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Bigmama's
Donald Crews, the Caldecott Honor artist and award-winning creator of Freight Train, Truck, and many other classic picture books for young children, writes of his own childhood experiences visiting his grandparents in Florida. Share this book at home or in the classroom. Everyone will enjoy the memories of a perfect day in the country, exploring and playing, and the connections among family mem…
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- 0590221213
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- 32 pages : illustration : 20 cm
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- 928 CRE
Running back to Ludie
The narrator of a collection of bittersweet verses lives with her father and aunt, but will soon visit the mother she has not seen in years and rediscover how it feels to be her mother's daughter. By the author of When I Am Old With You.
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- 0439440823
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- 48 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
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- 811 JOH
A chair for my mother
"A tender knockout . . . it's rare to find much vitality, spontaneity, and depth of feeling in such a simple, young book."—Kirkus Reviews After their home is destroyed by a fire, Rosa, her mother, and grandmother save their coins to buy a really comfortable chair for all to enjoy. A Chair for My Mother has sold more than a million copies and is an ideal choice for reading and sharing at ho…
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- 0590331558
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 20 cm
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- W
Piggybook
Illus. in full color. "Mr. Piggott and his sons are a male chauvinist lot who, outside of yelling for their dinner, don't exercise themselves much around the house. When Mrs. Piggott finally tires of the endless chores that sandwich her workday, she leaves the menfolk on their own, with a note saying, 'You are pigs.' With the cooking and housework untended, they soon turn genuinely porcine, a t…
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- 9780758796523
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
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- BR
Aunt Nina's visit
Aunt Nina's six kittens disrupt a puppet show given by her nieces and nephews. "There's nothing to do," said Alexandra. "Go play with your friend," said her mother. "How about your brother?" asked her father. "It's boring to always play with your sister," said Alex. "I wish we had company!" said Alexandra.
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- 0688017649
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
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- B
Alexander, who's not (do you hear me? i mean it) going to move
Alexander's family is moving. But he's not planning to move. Never. Not ever. No way. Uh uh. N.O. What will he do?
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- 0590899821
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 18 cm
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- V
The toymaker : a story in two parts
Mary yearns to play with the children she sees outside each day, but she is too sick to join them. In order to give Mary comfort and contentment, her father, the toy-maker, fashions three dolls that look like the children outdoors. Many years later, Mary and her granddaughter return to the toy shop and discover that her father's gifts live on!
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- 0744530180
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 23 cm
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- W
Ira sleeps over
A little boy is excited at the prospect of spending the night at his friend's house but worries how he'll get along without his teddy bear.
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- 9780758728593
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- 48 pages : illustration ; 27 cm
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- W
The seeing stone : the spiderwick chronicles, bk. 2
When Mallory and Jared attempt to rescue Simon from goblins, they use a magical stone which enables them to see things that are normally invisible.
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- 9781416950189
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- 108 pages : illustration ; 18 cm
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- F
The pain and the great one
An eight-year-old girl, "The Great One," and her six-year-old brother, "The Pain," state their cases about each other and who is best loved by their parents An IRA-CBC Children's Choice.
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- 9780440409670
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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- B
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