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Look around homes
As part of a series designed to arouse children's curiosity in their immediate environment, this book encourages young readers to study homes in an active, critical way. It explains the building process and external details, showing different types of houses and accommodation from tower blocks to detached homes and narrow boats. The simple text is interspersed with questions and examples which …
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- 9781852104672
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- 30 pages : illustration ; 23 cm
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- 643 PAC
Hey, Al
Al, a janitor, and his faithful dog, Eddie, live in a single room on the West Side. They eat together, they work together, they do everything together. So what's the problem? Their room is crowded and cramped; their life is an endless struggle. Al and Eddie are practically at each others throats when a large and mysterious bird offers them a new life in paradise. After some debate, they deci…
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- 9780374429850
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
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- Y
My place
Starting in 1988 and going back 200 years, we are told the history of Australia by being told the history of one particular place, told by the generations of children who have lived in that one spot. Winner of Australia's Book of the Year 1988. Full-colour illustrations.
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- 9780582811072
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- 44 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
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- 994 WHE
A house is a house for me
In a rollicking rhyme, the author introduces us to all types of homes for both people and animals. The poem engages in flights of fancy - what about a husk being a house for an ear of corn, or a throat being a house for a hum? "And once you get started in thinking this way,/ It seems that whatever you see/ Is either a house or it lives in a house,/ And a house is a house for me!" whimsical draw…
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- 9780142407738
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- 48 pages : illustration ; 27 cm
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- H
Deep in the forest
In this clever, wordless turnabout on the Goldilocks story, a curious bear cub wreaks havoc in the cabin of a pioneer family out for a walk. Pencil-and-wash pictures bring the forest and Goldilocks' family frontier cabin to life, infusing the tale with a satisfying warmth, a sense of love and security, and just the right touch of humor.
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- 0140547452
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 18 cm
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- F22
A place to live
This title takes a simple look at the difference between wants and needs with relation to the places where we live. Shelter and warmth are basic needs but we want a lot more from our homes - how many of our wants are really needs?
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- 9781484609422
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- 24 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
- Series Title
- Wants Versus Needs : Heinemann Read and Learn
- Call Number
- 153.8 STA
Why living things need... homes
This book explores the concept of homes, and why living things i.e., animals, humans and plants need them."
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- 9781432959159
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- 24 pages : illustration ; 18 cm
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- Why Living Things Need...
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- 570 NUN
Folk tales of the World : The little house
Product Name: The Little House: A Jewish Folk Tale (Folk Tales of the World)Copyright 1991, by Erica Gordon and Victor Ambrus Binding: Hardcover
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780216930155
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- 26 pages : illustration ; 26 cm
- Series Title
- A Jewish Folk Tale From Earstern Europe
- Call Number
- 398 GOR
Stanley the builder
When Myrtle buys a plot of land, she asks her friend Stanley to build her a new house. He works step by step – from clearing the site with his orange bulldozer, to lifting beams with his green crane. Luckily, Stanley’s friend Charlie helps out, too. And at the end of a hard day of working, Stanley returns home where it’s “Time for supper! Time for a bath! And time for bed!” Stanley…
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- 9781780080499
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
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- B
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