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K-Gr 3-A folktale about self-sacrifice and love and how it is rewarded. Maya is foretold her destiny by her dying mother, who proclaims, "You will be a princess." But Maya grows up contentedly poor, loving, and humble. One day she finds a baby turtle and raises it as her pet as turtles are considered lucky in her cultu...
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"This is a great kit to start your children to learn those common basic daily living words in Mandarin. This is an easy guide for adults to use too. I love the quality of the flash cards. They have a smooth finish and are easy to read. Besides the Chinese characters shown, it also shows the Han Yu Pin Ying, how to writ...
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Laura Armitage was born in Seoul, Korea and raised in Andover, NH. After receiving her BA in English from the University of NH, Laura pursued a teaching career in Seoul, Korea. For four years she taught at the middle and high school levels and was an instructor for the Seoul Ministry of Education. While there, she tran...
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"A beautiful introduction for kids to Bali and its culture. The book isn't so much a story about Balinese dancing as it is about the Balinese way of life." —Flowering Minds blogPamela Noensie is a scholar in the fields of psychology and communications. She lived in Indonesia for sixteen years, raising her family ...
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"a complete language learning tool specially designed to introduce young children to the basic Tagalog sounds, words, and phrases in a fun and interactive way." PragmaticMom.comImelda Fines Gasmen teaches Filipino (Tagalog) at the University of Hawaii, and also coordinates the Filipino for Kids Summer Program and other...
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PreS-Gr 2An introduction to 26 simple Hindi words arranged in the order of the English alphabet. Each word appears in Devanagari script at the top of the page, then in Roman letters, followed by a short, rhyming stanza that defines the word contextually. Each rhyme begins with the Hindi word ("A is for akaash") and the...
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Joan Suyenaga, born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, grew up with Japanese Children's Favorite Stories, the first title in this popular series, on her family bookshelf. She has been writing, translating and editing for the past 20 years in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Her three children were the first to hear the stories feat...
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"This book has a bit of everything in it. There are recipes to try as well as crafts to make. It is full of so much information and is a wonderful introduction to Thailand for any child. This book (and series) is perfect for any classroom that studies the various countries of Asia. It has a bit of everything from histo...
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"Sophany's life, and this delightful book, is a reminder that beauty will eventually triumph over darkness and violence. While there are many of us who have turned to the law to right the wrongs of the Khmer Rouge, this book illustrates the healing power of art, in all its facets." Beth Van Schaack, Leah Kaplan Visitin...
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Linda Hibbs got hooked on Indonesia on her first visit at age 12 and has been studying the language and culture ever since. She has taught Indonesian for over two decades at the secondary and university levels and holds degrees in Indonesian language and ethnomusicology, as well as a Master's degree in Asian studies. S...
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"Join three adventurous kids on a trip to the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. From exploring ancient masterpieces to examining modern works, this book gives a glimpse of over 50 Asian art pieces." Skipping Stones magazine"Even if you're not planning on visiting the Asian Art Museum in SF, and instead are planning a ...
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Gr 24This attractively illustrated collection features 15 traditional Vietnamese folktales. In her introduction, Phuoc describes the power of stories, explaining that Vietnamese children living in America can "learn about the land of their ancestors" from this compendium, and conveys "hope that these storiesbecome a ve...
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"Explore gimchi or kimchi, Taekwondo, and won (currency of Korea) as you learn all about Korea." Growing Book by Book blog"Perfect for early language introduction, this hardcover book used the English alphabet to introduce Korean words to youngsters. The hangul writing is included for each word so if you have been lear...
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K-Gr 3This book by the team that produced the award-winning Vietnamese Children's Favorite Stories, provides cultural tidbits, values, and traditions in captions, with rhymes (and occasionally strained meter) in large type for young readers. There are two pages of pronunciation help, though no mention of the six possib...
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PreS-Gr 3Choi collects 14 favorite Korean folk songs; his brief introductions open a window on Korean life and culture. For each song, he includes a simple musical score for keyboard, and lyrics in both English and Korean (Hangul and transliterated). Most are traditional tunes celebrating life (including "Mountain Rabb...
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"This unique and charming alphabet book uses rhymes and fact snippets to introduce Chinese words to a pre-schooler." The Children's Book Review blog"This book uses the alphabet to introduce Chinese words. There are both simplified and traditional versions of Chinese used, which is good, and colorful pictures on each pa...
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"This is a lovely picture book in ENGLISH but with Japanese words for each letterThere is also interesting tidbits of information about the Japanese culture that kids would enjoy." PragmaticMom.com blog"As the reader is introduced to aspects of Japanese culture on a journey from A to Z, a window is opened not only into...
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Anansi the Spider is a wise, funny, mischievous, and loveable folk hero who pops up in traditional Ashanti tales from Ghana, in West Africa. This story, retold and illustrated by Gerald McDermott, relates the tale of father Anansi and his six spider sons. When Anansi sets out on a dangerous journey and gets into all so...
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Kindergarten-Grade 3 With a rhythmic cadence Martin and Archambault build their story from a quiet moonlit night when ``there's magic in the air'' to a very special foot stompin' party and back again. On this eerie night everyone is asleep except for the ``skinny kid with questions in his head.'' With him readers sneak...
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Lachie MacLachlan...generously extends a welcome to all who pass by. Soon, a tinker, a tailor, a sailor, a lassie, an 'auld' wife, a bagpiper, and others join him, until the jubilant dancing and singing literally bring the house down....With the help of his guests, [Lachie] builds a bigger house, where there is 'always...
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"this wonderful set contains 40 colorful origami papers and instructions to build a city made of origami. You can build models of trains, cars, fire engines, helicopters, motorcycles, delivery vans, trees, houses and more!" A Mum Reviews blog"The art of origami has been around for centuries. It is an enjoyable pastime ...
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Humphrey sleeps with the toy bear his father used to have. As the boy drifts off, the bear grows huge, and bossy ("Here is your cap," he says. "Get moving"). The boat to the dream sea leaves from the backyard, and they sail away. Humphrey loses the bear in a typhoon but finds him washed ashore on an island, where the b...
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An outstanding book. School Library JournalEvaline Ness (1911-1986) illustrated more than thirty books for young readers and also wrote many of her own. In addition to winning the Caldecott Honor for A Pocketful of Cricket, she received the Caldecott Medal for Sam, Bangs, and Moonshine. She left a huge mark on the worl...
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In the book of Daniel appears the Apocrypha, a hymn of praise that was sung by Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, three Jewish captives in Babylon who were thrown into a fiery furnace and saved by an angel. "O all ye works of the Lord, bless ye the Lord: praise him and magnify him forever." In her dazzling paintings, Bayn...
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"This book is a great introduction to Indonesia culture as well as the languageThe pictures are colorful and fun as well. " Crafty Moms Share blog"Written in cheerful rhymes, this companion to My First Book of Chinese Words and other titles presents an alphabetical introduction to Indonesian words, expressions, food, a...
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Lucky Kidd watches her father ride a mean bull at the rodeo and thinks about becoming a bull rider herself.; Title: White Dynamite and Curly Kidd
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A collection of lyrical translations and Spanish texts of Latin American nursery rhymes. Ages 5-9. Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.Highly useful in supporting early bilingual needs, this collection from Latin America has been preserved in the oral tradition. There are instructions for accompanying finger ...
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The evolution of a mountain is explained in simple terms. In simultaneous story lines, Elizabeth makes a mountain of sand at the beach that is eroded by wind and rain, while on opposing pages, a nearby mountain is formed during a variety of geologic stages. It, too, will erode. Introduced are basic concepts about the e...
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An old man is visited in his lonely cabin by "a Creature with a great , big , long tail." He lops the tail off, cooks it up and gobbles it down--thus earning several nocturnal visits from the Creature, who demands the return of his "tailypo" and finally achieves it by ingesting the old man. Wahl's ( Humphrey's Bear ) l...
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Whatever a beggar boy paints with his brush comes to life, in a masterful story that glows with Demi's jewel-like art. A Reading Rainbow selection. Ages 5-8. Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.Demi's telling matches her art in fantastic effects in her new book, a tale suggested by an ancient Chinese legend. ...
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This lavish, appealing compendium at first seems a little intimidating, but it's soon apparent that it has been edited with much humor and sensitivity. Workssculpture, needlework, oil paintings and othersfrom the Metropolitan Museum of Art have been paired with over 60 familiar children's songs and hymns. "Amazing Grac...
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Kindergarten-Grade 5 Hague has selected and illustrated 30 of Stevenson's poems for this glossy full-color edition. The poems themselves are as lovely as ever, proving that the finest children's poetry speaks with such an elemental voice that its appeal and freshness do not fade with time. "The Unseen Playmate," for ex...
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A tiny pig is granted his wish which leads to an almost perfect life.; Title: Perfect the Pig
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Grade 1-4-- Hague's visual interpretation of Wilde's stories is more formal and traditional than Ed Young's The Happy Prince (S. & S., 1992) or P. Craig Russell's comic book version of Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde (NBM, 1992), but it works exceedingly well. His paintings and page decorations are solidly composed and ...
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The death of Everett Anderson's father brings to a close this empathetic series of verse stories that express universal heartaches and small moments of hope. A Reading Rainbow selection. Ages 5-8. Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.A simple, poetic telling of Everett Anderson's feelings as he copes with and ...
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Gr. 4^-6, younger for reading or singing aloud. Hague presents 32 of his favorite Christmas stories, poems, and carols, with full-color paintings in mixed media on watercolor board, some full page and others decorative. Among the selections are selections from the King James Version of the Bible, O. Henry's "The Gift o...
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Grade 1-4-- In this Chinese tale, a young hero named Chang receives a magic boat from a grateful old man whose life he has saved. When a flood devastates Chang's village, he rescues his mother and his cat in the dragon boat and successively saves an ant, a queen bee, a crane, and a man from the flood waters. The man tr...
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Kathleen Hague and Michael Hague have collaborated on several books for children, including "Bear Hugs" and "Calendarbears." The Hagues live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. --This text refers to the Library Binding edition.; Title: Alphabears: An ABC Book
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Hanging on the line with the rest of the wash, Rosebud (a beauteous nightgown) chooses to ignore Red Flannel (the well-worn long johns), who loves her dearly. Rosebud has no use for this "coarse fellow." After all, the lace-edged nightgown was made by hand in France, while the long johns were purchased from the bargain...
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The text and art of this striking picture book seem at odds, but only at first glance. Martin and Archambault's rhythmical and onomatopoetic language playfully describes the sound of rainfrom the beginning "slow soft sprinkle, / the drip-drop tinkle" to the "dripping dripping dropping / the slowly slowly stopping / the...
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A deceptively simple text with a lyrical rhythm describes a pear-shaped pumpkin growing in a garden, who unexpectedly whispers that he'll protect the yard from the "foolies." Soon a face is carved, with an eerily grinning mouth "which came to life / with candlelight, / to stay the mischief / of the night." Several crea...
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The intriguing life cycle of the saguaro cactus and the complex web of life that characterizes the North American Sonoran desert is effectively explored in this involving picture book. Guiberson's text captures the reader with its steady pace and often delightful echoes of cumulative nursery tales. She weaves an amazin...
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This cumulative counting book begins calmly enough: "I saw a cow go running by. / It said, / 'MOO MOO!' / I wonder why." But the cow is followed by two neighing horses, which are followed by three braying donkeys . . . The crazy chase builds until it involves every animal in the barnyard. The narrator, an amused boy, w...
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A photograph that shows a father and son trudging seawards down a sandy road under a lowering sky is accompanied by practical, straightforward advice: "When summer ends and autumn comes, / it's time to put on sweaters and long pants." Thus begins this cozy and evocative photo essay, replete with the many familiar color...
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Aylesworth and Gammell wing their way through the alphabet on the back of a pesky housefly in this ebullient picture-book romp. On a summer day, old black fly "bothered the baby," "coughed on the cookies" and "drove the dog nearly out of his wits," as family members attempt to "Shoo fly! / Shoo fly! Shooo." The persist...
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Drucker's riveting memoir begins where most stories of survival during the Holocaust end: a devoted Jewish mother finds a spot for her young daughter in a program that brings children out of Germany to safety in England in the spring of 1939. Only 11 at the time, Drucker had been told that her parents would join her wi...
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King Leopard is wise enough to plan for a successor: 'I must seek out the cleverest beast in our jungle. I must find one who is wise enough to rule well.' He plans a contest; the winner is to be named a prince and marry his daughter. Contestants must throw Leopard's spear up in the air and count to ten before it comes ...
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Resplendent in dazzling full color, the merry-go-round whirls its delighted passengers to the rhyming cadence of the animals' up-and-down lilt. BooklistA rollicking celebration of everyone's favorite ride. Kirkus ReviewsThe combination of Martin and Archambault's masterfully written and highly readable verse and Rand's...
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It's been 25 years since these two talented men put their heads together, but the fruit of their latest collaboration is well worth the wait. Continuing in the spirit of Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? , their new book incorporates the same clean design and crisp text, but this time the action takes place at t...
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Grade 1-3-- A young boy with muscular dystrophy goes to a special camp where he is paired with an intelligent golden retriever who performs everyday tasks that are too difficult for the physically challenged. They are leashed together while the boy learns to give commands, and Buddy learns to obey. When they leave camp...
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A fastidious pack-rat all her life, an Old Woman decides she must organize all her possessions-and what better way than alphabetically? Her brother offers to help, and soon has built her a "perfectly orderly house" that sprawls into a monstrosity of rooms, each one designated by a different letter. The plan seems a gre...
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A boy's building of a boat corresponds with his puppy's growing up. PW said, "Gloria Rand's first book is based on a true story, and it moves along quickly and succinctly; vibrant watercolor illustrations show Salty for the sporty hero he is." Ages 4-8. Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.Gloria Rand's first ...
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Grade 1-3?Experience the life of a female sea turtle as she breaks from her shell, splashes into the sea, and navigates for survival, eventually returning to the place of her birth to lay eggs. This tale of her life cycle is written in prose that gives immediacy to the events as the turtle encounters other sea animals ...
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Macy offers an excellent introduction to one of the least explored areas of baseball history (recently popularized in the film A League of Their Own ). Established by Chicago Cubs owner and chewing-gum magnate Phil Wrigley in 1943 as an entertainment alternative to the war-depleted major leagues, the AAGPBL lasted unti...
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PreSchool-Grade 3?In this tale that celebrates both summertime and the magic of anticipation, young Jesse finds a watermelon in the corner of the garden. Her pappy agrees that it will be a big one, worthy of "a watermelon day." The mention of this annual family event fills Jesse with warm memories. As the season drags ...
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The backyard exploration begun with In the Tall, Tall Grass continues here with Fleming's latest picture-book peek at nature. The animals and insects that live on and in a freshwater pond wiggle, waddle, hover, swoop and swirl through the stunning spreads--and through the seasons of the year. Fish, frogs and fowl cavor...
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``Five little ducks went swimming one day, Over the hills and far away,'' but when Mother duck calls, only four come back. So it goes, in this simple, repetitive tale, until just one is left; luckily, that one is smart enough to open the door of the shed where the fox has put the others and let them out. The story isn'...
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A newspaper article inspires eight-year-old Max and his best friend to try their hand at entrepreneurship in this carefree caper. Ages 7-9. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.Cat Bowman Smith lives in Pittsford, New York.; Title: Max Malone Makes a Million
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Grade 2-4?The hero of this neoclassical fairy tale is a veritable prince of a frog--brave, honest, and true. Overcoming great obstacles and depths of despair, he is finally rewarded with his heart's desire. Vivid paintings are rich in detail and illuminated with jewel-like gleam in this sparkling effort. Copyright 1997...
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The McKissacks ( Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman? ) continue to illuminate aspects of African American heritage with this introduction to three major kingdoms of medieval Africa: Ghana, Mali and Songhay. Based on folklore, contemporaneous accounts and modern scholarly research, their discussion covers the origins, cus...
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In this retelling of a traditional Chinese folktale, an impoverished widow with an extraordinary talent for weaving works day and night for three years to finish her most beautiful tapestry to date. Her two older sons, tired of her preoccupation with weaving, begin quarreling and lose faith in their mother. Only her yo...
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In this tender-hearted picture book, McPhail (Tinker and Tom and the Star Baby) goes undergroundAliterallyAto explore the restorative powers of music. Mole feels something is missing from his life, which consists of digging tunnels all day and kicking back in front of the TV in his subterranean home each evening. One n...
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In this intriguing picture book, Caldecott Medalist Young (Seven Blind Mice) retells a Chinese folktale about the origins of the zodiac. The Jade Emperor of Heaven invites all the animals in the land to participate in a race through the thickest part of the forest and across the river at its widest point; the first 12 ...
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Pak (Benito's Dream Bottle) endows Cuyler's (The Biggest, Best Snowman) brief text with stellar dimensions in this heartfelt picture book. As the narrative begins, "My name is Maria Mendoza," the artist cleverly interprets the words as the beginning of a letter Maria composes at a desk to an unseen recipient. Over the ...
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Demi adopts a formal style for this opulent version of the famous Russian folktale, echoing the fine craft of cloisonne and the intricacies of Faberge in her gilded illustrations. The surfeit of visual riches helps carve out a niche for the book amongst the recent spate of retellings of this tale of the feckless archer...
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With their craftily honed narratives and their pithy prefatory comments, Jaffe ( In the Month of Kislev ) and Zeitlin do ample justice to 18 gems of Jewish folklore. The heroes and heroines of these selections have only moments to frame solutions to thorny questions or dilemmas--in many cases, their answers will mean t...
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Kindergarten-Grade 3-"No tires el pan,"-Don't throw the bread away! a mother sings to her child. She explains, poetically, how wheat is planted, grown, harvested, milled, and baked to loaves of life-giving bread. A little song, "El pan es para comer" (music included) accompanies each step in the process. Spanish and En...
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The luminous pencil drawings of Peter McCarty that illustrate Night Driving capture the simple, memorable story of a young boy's nighttime car ride with Dad. Cruising rural highways, watching the stars, and listening to a ball game on the radio on the way to the mountains for a camping trip--this is the stuff of perman...
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Kindergarten-Grade 3? While variants of this tale exist in several cultures, Demi uses Pushkin's retelling as the basis of this version. A poor fisherman spares the life of a magical talking fish, and in return is granted anything he wants. At first he asks for nothing, but later?spurred on by his greedy wife?he reques...
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Kindergarten-Grade 2. Everyone is looking for the missing Louella Mae. Men, women, and children all join in the search as they scour the cornfields, the barn, the woods, and the hillsides. The day passes, and when the dejected group returns home at nightfall, they find Louella Mae, a mama pig, sleeping in a tub with a ...
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Grade 4 Up-If a chief asks a woman for a cow of no color, how should she respond? A lawyer is sure he's gotten his client off but the jury convicts him. Why? A wise judge knows a man is a thief, but how can he prove it? Jaffe and Zeitlin offer a collection of 23 brief stories intended to make readers ask themselves: Wh...
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Armed with a camera and a keen eye, Steltzer went hunting in the Northern Arctic and captured on film a father-and-son team engaged in the ancient and fascinating Inuit art of igloo building. Each turn of the page reveals another step in the process, from pacing off a circle to the secret of the sturdy design (the bloc...
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In this striking volume, Demi (The Empty Pot; The Firebird) introduces each of the Chinese zodiac's 12 animal symbols by retelling the fables associated with them. Her writing is succinct and witty, and the morals less familiar than Aesop's ("The more you know, the more you know there is to know"). Fittingly, the circl...
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A veritable banquet of vibrant images and jocular rhymes awaits readers in this irresistible picture book, Goldstone's first, illustrated by Caldecott Medalist Lent (The Funny Little Woman). When the beasts decide to dine, a healthful and ethnically varied repast followsA"mosquitoes bring burritos," "fishes bring knish...
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Giovanni (The Genie in the Jar) and Bryan (What a Morning!) form a fruitful partnership in this ebullient collection of 13 poems. Whatever Giovanni's topic, her poetry builds on an underlying exuberance: of cold-weather preparations, she writes, "Bears store fat/ chipmunks gather nuts/ and I collect books/ for the comi...
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the story of wanting to feel needed and appreciated will resonate with young audiences. Horn BookHeo's clear oil and pencil art is appealing, with skillful use of color to balance the compositions and engage viewers. School Library JournalHeo's (Polka Dot Penguin Pottery) cheerfully hued oil-and-pencil compositions pos...
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Harmony is the effect Huy achieves in her playful collage cutouts of blooming park scenes. As in At the Beach and In the Snow, Huy fluidly weaves a lesson in drawing Chinese characters into a mother-son outing. Young Xiao Ming, sporting a baseball cap, pulls his pigtailed mother excitedly through an expansive urban ref...
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From common Domestic Caps to the deadly Destroying Angel, from Octopus Stinkhorns to Scaly Hedgehogs?Arnold (Baba Yaga), a lifelong mycophile, here shares her passion for wild mushrooms. In collaboration with Swope (The Araboolies of Liberty Street), she serves up a glorious, earthy stew of fact, humor, folklore and pe...
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PreSchool-Grade 2?This Southwestern counting adventure follows un caballo (one horse) and dos vaqueros (two cowboys) as they try to round up some cattle. Colorful watercolor cartoons appear throughout. Readers will learn the all-important Spanish words for roadrunner, armadillo, and tumbleweed, as well as the numbers 1...
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Celebrated poets such as Rita Dove, Galway Kinnell and Stanley Kunitz preface their poems with commentary and black-and-white photos of themselves in childhood and adulthood in The Invisible Ladder: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poems for Young Readers, edited by Liz Rosenberg. The anthology introduces readers ...
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A fictionalized walking tour of New York's Chinatown at the time of the New Year celebration, conducted by a young Chinese- American boy and his grandmother. Together they make their way through the crowded, colorful streets, into shops and restaurants, and past street vendors. They watch the traditional New Year's Day...
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Despite the subtitle, this is not strictly a Cinderella tale so much as a patchwork of two or three fairy tales, including Cinderella, brought to a Polish-Jewish setting. It begins as a variant on the tale in which a father asks each of his three daughters to declare how much she loves him; the older two answer in obvi...
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PreSchool-Grade 3 In a handsome format, the framed verses of the King James Version, each decorated with a spray of golden pansies, appear on the versos and face full-page mixed-media illustrations of children in situations associated with the scriptural quotations. In most, the connection is apparent, but some, such a...
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Shows preschool disabled children actively playing and learning....In dispelling the fear of the unknown and showing our common needs for physical affection, community, skills, and independence, this book should do much to help the disabled [child] gain acceptance from other children. Bulletin of the Center for Childre...
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A boy and his dog create a record-setting-sized snowball that makes them celebrities in their town. "Guevara's pictures are as droll as Miller's puckish story," said PW. Ages 4-8. (Nov.) Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.; Title: Emmett's Snowball (Henry Holt Young Readers)
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PreSchool-Grade 1. A delightful story with a recurring pattern, told in only 28 words. Eight animals with alliterative names (Zany Zebra, Marvelous Mouse, Crazy Kangaroo, etc.) vie for circus stardom. In fact, each creature announces himself as the "star of the circus" only to be driven off the stage by a bigger and fi...
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"Bunny, Bunny, the sky is turning black. Bunny, Bunny, aren't you going back? Won't you stop to sleep, Little Bunny?" Absolutely not. This bunny has places to go, and no time to linger with five fat sheep or to be someone's pet. Over train tracks, through meadows and trees, the resolute rabbit presses on. No, this is n...
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This delightful book blends English and Spanish texts with fanciful watercolor-and-ink illustrations. The parallel versions of these lullabies, tongue twisters, and riddles from South America take advantage of word play in both languages....Perfect for family sharing, especially where children are helping their parents...
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Getz explains the incredible story of the Iceman clearly and concisely, simply enough for a child to understand but in enough depth to satisfy a curious lay adult. Kirkus ReviewsAs smoothly written as Getz's fiction (Thin Air and Almost Famous), the book deals with questions designed to keep readers interested till the...
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In her well-researched text, Fraser incorporates fascinating detail...while honestly addressing the prejudice faced by Chinese laborers. Good use of the broad picture-book format. An attractive resource. Kirkus ReviewsMary Ann Fraser has illustrated more than forty books for children, and is the author-illustrator of a...
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Grade 4-6AThe final book in this quartet continues the adventures of 13-year-old Rilla Harmony Earth and the seemingly stuffed monsters she receives by mail at the bed and breakfast where she lives with her New Age mother and aunt. These creatures sometimes come alive, an occurrence somehow connected to cosmic forces, ...
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PreSchool-Grade 3-This book stands out because of its colorful collages created from cut paper, paints, crayons, and pencil. Swinburne introduces a variety of birds and points out the myriad functions of their beaks in singsong verse, accompanied by striking images in which the distinctive features of each bird are cle...
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Grade 5 Up-Zeitlin introduces 16 cosmologies from ancient cultures, including Maori, Egyptian, Greek, Hebrew, Inca, Jain, Desana Indian, Haitian, Iroquois, Fon, Chumash, and Chinese. Early Western scientific theories as well as contemporary scientific views are noted, and nearly every cultural view is accompanied by a ...
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Despite Raschka's (Charlie Parker Played Bebop) compelling art-a series of sprightly yet soulful sketches that dance, skip and twirl across the pages-Giovanni's brief, abstract poem fails to take flight. Reading the text aloud helps, as the cadence of the words emerges, but younger readers especially may puzzle over th...
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Grade 3-8?Family science-experiment ideas presented by San Francisco's Exploratorium, a museum that supports the principle of "hands-on, minds-on." The staff covers a wide variety of topics from mirrors to structures to taking things apart. Activities labeled "Kids Can Do It!" can be done by readers on their own. Those...
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Gr 46Reesie Boone's been looking forward to her 13th birthday for a long time. As her big day approaches, people are focused on a hurricane warning, and everyone's leaving New Orleans. Reesie's family is staying put despite evacuation warnings; her father is a policeman and can't miss work. Hurricane Katrina hits while...
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Celebrated children's-book illustrator Demi puts the Buddha's life story into words any child can enjoy. Even more, children will love the lush, meticulously painted scenes, rendered in traditional Asian fashion yet as light and whimsical as Calvin and Hobbes. (Ages 9 to 12.)Grade 4 Up?A graceful account of Buddha's li...
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PreSchool-Grade 1. Bright, fanciful folk-art illustrations set the mood for (but occasionally get in the way of) this loving story of adoption. The smoothly flowing text is reassuring throughout, reflecting the joy of the new parents and ending with the "forever and always" that is the promise of adoption. The foster p...
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Grade 4-6. From the plot to the characters, fun is the order of the day in this light and humorous story. Rilla Harmony Earth, 13, is a 90s kind of girl. Snacking on healthy foods and avoiding her home-school homework, she surfs the Net in hopes of locating her father, whom she has not seen in years. She and her friend...
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Grade 6 Up. Death, the last stage of the human condition, has been underreported and mostly avoided in writing for young people. Colman takes on the task with just the right mix of unblinking realism and sensitivity to varieties of beliefs and practices. The eight chapters explain decomposition, cremation, and burials;...
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