Leo Dillon
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A retelling of a traditional West African tale that reveals how the mosquito developed its annoying habit. A mosquito annoyed the iguana, who frightened the python, who scared the rabbit, and now the whole jungle is in an uproar because the sun won't rise. The animals discuss the situation and decide to punish the mosquito. Even today, whenever we hear a mosquito buzz, we smack it hard!
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Title on accompanying disc: The people could fly : an American-African folktale.Narrated by James Earl Jones and Virginia Hamilton. Pea-pod man: Raven the creator -- Finding night: Quat the creator -- Endless sea of mud: Death the creator -- Bursting from the hen's egg: Phan Ku the creator -- Traveling to form the world: Old Man the creator -- First man becomes the devil: Ulgen the creator -- Turtle dives to the bottom of the sea: Earth Starter the...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Newly illustrated edition.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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"A streamlined train and a little old train journey through hills and over mountains, crossing rivers and plains, in this treasured story from Margaret Wise Brown, author of Goodnight Moon. Reimagined with bold and vibrant art by Geisel Award-winning artist Greg Pizzoli, this updated edition is perfect for fans of things that go."--Provided by publisher.
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In the mid-nineteenth century, a French professor and his two companions, trapped aboard a fantastic submarine as prisoners of the deranged Captain Nemo, come face to face with exotic ocean creatures and strange sights hidden from the world above.
7) Earth Mother
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Walker
Pub. Date
2005
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[32] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
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English
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Portrays a day in the life of Earth Mother who, as she tends plants and animals around the world, meets three of her creations and offers advice on how to make the world more perfect.
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Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
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English
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Presents the selection from Ecclesiastes which relates that everything in life has its own time and season; depicts each verse with a different style of art from around the world.
10) The secret river
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011, c1955
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1st ed.
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
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English
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Young Calpurnia takes her dog, Buggy-horse, and follows her nose to a secret river in a Florida forest, where she catches enough fresh fish to feed her hungry neighbors, even after giving some to the forest creatures she meets on the way home.
12) Asian folk tales
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Weston Woods Studios
Pub. Date
2008
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1 videodisc (22 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
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English
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Two folktales from Asia. In Tale of the Mandarin ducks: a compassionate couple risk everything to reunite a pair of ducks. In The stonecutter: a lowly Japanese stonecutter dreams of power
13) Sabriel
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English
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Ever since she was a tiny child, Sabriel has lived outside the walls of the Old Kingdom, away from the random power of Free Magic, and away from the Dead who won't stay dead. But now her father, the Mage Abhorsen, is missing, and to find him Sabriel must cross back into that world.
Though her journey begins alone, she soon finds companions: Mogget, whose seemingly harmless feline form hides a powerful and perhaps malevolent spirit; and Touchstone,...