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39,100 | 13 | Grade 3-6. As he did in Antonio's Apprenticeship (Holiday, 1996), Morrison uses a first-person narrative to explain the process of creating a work of art. The scene here is Rome in the last century of the Renaissance; the work of art is a group of marble figures to be placed on a fountain in the center of a piazza. Mar... | [
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39,101 | 15 | According to The Washington Post, Gail Gibbons "has taught more preschoolers and early readers about the world than any other children's writer-illustrator." The multi award-winning Ms. Gibbons is the author of more than 100 books for young readers, including the bestselling titles From Seed to Plant and Monarch Butter... | [
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39,102 | 0 | Eric A. Kimmel has published more than fifty children's books, many of which have won state awards and appeared on school and library recommended lists. He has won the National Jewish Book Award for numerous books, including Hanukkah Bear and The Mysterious Guest: A Sukkot Story, and the Sydney Taylor Lifetime Achievem... | [
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39,103 | 2 | Grade 2-4-Adler relates what is known of Sojourner Truth's life in this chronological narrative. He portrays his subject in a realistic manner, discussing slavery and other issues in an easy-to-read style. The quotes, while undocumented, are simple enough for the target audience and help to place events in context. Exc... | [
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39,104 | 12 | Loreen Leedy writes and illustrates books in her studio in central Florida. When not writing, drawing, or painting on her computer, she's exercising, eating out, or going to the movies with her husband Andy. Her other books include the following:; Title: Fraction Action | [
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39,105 | 18 | Kindergarten-Grade 3?Adler has a near-miraculous ability to share an entire lifetime in a few words and to do so without sacrificing his subject's significance or contributions. Here, he tackles the daunting challenge of introducing a controversial man who was both a real-life and folk hero. He does so in a way that do... | [
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39,106 | 14 | Grade 3-5-- This latest addition to a popular holiday series is sure to be a hit, combining a dozen-and-a-half short, shivery modern poems with some of the most deliciously ghastly illustrations children will ever see. Harry Behn establishes the spooky mood--"Tonight is the night/When dead leaves fly. . .", and Livings... | [
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39,107 | 11 | Grade 2-4?The history of the six tribes of Native Americans known collectively as Apache is summarized in this attractive book that includes information on the work and dress of men, women, and children; government; ceremonies; raiding and war; the effects of white explorers and settlers; reservations; and life today. ... | [
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39,108 | 2 | Grade 1-3AIn this excellent introduction to the delicate world of ecosystems, Gibbons describes the symbiotic relationships between plants and animals with just the right amount of detail for young readers. The differences and similarities between marshes and swamps are discussed and the evolution of the wetlands is ex... | [
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39,109 | 12 | Bright cartoons enliven an introduction to fractions, that incorporates common cents (money) and "pizza math," a delicious way to teach numerators and denominators. Ages 4-8.Copyright 1997 Cahners Business Information, Inc.David A. Adler, a former math teacher, wants children to understand how much fun math can really ... | [
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39,110 | 5 | Grade 2-6?A charming read-aloud, particularly for St. Patrick's Day. Patrick O'Kelley is a peddler who never tells the truth when a lie will do. When he boasts of his grand blarney-spouting abilities, the King of the Leprechauns decides to teach him a lesson. He brings Patrick to the land of the Little People and prese... | [] | Train |
39,111 | 14 | Kindergarten-Grade 3?George and his grandfather, introduced in Poppa's New Pants (Holiday, 1995), return in a Christmas tale about unforeseen gifts. When the boy opens his first long and narrow box (he hopes it's a BB gun), he's dismayed to find a long, ugly rainbow-colored muffler. The next package is worse: itchy, re... | [
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39,112 | 11 | What do you get when you take Cinderella's glass slipper and transport it to the Middle East? The Golden Sandal! Rebecca Hickox's delightful retelling of an Iraqi folktale "The Little Red Fish and the Clog of Gold" has all the makings of any good Cinderella story--the mean stepmother, the young oppressed girl, a big sh... | [
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39,113 | 15 | "Wide in scope and visually appealing, this book will serve pleasure and purposeful readers equally well."—School Library Journal"Clear illustrations and simple language make this a good introduction to the topic."—BooklistGail Gibbons "has taught more preschoolers and early readers about the world than any... | [
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39,114 | 0 | In this lighthearted companion to The Easter Egg Farm, Pauline the hen reveals a rare talent: if she concentrates on an image while laying an egg, the image appears on the eggshell. Asked to copy paintings hanging in a gallery onto her eggs, Pauline creates her own variations on masterpieces by the likes of Matisse, Va... | [] | Train |
39,115 | 14 | Safe for easily scared readers, this counting book firmly regulates suspense. "Three green witches cackle./ Four dead leaves crackle," but the imagined ghouls are just trick-or-treaters: "Haunted house and witches green,/ All make-believe on Halloween." Tightly framed gouaches keep the stylized ghosts and goblins (who ... | [
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39,116 | 5 | Grade 1-4?A Bluebeard variant from Italy. The two younger daughters of an old washerwoman are lovely, foolish, and useless, while the oldest is homely, clever, and strong. She is also fiercely protective of her sisters, and when each is carried off by the mysterious Count Silvernose and later reported dead, Assunta res... | [
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39,117 | 0 | While everyone else in the house prepares for Hanukkah, Jacob wants nothing but to play with his new brass dreidel. When he is sent to fetch water, he accidentally sends his dreidel into the well. Little does Jacob know that a good-willed, if mischievous, goblin lives at the bottom of the well, and that he will then re... | [
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39,118 | 12 | Viewed upside down, most of the numbers on a calculator's display look like letters. For years, children have been spelling words with hand-held calculators, but Adler takes the game a step further. He poses a series of riddles, each accompanied by an arithmetic problem involving some combination of addition, subtracti... | [
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39,119 | 1 | This atmospheric folktale by the author and illustrator of The Magic Dreidels will interest anyone who has ever admired Ukrainian decorated Easter eggs, or pysanky, as they are identified here. The story is uncomplicated: when winter arrives early and with severe storms, Katrusya inspires the whole village to rescue th... | [
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39,120 | 18 | David A. Adler is the author of many popular books for children, including biographies, math books, and Judaica. His strong interest in history and biography led to his bestselling Picture Book Biography series. He lives in New York State with his wife and family. John Wallner has illustrated dozens of books for childr... | [
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39,121 | 13 | Grade 2 Up. When a farmer and his wife decide to see a touring production of Rigoletto, they are not aware that Luigi the singing rooster has hitched a ride in the back of their truck. It's a one-way trip for Luigi, who becomes so enamored of the opera that he decides to stay. His singing enrages the famous tenor Enric... | [
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39,122 | 18 | Gr. 3^-6. As in Hilde and Eli: Children of the Holocaust (1994), Adler and Ritz use a picture-book biography to personalize what happened to millions of Jews under the Nazis. This is the story of Froim Baum, a Holocaust survivor now living in the U.S., who was born to a poor Jewish family in Warsaw in 1926. With the bo... | [
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39,123 | 12 | Grade 3-5?Adler and Casilla offer a succinct, visually handsome presentation of the youth and the career highlights of the history-making Marshall. The early family years, with the strong influence of Thurgood's waiter father, who loved attending courtroom trials, and his teacher mother are perhaps the most interesting... | [
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39,124 | 20 | Kindergarten-Grade 3?An attractive companion to Mary Matthews's Magid Fasts for Ramadan (Clarion, 1996), set in America rather than Egypt. Hakeem and his family are the focus of Ghazi's description of the holiday?its origin, elements of celebration, and purpose. Though Hakeem plays a prominent role throughout, plot emp... | [
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39,125 | 2 | The title?and the cover illustration of an exultant pig flourishing a cake?suggests some of the high spirits and simple pleasures of this rhyming book, as fluffy and sweet as seven-minute frosting. The steps of making the cake follow a counting rhyme: "One, two, get out the moo./ Three, four, open and pour." This doesn... | [
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39,126 | 2 | David A. Alder is the author of the acclaimed "Picture Book Biography" series for children, many Judaica titles, and several riddle books. He lives with his wife and three sons in New York.; Title: A Picture Book of Louis Braille (Picture Book Biography) | [
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39,127 | 2 | Grade 1-3-A brief look at the life of baseball great Jackie Robinson. The subject's childhood, sporting accomplishments, and later endeavors are touched upon, as are the bigotry and prejudice he faced as the first African American to play in the major leagues. The information is similar to that found in Carol Greene's ... | [
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39,128 | 5 | Told with little panache, this Noah's Ark-like folktale will likely leave the reader at sea, floundering for some sort of context. Watakame, a Huichol Indian, sees that a fig tree he had chopped down the day before has grown back. The perpetrator, Great-Grandmother Earth, explains that she was showing him the futility ... | [
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39,129 | 5 | Those pesky Irish snakes! Patrick (pre-sainthood) could ignore their naughty behavior for a while, but when they start teasing his poor old dog Finbar, well, that is just the last straw. It is clearly time to haul out his magic bell and rid the land of this pestilence! But before Patrick can rest too heavily on his lau... | [
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39,130 | 0 | Ten Yiddish folktales set in 19th-century Ukraine star a witty nomad, famous for sayings like "God must love poor people. Why else would He make so many of them?" Ages 8-12. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.Trina Schart Hyman received the Caldecott Medal for Saint George and the Dragon, retold by Margaret ... | [
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39,131 | 1 | "Rebecca Estelle hates pumpkins. "What's not to like?" you may be thinking. Certainly, pumpkins are benign, as far as gourds go, and they make for delicious pies. But if you were forced to eat only pumpkins (baked, steamed, boiled, stewed, mashed, and rotten), you might agree with Rebecca, who was so poor as ... | [
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39,132 | 1 | After creating a calendar with a 12-year cycle, the Jade Emperor decides he needs twelve animals to represent each of the years. Kimmel's (Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins) languid retelling focuses on two animals, RoosterAwho sports a glorious pair of antlersAand Dragon, and their preoccupation with their appearance. ... | [
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39,133 | 15 | letter day for poetry lovers. Each month receives its due in shiveringly lovely verse while Hyman's brightly populated watercolors trace the corresponding activities of a lively Vermont family. The interplay of text and art has both depth and beauty. The language and illustrations are not merely pretty or ornamentally ... | [
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39,134 | 17 | Grade 2-5?Herbert Hoover called Amelia Earhart a "pioneering woman." Adler emphasizes this characteristic as he recounts the life of the famous pilot, describing her days as a schoolgirl when she engaged in activities typically enjoyed by boys and wore bloomers that were a departure from the dress expected of ladies. S... | [
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39,135 | 12 | Miss Prime teaches her animal students to add by having them play detective and invent word problems in six comic-strip stories. Ages 5-8. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.Loreen Leedy writes and illustrates books in her studio in central Florida. When not writing, drawing, or painting on her computer, she... | [
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39,136 | 18 | Grade 2-5-This picture-book biography begins with a full-color portrait of Penn and a short paragraph summing up his beliefs and principles. Subsequent pages tell his life story but do little to illuminate the man. Of his childhood, Kroll notes that Penn survived a bout with smallpox at the age of three, that he attend... | [
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39,137 | 18 | The remarkable story of collective and individual acts of bravery and altruism. Photos, map, bibliography, index.; Title: Darkness over Denmark | [
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39,138 | 0 | Grade 3-6-It is 1778 and the Revolution has come to Setauket, Long Island. Thomas Strong, son of a loyal Patriot who has been imprisoned by the Tories, tells how he is sent to search for a neighbor's whaleboat and report the location to his mother. Unknown to him, Thomas's mother then hangs specific petticoats or handk... | [
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39,139 | 18 | Grade 1-4-Whether spying on the British or rescuing fallen soldiers on the battlefield, the 12 men and women in this collection stand out as heroic figures. Each spread includes a brief, anecdotal text and a stylized painting of the individual in action. Entries are alphabetical, include birth and death dates, and cont... | [
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39,140 | 15 | PreS Three round-faced, cut-paper kids bedecked in colorful patterned clothing make their way outside for a snow-filled afternoon. Throwing snowballs, building a snowman, sledding, and skating occupy their time until they head back inside for cocoa and "Winter warm." The story is written as a poem with clipped, clumsy ... | [
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39,141 | 2 | According to The Washington Post, Gail Gibbons "has taught more preschoolers and early readers about the world than any other children's writer-illustrator." The multi award-winning Ms. Gibbons is the author of more than 100 books for young readers, including the bestselling titles From Seed to Plant and Monarch Butter... | [
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39,142 | 18 | Grade 2-5-In this brief biography, Adler decribes how Sacagawea was kidnapped at the age of 10 or 11 by an enemy tribe, was sold as a second wife to a rough white trader and trapper who served as an interpreter on the Lewis and Clark expedition to the Pacific, and assisted the expedition through her quick thinking and ... | [
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39,143 | 15 | Here is an explanation of how the position of Earth in relation to the sun causes seasons, and the wonders that come with each one of them.According to The Washington Post, Gail Gibbons "has taught more preschoolers and early readers about the world than any other children's writer-illustrator." The multi award-winning... | [
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39,144 | 12 | Grade 2-4-A lively discussion of the history of measurement that incorporates some hands-on activities. Students may be surprised to learn that in ancient Egypt, parts of the body were used as measuring tools; a digit was the width of one finger, and a palm was the width of four fingers. Terms such as span and cubit ar... | [
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39,145 | 5 | Grade 1-4-The story of Midas is a prescription we need filled regularly. This version, livelier in text as well as in its graphics than Charlotte and Kinuko Craft's King Midas (Morrow, 1999), takes off from Nathaniel Hawthorne's A Wonder Book, with its emphasis on the child Marygold. Stewig uses deft, direct language, ... | [
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39,146 | 11 | This realistic story follows a day in the life of a young Afghani refugee who takes solace in the beautiful carpets he weaves. In a recurring nightmare, the boy narrator flees with his mother and younger sister, Maha, from the bomber planes that killed his father, then awakes to find himself in a safe but impoverished ... | [
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39,147 | 15 | PreSchool-Grade 2-In her characteristic, easily understood, and straightforward style, Gibbons gives an overview of apples. She traces their history in America, shows their parts, and explains their growth, harvest, and uses. Three pages illustrate many different varieties, and a concluding page lists interesting facts... | [
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39,148 | 2 | Kindergarten-Grade 3—Adler begins by asking young readers to imagine a world without money and the complications that would ensue. He then traces the history of our current monetary system, explaining early systems of bartering and the use of such things as rocks and feathers. Adler explains how the value of mone... | [
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39,149 | 15 | Kindergarten-Grade 3-A clever format and succinctly written text distinguish this offering by a prolific author. Gibbons describes bats' general physical characteristics, special traits of some half-dozen species, flying methods, use of echolocation, diet, natural habitats, hibernation, and the birth and development of... | [
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39,150 | 2 | PreSchool-Grade 3-A trip to an aquarium leads a young boy to wonder, "If I were a fish-" and his imagination takes over. Barner's clever use of perspective shows the bright orange clownfish (the boy's alter ego) changing in size depending on which sea creatures are nearby. Readers can follow it through its colorful und... | [
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39,151 | 2 | Sills's (Inspirations: Stories About Women Artists) eye-opening introduction to a half-dozen strong, often pioneering women photographers focuses on how their lives, experiences and imaginations influenced their work. At the beginning of the century, Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976) staged deliberate and stylized composit... | [
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39,152 | 5 | This faithful retelling of the Grimms' tale about a confident tailor who becomes a king boasts many appealing garnishes. After a tailor kills seven flies with one swipe, he embroiders the words "Seven at One Blow" on his belt and sets out to advertise his prowess to the world. Time and again, the tailor's confidence an... | [
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39,153 | 15 | "When people saw how animals tunneled through the ground, they must have thought, What a great idea!" writes Hunter (the pen name for Pamela Greenwood and Elizabeth Macalaster) in the third of Hunter and Miller's engineering-themed books (Into the Sky). What follows is a briskly described and brightly stylized panoply ... | [
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39,154 | 2 | Kindergarten-Grade 3-A satisfying exploration of the anxiety and joy experienced before and during the first day of school. The focus is not just on young Ivy Green but on the bus driver, janitor, teacher, and principal of her school. On the day before school starts, each one is shown getting ready-buying shoes, going ... | [
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39,155 | 0 | K-Gr 3-A Chinese-American cookbook author invents an explanation for the origin of chopsticks. Long ago, Compestine tells readers, when "all Chinese people ate with their hands," Keai (Quick), the youngest of three boys, was never fast enough to grab some nourishment before his brothers. In desperation born of hunger, ... | [
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39,156 | 2 | PreSchool-Grade 2. An elderly woman loves to read so she moves to the Australian countryside for peace and quiet and more leisure time. But each season brings its chore or emergency with little time to spare, until the deepest heart of winter. The detailed watercolors abound with animals, from lizards and mice to koala... | [
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] | Validation |
39,157 | 18 | Kimmel's (The Two Mountains, reviewed above) ambitious yet problematic recounting of the Aztec nation's demise opens with a description of Montezuma II and the 16th-century empire over which he ruled in what is now central and southern Mexico. "But all was not well in Montezuma's domain," the narrative continues. Kimme... | [
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39,158 | 14 | Kindergarten-Grade 3–In Hodges's retelling of Ruth Sawyer's &The Christmas Cabin of Carn-na-ween, a poor tinker's daughter, Oona Hegarty, spends a lifetime selflessly helping families in need. In the midst of a bleak Christmas Eve during the Great Potato Famine, she lays down under a blackthorn bush with no place... | [
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39,159 | 18 | Grade 5-8-Known for his stellar biographies and superb nonfiction, Freedman now offers a fine book about the creation of one of the nation's most important historical documents. The first five chapters vividly bring to life the events that led to Colonial uprising and revolt. The next three chapters describe the Second... | [
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39,160 | 2 | Bear, the diminutive stuffed-animal hero who adjusted to having a baby-sitter in Bear and Mrs. Duck, welcomes a cuddly cub sibling into the family in the latest Winthrop/Brewster collaboration. When Nora, Bear's owner, goes off to Grandma's house to get a baby sister for Bear, he imagines he'll be a helpful big brother... | [
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39,161 | 15 | Gail Gibbons "has taught more preschoolers and early readers about the world than any other children's writer-illustrator," according to the Washington Post. Winner of the 2010 Regina Award, she has written and illustrated more than fifty books for Holiday House. She lives in Corinth, Vermont.; Title: Stargazers | [
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39,162 | 17 | Kindergarten-Grade 4. Hodges's well-shaped, anecdotal account of the legendary Johnny Chapman presents the familiar eccentric wanderer who wore his stewpot on his head and gave away his clothes. The author credits Chapman with carrying more than apple seeds in trekking back and forth between east and west. "Often, John... | [
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39,163 | 2 | Loreen Leedy has written and illustrated more than thirty books for children, including Look at My Book and The Great Graph Contest, which School Library Journal praised as "exciting and energetic" in a starred review. She lives in central Florida.; Title: Who's Who in My Family? | [
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39,164 | 15 | Newbery winner Freedman ( Lincoln: A Photobiography ) has again produced a vivid, superior biography. This time focusing on a well-known pair of brothers, he effectively transforms our perception of the subjects as distant cultural icons into tireless, flesh-and- blood heroes. In understated, involving prose--skillfull... | [
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39,165 | 1 | Ages 6-8. After the animals are made, they quarrel about who should be king, but an angel gives them all crowns: fur for the lion, a comb for the rooster, and antlers for the reindeer. The reindeer is horrified by her twisted, treelike crown and flees to the far north, where she and her descendants live for thousands o... | [
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39,166 | 0 | Milton's "A Mask. Presented at Ludlow Castle," itself based on the ancient English folktale "Childe Roland," makes an odd choice for adaptation into a picture book, even on the heels of Hodges's and Hyman's collaborations St. George and the Dragon and The Kitchen Knight. In masques, after all, the characters stand arou... | [
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39,167 | 2 | PreSchool-Grade 1-Complete with rhyming text, engaging illustrations, and interactive questions, this oversized picture book had the potential to be a storytime favorite. Unfortunately, the inconsistent design is too busy and haphazard, and the words fail to hold a rhythm from page to page. A grandmother makes a stuffe... | [
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39,168 | 13 | Gail Gibbons "has taught more preschoolers and early readers about the world than any other children's writer-illustrator," according to the Washington Post. Winner of the 2010 Regina Award, she has written and illustrated more than fifty books for Holiday House. She lives in Corinth, Vermont.; Title: The Art Box | [
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39,169 | 5 | Grade 2-4-A lively retelling of a popular Irish tale found in many anthologies, including Virginia Haviland's Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Ireland (Little, 1961; o.p.). Billy Beg's mother gives him a magical bull calf just before she dies. When his stepmother tries, through guile, to rid herself of the bull and of Bill... | [
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39,170 | 5 | Kindergarten-Grade 4-When his stepmother thinks her husband loves his firstborn more than their twins, she gives the Prince of Ireland a geis, challenging the young man to bring her three magic stallions, or die. In return, the prince gives her a geis of his own-she must stand at the cross by the hermit's chapel with a... | [
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39,171 | 18 | Grade 1-3-Adler tells the story of the Jewish author, doctor, and orphanage director. Throughout the book, Adler gives hints of the trouble brewing in Poland in the 1930s, without really making clear who the Nazis were or why they were seizing property and burning books. However, the main focus of the narrative is Korc... | [
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39,172 | 2 | Back from The Story of Chopsticks, the Kang brothers are in for another culinary misadventure in The Story of Noodles by Ying Chang Compestine, illus. by YongSheng Xuan. When they fool around instead of following their mother's instructions on making dumplings for the village cooking contest, they inadvertently invent ... | [
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39,173 | 5 | Kindergarten-Grade 3-In this retelling of a traditional tale, young Ma'antah displays such extraordinary cleverness that she earns the nickname, Sense Pass King. The jealous monarch makes repeated attempts to dispose of the child, but ultimately brings her to live in his palace. When he falsely takes credit for slaying... | [
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39,174 | 14 | Jewish families around the world each have their own special customs to celebrate Hanukkah. The family featured here celebrates each of the eight days of the holiday with an important ritual. On the first night they light the first candle of their silver menorah, sing songs, and take turns reading about Judah Maccabee ... | [
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39,175 | 2 | Currently the owner of a restaurant in California, Lu looks back on a life that reflects China's tumultuous recent history, from wars and famine to Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution. Orphaned at three, Chi Fa grows up amid hardships that will be scarcely imaginable to American readers. "Chi Fa, you are lucky. Good for... | [
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39,176 | 2 | Rendered in watercolor and gouache over pencil, Himler's (Fly Away Home) softly focused portraits of a winning young heroine carry readers through a few of Lipp's (That Cat Is Not for Sale) wordier passages. Though eight-year-old Ary has heard about the rural rice fields where birds fly free, she lives in the Cambodian... | [
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39,177 | 2 | PreSchool-Grade 3-While en route to a "very exciting place," a grandfather gives his grandson hints about their destination. According to Gramps, they might encounter monkeys, mountains, knights, dragons, snakes, dinosaurs, and more. The bewildered boy guesses the obvious-zoo, museum, aquarium, movie-and is happy to di... | [
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39,178 | 11 | Grade 4 Up-"Blues- what you mean to me?/-Are you my pain and misery,/or my sweet, sweet company?" The opening verse of this latest father/son collaboration probes the very essence of a form-and a feeling; it asks the question that anyone who has sought solace in music can relate to. The pair's first composition wandere... | [
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39,179 | 15 | PreS-Three children and a dog brave the wet weather and go outside to enjoy spring. The catchy, rhyming text describes all of their activities, as they dodge raindrops and splash in puddles. The sun comes out, and they take off their raincoats and fold their umbrellas. They discover baby robins begging for food and hel... | [
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39,180 | 11 | Grade 2-4-Another in the parade of books from Gibbons's busy pen and paintbrush, this one deals with those fascinating denizens of the Southern Hemisphere. The simply written, clear text describes penguin physiology, geographic location (via a color-coded map), lifestyles, and nesting/brooding habits (with an emphasis ... | [
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39,181 | 11 | High (A Christmas Star) and Rayevsky (Squash It! A True and Ridiculous Tale) conduct an irresistibly quirky, good-natured tour of the subterranean goings-on in Gotham. Rayevsky sets the tone with his witty mixed-media illustrations, which marry urban grays and browns with zippy, funky draftsmanship in a truly original ... | [
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39,182 | 0 | Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith is the art director of Square Moon Productions, a book design and development company. She lives with her husband, a son, and a daughter in Orinda, California.; Title: Las Posadas | [
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39,183 | 13 | Starred Review. The father-and-son team behind blues journey creates a scintillating paean to jazz. Walter Dean Myers infuses his lines (and the rests between them) with so much savvy syncopation that readers can't help but be swept up in the rhythms. "Stride," for example, narrated by a piano man, captures the spirit ... | [
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39,184 | 13 | Gr 2-4-While riding home from her music lesson and daydreaming of becoming a concert pianist, Jennifer meets a gray-and-white cat. Inspired, she names him Amadeus and coaxes him home. With an eyebrow raised, her father accepts her story and the stray. In the week that follows, Jennifer forgets her dreams of musical fam... | [
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] | Validation |
39,185 | 0 | Grade 3-5–In the spring of 1945, U.S. troops marched into the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria to liberate surviving prisoners and were given an American flag that had been secretly made by a group of detainees there. This is an inspiring account of the camp, its survivors, and its liberators. Using scrap... | [
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] | Test |
39,186 | 4 | The legions of kids who idolize today's NASCAR drivers may find it hard to believe that the notion of racing automobiles-originally known as horse-less carriages-began back in 1895 in Chicago. In the first work he has written as well as illustrated, Dooling (The Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin) harnesses kids' fascin... | [
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44393
] | Train |
39,187 | 0 | Kindergarten-Grade 3?The intertwined stories of two girls?one in a modern wintry setting and one in Bethlehem at the birth of Jesus?are told primarily through expressive watercolors. The minimal text is adapted from Christina Rossetti's poem "A Christmas Carol" and fits the modern tale of a girl's love for her grandfat... | [
884,
31362
] | Validation |
39,188 | 2 | Will Hillenbrand has illustrated a wide range of picture books for children, including Spring is Here, the first Bear and Mole Book, which The Horn Book called "a sure-fire read-aloud for preschoolers." He lives in Ohio.; Title: Kite Day: A Bear and Mole Story | [
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39,189 | 13 | PreSchool-Grade 3-More a celebration of sound than a story, this upbeat picture book explores 10 different types of music. The young African-American narrator introduces each member of her extended family and the style of music he or she plays, from blue grass to marching band to rock 'n' roll to church hymns. As diffe... | [
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39,190 | 1 | Kindergarten-Grade 4-A whimsical look at the traits and tendencies of these fascinating creatures. Kelly follows the activities of the ruby-throated hummingbird throughout the seasons, relating facts and bits of trivia. For example, hummingbirds cannot smell and they depend on their eyesight when they are selecting flo... | [
22808,
45169,
60527
] | Test |
39,191 | 15 | K-Gr 2-An overly sweet celebration of fall, told in rhyme. The book opens with images of leaves ("Flutter, flitter/Gold as glitter/Colors crackle/Round the tree") and takes readers through all of the hallmarks of the season, ending with trick-or-treating: "Evil fairy/Yikes! She's scary!/Patched-up pirate/Who is he?" Do... | [
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39,192 | 1 | Gr 3-5-A far-ranging and sweeping overview of various types of creatures with wings-including birds, insects, and mammals-and the myriad ways they use these versatile appendages. Singer goes beyond a description of the mechanics of flight to include how wings are also used by various creatures for balance, as a weapon,... | [
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39,193 | 18 | Loreen Leedy writes and illustrates books in her studio in central Florida. When not writing, drawing, or painting on her computer, she's exercising, eating out, or going to the movies with her husband Andy. Her other books include the following:My Teacher Is a DinosaurThe Shocking Truth about EnergyCrazy Like a Fox: A... | [
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46243,
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71791
] | Validation |
39,194 | 0 | Like a chatty coiffeur, Krull (Supermarket) and Brewer's (Oh No, It's Robert) enthusiastic book expounds on outrageous dye jobs, celebrity hairstyles, cueball-headed space aliens and a prehistoric cut given to a caveboy. In its three sections (not counting a jam-packed list of "Some Hair Dos and Don'ts"), young charact... | [
58518
] | Test |
39,195 | 2 | Kindergarten-Grade 3-An old man tells his grandchildren about his 10th Christmas. Rich Aunt Aida came from Nairobi with her two pet cheetahs to visit her nephew, and the two of them planned a surprise for the rest of the village. They enlisted a man to play Father Christmas, located an elephant for him to ride, and pro... | [
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39,196 | 2 | Finally, Hairdo!: What We Do and Did to Our Hair by Ruth Freeman Swain, illus. by Cat Bowman Smith, playfully provides a historical and cross-cultural look at the styles that have defined society, such as an Egyptian party favor ("At evening parties, special guests were given cones of perfumed beeswax to put on top of ... | [
39223
] | Validation |
39,197 | 2 | In a starred review, PW wrote, "This realistic picture book about loving and losing a first pet will likely join the ranks of Judith Viorst's The Tenth Good Thing About Barney with its unsentimental, honest approach." Ages 4-8.Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.DyAnne DiSalvo plays rhythm guitar in the ro... | [
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] | Train |
39,198 | 0 | Myers (Monster) shifts gears to offer younger readers an entertaining swashbuckler set in 1420 Spain. The author sets up the conflict between the Moors and the Catholics in a way that the audience can understand easily: cats versus dogs. In cat-dominated Mlaga, which Speirs s (The Little Boy s Christmas Gift) charming ... | [
17070,
19878,
39059,
72391
] | Validation |
39,199 | 13 | Drawing on Lafcadio Hearn's collections of traditional Japanese tales, Hodges (St. George and the Dragon) succinctly recounts a legend of the early boyhood of 15th-century artist Sesshu Toyo. The boy, in training to be a priest, spends every spare moment covering the walls and screens of the temple with drawings of cat... | [
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