, 5884, 6649, 8681, 8711, 9349, 9768, 9785, 9913, 9978, 10451, 10567, 10767, 11384, 13367, 16241, 18575, 18723, 18732, 18738, 18797, 18904, 19597, 19616, 21500, 25748, 26155, 26263, 28891, 28959, 29175, ...	Train
15,976	6	"It started that summer two years ago, the one that steamed into Oakland like a thief in the night"?Polacco's (Pink and Say; Tikvah Means Hope, see p. 133) use of language is characteristically fluid, and her emotion-suffused illustrations are equally compelling. But her "modern myth" is problematic: the conflict is mo...	[ 4576, 6068, 6101, 6126, 6308, 6327, 6362, 6378, 6805, 9055, 14328, 15741, 15749, 15790, 15912, 16042, 16062, 16142, 16259, 16278, 16299, 16313, 16317, 16322, 16330, 16405, 16468, 16529, 16542, 16550, 16909, 18018, 18046, 22261, 42509, 51584, 51...	Train
15,977	5	Former ballerina Isadora (Swan Lake; Lili at Ballet) brings her dance training to bear on this distinctive version of the classic Russian folktale; here, the Balanchine/Stravinsky ballet is the chief source of inspiration. Fantastical watercolors in midnight-hued purples, blues and greens spiked with red and gold conju...	[ 61992 ]	Train
15,978	8	Gallagher's (Moonhorse) eerily stylized paintings lend a haunting resonance to this moralistic tale of a hardened man who learns to open his heart. When the curmudgeonly Giant denies the local children access to his expansive garden, a great chill descends on them all. Winter lingers and spring refuses to scale the gar...	[ 5348, 5374, 5408, 5449, 5533, 9615, 14339, 15063, 15358, 20677, 27234, 29000, 34991, 60623, 70317, 75544 ]	Train
15,979	1	Kindergarten-Grade 2-Old Peter is the cemetery keeper in an isolated Irish seaside village. He works hard, "'to no one's delight,'" and lives a solitary life in a small stone cottage. A stray dog comes down from the hills, and although the man gives it a few scraps of food, he makes it clear that the animal must leave....	[ 16092 ]	Train
15,980	2	A somewhat headstrong artist in search of "just the right scene" leads off the adventure in this slight picture book. Accompanied by his son--who has his own plans for exploring the woods--Dad brings paints, easel and a big canvas while the boy carries a net, jar and some shortbread. Dad's temper grows short as his ide...	[ 16092 ]	Validation
15,981	5	DePaola ( Strega Nona ) retells--but does not illustrate--a legend about the origin of the jewel-patterned Persian rug. King Balash's brilliant giant diamond is stolen by a stranger who accidentally drops it onto a rocky plain, where the jewel shatters into thousands of glittering fragments. When apprentice carpet-weav...	[ 1434, 4577, 4724, 4830, 5350, 6236, 8019, 9561, 11579, 12068, 12157, 12645, 12671, 13704, 15291, 15586, 15750, 15854, 16150, 16470, 21016, 21059, 24831, 25876, 26602, 26781, 26867, 27026, 27672, 27710, 27771, 28478, 29008, 30379, 31826, 31894, ...	Validation
15,982	11	The folklore of Mexico inspires this impressive collaboration by the talented creators of The Badger and the Magic Fan and Pages of Music . After clever Rabbit sneaks into a field one evening and feasts on the biggest chiles, the farmer sets up a beeswax "farmer" to trap the thief. When this imposter refuses to talk th...	[ 3061, 3624, 5385, 5515, 5871, 7183, 7779, 8539, 9561, 11231, 15905, 16407, 18796, 20727, 24279, 24473, 26476, 41139, 41142, 45727, 48542, 48654, 48676, 61856, 68462 ]	Train
15,983	2	The newest addition to this prolific author's library of autobiographical picture books celebrates his childhood relationship with his grandfather--"We're named after each other, Tommy. That's why I want you to call me Tom instead of Grandpa." Together they read the Sunday comics, share stories, or tend to the butcher ...	[ 5479, 5959, 5969, 5991, 6236, 6283, 6643, 6649, 6765, 6796, 7782, 9561, 12205, 15750, 15854, 15929, 16323, 16341, 16493, 16567, 26025, 26030, 26031, 28997, 29003, 29008, 29016, 39032, 39596, 55425 ]	Train
15,984	11	PreSchool-Grade 1. Rabbits on the range doesn't mean what's for dinner. These furry critters are cowboys who "Start at sunup/Work all day/Roping cows/Tossing hay." Loomis continues their adventures with whooping and hollering in easy, metered, a-b-c-b rhyme-scheme quatrains. The bunnies go the cowboy way all day, and t...	[ 12261, 16054, 16118, 39038, 51538, 73067 ]	Validation
15,985	16	PreS?dePaola's familiar, charming illustrations of chubby, round-faced children carry this book, which teaches an appreciation for the natural world. The text is the epitomy of simplicity. Each page proclaims affection for some element of nature?"I love you, flower," "I love you, stars," etc.?ending with "And you love ...	[ 3809, 4238, 5959, 5991, 6236, 6643, 6649, 6796, 7387, 7782, 8340, 9561, 15750, 15854, 15910, 15915, 15929, 16046, 16274, 16326, 16400, 16470, 16567, 18732, 18796, 18797, 18857, 25962, 25964, 25971, 26030, 26031, 27779, 27954, 29008, 29016, 3117...	Train
15,986	7	A Scandinavian girl must use her wits to outsmart a bunch of pesky trolls in Brett's latest picture book. When Tre,va and her dog Tuffi are set upon by these nasty creatures with dognapping on their minds, the girl dissuades the little folk by offering them other belongings in Tuffi's stead. And, ingenious child that s...	[ 1126, 4625, 5977, 5997, 6150, 6247, 6852, 7127, 7369, 7640, 14412, 14540, 14594, 15393, 15396, 15415, 15755, 15823, 15849, 15873, 15915, 15964, 15965, 15969, 15974, 16001, 16033, 16067, 16093, 16122, 16124, 16146, 16187, 16224, 16254, 16293, 16...	Train
15,987	1	Officer Buckle is a roly-poly bloke, dedicated to teaching schoolchildren important safety tips, such as never put anything in your ear and never stand on a swivel chair. The problem is, Officer Buckle's school assemblies are dull, dull, dull, and the children of Napville just sleep, sleep, sleep. That is, until Gloria...	[ 198, 524, 1663, 4182, 5348, 5367, 5385, 5507, 5562, 5915, 6020, 6052, 7194, 7782, 9577, 9581, 10106, 10269, 10841, 11254, 11629, 13050, 13723, 14079, 15915, 15968, 16046, 16075, 16147, 17182, 17283, 23235, 24866, 25008, 25306, 25807, 26031, 2...	Train
15,988	2	Kindergarten-Grade 3-"After school, when I want to be at softball practice, I have to sit down at the piano instead." The fact that the narrator's music teacher is grouchy and critical doesn't help, and his mother won't let him quit his lessons. What helps is Nana Hannah next door: her tango lessons, her twisted ankle,...	[ 41718 ]	Validation
15,989	0	Grade 3-6-Yolen takes readers through the traditional Jewish calendar year beginning with Rosh Hashanah and ending with the weekly celebration of the Sabbath. The history and most important aspects of the observances are accompanied by evocative poems, traditional songs and stories, and a playlet for Purim. The illustr...	[ 10809, 31337, 35112, 40005, 53701 ]	Train
15,990	18	Noted biographer and historian Fritz ( Bully for You, Teddy Roosevelt ) offers a wickedly funny look at 10 explorers who, between 1421 and 1522, ventured into what contemporaneous mapmakers called the Unknown. While presenting the salient facts, Fritz approaches them with playful irreverence; accordingly, the frequentl...	[ 1077, 4138, 4407, 4437, 4513, 4804, 4845, 5195, 5330, 6301, 7111, 8073, 10155, 10321, 11138, 15154, 15268, 15934, 21376, 21620, 26604, 26740, 26812, 27379, 27509, 27553, 28962, 28980, 29011, 29025, 29029, 32363, 34495, 38695, 40072, 40079, 4188...	Train
15,991	2	"I'm lonely," Little Beaver cries, "I need a friend." When a voice answers from across the pond, "I'm lonely. I need a friend," Little Beaver sets off to find this kindred spirit. Along the way, he's joined by a duck, an otter and a turtle, who each claim, "I do need a friend, but it wasn't me who was crying." At the e...	[ 8598, 13949, 15915, 16254, 21109, 38587, 39558, 42103, 44463, 52602, 59259, 66391, 68491, 75723 ]	Test
15,992	16	In a stunning celebration of color Caldecott medalist Young ( Lon Po Po ) offers a vibrant variation on the fable of the blind men trying to identify an elephant. Seven differently-hued blind mice approach the "strange Something" in their midst on successive days and report their findings to the group. A large black sq...	[ 884, 2840, 4587, 5352, 5449, 5507, 5533, 5554, 7194, 8539, 9563, 10269, 10271, 10377, 10589, 10841, 10935, 11254, 13723, 14203, 15321, 15381, 15393, 15915, 15953, 16146, 17137, 20697, 21472, 23235, 24866, 25129, 25306, 32368, 32772, 36231, 4773...	Train
15,993	2	Gr. 1-3. The first day of second grade brings wonderful surprises for Herbie. First, when his big sister sees him eating ice cream for breakfast, she doesn't snitch. Second, he makes a new friend on the way to school. And finally, his new teacher isn't the expected Mrs. Schnellenberger, but Mr. S. ("Hold the burger"), ...	[ 541, 1301, 6388, 10106, 10698, 20343, 22796, 29021, 45535, 45991, 74037 ]	Validation
15,994	11	A native of the Appalachians, Houston (The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree) obviously writes from the heart. Though injured while trying to prove to his exacting father that he is a "man," Littlejim practices reciting Bible verses for the school competition; if he wins, he will be able to take part in the Christmas ...	[ 5494, 6327, 14412, 16299, 21290, 27026 ]	Validation
15,995	11	Grade 1-6?A companion to Bruchac's Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back (Philomel, 1992). In that title, a grandfather shared the moon's legends with his grandson. In this book, a grandmother relates the legend of Sky Bear to her granddaughter. Sky Bear (also known as the Big Dipper) circles the Earth each night, and these ...	[ 199, 5330, 5352, 5488, 5583, 5674, 5717, 7183, 7232, 7284, 7485, 15915, 18048, 20820, 22530, 26196, 27234, 35399, 35425, 37723, 38090, 42513, 42605, 46433, 48472, 51778, 52478, 57519, 59255, 59897, 61146, 62535, 62863, 65089, 72272, 76234 ]	Test
15,996	2	In this Algonquin Indian version of the Cinderella story, two domineering sisters set out to marry the "rich, powerful, and supposedly handsome" Invisible Being, first having to prove that they can see him. They cannot, but their mistreated younger sister the Rough-Face Girl--so called because the sparks from the fire ...	[ 405, 690, 4383, 4577, 4605, 4646, 5330, 5352, 5449, 5479, 5533, 5569, 5583, 5878, 5978, 5991, 6150, 6945, 6962, 6981, 7194, 7284, 10269, 10377, 10641, 15905, 15953, 15974, 16061, 16062, 16187, 16536, 17137, 17700, 18150, 20691, 22970, 23683, ...	Validation
15,997	0	Moe the dog gave his friend Arlene a faux beach in Stanley and Primavera's infectiously upbeat Moe the Dog in Tropical Paradise; now it's Arlene's turn to surprise Moe. This time, the shaggy brown protagonist invents a slogan for the ice-cream company where he and Arlene work ("Golly wow! Try Frozen Cow! It's the cat's...	[ 15959 ]	Train
15,998	2	Gifted at breathing life into a remote past, Caldecott Medalist McCully (Mirette on the High Wire) once again reaches into the grab bag of history-and unabashedly embroidered legend-emerging with this swashbuckling tale of Grania O'Malley, Ireland's famed lady pirate. Her larger-than-life career is chronicled here from...	[ 17649, 29120 ]	Train
15,999	15	In an opening Hudson River Valley scene of trees, mountains, water and mist, the reader is told "to climb a waterfall, go to the foot of the mountains." From there, an unnamed, barefoot child called "you" hikes up the course of a stream, through a trout pool and on up the canyon: "Turn over the rocks. If you are lucky ...	[ 5420, 5431, 7318 ]	Train

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Mitsumasa Anno was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Medal, the highest honor attainable in the field of children's book illustration, in 1984. He original art will be displayed at the gallery opening of The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Northhampton, MA.; Title: Anno's Journey

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Eric Hill (www.funwithspot.com) left school when he was fifteen and took up cartooning while working as a messenger at an art studio. He created Where's Spot? as a bedtime story for his two-year-old son. It was published four years later, and the rest is history. Eric Hill passed away in July 2014.; Title: Puppy Love (...

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"A dinosaur mystery for sleuths and dino fans."Kirkus Reviews"Devlin is a smart, resourceful girl who is easy to root for...readers will blaze through the pages at lightning speed."BooklistLinda Fairstein worked in the district attorneys office in Manhattan for more than two decades. Her Alexandra Cooper novels are int...

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Gr 36Readers meet 12-year-old Devlin Quick, girl detective and book lover, in this new series. Devlin's friend Liza thinks she has seen someone slice a page from a rare book in the New York Public Library. Unfortunately, this crime was committed with no grown-up witnesses present. Devlin, knowing that defacing a book i...

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Book by Watson, Clyde; Title: Catch Me Kiss Me

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Thick clusters of vivid blue flowers, which resemble old-fashioned sunbonnets, cover the Texas hills in the springtime every year. These lovely wild flowers, known by the name of bluebonnet, are the state flower of Texas, This favorite legend based on Comanche Indian lore, tell the story of how the bluebonnet came to b...

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Barbara Helen Berger lives on Bainbridge Island, Washington.; Title: Grandfather Twilight

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Kindergarten-Grade 2 In these poems, readers will find children building castles, writing letters, playing mommy, taking imaginary horse and cart rides and singing lullabies to their dolls. Each cheerful, bouncy verse is accompanied by an elaborately framed reproduction of Nister ' s 19th - Century paintings depicting ...

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By reinventing the wheel, the author of Anno's Counting House, Anno's Mysterious Multiplying Jar and the recent Socrates and the Three Little Pigs brings to math an intuitive understanding of numbers, sequence and order, which he passes on to readers. He starts with the concept of comparison and difference: in a row of...

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Wolf loves to eat almost more than anything else in the world. No sooner does he finish a meal, he's planning his next. He searches all day for a chicken for his stew. When he finally spies one, he hesitates and hatches a plan to fatten the bird, which will mean more stew. So he marshalls his considerable culinary skil...

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Eric Carle and Tomie dePaola: Author One-on-One Eric Carle is the creator, author, and illustrator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and many other childrens books. Tomie dePaola is the author and illustrator of Strega Nona: Her Story and countless other books. They recently had a conversation about their careers as pictu...

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As in her earlier Grandfather Twilight, Berger has created a picture book dreamscape, full of radiant colors and intriguing possibilities. Alone with her doll in a playhouse, the young narrator receives an unusual visitor who comes calling "in a carriage bright as the sun." The visitor's consort is a lemon-yellow lion ...

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Will is trying to fish, but his younger sister Mabel keeps scaring away the fish with her noisy questions, like, "What makes it rain?" and, "Where does the wind come from?" Out from the bushes comes Lillian Two Blossom, an old Indian woman who offers to take them for a boat ride to find the answers. Off they go, with W...

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Kindergarten-Grade 3-- Tanya, a vivacious preschooler, is bitten by the ballet bug before she is old enough to take lessons. She helps her big sister, Elise, practice and hangs around to watch Elise's class go through their jetes and plies . Best of all, Tanya likes to create her own dances either alone or in a pas de ...

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PreSchool-Grade 4 Like a good winter coat in a large family, this anthology can be passed along to many children. The smallest can listen to ``The Three Bears,'' the middle-sized ones will enjoy ``The Owl and the Pussycat,'' and the older ones will puzzle out ``Rumpelstiltskin.'' Jacobs, Andersen, and Grimm account for...

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Among the greatest charms of children is their ability to view a simple activity as a magical adventure. Such as a walk in the woods late at night. Jane Yolen captures this wonderment in a book whose charm rises from its simplicity. "It was late one winter night, long past my bedtime, when Pa and I went owling." The tw...

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Hissey's textured illustrations, so lifelike that they resemble hand-tinted photographs, are as remarkable here as in her Old Bear. All the toy characters are back, helping Little Bear locate lost trousers, which everyone has used differently: Camel as hump-warmers, Rabbit as a holey ski hat, Dog as a two-bone bone-hol...

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An old woman named Babushka always wins first prize in the Easter festival for her exquisitely painted Ukrainian eggs. When she finds a wounded goose outside her house, Babushka takes her in, cares for her until she is strong again, and names her Rechenka. The goose lays an egg each morning for the old woman, but as sh...

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Gr 25As Winnie-the-Pooh turns 90 years old, four respected children's authors have imagined entertaining new adventures for the iconic bear and his friends. Echoing the voice of A.A. Milne and illustrated in the style of E.H. Shepard, this new volume invites readers to "join Winnie-the-Pooh for a year of adventures in ...

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Text: Spanish (translation) Original Language: English; Title: Spot Va a la Granja

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Born and raised in New York City, Jane Yolen now lives in Hatfield, Massachusetts. She attended Smith College and received her master's degree in education from the University of Massachusetts. The distinguished author of more than 170 books, Jane Yolen is a person of many talents. When she is not writing, Yolen compos...

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PreSchool-K Hissey's artistic talent is worthy of a more substantial story. Utterly adorable and realistic stuffed animals are scruffy and frayed in the superb full-color drawings that flesh-out this slim tale of toys with lives of their own. Bramwell Brown suddenly remembers one day that his good friend Old Bear had b...

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In the latest Spot book, the famous brown-and-yellow puppy and his friends help young readers learn over 500 words and identify objects. Some of the words, such as "tree," "bird" and "flower," will be familiar, but others, such as "horseshoe," "horizon" and "recorder," won't be as well-known. Instead of a single story ...

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This sentimental, neo-Victorian rendering of the Lord's Prayer does an injustice to the psalm it illustrates. Angelic 19th century children scamper through most of the volume, observing with reverence God's luminous creations. Then the phrase "Thy will be done, On earth as it is in heaven" is illustrated by a picture o...

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No better combination of artist and poet can celebrate nature more aptly than Emily Dickinson and Tasha Tudor. Ackerman has selected 23 of Dickinson's works from the almost 2,000 that have been published in order to share Dickinson's love of nature with today's children. However, 14 of these poems are excerpts. A note ...

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A girl who is afraid to go to sleep asks for the familiar story of Charlotte, her handmade stuffed elephant. It is the mother's own story, and though it is late, she tells it to her daughter. When she was five, her grandmother made her an elephant out of sewing box scraps and she named it Charlotte, "the prettiest name...

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In this engaging poetry collection, popular children's book illustrator Tomie dePaola succeeds again in creating cheerful, rib-tickling animal characters, from the renegade reptile in Eve Merriam's "Alligator in the Escalator" to the cavorting cats in T. S. Eliot's "The Song of the Jellicles." This thoughtful selection...

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In the tradition of his The Legend of the Bluebonnet and The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush, dePaola offers another gracious retelling of a timeless folktale. His skillfully pared-down narrative and paintings that glow with strong colors present the story of a well-intentioned Mexican child, Lucida. Distressed because...

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He has received virtually every major award in the television industry for work in his field, and dozens of others from special-interest groups.Fred Rogers lives in Pennsylvania.; Title: Going to the Dentist (Mr. Rogers)

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In this 128-page anthology of 37 Bible stories and prayers, dePaola wisely works from the New International Version, the contemporary translation of the Bible, to make these tales accessible to young readers. Jonah in the whale, Noah and his animal pairs headed for the ark, Moses with the burning bush: all are presente...

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Eric Carle's distinctive art holds a place of honor in the world of children's books. (He is the creator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and the illustrator of Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?.) In this thoughtfully selected collection of poems about animals, you'll meet creatures of every sort, from an ant to a...

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This is a charming exercise in autobiography (one of several) by the great author-illustrator Tomie dePaola. "Tommy" is consumed with a passion for drawing. Although encouraged by his family, who treat his pictures with respect and decorate their houses and workplaces with them, he encounters misunderstanding and frust...

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Grade 2-5 An informative, interesting, and immensely readable account of the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Aimed at the same audience as Fritz' well-known series on Revolutionary heroes (Coward), this is every bit as good as those acclaimed titles, although younger children might need to have some terms clarified....

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An abridgement of the novel Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes combined with images from a film adaptation of the work yields a complex and somewhat abstract picture book. Using a sampling of the illustrations he created for the movie version, Young ( Seven Blind Mice ) subtly accentuates the poignancy of the story w...

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"On the whole," Theodore Roosevelt once wrote, "I have continued all my life to have a better time year after year." Roosevelt lived his life like the hero of a classic children's tale: he was a small, ailing boy who overcame his physical problems--seemingly by sheer enthusiasm and will power--to achieve a career fille...

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PreSchool-K --Fans of Kasza's previous picture books will welcome this latest effort. Cheerful, energetic illustrations decorate the simple but charming taleof a youngster's search for a loving parent. A chubby-faced yellow bird with blue-striped feet, Choco believes that physical similarity is a prerequisite for famil...

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" 'Who is coming to our house?' 'Someone, someone,' says Mouse." In trusting anticipation, the animals ready the stable, cleaning, sweeping, stacking hay, and lining a crib. The visitors are, of course, Mary and Joseph, as weand the animalslearn in the book's closing pages. Simple, cleanly rhyming verses give the text ...

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Verse (often verging on doggerel) conveys this forced narrative about a boy who asks members of his family, "What did you do on the day Grandad died?" Mama, for example, responds, "I looked in the mirror, and then, son, I lied. / I said to myself that my daddy's not dead. / But the mirror looked back at me, shaking its...

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two hardcovers in slipcase; Title: The Tasha Tudor Mini Gift Set: The Lord Is My Shepherd, Give Us This Day

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Fritz ( Shh! We're Writing the Constitution! ) here presents a brisk, highly accessible biography of James Madison. Sickly as a child, Madison was a short, frail man with a wispy, small voice. His successes in incorporating personal freedoms into a reasonably strong centralized government and his enormous appetite for ...

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"When the Elephant walks . . . he scares the Bear," begins this whimsical chain-reaction story. Bear, who is interrupted as he tries to raid a beehive for honey, runs away from the Elephant. Bear then scares the Crocodile, who is relaxing and reading a newspaper. The Crocodile dives into the water and swims for his lif...

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In this companion to The Legend of the Bluebonnet, Little Gopher is smaller than the rest of the children in his tribe and can't keep up with those who ride, run, wrestle or shoot with bows and arrows. But, he has a talent of his ownhe is an artist. When he grows older, a Dream-Vision comes to him: a young Indian maide...

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In Gwinna, Berger (Grandfather Twilight; The Donkey's Dream; When the Sun Rose) has written and illustrated a magnificent fairy tale of wonder, beauty and power. Gwinna, an en chanted child with wings growing from her back, is given as a fosterling to a childless human couple by the Mother of the Owls. As Gwinna grows,...

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The newest gem from Polacco's treasure chest of family stories extolls the virtues of reading--and of taking a study break. Young Mary Ellen would rather be "outdoors running and playing" than indoors with a book. Sympathetic to her feelings, her grandfather suggests that they find a bee tree. The Michigan woods litera...

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Every young child should be introduced to this story, as great a classic as its predecessor, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. This colorful picture book describes a spider's day. Blown onto a farmyard fence, she starts to spin a web. The other animals ask if she wants to play, but in every case "the spider didn't answer. S...

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When Uncle Satie, a debonair cat-about-town, comes to visit his niece and nephew, he regales the youngsters with tales of his escapades in Gay Paree. Satie ran with quite a crowd, it seems--numbering among his friends and acquaintances Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas and a host of others. (A key on the back flap identi...

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Patrick Edward's mother is a monster--literally. An impish-faced woman experiencing a decidedly bad hair day and needing a manicure, "Monster Mama" lives in a cave behind the family house. In addition to her roaring and spell-casting skills, this unique parent bakes cookies, drives Patrick Edward to school in bad weath...

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"What did you do today, Will?" ask a literal-minded mother and father. Their son replies, "I rode my mammoth." Chronicling most of this boy's fantastic voyage in very few words and superb watercolors, Martin ( Foolish Rabbit's Big Mistake ) and Gammell ( Song and Dance Man ) evoke a prehistoric landscape vast in scope ...

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In this touching picture book, a girl discovers a new capacity for friendship when she spends some time with a neighbor boy who has Down's Syndrome. Christy's mother has told her to "be good to Eddie Lee," because he is "lonesome" and "different." Christy, however, would rather go wading with her friend JimBud than be ...

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Grade 1-4-Boulton has successfully adapted this picture book from her longer work, Opal (Tioga, 1984). Opal Whitely, born around 1900, was orphaned and brought up by foster parents in Oregon. These selections from the diary she kept "in her fifth and sixth year" bring to life an extraordinary child and evoke images of ...

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During his youth, this gifted authorartist explains in his newest book's afterword, his German grandmother would often draw him a star while chanting a nonsense rhyme. Taking that symbol as his foundation, Carle here creates a world pulsating with life and color-a world that bursts forth from a good star sketched by a ...

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From the creator of The Wolf's Chicken Stew comes the story of Mr. Pig, who decides in a bold move to ask Miss Pig out for a picnic. On his way to the picnic, he meets a fox and tells him about the date; the fox, sensing Mr. Pig ' s insecurity, offers his lovely tail to further impress Miss Pig. Mr. Pig gratefully acce...

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Three little girls spare no mercy to Lon Po Po, the granny wolf, in this version of Little Red Riding Hood where they tempt her up a tree and over a limb, to her death. The girls' frightened eyes are juxtaposed against Lon Po Po's menacing squint and whirling blue costume in one of the books numerous three-picture sequ...

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How did panettone , the rich Italian Christmas bread, get its name? With tongue firmly in cheek, dePaola provides this confection as a reply. Chubby Serafina, the baker Antonio's daughter, spends her days eating candy and weeping by the window. For although her father adores her and gives her the best of everything, To...

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This old-fashioned dog story by the author of Karen and With Love from Karen exhibits the pathos of Lassie's adventures without the sentimentality. Sure to tug at animal-lovers' hearts, the tale concerns the tenderly burgeoning friendship of its only characters: a burly Newfoundland dog that emerges from the sea--it wa...

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PreSchool-- Although this familiar poem from the late 1800s may read nicely when in a collection, as a picture book the breadth of the story is limited. Plus, because of the way the text is divided among the pages, it takes several readings to catch the rhythm of the rhyme. The setting is a toy shop in which the two ne...

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A donkey wakes from a dream of unusual burdens to find that he has carried Mary to the stable where Jesus was born. PW praised the "glorious, reverent" paintings, "in which colors intensify the impact of visions and reality." Ages 4-8. Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.; Title: Donkey's Dream

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This blithesome tale of canine ingenuity offers midwinter warmth to those who begin thinking of island getaways even before the first snowflakes fall. While blizzard-like conditions prevail, scruffy mutt Moe and his springer spaniel pal Arlene work in the Frozen Cow Ice Cream Company's nippy climes. Given a week's vaca...

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Maria is feeling so grown-up, wearing her mother's apron and helping to knead the masa for the Christmas corn tamales. Her mother even let Maria wear some perfume and lipstick for the big family celebration that evening. When her mother takes off her diamond ring so it won't become coated with the messy masa, Maria dec...

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PreSchool-- Easter delights--egg-dyeing and hunting, blooming potted bulbs, new clothes, the Bunny, and goody-filled baskets--as well as a centerfold of newborn animals and newly hatched birds--are winningly depicted in flat perspectives and a warm palette. A cheery farm family of young parents and four children celebr...

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"My mother and Bootsie Barker's mother are best friends," begins the diminutive narrator of this uproariously illustrated story. Bootsie stops short of actually biting, but she bares her teeth in a gleeful lethal grin as the daily mom-and-daughter visit begins. Wearing her broad-brimmed black hat and wickedly pointy ho...

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To many Native Americans, the 13 cycles of the moon represent the changing seasons and the passage of time. Each moon has its own special name that, while varying among the tribal nations, is consistent with the legend that the 13 scales on Old Turtle's back hold the key to these moons. The authors present 13 poems tha...

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With over thirty four million books in print, Jan Brett is one of the nation's foremost author illustrators of children's books. Jan lives in a seacoast town in Massachusetts, close to where she grew up. During the summer her family moves to a home in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts.As a child, Jan Brett decided t...

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Children find the story of Goldilocks delightful for so many reasons. There's a trespassing little girl, for starters, who barges into the bears' house uninvited and not only snoops around, but eats the bears' food! The suspense of wondering whether she'll get caught only adds to the thrill of the trespassing itself, a...

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PreSchool-Grade 1-- A crew of kids and animals, dressed in appealing combinations of comfortable odds and ends of clothing, responds to suggestions from Cauley's verse. They wiggle, purr, fly, tickle, somersault, kiss, and spin against the white background of double-page spreads. In a style much like Bruce Degen's, Cau...

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Polacco--in the role of young narrator--introduces another cast of characters from her fondly remembered childhood. Brothers Stewart and Winston often invite the girl to join them and their Gramma Eula Mae--whose choir singing is "like slow thunder and sweet rain"--at the Baptist church and to come for Miss Eula's boun...

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Mirette and the "Great Bellini" traverse the Paris skyline on high wire in the climactic scene of this picture book about conquering fear. The two meet at Mirette's mother's boarding house, where Bellini is staying with a troupe of traveling performers. Mirette persuades Bellini to teach her his art, and soon enough th...

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"Teeka was excited. And a little afraid. This year Santa had asked her to get the reindeer ready to fly on Christmas Eve." Teeka, an Arctic girl who lives "in the shadow of Santa's Winterfarm," knows it will be a struggle to round up the reindeer who'd roamed wild on the tundra since last Christmas. Reindeer training i...

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Even the awkward style here (a choppy, breathless tone is exacerbated by the relentless use of fragments and single- sentence paragraphs) conveys the excitement of Lindbergh's historic flight at the age of 25, but Wimmer's double-spread paintings steal the show: from the first glimpse of the aircraft through an arch fo...

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A group of children stuck in the drabbest of villages share a secret: when their friend Appelemando dreams, they can actually see brightly colored, amazing objects float out of the top of his head. Soon they discover that the images stick to anything moist, and disaster strikes one rainy day when--in a place that frown...

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15,972

7

Swift's classic novel provides excellent fodder for this intelligent picture book, rendered as Gulliver's account of his time in Lilliput. Without sacrificing Swift's leonine wit, Beneduce minimizes the political themes, presenting the work as a satisfyingly fanciful adventure story. Spirin's lustrous, painterly art ha...

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13

Who can resist a peek at young artists in training? Isadora gifts her heroine, Lily, with a quintessential combination of dreams and determination, then allows us to sit in on the ballet class that Lili attends four times a week. Lili and fellow students model their dance wardrobes, demonstrate their exercises and step...

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In Thunder Cake , a grandmother helps her granddaughter overcome her fear of thunder by baking a special cake while a storm threatens. Although the book's concept is good, it does not fulfill its promise. The story is poorly paced: the storm approaches rapidly, but does not break for several pages as Polacco crams in d...

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PreSchool-- In just six double-page spreads and fewer than ten sentences, dePaola tries to capture some of the historical significance and manifestations of the holiday and to relate them to contemporary celebrations. Pilgrims are depicted on the first spread (dressed in a variety of pastel tones?), but there is no att...

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"It started that summer two years ago, the one that steamed into Oakland like a thief in the night"?Polacco's (Pink and Say; Tikvah Means Hope, see p. 133) use of language is characteristically fluid, and her emotion-suffused illustrations are equally compelling. But her "modern myth" is problematic: the conflict is mo...

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Former ballerina Isadora (Swan Lake; Lili at Ballet) brings her dance training to bear on this distinctive version of the classic Russian folktale; here, the Balanchine/Stravinsky ballet is the chief source of inspiration. Fantastical watercolors in midnight-hued purples, blues and greens spiked with red and gold conju...

[ 61992 ]

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Gallagher's (Moonhorse) eerily stylized paintings lend a haunting resonance to this moralistic tale of a hardened man who learns to open his heart. When the curmudgeonly Giant denies the local children access to his expansive garden, a great chill descends on them all. Winter lingers and spring refuses to scale the gar...

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Kindergarten-Grade 2-Old Peter is the cemetery keeper in an isolated Irish seaside village. He works hard, "'to no one's delight,'" and lives a solitary life in a small stone cottage. A stray dog comes down from the hills, and although the man gives it a few scraps of food, he makes it clear that the animal must leave....

[ 16092 ]

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A somewhat headstrong artist in search of "just the right scene" leads off the adventure in this slight picture book. Accompanied by his son--who has his own plans for exploring the woods--Dad brings paints, easel and a big canvas while the boy carries a net, jar and some shortbread. Dad's temper grows short as his ide...

[ 16092 ]

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15,981

5

DePaola ( Strega Nona ) retells--but does not illustrate--a legend about the origin of the jewel-patterned Persian rug. King Balash's brilliant giant diamond is stolen by a stranger who accidentally drops it onto a rocky plain, where the jewel shatters into thousands of glittering fragments. When apprentice carpet-weav...

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15,982

11

The folklore of Mexico inspires this impressive collaboration by the talented creators of The Badger and the Magic Fan and Pages of Music . After clever Rabbit sneaks into a field one evening and feasts on the biggest chiles, the farmer sets up a beeswax "farmer" to trap the thief. When this imposter refuses to talk th...

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The newest addition to this prolific author's library of autobiographical picture books celebrates his childhood relationship with his grandfather--"We're named after each other, Tommy. That's why I want you to call me Tom instead of Grandpa." Together they read the Sunday comics, share stories, or tend to the butcher ...

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PreSchool-Grade 1. Rabbits on the range doesn't mean what's for dinner. These furry critters are cowboys who "Start at sunup/Work all day/Roping cows/Tossing hay." Loomis continues their adventures with whooping and hollering in easy, metered, a-b-c-b rhyme-scheme quatrains. The bunnies go the cowboy way all day, and t...

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15,985

16

PreS?dePaola's familiar, charming illustrations of chubby, round-faced children carry this book, which teaches an appreciation for the natural world. The text is the epitomy of simplicity. Each page proclaims affection for some element of nature?"I love you, flower," "I love you, stars," etc.?ending with "And you love ...

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A Scandinavian girl must use her wits to outsmart a bunch of pesky trolls in Brett's latest picture book. When Tre,va and her dog Tuffi are set upon by these nasty creatures with dognapping on their minds, the girl dissuades the little folk by offering them other belongings in Tuffi's stead. And, ingenious child that s...

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Officer Buckle is a roly-poly bloke, dedicated to teaching schoolchildren important safety tips, such as never put anything in your ear and never stand on a swivel chair. The problem is, Officer Buckle's school assemblies are dull, dull, dull, and the children of Napville just sleep, sleep, sleep. That is, until Gloria...

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Kindergarten-Grade 3-"After school, when I want to be at softball practice, I have to sit down at the piano instead." The fact that the narrator's music teacher is grouchy and critical doesn't help, and his mother won't let him quit his lessons. What helps is Nana Hannah next door: her tango lessons, her twisted ankle,...

[ 41718 ]

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15,989

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Grade 3-6-Yolen takes readers through the traditional Jewish calendar year beginning with Rosh Hashanah and ending with the weekly celebration of the Sabbath. The history and most important aspects of the observances are accompanied by evocative poems, traditional songs and stories, and a playlet for Purim. The illustr...

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Noted biographer and historian Fritz ( Bully for You, Teddy Roosevelt ) offers a wickedly funny look at 10 explorers who, between 1421 and 1522, ventured into what contemporaneous mapmakers called the Unknown. While presenting the salient facts, Fritz approaches them with playful irreverence; accordingly, the frequentl...

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"I'm lonely," Little Beaver cries, "I need a friend." When a voice answers from across the pond, "I'm lonely. I need a friend," Little Beaver sets off to find this kindred spirit. Along the way, he's joined by a duck, an otter and a turtle, who each claim, "I do need a friend, but it wasn't me who was crying." At the e...

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In a stunning celebration of color Caldecott medalist Young ( Lon Po Po ) offers a vibrant variation on the fable of the blind men trying to identify an elephant. Seven differently-hued blind mice approach the "strange Something" in their midst on successive days and report their findings to the group. A large black sq...

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Gr. 1-3. The first day of second grade brings wonderful surprises for Herbie. First, when his big sister sees him eating ice cream for breakfast, she doesn't snitch. Second, he makes a new friend on the way to school. And finally, his new teacher isn't the expected Mrs. Schnellenberger, but Mr. S. ("Hold the burger"), ...

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15,994

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A native of the Appalachians, Houston (The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree) obviously writes from the heart. Though injured while trying to prove to his exacting father that he is a "man," Littlejim practices reciting Bible verses for the school competition; if he wins, he will be able to take part in the Christmas ...

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15,995

11

Grade 1-6?A companion to Bruchac's Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back (Philomel, 1992). In that title, a grandfather shared the moon's legends with his grandson. In this book, a grandmother relates the legend of Sky Bear to her granddaughter. Sky Bear (also known as the Big Dipper) circles the Earth each night, and these ...

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15,996

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In this Algonquin Indian version of the Cinderella story, two domineering sisters set out to marry the "rich, powerful, and supposedly handsome" Invisible Being, first having to prove that they can see him. They cannot, but their mistreated younger sister the Rough-Face Girl--so called because the sparks from the fire ...

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15,997

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Moe the dog gave his friend Arlene a faux beach in Stanley and Primavera's infectiously upbeat Moe the Dog in Tropical Paradise; now it's Arlene's turn to surprise Moe. This time, the shaggy brown protagonist invents a slogan for the ice-cream company where he and Arlene work ("Golly wow! Try Frozen Cow! It's the cat's...

[ 15959 ]

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Gifted at breathing life into a remote past, Caldecott Medalist McCully (Mirette on the High Wire) once again reaches into the grab bag of history-and unabashedly embroidered legend-emerging with this swashbuckling tale of Grania O'Malley, Ireland's famed lady pirate. Her larger-than-life career is chronicled here from...

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In an opening Hudson River Valley scene of trees, mountains, water and mist, the reader is told "to climb a waterfall, go to the foot of the mountains." From there, an unnamed, barefoot child called "you" hikes up the course of a stream, through a trout pool and on up the canyon: "Turn over the rocks. If you are lucky ...

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