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1) Swimmy
Author
Series
Publisher
Knopf/Pantheon
Pub. Date
1973, c1963
Physical Desc
[29] p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A little black fish in a school of red fish figures out a way of protecting them all from their natural enemies.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
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!
3) Fables
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1980
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
40 p. : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twenty original fables about an array of animal characters from crocodile to ostrich.
4) Madeline
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The smallest and bravest one is Madeline, whose adventurous spirit and outrageous antics have delighted boys and girls for over seventy years. Now even the youngest readers can enjoy this timeless favorite in a sturdy board book format"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Amos McGee, a friendly zookeeper, always made time to visit his good friends: the elephant, the tortoise, the penguin, the rhinoceros, and the owl. But one day--'Ah-choo!'--he woke with the sniffles and the sneezes. Though he didn't make it into the zoo that day, he did receive some unexpected guests."--Dust jacket.
6) Inch by inch
Author
Publisher
Weston Woods Studios
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 sound disc (5 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (unpaged : col. ill. ; 28 cm.)
Language
English
Description
To keep from being eaten, an inchworm measures a robin's tail, a flamingo's neck, a toucan's beak, a heron's legs, and a nightingale's song.
7) Grand Canyon
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color maps ; 30 cm
Language
English
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Description
"An exploration of the Grand Canyon on a grand scale, as only Jason Chin can illustrate and explain."--
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
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Description
Water is the first medicine. It affects and connects us all... When a black snake threatens to destroy the Earth and poison her people's water, one young water protector takes a stand to defend Earth's most sacred resource. Inspired by the many indigenous-led movements across North America, this bold and lyrical picture book issues an urgent rallying cry to safeguard the Earth's water from harm and corruption.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"First published in 1970, Frog and Toad Are Friends was the first of the four beloved Frog and Toad books. This special edition contains all of the original stories--from the story about going swimming, to finding lost buttons! ... includes seven pages of rarely seen bonus material, including archival photographs, sketches, pages from the original book dummy, the manuscript of the first story "Spring" (written in Lobel's cursive on lined notebook...
10) The egg tree
Author
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Pub. Date
©1950
Physical Desc
[32] pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Katy's Easter morning discovery renews the tradition of the Easter egg tree.
11) The little house
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2012, c1942
Edition
70th anniversary ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged : col. ill. ; 24 x 25 cm. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
A country house is unhappy when the city, with all its buildings and traffic, grows up around her.
12) Rapunzel
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c1997
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
A retelling of the German folktale in which a beautiful girl with long golden hair is kept imprisoned in a lonely tower by a sorceress. Includes a note on the origins of the story.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill., maps ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
I was born at the beginning of it all, on the Red side - the Communist side - of the Iron Curtain. Through annotated illustrations, journals, maps, and dreamscapes, Peter Sis shows what life was like for a child who loved to draw, proudly wore the red scarf of a Young Pioneer, stood guard at the giant statue of Stalin, and believed whatever he was told to believe. But adolescence brought questions. Cracks began to appear in the Iron Curtain, and news...
Author
Series
Publisher
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Pub. Date
[1965]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
31 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, music ; 19 x 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this Scottish folk song, a generous family always has room for another person and invites in everyone who passes by.
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