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2) Madeline
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1960.
Edition
New ed.
Physical Desc
1 volumes (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 32 cm.
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
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1941
Physical Desc
[67] p. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Mrs. Mallard was sure that the pond in the Boston Public Gardens would be a perfect place for her and her eight ducklings to live. The problem was how to get them there through the busy streets of Boston. But with a little help from the Boston police, Mrs. Mallard and Jack, Kack, Lack, Nack, Ouack, Pack, and Quack arrive safely at their new home.
This brilliantly illustrated, amusingly observed tale of Mallards on the move has won the hearts...
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1953
Physical Desc
56 p. illus. 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
Madeline and her friends become very upset when Genevieve, a dog that has become a cherished school pet since rescuing Madeline from an accidental fall into the Seine, is tossed out by the school board chairman.
Author
Series
Madeline (Ludwig Bemelmans) volume 3
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
[1956]
Edition
[1st ed.]
Physical Desc
54 p. col. illus. 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
One day the Spanish ambassador moves into the Parisian house next door to Miss Clavel, Madeline, and her 11 classmates. And, His Excellency has a boy! Pepito, as he is named, is not just any boy: according to Madeline, he is a "bad hat"--for starters, he's equipped with an irksome slingshot, he "ghosts," and he boasts. And when Miss Clavel gives him a box of tools to function as an "outlet for his energy," he makes a guillotine for the cook's chickens....
Author
Series
Madeline (Ludwig Bemelmans) volume 4
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[1961]
Physical Desc
56 p. illus. 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the Ambassador moves to London, the twelve little girls go to visit his son, Madeline has an adventure on a horse, and the horse returns to Paris with the girls.
Author
Series
Peter books (Ezra Jack Keats) volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The adventures of Peter, a little boy in the city on a very snowy day. No book has captured the magic and sense of possibility of the first snowfall better than this book. With its universal appeal, the story has become a favorite with millions, as it reveals a child's wonder at a new world, and the hope of capturing and keeping that wonder forever. -- Publisher description.
Author
Series
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
[1981?], 1964
Physical Desc
[29] p. : col. ill. ; 18 x 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The noisy children of three neighboring families have a gay time at Christmas baking cookies, cutting and decorating trees, eating fruitcake and tarts, and opening Christmas gifts.
11) Corduroy
Author
Language
English
Description
Corduroy has been on the department store shelf for a long time. Yet as soon as Lisa sees him, she knows that he’s the bear for her. Her mother, though, thinks he’s a little shopworn—he’s even missing a button! Still, Corduroy knows that with a bit of work he can tidy himself up and be just the bear for Lisa. And where better to start than with a nighttime adventure through the department store, searching for a new button!
16) Ox-cart man
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1979
Language
English
Description
Describes the day-to-day life of an early nineteenth-century New England family throughout the changing seasons.
17) Where's Spot?
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
[24] p. : col. ill. ; 20 x 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A mother dog finds eight other animals hiding around the house before finding her lost puppy. Flaps conceal the animals.
18) Miss Rumphius
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a child Great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful--and she does all those things, the last being the most difficult of all.
19) Ten, nine, eight
Author
Language
English
Description
Numbers one through ten are part of this lullaby which observes the room of a little girl going to bed.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c1984
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
[25] p. : col. ill. ; 22 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
A mother duck leads her brood around the pond as she searches for one missing duckling. A duckling is missing! Mother Duck sails frantically around the pond, with the rest of her brood behind her. But none of the pond residents has seen the little duckling, not bird, not turtle, not beaver, not fish. But clever readers can see that duckling isn't lost at all--just adventuring, and never far away.
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