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When Christopher Robin asks Pooh what he likes doing best in the world, Pooh says, after
much thought, "What I like best in the whole world is Me and Piglet going to see You,
and You saying 'What about a little something?' and Me saying, 'Well, I...Read more
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It's bedtime for young Frances--an adorable and irrepressible little badger--and everyone
is ready but her. At 7:00 p.m. Frances is wide awake and bursting with youthful
excitement. She tries every delay tactic she can muster--from demanding extra...Read more
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Joanna Cole and Stephanie Calmenson, creators of the well-loved anthology Ready...
Set... Read!, are back again to lure unsuspecting children into the world of
words. They have gathered together stories, poems, and jokes, lavished with artwork by...Read more
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If Ready...Set...Read! were a movie, it would surely be a box-office hit with its
all-star cast, including Little Bear, Morris the Moose, and Frog and Toad. This rich
treasury of children's favorite stories, as well as poems, riddles,...Read more
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"'Let's frighten the dragons,' I said to Pooh. / 'That's right,' said Pooh to Me. / 'I'm
not afraid,' I said to Pooh, / And I held his paw and I shouted, 'Shoo! / Silly old
dragons!'--and off they flew," says Christopher Robin in A.A. Milne's...Read more
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Like all best friends, George and Martha do everything together--go to the movies, play at
the beach, and just hang around not doing much of anything. No matter that they happen to
be gigantic hippopotami, they learn the same lessons humans do about...Read more
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Believe it or not, 44 complete read-aloud classics and future classics--from Goodnight
Moon to Stellaluna--are packed in this remarkably svelte, positively historic
anthology. Flipping through the 308 pages of The 20th-Century Children's Book...Read more
Eloise
by Kay Thompson, Hilary Knight (Illustrator)
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"I am Eloise/I am six." So begins the well-loved story of Eloise, the garrulous
little girl who lives at New York's Plaza Hotel. Eyebrow raised defiantly, arm propped on
one jutting hip, Eloise is a study in self-confidence. Eloise's...Read more
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This collection of five complete, illustrated Dr. Seuss classics is a "hatful,"
but you'd have to have a Cat-in-the-Hat-sized chapeau to contain all the treasures in this
hefty book. Within its pages you'll find Theodor Seuss Geisel's...Read more
Amazon.com My Father's Dragon--a favorite of young readers since the 1940s and a Newbery honor
book--captures the nonsensical logic of childhood in an amusingly deadpan fashion. The
story begins when Elmer Elevator (the narrator's father as a boy) runs away...Read more
Just So
Stories
by Rudyard Kipling, Barry Moser (Illustrator)
From Booklist
, November 1, 1996
Gr. 4^-6. This handsome edition of Kipling's 12 original stories features 10 color plates
as well as a number of black-and-white ink drawings. The drawings have a rather sketchy,
informal look, whereas the watercolor paintings reflect the more...Read more
Amazon.com Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day was first published in
1972, catapulting a lovable, if peevish, young hero into the world of children's
literature. Since then, Judith Viorst--mother of three boys, one of whom is named...Read more
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Treehorn is clearly shrinking, and his parents aren't the least bit interested. His mother
is obsessed with whether or not her cake will rise. His father, at one point addressing a
son who can barely see over the table, states blindly, "Nobody...Read more
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