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Ella Kazoo will not brush her hair
Ella Kazoo simply refuses to brush her hair, and soon it develops a mind of its own! This CBCA Shortlisted book is now part of LOTHIAN AUSTRALIAN FAVOURITES, a collection of the very best Australian picture books. 'Ella Kazoo will not brush her hair. She hides in the cupboard and under the stair, she roars at her mum like a big growly bear, she whines and she moans and she howls in despair, bu…
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- 9780734410191
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 27 cm
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The island
Poignant and chilling, this allegory is an astonishing, powerful, and timely story about refugees, xenophobia, racism, multiculturalism, social politics, and human rights. When the people of an island find a man sitting on their shore, they immediately reject him because he is different. Fearful to the point of delusional paranoia, the islanders lock him in a goat pen, refuse him work, and feed…
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- 9781741752663
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 31 cm
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Millions of cats
Once upon a time there was an old man and an old woman who were very lonely. They decided to get a cat, but when the old man went out searching, he found not one cat, but millions and billions and trillions of cats! Unable to decide which one would be the best pet, he brought them all home. How the old couple came to have just one cat to call their own is a classic tale that has been loved for …
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- 0142407089
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 18 cm
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Have you seen my duckling?
An anxious mother duck leads her brood around the pond as she searches for one missing duckling.
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- 0590443852
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- 28 pages : illustration ; 20 cm
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- F71
Doctor De Soto
"Doctor De Soto, the dentist, did very good work." With the aid of his able assistant, Mrs. De Soto, he copes with the toothaches of animals large and small. His expertise is so great that his fortunate patients never feel any pain. Since he's a mouse, Doctor De Soto refuses to treat "dangerous" animals--that is, animals who have a taste for mice. But one day a fox shows up and begs for reli…
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- 9780374418106
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
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How dogs really work!
This spoof of a how-to-understand-and-manage-a-dog manual will bring laughs of understanding to dog lovers, young and old. A humorous look at the idiosyncracies of canine behavior answers questions such as How does a dog know what to do when it meets a cat? and other common conundrums.
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- 9780316801348
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- 26 pages : illustration ; 26 cm
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- 636.7 SNO
When I was young in the mountains
For twenty years, Cynthia Rylant's story of childhood in the Appalachian Mountains has been an enduring favorite. Growing up in the mountains is depicted with a spare, lyrical text and beautiful, tender illustrations by Diane Goode. The book was awarded a Caldecott Honor Medal.
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- 0140548750
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- 30 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
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Blueberries for Sal
What happens when Sal and her mother meet a mother bear and her cub? A beloved classic is born! Kuplink, kuplank, kuplunk! Sal and her mother a picking blueberries to can for the winter. But when Sal wanders to the other side of Blueberry Hill, she discovers a mama bear preparing for her own long winter. Meanwhile Sal's mother is being followed by a small bear with a big appetite for berrie…
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- 0590409239
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- 54 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
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- MC
Baboushka and the three kings : adapted from a Russian folk tale
The Russian folktale about an old woman's endless search for the Christ child.
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- 9780395426470
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- 25 pages : illustration ; 16 cm
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- 398 ROB
In the small, small pond
A child explores the wonders of the natural world in this rhyming, beautiful bright colored picture storybook about the lives of small animals and insects living around a freshwater pond.
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- 9780805059830
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
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