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36,800 | 0 | Some originals of the earliest Chinese-Buddhist sutras still exist--printed in gold ink on deep indigo paper. To see one is to sink into it. Demi, devout Buddhist and illustrator of children's literature, recreates the stories in the form of a children's book with smooth writing and stunning brushwork. These moral tale... | [
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36,801 | 11 | Chorao (Baby's Lap Book) presents an onlooker's view of Long Island, N.Y.'s Smallholdings Farm and those who make it run. Opening in the relatively quiet winter months, the narrative follows Farmer Brown and his family through four seasons, as they care for animals, plant and harvest crops and market their bounty in bo... | [
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36,802 | 1 | Kindergarten-Grade 2-Rich pastel-on-black illustrations accompany a brief lyrical text presenting migratory journeys made by a miscellany of critters, from sea turtles seeking to nest on their own birth-beaches to monarch butterflies flittering inconceivable miles to wintering groves in the mountains of Mexico. The sim... | [
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36,803 | 2 | Making his debut, Santoro tells the story of Isaac, a bright pink ice cream truck with a big self-esteem problem: "He felt a little silly when he looked around and saw what great things the other trucks could do." Even though people always come running when they hear his cheery song (music is provided at the end of the... | [
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36,804 | 0 | Chris Raschka--whose beautiful, brilliant tributes to jazz legends in Mysterious Thelonious and Charlie Parker Played Be Bop are not to be missed--pays tribute to another slice of American music history with this lovely celebration of a traditional Shaker hymn. "'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free, 'ti... | [
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36,805 | 14 | Kindergarten-Grade 3?A delightful story that's part fact and part fiction, set during the Teddy Roosevelt administration. Christmas is just around the corner but the president refuses to cut down an evergreen to decorate the White House. Although his six children beg for one, the commander in chief believes that his co... | [
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36,806 | 16 | As a mouse nibbles and crunches his way through a meal, "Fleming's pulp painting technique drenches each page with vibrant hues," said PW. Ages 2-6. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.Fleming's feisty mouse peeks out of a hole in the wall and spies a table laden with goodies-a smorgasbord of fruits and veget... | [
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36,807 | 13 | PreSchool-K. A gorilla who lives in the zoo becomes famous for creating paintings of the creatures and people she sees. When she earns a million dollars from the sale of her work, she buys the zoo and takes "all the animals back to their natural homes" to set them free. This slim moral tale is told in straightforward l... | [
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36,808 | 2 | "A fresh, upbeat concept book. Very bright, very hip!"--School Library Journal, starred review"The resounding vitality and immediacy of this selection turn a counting lesson into an exhilarating experience." --Publishers Weekly, starred reviewDenise Fleming has written and illustrated fourteen picture books, including ... | [
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36,809 | 2 | Grade 2-4?Leedy offers another winning math-concept book. Lisa has a homework assignment to measure something in as many ways as she can, using standard and nonstandard units. "Use your imagination!" is the last instruction the teacher gives the students. Lisa chooses her Boston terrier and the fun begins. She measures... | [
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36,810 | 20 | Grade 3 Up?Tibet is a timely topic. However, in telling the story of the political and religious leader of the country, Demi does not aim at trendiness, controversy, or even high drama. This picture-book biography speaks simply and respectfully of the history and the mission of the Dalai Lama. The author focuses on the... | [
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36,811 | 18 | Grade 3-6?St. George uses historical records to create a well-crafted biography for a slightly older audience than the readers of Alexandra Wallner's Betsy Ross (Holiday, 1994). Although the jacket art shows Ross stitching busily on the Stars and Stripes, and the exciting commission from George Washington is a highligh... | [
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36,812 | 1 | PreSchool-K. It's Bruno the beaver's birthday. With the help of his young friend, Felix, he makes a cake following step-by-step instructions. While the text explains their actions, the pleasant and well-defined watercolor illustrations clearly show the tools and ingredients used. Felix doesn't like the noise of the ble... | [
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36,813 | 0 | In this handsomely designed volume, Fleischman (Whirligig) tells a story within a story, illustrated with elegant, framed ink-on-clayboard pictures and with string. When a lightning storm cuts off the electricity, a girl complains to her grandmother that she'll "die" without her VCR, TV, radio and computer. Her grandmo... | [
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36,814 | 11 | In verse and in descriptive prose, Gelman (Queen Esther Saves Her People) tours the rice fields, or sawahs, of Bali. On each spread, a poem focuses on the creatures in the sawah (e.g., the eels, the bats that eat the mosquitoes, the mice that nibble at the crops) and a paragraph explains an aspect of the planting, cult... | [
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36,815 | 2 | "Sometimes I thought being a big sister would be fun. And sometimes I thought it wouldn't be fun and that Mom and Dad didn't need to have anyone around but me." The sentiments of young Johanna will ring true to most oldest siblings, who will immediately relate to the ambiguous feelings children may have about gaining a... | [
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36,816 | 13 | A newborn chick can't help but break into song. After all, the springtime world is just so beautiful. "The sky is so blue!" he sings. "The sun is yellow! The trees are so green! And I'm a happy fellow." The singing chick barely peeps the last peep of his perky little song when he encounters a lip-smacking fox who swall... | [
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36,817 | 12 | Spanish and English are bled seamlessly with the graceful narrative. Shaw-Smith's heroic-style pictures, filled with rich, glowing reds and yellows, are crammed with disparate details. School Library JournalMamita explains how bread is created and celebrates its goodness by singing a short and simple Spanish song.... T... | [
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36,818 | 12 | One day, Kansas wakes up grumpy. The other 49 states are stretching, yawning, and pouring maple syrup onto each other's pancakes, but irritable Kansas announces to his kindly neighbor Nebraska that life is dull and changes must be made: "All day long we just sit here in the middle of the country. We never GO anywhere. ... | [
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36,819 | 0 | Hague has turned his considerable talents to the whimsical song written by Kennedy more than 40 years ago. The result, with its lavish, full-spread illustrations and large trim size, is almost a coffee-table book for children. Publishers WeeklyJimmy Kennedy wrote more than 1000 popular songs. He served as the president... | [
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36,820 | 2 | Grade 7 Up-Kuklin discusses modern child labor in developing countries where youngsters work in carpet factories, brick kilns, and workshops making jewelry and other goods. Poorly paid, uneducated, and often mistreated, these "bonded laborers" are made virtual slaves by their families' desperate poverty. The author foc... | [
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36,821 | 0 | From a distance, perhaps through squinted eyes, Dusty Locks appears to be a Wild West cousin to the more famous Goldilocks. Close up, she seems more closely related to the dirt magnet Pig Pen of "Peanuts" fame. This harum-scarum cowgirl, on the lam from her mother, hasn't bathed "for a month of Sundays," and, with her ... | [
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36,822 | 11 | Collier's (These Hands) watercolor and collage artwork effectively blends a boy's idealism with the telling details of the city streets in this picture book tour of Harlem. Played out to the refrain of "Uptown is...," a boy makes the rounds of his neighborhood, starting with the Metro-North train as it crosses the Harl... | [
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36,823 | 2 | Grade 6-8. Henry is tired of being picked on by his grandmother and his two older brothers. Gretchen, who recently moved from North Dakota to Iowa, is also the youngest in her family, having to endure her older sister's obnoxious behavior and favoritism by her parents. When the two youngsters meet, they decide to visit... | [
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36,824 | 1 | Fluffy, Skinny, and Boris tag along with Mama Cat all day long. Actually, Boris just naps. He snoozes while the others wash their paws, walk the stone wall, sharpen their claws, chase leaves, and engage in other fundamentally feline pastimes. But when the others curl up to nap, Boris stretches, yawns, and comes to life... | [
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36,825 | 2 | Grade 8 Up-In this sensitive, thoughtful collection of interviews, essays, and poetry, over 40 young adults ranging in age from 14 to 26 relate their experiences growing up in the United States. Their racial identities represent a wide blend of cultures: European, African, Asian, Native American, Jewish, Arabic, Caribb... | [
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36,826 | 0 | Lush colors, startled, wide-eyed animals, and bold black print make each page jump with activity. Kirkus Reviews, pointerStrong rhythm and rhyme, plus fun onomatopoeic animal sounds demand reading aloud. School Library Journal, starred reviewDenise Fleming has written and illustrated many children's books, including In... | [
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36,827 | 2 | PreSchool-Grade 2 Lena's mother is an artist, so she knows whereof she speaks when she insists that there are many different shades of brown. The two take a walk through their neighborhood by way of illustration, and the friends and relatives they meet along the way aptly reinforce Mom's contention. Their skin colors a... | [
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36,828 | 2 | Pig doesn't really believe in magic. But when Crow offers him some magic seeds in exchange for his freshly baked chocolate swirl fudge cake, Pig can't refuse--particularly since Crow says the seeds will take away his loneliness. With lots of tending, Pig's seeds eventually sprout into fine, fat pumpkins. But they're no... | [
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36,829 | 11 | Demi (The Dragons Tale) deftly adapts a story that allegedly originated in India in 550 B.C. to a Tibetan setting for this retelling, notable for its spare, repetitive language and versatile artwork. A Tibetan king known for his fair judgment must settle an argument between two good and honest men, each the father of 1... | [
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36,830 | 18 | Gr 3-6-This medical history begins by describing how the influenza of 1918 spread across the world, infecting 2 billion people and killing 20 to 40 million. Once symptoms began, death could take place within three hours, mostly from lack of oxygen that caused victims to turn purple when their lungs filled with blood du... | [] | Train |
36,831 | 16 | PreSchool-This contemporary classic loses nothing in its translation. Both text and illustration merge beautifully to captivate the attention of beginning readers. Carle's vibrant double-page collage illustrations fascinate, while Mlawer's translation retains the melodic quality of the original question-and-response te... | [
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36,832 | 0 | In zesty, candy-corny poems from a first-time author, a witch places an ad for a "Turbo broomstick (colorAjet)/ With dual exhausts. FM cassette." Dr. Frankenstein shops for heads of cabbage and ears of corn, and a top-notch "Halloweeny Quiz" offers 10 diverting riddle-couplets that work as verse and as a game. The mixe... | [
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36,833 | 0 | Anyone who fondly remembers how the fresh air of the moors puts a blush in the cheeks of sallow young Mary in The Secret Garden will love Dorothy Canfield Fisher's Understood Betsy just as much. First published in 1916, this engaging classic tells the tale of a thin, pale 9-year-old orphan named Elizabeth Ann who is wh... | [
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36,834 | 2 | PreSchool-A book that shows the impatient waiting period before the birth of a new sibling. Max has watched his mother's stomach grow and now that nine months have passed, he's ready for the big event. "But no baby came." Starting with Sunday, each day of the week passes with slow anticipation and the child's mood chan... | [
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36,835 | 2 | The rollicking rhythms and kid-pleasing repetition of Downey's (Sing, Henrietta! Sing!) rhyming verse recommend this perky volume for a lighthearted read-aloud. In a tumbledown barn, all the animals sleep peacefully, except a tiny flea, who coughs, sniffles and utters a plaintive plea to his snoring pals, "Does eddybod... | [
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36,836 | 2 | When Miss Irma Birmbaum, the toughest, meanest teacher in town, assigns homework on Halloween night, the children all moan in despair. But when Miss Irma Birmbaum takes a detour on the way home and encounters a UFO that turns her into a 50-foot tall teacher, the trick-or-treating children are truly petrified. Their now... | [
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36,837 | 2 | Grade 1-3-Lisa and her dog from Measuring Penny (Holt, 1998) are back. Since the girl's class is learning about maps, she decides to draw one of her bedroom and then makes a few for her Boston terrier. These maps show where the pet has hidden her toys and treats, the best route for a neighboring animal to take to their... | [
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36,838 | 20 | Gennady Spirin, illustrator of Moses: The Long Road to Freedom, written by Anne Beneduce, and Simeon's Gift, written by Julie Andrews Edwards, creates sumptuous paintings depicting the beloved biblical story of Noah and the ark. Just a few pages of text, drawn directly from the King James Bible, are interspersed with l... | [
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36,839 | 0 | A dozen crayons, each being true to their respective colors, talk to a little girl as she draws pictures. Ages 4-7. (May) Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.In snappy couplets ... and big, scribbly drawings ... a red-headed moppet conducts a rollicking show-and-tell of colors and their associations. Bulletin... | [
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36,840 | 18 | Gr 3-8-Sandler's thesis is simple: the role of the vaquero-the Hispanic cowboy-in U.S. ranching history has been overlooked and misrepresented, particularly in popular culture. With this book, he intends to rectify that wrong and does so quite successfully. Sandler notes the role that Spanish explorers such as Corts an... | [
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36,841 | 16 | PreSchool-Grade 2–Another showcase for the truly offbeat imagination of the creator of The Scrambled States of America (1998) and Arnie the Doughnut (2003, both Holt). Here, Grandpa presents 20 numerals and describes in rhyme how Numbers aren't used just for counting these days./Old numbers help people in many ne... | [
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36,842 | 12 | Lee's (At the Beach; In the Snow) word and number primer has all the festive ebullience of a Chinese New Year's dragon. Each cream-colored, double-page spread serves as a backdrop for elegant, boldly-colored cut paper figures, a punchy number-verb combination and the appropriate Chinese characters. For "Three hit," a t... | [
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36,843 | 1 | PreS-Gr 3-Megatooth, or Megalodon, was an ancient shark three times as large as today's great white shark. O'Brien supplies children with several interesting facts that scientists have surmised about this fascinating creature from the huge teeth that have been found along seashores (as an afterword explains in more det... | [
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36,844 | 2 | Laurie Keller, creator of the wonderful picture books The Scrambled States of America and Open Wide: Tooth School Inside, cooks up a rather silly story about a doughnut who narrowly escapes his doughnut fate. Arnie is proud to be chocolate-covered, with bright-colored candy sprinkles. His first day on the planet is a b... | [
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36,845 | 1 | First published in 1964, Charlotte Zolotow's The Poodle WhoBarked at the Wind, starring the lovable noisy pup, gets newillustrations by Valerie Coursen. Her paintings of the small blackpoodle aptly contrast the canine's busy, protective bounce (andbarking) with the forlorn silence that follows while the children areawa... | [
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36,846 | 6 | When a boy receives a new yellow shirt for his birthday, he spends the day pretending to be one yellow creature after another. He's a lion scaring the crows in Mrs. Miller's garden, then a caterpillar taking a nap and a fancy tropical fish swimming in his best friend Sam's backyard pool. Despite some apt images (e.g., ... | [
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36,847 | 0 | PreSchool-Axtell takes a storytime classic to the African savanna, where loving sisters enjoy a day's adventure. With fruit, juice, and teddy bear in hand, they travel through towering green grasses under the watchful eye of a giraffe, swim through a dappled blue lake with zebras and a flamingo, and pull each other thr... | [
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36,848 | 13 | Call it a tale of bold and balletic self-actualization (of the porcine kind) the stirring story of young Dumpy La Rue, "the pig who knew what he wanted to do."Despite all sorts of well-intentioned advice to discourage him ("'Pigs don't dance,' said his mother. 'They bellow, they swallow, they learn how to wallow'"), Du... | [
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36,849 | 2 | From the beach to the ballfield and back again, a boy and girl search for shadows on a sunny summer day in Sayre's (The Hungry Hummingbird) warm-hearted ode to friendship and the simple pleasures of the season: "Searching for shadows we run, hop! stare... at lots of shadows here and there." Stevenson's (As the Crow Fli... | [
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36,850 | 0 | Stylized, intensely colored and highly detailed illustrations dominate this interpretation of Plato's myth of the lost city of Atlantis. Balit (Zoo in the Sky: A Book of Animal Constellations) gracefully retells the story, beginning with Poseidon's love for the island girl Cleito, and lingering on his transformation of... | [
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36,851 | 1 | Grade 1-4-T.J., a Siberian tiger cub born at the Denver Zoo, is orphaned when he is only a few weeks old. The veterinary staff raises him, feeding him by hand until he is able to eat on his own and be returned to the tiger exhibit. The story is accompanied by graphs on facing pages that chart T.J.'s growth, successfull... | [
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36,852 | 1 | This high-concept abecedary, the picture book debut for de Vicq de Cumptich, should delight collectors of stylish picture books and aficionados of the graphic arts. Beautifully designed and executed in a limited palette of aqua, burnt orange, buttery cream, brown and black, the book's visual premise is the exceedingly ... | [
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36,853 | 11 | Grade 1-3-A simple look at some of the ways in which people differ in the details of their lives but are similar in their overall values. Two-page spreads of full-color photographs focus on a specific aspect of daily life, such as waking up, school, or playtime, and convey information about the homes, families, and lif... | [
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36,854 | 0 | Roberts (Valentine Mice; Follow Me!) focuses on two parallel gardens--one carefully cultivated, the other the product of nature--in this cheery picture book. "I planted a garden. The wind planted a garden, too," announces the narrator, a lively girl with a green thumb and carrot-colored hair. As she charts the growth o... | [
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36,855 | 2 | PreSchool-Grade 1-A grandma and her grandchild spend a day together in this bright, warm, and cheerful picture book. Greene's bouncy verse ("Overalls/Floppy hat/Bowl of cream for Grandma's cat-") swings readers along through a variety of experiences: berry picking, enjoying a picnic lunch, gardening, firefly counting, ... | [
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36,856 | 0 | PreSchool-A cherub-faced little witch leads a cast of Halloween-costumed kids through a variety of movements. Clever pairings include leading a mummy in "Arms are for reaching," a werewolf in "Tails are for wagging," and a skeleton in "Bones are for shaking." In true trick-or-treat spirit, when the little witch takes o... | [
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36,857 | 2 | Miss Irma Birmbaum ("the toughest teacher in town"), star of The Attack of the 50-Foot Teacher, here takes a headlong fall into the party treats she is preparing for her students ("prune pudding, kidney bean cookies," etc.) and turns into The Incredible Shrinking Teacher by Lisa Passen. Sci-fi-inspired watercolors brin... | [
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36,858 | 2 | Gr 2-4-When Jane and Lila's father loses his job at the bank during the Depression, the family must move from their big house to the bottom floor of a smaller one on the poorer side of town. Not only are they cramped, but also most of their familiar luxuries are gone. That is why the girls are so fascinated by the elab... | [
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36,859 | 0 | Gr. 2-4. Byars blends fantasy and suspense in this beginning chapter book about a miniature horse. Curious Little Horse accidentally falls into a river that carries him far away from his home valley and his mother. Withstanding numerous perils along the way, Little Horse emerges in a new world in which flowers are the ... | [
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36,860 | 2 | It's the more the merrier when a boisterous clan makes its annual descent on Granny's house in Joosse's (Mama, Do You Love Me?) animated and knowing story. Decorations, gifts, carols and, of course, dinner with candied-yam casserole are all part of the "Christmas fuss," vivaciously relayed in rhythmic language. And whe... | [
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36,861 | 0 | Alexandra, the Jewish girl who narrates this informative historical novel, lives in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabees. Like them, she experiences the oppression of the Syrian-Greek regime. Inspired by the example of Esther (named here as the author of the scroll read on Purim), Alexandra vows to record the ongoing... | [
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36,862 | 12 | Grade 25Leonardo does his math problems so quickly that he has plenty of time to look out the window and count other things in nature. His teacher, however, chastises him for daydreaming and the other students call him a "blockhead." Only his father's advisor, Alfredo, understands that Leonardo has a fascination with n... | [
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36,863 | 2 | PreSchool-Grade 2Middle children will easily identify with Daisy, who has a know-it-all older sister and a pesky younger brother. Everyone in her African-American family speaks for her. When she tries to speak for herself, no one listens. The breaking point comes when her friend invites her to a sleepover. Mother says ... | [] | Train |
36,864 | 1 | Brown (Copycat), whose love of cats is well known, tells how an abandoned black kitten makes the holiday seasonDand the many years afterwardDextra bright for its adoptive family. The family's matriarch, presumably Brown herself (on one page, the woman is painting an illustration that appears in the book), serves as nar... | [
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36,865 | 11 | The avaricious arachnid returns in this trickster-gets-tricked tale from Ghana. Ananse the Spider and scheming Lizard both aim to marry the chief's daughter and thus acquire half his kingdom. Potential husbands, however, must correctly guess the daughter's name; anyone who guesses incorrectly will have his head "choppe... | [
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36,866 | 0 | A merry success, this Wild West fairy tale makes other versions look limp by comparison. Kirkus, pointer reviewAn amusing addition to the growing collection to fairy-tale spoofs. School Library Journal, starred reviewThere's a rawboned energy to the writing that invigorates the tale. The images are . . . wittily exagge... | [
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36,867 | 11 | Gr 1-3-Beginning with the laying of an egg, Guiberson describes the care given to a baby emperor penguin by both parents from the time it hatches until it is on its own. Much detail is given about the activities of the mother and father, particularly their unusual eating patterns and survival skills. In addition to the... | [
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36,868 | 18 | O'Brien (Gigantic: How Big Were the Dinosaurs?) captures readers' attention by opening his crisp history of this ill-fated airship with its explosion on May 6, 1937, over a New Jersey airfield. The narrative then shifts to 1900, when Hugo Eckener, the German who would go on to design the Hindenburg, falls "under the sp... | [
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36,869 | 0 | Kindergarten-Grade 2-Another retelling of a traditional fairy tale, dressed up in Western clothes, and with a sex change. Joe Cinders is a picked-on little ranch hand suffering under the tyranny of his lazy stepbrothers. An invitation to the fiesta at the big ranch arrives, but poor Joe is left out. His stepbrothers ha... | [
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36,870 | 2 | It's a snowy Christmas Eve, and Hannah and her aunt, a bookmobile driver, traveling their regular route, find themselves unable to make it home. Instead, they hole up for the night with cocoa, edible presents received from patrons throughout the day and plenty of Christmas stories on the shelves. Alternating chilly gra... | [
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36,871 | 13 | Grandma Moses's own words, excerpted from her memoirs, and reproductions of her evocative primitive paintings provide a solid foundation for this appealing volume. The excerpts appear on the left of each spread on an oval, darkened to appear like parchment, opposite a related painting on the right. Less strong is the b... | [
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36,872 | 2 | Kindergarten-Grade 2—Elizabeth Amelia is made of wool, but she is every child. She romps and plays and goes to school. Everyone loves her. When she grows up, she marries James Elmer, a man who "loved wool." They don't have any children, so Elizabeth Amelia takes a stray piece of yarn unraveling from her left foot... | [
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36,873 | 0 | Grade 3-5Eight-year-old Claudine is a Jewish girl living in occupied France during World War II. Her loving parents try to keep her life as normal as possible, and even manage to buy her a lovely new doll for her birthday. But after the Germans decree that Jews must wear a yellow star, things begin to change for the wo... | [
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36,874 | 0 | As in the original That's Good! That's Bad!, set in the jungle, relief and anxiety by turns overtake the characters in That's Good! That's Bad! in the Grand Canyon by Margery Cuyler, illus. by David Catrow. Beset by a series of comical mishaps, the boy is finally reunited with his grandmother; Catrow's outrageous pen-a... | [
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36,875 | 2 | Kindergarten-Grade 4This eye-catching picture book transports readers to a tropical rain forest. Smoothly incorporating a great deal of information, the text follows creatures such as a sloth, capuchin monkeys, and a poison-dart frog as they move through their habitat. Guiberson conveys the relationships among differen... | [
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36,876 | 2 | With rhythmic text and dynamic art, Swish! draws readers into the final minute of a hotly contested game between two girls' basketball teams.... A bright and cheery choice for reading aloud to budding basketball enthusiasts. School Library JournalBILL MARTIN JR (1916-2004) was an elementary-school principal, teacher, w... | [
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36,877 | 18 | Kindergarten-Grade 3-The author/illustrator team that created A Christmas Tree in the White House (Holt, 1998) has set another holiday story in the presidential mansion. Young Tad Lincoln, horrified to learn that his tame turkey is destined to be served at the Thanksgiving feast, begs his father to pardon his pet. This... | [
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36,878 | 1 | Grade 5-9-This examination of equine behavior, intelligence, and evolution is based on Budiansky's adult title, The Nature of Horses (Free Pr., 1997). Each chapter begins with a narrative story and concludes with a section that details how recent scientific studies have led us to certain conclusions about this creature... | [
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36,879 | 20 | Gennady Spirin was born on Christmas Day in 1948 in a small city near Moscow. A graduate of the Stroganov Academy of Fine Arts in Moscow, he immigrated to the United States in 1990. He has received many international awards, and four of his books have been named New York Times Best Illustrated Books of the Year. Mr. Sp... | [
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36,880 | 0 | Grade 2-4-A lively overview of the life and times of the mammoth (and some of its cohabitants of the Ice Age). O'Brien offers a history of the various types-some woolly, some not, some huge, some no more than three and a half feet tall-and their habitats. He traces their evolution from the piglike Moeritherium of 45 mi... | [
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36,881 | 16 | Young ones who have mastered their nursery rhymes will get a hoot out of Jackson's (I Know an Old Woman Who Swallowed a Pie) gentle humor and the old woman who lives in a shoe (who delivers the punch line). When she decides to seek a new home for her brood, the old woman visits a succession of familiar places. Firehamm... | [
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36,882 | 12 | "If you could ask 10 friends to tea, tell me who your friends would be," begins Goldstone's (The Beastly Feast) rollicking, rhyming approach to addition and multiplication. In each of 10 spreads, the unseen narrator suggests different combinations that add up to 10, which Cahoon (Word Play ABC) interprets in vibrantly ... | [
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36,883 | 1 | Gr. 2-3, younger for reading aloud. In 1997, a young red-tailed hawk was hit by a poacher's arrow, survived for some time, was captured, cared for, and released in the Midwest. Schaefer, whose fourth-graders followed the news stories about the hawk, has turned this event into a picture book for older readers. By taking... | [
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36,884 | 20 | Kindergarten-Grade 3–A gentle and informative look at a Muslim-American boy and the way he practices his faith. The book does a good job of explaining each of the Five Pillars of Islam, even though they are not discussed in numerical order. Good-quality black-and-white photos enhance the presentation and effectiv... | [
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36,885 | 2 | PreSchool-Grade 1-Through simple rhyming phrases, readers learn about the many things that a young redheaded girl can do: "Susan trots,/Susan rows,/Susan paints,/Susan throws." With great color and movement, the pencil-and-crayon illustrations depict this spirited child in her everyday world. She rides a swing with her... | [
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36,886 | 5 | "Long ago, Head was all by himself," begins this African creation story about how the human anatomy came to be. "He had no legs, no arms, no body. He rolled everywhere. All he could eat were things on the ground that he could reach with his tongue." Lippert and Paye previously collaborated on Why Leopard Has Spots: Dan... | [
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36,887 | 2 | Ben lives on a cattle farm and Jody lives in a melting-pot metropolis, but as Cummins (The Inside-Outside Book of Libraries) and Rand (Once Upon a Farm) see it, the ostensible differences in landscapes leave plenty of common ground. For example, each wakes up to noises outside the window. Ben "hears cows mooing and bir... | [
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36,888 | 2 | when readers spot her [the girl's] pointy elf ears, they'll turn right back to the beginning to see how Cushman's clever, colorful illustrations disguised her as a human girl. Horn Book MagazineCushman's bold, cartoonlike graphics have charm that will work well in storytime School Library Journal...a colorful, simple, ... | [] | Test |
36,889 | 0 | PreSchool-Grade 2-A poetic celebration of seasonal fun. Most of the selections are no more than one or two lines, while the longest verses are four lines. All of them are simple, with rhyming that's both easy to anticipate and to remember. The many instances of repetition ("hoe, hoe, hoe" with "row, row, row") and lots... | [
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36,890 | 0 | It's not just the walls that talk in Thermes's first children's book it's the entire house. "I watch the world pass by," muses the narrator, an 18th-century dwelling that has survived to the present day, "and sometimes think about the way things were when I was first built." A series of comparisons follow in which the ... | [
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36,891 | 1 | Grade 1-5-Frail and ignored by his mother, baby Jiggs is kept in an incubator at the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, KS, and then moved to the Denver Zoo, where he is raised by veterinary assistant and coauthor Bickel. The details of the chimp's young life will fascinate readers. His funny and touching relationships wi... | [
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36,892 | 1 | PreSchool-Grade 3-A simplified and sanitized retelling of Rudyard Kipling's classic. Long ago, when elephants had only bumps for noses, a curious young elephant is determined to find out what crocodiles eat for dinner. When the youngster sticks her nose out too far, a hungry crocodile seizes it and stretches it into th... | [
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36,893 | 0 | The barn cat has the floor in this appealing addition to the "animals at the Nativity" mini-genre. Addressing the audience directly, the feline gives an eyewitness account of the miracle that occurred when some very special visitors arrived at the barn, interrupting the animals' night of sleep. Foreman's (Michael Forem... | [
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36,894 | 0 | A poem asks readers to imagine themselves as the earth; PW singled out the "powerful" artwork, saying that it "captures a world charged with energy and drama." Ages 3-8. (May) Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.The poem grows in power as it flows along, and is ably supported by Gorbaty's gorgeous, inventive ... | [
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36,895 | 13 | Kindergarten-Grade 3In this fictionalized version of how the composer wrote his "Piano Concerto no. 17 in G Major," Mozart is facing a case of writer's block and a looming deadline. His pet starling begins to sing and the notes provide a fine melody. When the young man opens her cage, she flies out. He looks for her al... | [
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36,896 | 16 | Aptly named, The Everything Book is a hodgepodge of early learner words, numbers, poems, and concepts. But, without a doubt, the gorgeous illustrations are the real star of the show, created by Denise Fleming by pouring colored cotton fiber through hand-cut stencils. Readers and art appreciators of all ages will want t... | [
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36,897 | 0 | Grade 2-4-An entertaining bit of historical fiction set in 1938-1939. His country may be preparing for war, but fourth-grader Monchi Ram'rez wishes that President Roosevelt would turn his attention to fixing the bumpy roads leading from his family's southern Arizona ranch to the area's one-room schoolhouse. His schoolm... | [
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36,898 | 2 | The distinctive sound of the cleaning machine forces the titular heroine to flee her seat in Vera Goes to the Dentist by Vera Rosenberry. With a little encouragement from Dr. Knoll, the girl first introduced in When Vera Was Sick gets her teeth cleaned and likes it. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.PreS... | [
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36,899 | 0 | PW called this plea for the conservation of wildlife habitats "a beautiful call to action." Ages 4-10. (May) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.Fleming's unique illustrative style provides an exciting backdrop to this distinctive, environmental picture book. School Library JournalContains some of Fleming's m... | [
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