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34,700 | 11 | Featuring sharp-toothed yet ultimately benign monsters, round-headed children and a few nonthreatening witches and ghosts, the inimitable Wilson's art for this volume is playful rather than hair-raising. The same can be said of the bulk of the 19 stories. Included are folktales from a spectrum of countries, retold by s... | [
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34,701 | 0 | Grade 1-3-Roddy loves to listen to his grandfather's tales of "long ago, when things weren't like they are today," and nothing gets Granddaddy going better than the photo album containing "fuzzy black-and-white pictures" from "the summer of nineteen hundred and fifty-five" when he spent his days "arabbin'." An endnote ... | [
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34,702 | 1 | As in her fiction for adults (Love Medicine), Erdrich makes every word count in her bewitching debut children's story. Similarly, there is not a wasted stroke in LaMarche's (The Rainbabies; Carousel) evocative acrylic and colored-pencil art, which brings the characters' expressive faces and likable personalities into s... | [
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34,703 | 13 | PreSchool-Grade 2. Every Wednesday afternoon, Sophie's Aunt Lena attends a Broadway matinee. When Lena returns, she exuberantly reenacts scenes and songs as Sophie eats her dinner. One evening, in the middle of a "showstopping number," Aunt Lena slips and injures her ankle. Confined to bed, she misses the lights and so... | [
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34,704 | 13 | Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington, "King of the Keys," was born on April 29, 1899, in Washington, D.C. "He was a smooth-talkin', slick-steppin', piano-playin' kid," writes master wordsmith Andrea Pinkney in the rhythmic, fluid, swinging prose of this excellent biography for early readers. It was ragtime music that first ... | [
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34,705 | 11 | Author and illustrator of numerous acclaimed picture-book biographies (Cleopatra; The Bard of Avon), Stanley turns her talents to preserving a more personal history, the experiences of a friend of her grandmother's. The sheltered daughter of a prosperous Mexican family, Elena has aspirations higher than those of her fo... | [] | Train |
34,706 | 0 | With illustrations quaint enough for Christmas cards, an author's note that explains the history of nesting dolls, and a story reminiscent of The Tin Soldier, Bliss's (Matthew's Meadow) picture book will especially please collectors of Russian matryoshkas. The story begins "in a small shop in a snowy village in Russia,... | [
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34,707 | 11 | Erdrich (The Birchbark House) skillfully weaves family memories into a poignant and lyrical story of home and hearth. The symbolism may be more moving to adults, but the theme of family and preservation will resonate with children. A young mother relates how when she was a girl in the Turtle Mountains, a wood-burning, ... | [
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34,708 | 0 | Grade 1-3?The meter and appealing rhyme scheme of the cumulative verses apparent in the Spanish text are missing in the English version. The simple story centers on a Christmas tree and the joy it brings to those who assemble to decorate it. Straightforward sentences describe, first in English, then in Spanish, one thi... | [
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34,709 | 0 | Grade 4-7?Almost 2000 years ago, a modern, prosperous Roman city was lost forever, buried in lava and ash when Mt. Vesuvius erupted without warning. Although stories about Pompeii were told for hundreds of years after the city was abandoned, the first archaeological excavations did not begin until 1748. Many mysteries ... | [
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34,710 | 2 | Ages 5^-9. Richly colored full-page paintings show a lovingly individualized Chicano family that is part of a New Mexico community in the open landscape under the starlit winter sky. Anaya's upbeat story, first published in a magazine in 1987, focuses on Luz, a young girl whose father, wounded in World War II, hasn't c... | [
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34,711 | 11 | Kindergarten-Grade 2. If you have young patrons (and/or their parents) who have enjoyed Wegman's Cinderella (1993) and William Wegman's Mother Goose (1996, both Hyperion), you will have an audience for this spin-off of the old tale of the country mouse and the city mouse. For those not familiar with Mr. W's productions... | [
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34,712 | 2 | Grade 1-4-As Katie and her grandmother watch the Kilauea volcano erupt during their trip to Hawaii, Grandmother describes the eruption process as natural history. At every step of their discussion, Katie corrects her, interpreting the volcano in terms of the myth of Pele, the goddess of fire. Grandmother says, "The lav... | [
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34,713 | 0 | Grade 1-3?If a dour weimaraner can portray Cinderella in William Wegman's book (Hyperion, 1993), why not a fuchsia dinosaur? Following the silly sibilants in Some Smug Slug (HarperCollins, 1996), Edwards takes her readers way back?it looks like the '50s?for a daffy "d" diversion where Dinorella, an apatosaurus, waits h... | [
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34,714 | 11 | Grade 3-6. Photographs and text document the finding of a 5300-year-old mummy in the Italian Alps in 1991. The largest section of the book is a fictional re-creation of the man's last days, illustrated with attractive paintings and sidebars that give information on what is known about life in that period and how the Ic... | [
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34,715 | 0 | This latest of Zindel's (Reef of Death) thrill-a-chapter adventure stories serves up mutant dinosaurs as the monsters du jour. The story?centered around a teenage boy's hunt for a baby raptor?is densely seasoned with sequences of giant reptiles snagging and devouring their prey ("Its rancid froth and ooze reeked with t... | [
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34,716 | 11 | PreSchool-Grade 1ATalk about waking up on the wrong side of the bed! When morning arrives, a cow moos to be milked, a hog squeals for her meal, and a horse neighs for his hay. A dog, a goat, a rabbit, and the rest join in the fray, each with its own special needs. One by one, the animals voice their demands, then queue... | [
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34,717 | 2 | PreSchool-Grade 1. In another winning story about the perky West Highland white terrier, McDuff, and his owners, Lucy and Fred, a new baby joins the family. Since the infant interferes with the dog's favorite activities of listening to the comics read aloud, taking woodsy walks, and enjoying a nightly musical program o... | [
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34,718 | 5 | Caldecott Medalist Diaz's (Smoky Nights) stylized art fittingly amplifies Anaya's (The Farolitos of Christmas) spirited pourquoi story about the first roadrunner and his victory over a tyrannical rattlesnake. Incorporating Southwestern motifs, his paintings dramatically juxtapose electric hues with earth tones and radi... | [
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34,719 | 0 | With their amber eyes and slouching postures, the weimaraner dogs photographed by Wegman haunt readers; the artist's use of human limbs in place of the animals' paws adds another dimension of strangeness. Yet in this collection of nursery rhymes, Wegman tones down the spooky shadows of, say, his Little Red Riding Hood ... | [
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34,720 | 0 | Annabelle Doll is 8 years old--and has been for over 100 years. Nothing much has changed in the dollhouse during that time, except for the fact that 45 years ago, Annabelle's Auntie Sarah disappeared from the dollhouse without a trace. After all this time, restless Annabelle is becoming more and more curious about her ... | [
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34,721 | 2 | Grade 1-4-Readers again meet Luz and her grandfather, introduced in The Farolitos of Christmas (Hyperion, 1995), shortly before he passes away. Through the seasons, Luz mourns the loss of Abuelo and keeps his memory alive by working in their garden in the summer and harvesting it in the fall. When Christmas comes, the ... | [
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34,722 | 16 | Wegman has drafted his weimaraner family into a bona fide cottage industry. In these witty sequels to A,B,C, man and dogs efficiently present seven geometric figures and the numbers one through 10. Both eight-inch-square books are printed on heavy cardboard stock, encouraging pre-readers but not, of course, ruling out ... | [
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34,723 | 16 | PreSchool-KABig features double-page spreads depicting children of all colorsAnot just brown and pink, but also light blue and light pea green. Each child is wearing an "oversized" article of clothingAdescribed as gigantic, enormous, big, huge, tremendous, and jumbo. Along with the synonyms, colors and articles of clot... | [
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34,724 | 11 | In this fantastical, sweeping picture book, Ringgold reintroduces a character from Dinner at Aunt Connie's in order to chronicle some pivotal moments in African American history. Shown here in an earlier phase, Lonnie is living in a Paris orphanage. He is visited one night by a magical Love Bird who inspires him to "lo... | [
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34,725 | 2 | It is Yoko's first day at school, so of course her mother wants to send her off with healthy comfort food for lunch--a delectable package of homemade sushi. "Have a wonderful day at school, my Little Cherry Blossom," her mother says as Yoko climbs into the bus. And it would have been, had it not been for lunchtime. Tim... | [
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34,726 | 0 | How does one say a perfect prayer? A young girl ponders this question while engaging in the summertime activities of her rural hometown, her thoughts developing into a prayer that, while occasionally awkward grammatically, is perfect in its directness and simplicity: "If I'm skipping rope or playing ball,/ or walking b... | [
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34,727 | 0 | Studded with Selznick's evocative illustrations, Wells's affecting chapter book opens in 1933, when the young narrator wins an airplane ride with a stunt pilot at the Oklahoma Air Races. Reuben is terrified, but his airplane-mad father can't see it: "I saw pride shining in his eyes like stars," Reuben observes. "If I d... | [
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34,728 | 13 | Kindergarten-Grade 4-The renowned performer and choreographer shares his deep love for dance and movement in this poignant photo-essay. The text is brief and to the point. "I am a dancer. I want to dance." Colorful close-ups of his hands and feet contrast with full-body shots, all set against a stark, white background.... | [
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34,729 | 2 | PreSchool-Grade 1Sweet, signature watercolors highlight three poems told from a small bunny's point of view. Carry Me! Talk to Me! and Sing to Me! express the animal's desires: to be held close by a loving parent, read to, sung to, and told stories. Each picture, mainly in soft pastel hues, exemplifies a moment of shar... | [
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34,730 | 2 | PreS-Gr 3-Using rhyming verse, this sweet little book describes a wedding from a flower girl's point of view. The pink-clad child shares her experience from trailing rose petals down the aisle to waving good-bye to the happy couple. Though the rhymes are sometimes a bit soppy ("These are their vows:/To live without str... | [
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34,731 | 11 | At dawn, as the "light from the smoke hole in the roof turned from black to gray," Moss is playing with a string of wampum when it breaks apart, scattering abalone shell beads in many directions. The design of the beads had held a story "from long ago," and even Moss's grandfather can't recall the beads' arrangement. "... | [
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34,732 | 2 | PreSchool-Grade 3-Gritch the Witch has worn herself out with the preparations for her big Halloween party. Awakened by her doorbell the night before the gala, she discovers that her sister, Mag the Hag, who "just flew in from Maliboo" for the fun, has arrived 24 hours early. They've never gotten along "since they were ... | [
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34,733 | 13 | Kindergarten-Grade 3-Mimi the swan drives her friends to distraction with her love of ballet. Whirling around the pond en pointe, she practices every day. Then she glimpses a production of Swan Lake from her observation point on a ledge of the Paris Opera House. "They're all pretending to be me," she cries and resolves... | [
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34,734 | 7 | Kindergarten-Grade 1-Instead of an "Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly," this Halloween story features an old witch who wants a bat. In the course of her search for the nocturnal animal, she captures a cat, creates a creature, unearths a mummy, assembles a skeleton, and conjures a haunt. At the somewhat anticlimactic ending,... | [
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34,735 | 2 | Hoffman's (Fireflies) fantasy about a girl who overcomes her fears contains a wise grandfather, a wicked circus owner, a herd of horses white as clouds and another horse the size of a Saint Bernard. Unfortunately, the abrupt transition from the realistic, leisurely opening of the story to its fantasy conclusion seems t... | [
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34,736 | 16 | PreSchool-KABig features double-page spreads depicting children of all colorsAnot just brown and pink, but also light blue and light pea green. Each child is wearing an "oversized" article of clothingAdescribed as gigantic, enormous, big, huge, tremendous, and jumbo. Along with the synonyms, colors and articles of clot... | [
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34,737 | 5 | "A good swordsman should appear as calm as a fine lady, but he must be capable of quick action like a surprised tiger," says a seasoned warrior to Fa Mulan, unaware that the young soldier is in fact a woman. Award-winning author Robert D. San Souci and Jean and Mou-Sien Tseng have created an elegant, visually stunning ... | [
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34,738 | 1 | Grade 5-7?Self-conscious about her appearance and her abilities ever since she lost her foot in an accident four years ago, 12-year-old Koby feels most at home on the water. Not only does she love living on her family's sailboat, but she revels in her time alone aboard a dinghy that she navigates through the Florida Ke... | [
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34,739 | 11 | PreSchool-Grade 3AReaders join Teeka's sprawling urban African-American family for their annual picnic in the park and experience an event so joyous and loving that they'll feel they were there. Electrified, rhythmic language catches one's attention from the first phrase: "Grandma wore her blue dress with all those flo... | [
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34,740 | 2 | Grade 1-4-A sad young girl readies herself for her beloved grandfather's funeral. Soon relatives gather to share prayer, food, and stories. Sarah's story, however, remains "stuck there in the back of my throat" until an uncle reminds her that her grandfather always said, "Everything and everyone goes on and on." That "... | [
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34,741 | 0 | Kindergarten-Grade 3. In story format, George chronicles the birth and early years of her grandson Luke, who lives with his parents in Barrow, Alaska. Luke is befriended by an Inupiat man, Aalak, who gives the child his "Eskimo" name, Kupaaq, in memory of his dead father. The text explains that "in the Arctic, where Ku... | [
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34,742 | 16 | The stars of Warthogs in the Kitchen team up again in Slop Goes the Soup: A Noisy Warthog Word Book by Pamela Duncan Edwards, illus. by Henry Cole. The author uses onomatopoeia to demonstrate how a simple sneeze sets off a messy chain of events for a pair of dinner-prepping warthogs. A note in the back explains onomato... | [
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34,743 | 2 | A child's imaginings about an apocalyptic day that might be looming turn into a heavenly view when his mother takes over and presents somewhat more positive prospects. Little Monster has a list of ``what ifs'' that are scaring him more even as he talks to his mother about them: What will happen if he wakes up and there... | [] | Train |
34,744 | 0 | PLB 0-7868-2320-8 Price pens an ode to the potential in a small child's handshands that can create, fly a kite, hold open the pages of a book; they ``sow the seeds for a brighter day.'' Lulled by its poetic rhythms, children will appreciate the uplifting message of this text that puts them in charge of their destinies.... | [
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34,745 | 2 | In this snappy novel, her first book for children, Wesley (author of the Tamara Hayle mystery series for adults) introduces a sincere and big-hearted heroine. Seven-year-old Willimena ("Willie") Thomas has a big problem: she earned $25.75 selling Girl Scout cookies and the money is due her Brownie troop leader. But the... | [
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34,746 | 15 | PreSchool-A simple, spare text gives children a brief glimpse into the life cycle of a sunflower. After planting a seed, preschooler Max waters it. Readers can then pull the tabs to see the sprout grow. On one standout double-page spread, petals are lifted to reveal the full flower. Throughout, the color of the tabs bl... | [
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34,747 | 2 | Coaxing Kittycat to sleep, Spinelli's (In My New Yellow Shirt, reviewed above) unseen narrator recounts in rhyme the pet's very busy day: "Sniffing pots of catmint/ Prancing on the chairs/ Knocking over paint cans/ Underneath the stairs." As the narrative progresses, the cat winds down its day, and parents can use the ... | [
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34,748 | 0 | Starred Review. Grade 6-9This powerful and engaging historical novel is told in dialogue and through monologues. It also moves around in time, from the period when the story takes place to "interludes," in which the various characters look back on these events years later. It begins with a factual eventthe largest slav... | [
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34,749 | 11 | Renowned feminist and social critic bell hooks takes on... hair! "Hair for hands to touch and play! Hair to take the gloom away." This rhythmic read-aloud is, on the surface, all about hair: nappy, plaited, long, short, natural, twisted, "soft like cotton, flower petal billowy soft, full of frizz and fuzz." Comb throug... | [
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34,750 | 2 | Gr. 5-7. Here's one for every reader weary of being assigned novels in which the dog dies. For expressing his true views of Old Shep, My Pal, eighth-grade football hero Wallace Wallace earns a detention that takes him off the team and plunks him down in the auditorium, where his almost equally stubborn English teacher ... | [
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34,751 | 2 | On the first day of school, Emily's teacher, Miss Cribbage, tells the class that they will make a new number friend every day for the first 100 days of school. Everyone will have a number book in which to write numerical discoveries and musings. Eager Emily dives right into the project. On the second day of school, Mis... | [
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34,752 | 2 | Charming little mouse Rosie displays the two sides of her toddler personality in this twin set of paper-over-board books just right for small hands. In her gentle mode, Rosie "tickles a fuzzy caterpillar" and "kisses her baby brother very softly"Aa model of etiquette for youngsters. Each book provides six or seven exam... | [
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34,753 | 2 | PreS-Gr. 1. During a storm an orange cat makes her way to the library, where she is taken in and given the name, Pumpkin Cat. The kitten adjusts, but feels something is missing. Soon after her arrival, she is surprised to see children dressed up in costumes and playing odd games such as bobbing for apples. The shy cat ... | [
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34,754 | 2 | The author of The Skin I'm In offers another provocative slice of city life, vibrantly evoking its sights, sounds and smells. With her brassy voice and saucy attitude, 13-year-old Raspberry Hill emerges as a vivacious heroine. She knows first-hand that living in the housing project is better than being out on the stree... | [
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34,755 | 13 | Lester's (When Dad Killed Mom, reviewed below) picture-book tribute to the blues an art form in which "the music and the beat wrap around your heart like one of your grandmother's hugs" and some of its greatest performers, hits all the right notes. Framed as a summertime storytelling session between grandfather and gra... | [
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34,756 | 11 | This affectionate celebration of Paul Laurence Dunbar's (1872-1906) work features uniformly excellent illustrationsAan engaging and coherent pastiche of various mediums and palettes that delight the eye. From Bryan's dazzling tempera and gouache painting of the dawn to Jerry Pinkney's enticing dust jacket illustrating ... | [
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34,757 | 2 | Grade 2-5-The TV "Science Guy" presents a clear, concise overview that most children will enjoy. Nye covers bacteria, viruses, how germs travel and attack humans, the immune system, and the history of the pox, plagues, and other little diseases. He touches on how germs were discovered, vaccinations, antibiotics, HIV an... | [
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34,758 | 2 | PreSchool-Grade 2The endearing kitten introduced in Yoko (1998) and Yoko's Paper Cranes (2001, both Hyperion) returns in this lovely story illustrating the challenges facing young children who are bridging two cultures. Life for Yoko in the first week of school is anything but positive. In the eyes of the other childre... | [
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34,759 | 2 | Charming little mouse Rosie displays the two sides of her toddler personality in this twin set of paper-over-board books just right for small hands. In her gentle mode, Rosie "tickles a fuzzy caterpillar" and "kisses her baby brother very softly"Aa model of etiquette for youngsters. Each book provides six or seven exam... | [
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34,760 | 2 | If you can make yourself believe that mud is cake, then anything goes! Pam Munoz Ryan (Esperanza Rising) and illustrator David McPhail pay tribute the power of imagination in this lovely rhyming picture book populated with Maurice Sendak-style kids and the wild things they conjure from everyday objects. "Mud is cake / ... | [
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34,761 | 14 | What do you get when you mix greasy, slimy sweat from a speckled frog with 16 scrappy scorpions, 17 sticky spiders, 6 slithery snakes, 6 squishy snails, and eye of newt? The meanest, most evil monster in the world. Unfortunately, if you leave out the eye of newt, the results are not exactly the same. When an evil old h... | [
14412
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34,762 | 2 | Yorinks (Hey, Al) mines the much-visited "Calvin and Hobbes" vein in this tale of a toy that comes to life, but with an intercontinental twist. Lulu is a grouchy blonde girl who begs her parents for a real dog. When they present her with a plush red toy poodle substitute named Harry instead, "Lulu went lulu.... She thr... | [
33510
] | Validation |
34,763 | 2 | PreSchool-Grade 2?The lovable West Highland white terrier makes a holiday appearance. On Christmas Eve, McDuff's owners anxiously scan the snowy sky looking for Santa Claus. Unable to spot him, Lucy and Fred go about their evening business, feeding the baby and walking McDuff. Eventually, they succumb to sleep while a ... | [
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34,764 | 15 | Grade 5-6-The Science Guy returns with a chatty, informative book on an ever-popular subject. Rather than homing in on individual species, the conversational text discusses the formation of fossils and their subsequent retrieval, bird evolution, and Pangaea, among other topics. Each brief chapter includes an activity t... | [
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34,765 | 0 | Kindergarten-Grade 3A fictional account of the early-20th-century American Suffragist movement. Susan watches her mother parade and picket in front of the White House, absorbing the message that voting is preferred over violence as a means to change. When Mama is hauled away in handcuffs, Susan takes up the call, her s... | [
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34,766 | 2 | Using the plain, honest language of children's everyday lives, Edelman-founder of the Children's Defense Fund and the author of Guide My Feet: Prayers and Meditations on Loving and Working for Children-crafts a collection of original prayers that also incorporates a few traditional selections. She offers kids support, ... | [
1040
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34,767 | 2 | Kitsch is king in this effortful enterprise, which reflects a hefty amount of labor but does not deliver a commensurate amount of reward for young readers. As in My Town, Wegman's famous weimaraners--here, Chip, Batty, Chundo and Crooky--are cast as small-town citizens. Chip is the delivery boy, bringing everything fro... | [
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34,768 | 2 | Dumpy's back! The beloved little truck, saved from rust and weeds in Dumpy the Dump Truck, the first team effort of Julie Andrews Edwards, Emma Walton Hamilton, and Tony Walton, is shined up and ready to tackle his first big job off the farm. And it just so happens that today is a big day for his young friend Charlie, ... | [
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34,769 | 0 | Mouse of My Heart: A Treasury of Sense and Nonsense gathers 56 poems and stories by Margaret Wise Brown, many previously unpublished. With an introduction by Leonard Marcus and jewel-like illustrations by Loretta Krupinski, this is one handsome volume. Whether celebrating contented solitude ("A Cottontail Rabbit in a C... | [
4759
] | Test |
34,770 | 1 | Grade 2-6-This busy, slim book introduces an array of bugs from bristletails to weevils. Reinhart opens with a general description of insect characteristics, bodies, behavior, and history and then goes on to highlight some 26 families. He concludes with informative, comical commentary on the study and conservation of i... | [
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34,771 | 1 | Normally, a whale wouldn't be hiding under a chair. But in Caldecott Honor artist Chris Raschka's wacky world of Thingy Things, that's exactly where she hides. "Is she on the table? No, Whaley Whale is not on the table." Preschoolers will like knowing exactly where Whaley Whale is at all times. The question of why a wh... | [
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34,772 | 18 | Grade 2-5-This strikingly beautiful picture book relates the true story of John Parker, an African-American businessman who bought his own freedom and helped others to gain theirs via the Underground Railroad. Rappaport chronicles just one of many incidents in which Parker helped families escape from Kentucky, a slave ... | [
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34,773 | 13 | In honor of this song's centennial anniversary, this volume collects 22 often stirring black-and-white archival photographs to illustrate Johnson's powerful lyrics, set to music by his brother, John Rosamond Johnson. Smith's rather spotty introduction offers a brief biographical sketch of the siblings and outlines the ... | [
1425
] | Train |
34,774 | 15 | Grade 3-6-Hehner begins her story on July 16, 1969, as the Saturn V rocket that would propel Apollo 11 toward its target stands on the launchpad at Cape Kennedy. She fills in some background by describing a tour of the facility that Buzz Aldrin gave his family six weeks earlier, focusing especially on Aldrin's 11-year-... | [
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34,775 | 1 | Wegman's fans will recognize Man Ray, Chundo, Chip and his many other weimaraners in this treasury edition, Wegmanology. The volume incorporates previously published work alongside new photographs to convey basic concepts. Three canines in butcher, baker and candlestick-maker garb "rub-a-dub-dub" in a tub in the "Nurse... | [
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36533,
36541
] | Validation |
34,776 | 13 | The talented husband-and-wife team behind Duke Ellington turns to jazz biography once again, this time showcasing the First Lady of Song. Narrated by Scat Cat Monroe, a feline in a zoot suit, the book spins four "tracks" on Fitzgerald's life, from her childhood in Yonkers performing on street corners, to her discovery ... | [
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34,777 | 1 | No one can resist the charms of a puppy. In photographer William Wegman's wordless ode to young Weimaraners, kids will see puppies in baskets, in planters, on the rocks, in the air, on blocks, and even in the doghouse. Babies love to look at faces (even the baby blues of other species), and Wegman's adorable, high-cont... | [
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34,778 | 2 | Woodson's (Miracle's Boys) affecting story introduces a boy and girl seemingly abandoned by their mother. "Sometimes my mama went away for a day. Sometimes for a lot of days. That's how it was with our mama," says Johnson. A kind woman appears at the door, explaining that her job "is to make sure little kids get taken ... | [
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34,779 | 2 | This spirited import from Germany is the first in a series that, according to the publisher, has more than 800,000 copies in print worldwide. Given the solid characterizations, quick-moving plot and humor of the inaugural volume, the series has a sound chance for success in this country as well. The narrator is the sel... | [
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] | Test |
34,780 | 14 | Ages 4-9. The celebrity names will grab kids and their families--Debbie Allen, Whitney Houston, Kobe Bryant, Aretha Franklin, and more--but most of their one-page accounts sound pretty much the same. They are not really stories as much as warm, upbeat childhood memories of African American families exchanging gifts, pr... | [
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34,781 | 1 | PreSchool-Grade 1-Black line illustrations partially filled in with color appear on pastel pages in these slight stories. In Doggy Dog, Raschka tries to show all the things a dog is not: a cat, a lampshade, etc. The book concludes with the statement that Doggy Dog is just that, a dog. In Goosey Goose, readers are warne... | [
48598,
48622
] | Train |
34,782 | 2 | Lovable white pooch McDuff has a real knack for finding his way home--and into readers' hearts. A handy little box with a snap closure and a red handle holds three of Rosemary Wells and Susan Jeffers's quaint, 1930s-style tales about this West Highland terrier, as well as a sheet of nine McDuff stickers. In McDuff Move... | [
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] | Train |
34,783 | 11 | Grade 1-4. Throughout the Hispanic Americas and the southwestern U.S., generations of young people have heard the tale of "La Llorona," the crying woman who killed her children long ago and who wanders through the night wailing with grief and sometimes kidnapping unchaperoned youngsters. In this less violent version of... | [
39986,
42503
] | Train |
34,784 | 2 | If you think your kid has a serious TV addiction, you haven't met Penny Lee. Not only does this girl have 300 favorite shows (including Pinky Poodle's Pool Party and Puppy Puppet's Playhouse), even her dreams have commercial breaks. (Of course, the fact that she sleeps on top of the TV set can't help.)One morning, Penn... | [
6198
] | Validation |
34,785 | 16 | Matthew Van Fleet has written and illustrated several books for children, including One Yellow Lion and Spotted Yellow Frogs. There are one million copies of his best-selling toddler book, Fuzzy Yellow Ducklings, in print. He lives in Westchester, New York.; Title: Alien Opposites | [
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34,786 | 1 | At the start of this deadpan parody of nursery stories and gumshoes, Jake Gander (who's a guy, not a goose) puts down his Once Upon a Times newspaper to field a call from Red R. Hood. "It was a code P.W.T. (Possible Wolf Trouble)," he intones. At the home of Red's Granny, Jake finds a brown beast sprawled under a purpl... | [
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61302
] | Train |
34,787 | 13 | As the architects of this sunny, House That Jack Built-style cumulative rhyming tale, Lewis (Chugga-Chugga Choo-Choo) and Cartwright (Mr. Potter's Pigeon) know what their readers want: construction, and lots of it. The narrator is a lucky boy who watches as an empty lot becomes a building site. The site then ends up be... | [
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11627,
11629,
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62599
] | Train |
34,788 | 14 | Enter, if you dare, the Monster Museum, whose halls are crowded with the likes of Count Dracula, Bigfoot, poltergeists, Medusa, mummies, zombies, werewolves, and The Blob. Nine gawking children, dressed in itchy-looking green tweed school uniforms, are led through the spider-strewn museum by a sinister, leering docent,... | [
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] | Validation |
34,789 | 13 | Choreographer Byrd collaborates with photographer Kuklin (Dance) for this African-American take on a holiday classic. Here, Clara is a widowed grandmother living in Harlem, and a family feud breaks out on Christmas Eve. When Death pays a call, Clara fends him off with her nutcracker (her late husband, Gus). Clara revie... | [
2277
] | Validation |
34,790 | 2 | Brandishing her outrageously sly sense of humor, Cole (Mommy Laid an Egg) tweaks the topic of puberty in all of its glory, with predictably boisterous results. Here, in response to a girl's query to her teddy bear about the process of growing up, she whips up "Mr. and Mrs. Hormone" and their dog, a vile little trio who... | [
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] | Train |
34,791 | 1 | PreS-Gr. 2. Wegman has made a name for himself photographing Weimaraners as dog-faced humans. In his latest picture book, Chip, a young Weimaraner dressed as a boy, is obsessed with dogs. He wants a dog to play with more than anything. In his imagination, he teaches his dream pet to sit, stay, fetch, and roll over (his... | [
19324,
22534,
36533,
36541,
36549
] | Validation |
34,792 | 2 | Published for the first time as a standalone, this story from Brown's 1939 collection, The Fish with the Deep Sea Smile, features a boy who understands that creatures are never all good or all bad, but good and bad all at once a reassuring message for small children. When Peter tells his mother that he wants a "good li... | [
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3624,
52105,
53882
] | Test |
34,793 | 1 | Sluggy Slug won't budge, not even when lured with a pink lollipop. That pretty much sums up the plot of this small, charming, square book, but Chris Raschka's simple brushstrokes speak a thousand words. Nobody could make a recalcitrant slug seem as vivacious as the creator of the Caldecott Honor book Yo! Yes? and Like ... | [
34833,
48598
] | Train |
34,794 | 11 | Grade 1-6--This well-rounded collection explores both the physical and mythical properties of the emerald isle. Many expected characters emerge--St. Patrick, Finn McCool, and St. Bridget. Fairies and leprechauns appear, as well as selections about Ireland's food, music, pride, scholars, and land. Blessings, curses, cur... | [
35083,
60888,
63741
] | Train |
34,795 | 2 | Grade 5-6-Four would-be detectives inflate minor mysteries into major ones, usually with comical consequences, in the first two episodes of this series. In each tale, the quartet acquires a different pint-sized hanger-on. In the first, when a fiercely private teacher's sudden acquisition of a red sports car and a blond... | [
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6506,
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] | Train |
34,796 | 2 | In this first entry of Hayes's (Bear By Himself) Adventures of Patrick Brown series, a bear cub gets in touch with his inner dragon and triumphs over a bully. The diminutive hero, Patrick, starts out on his maiden solo excursion to Ollie Arwood's bakery, continuing his playacting as a dragon ("He roared at a grasshoppe... | [
12552,
74165,
74186
] | Validation |
34,797 | 1 | Which end is front? Which end is back? With all the wiggling and woggling that Wormy Worm is doing, it's very hard to tell. This simple, endearing addition to Caldecott Honor artist Chris Raschka's "Thingy Thing" series encapsulates wormhood with simple words and artful brushstrokes. Designed for children just learning... | [
48598,
48622
] | Train |
34,798 | 2 | Longing for adventure, Jack the blackbird decides one day to venture out from his forest home to seek the excitement of the sea. There he encounters a dashing seagull named Jim, who welcomes Jack into his life and shows him the wonders of his seaside village. Unfortunately, the other (white) gulls aren't so hospitable.... | [
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25152,
42911,
49080,
62636
] | Test |
34,799 | 0 | PreS-K. In this most recent title in the Dumpy the Dump Truck series, Dumpy helps the village of Apple Harbor after the lighthouse is struck by lightning and loses power. On the way to the lighthouse, Dumpy helps some of his friends--Stinky the Garbage Truck, Tommy the Tow Truck, and Big Red the Fire Engine--who have b... | [
1354,
34768,
34853,
34858
] | Validation |
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