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Second-grade teacher Ms. Splinter takes going to the circus very seriously. After all,
there is important circus-related information that she must communicate to her class. And
that means no fidgeting. Ms. Splinter's mini-dissertations on various...Read more
Rainy Morning
by Daniel Pinkwater, Jill Pinkwater (Illustrator)
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Mr. and Mrs. Submarine are sitting at the kitchen table on a rainy morning, after eating a
couple of breakfasts. They notice their very wet cat peering in forlornly at them from the
window, so they let him in, dripping, and give him a corn muffin....Read more
Swine Lake
by James Marshall, Maurice Sendak (Illustrator)
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Wolves and pigs have always been excellent fodder for suspenseful children's stories, and Swine
Lake proves it once again, this time in the masterful hands of the late James Marshall
and Maurice Sendak. Marshall wrote the book fully intending to...Read more
From Kirkus Reviews , March 19,
1999
PLB 0-06-027140-X Listeners will quickly take up the percussive chorus``Dump it in, smash
it down, drive around the Trashy town! Is the trash truck full yet? NO''as they follow
burly Mr. Gilly, the garbage collector, on his rounds from park to pizza...Read more
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Maurice Sendak calls Eloise a "brazen, loose-limbed little monster." Pulitzer
Prize winner Anna Quindlen finds her pathetic and lonely. Eloise gave Vanity Fair
writer Marie Brenner "permission to rebel." Anyone who has been introduced to
the...Read more
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Why is Eloise, 6-year-old resident of the Plaza Hotel in New York City, going to Paris?
She and Nanny were summoned by a cablegram from Eloise's mother, and, as we all know,
"If you are going to Paris France / you have to turn into French and...Read more
The Ugly
Duckling
by Jerry Pinkney(Illustrator), Hans Christian Andersen
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Three-time Caldecott Honor artist and four-time winner of the Coretta Scott King Award,
Jerry Pinkney doesn't disappoint with this lovely, old-fashioned, richly textured
watercolor adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's The Ugly Duckling. The mother...Read more
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You never know what you're going to need to pack when you're spending the night at
Grandpa's house. The little red-haired girl in this exuberant, rhyming story needs quite a
bit of this and that, from apples to the zipper on her overnight bag, and...Read more
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Fans of Jane Simmons's celebrated read-aloud Come Along,
Daisy! will be happy to see the endearing duckling back in this sweet picture-book
companion. This time, Aunt Buttercup is sitting on an egg for Daisy's mom, and young Daisy
can't wait for her...Read more
Ice Cream
Larry
by Jill Pinkwater(Illustrator), Daniel M. Pinkwater
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Larry is a polar bear who, as we discover in Young Larry,
falls asleep on a chunk of ice in Baffin Bay and wakes up in Bayonne, New Jersey. Stranded
on a beach, what else can he do but become a lifeguard to earn money to buy the blueberry
muffins he...Read more
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