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The trumpet of the swan
The delightful classic by E. B. White, author of Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little, about overcoming obstacles and the joy of music. Like the rest of his family, Louis is a trumpeter swan. But unlike his four brothers and sisters, Louis can't trumpet joyfully. In fact, he can't even make a sound. And since he can't trumpet his love, the beautiful swan Serena pays absolutely no attention to …
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- 9780064408677
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- 251 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
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- W
Feathers and fools
Long ago and far away, in a rambling garden beside a clear blue lake, two flocks of birds began to fear each other because of their differences. The fear grew, and soon the birds became enemies, hoarding great quantities of weapons to protect themselves--until panic struck and the chance for peace seemed lost forever.
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- 9780152023652
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
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Tashi
Well, it was like this. Come and I'll tell you about the time I tricked the last dragon of all. "Jack has an extraordinary new friend. Tashi comes from a place far away and tells the best stories - about how he escaped from a war lord and flew to Australia on a swan. About how he was chased by a giant. Included in this audiobook are the original stories from Tashi, as well as Tashi and the G…
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- 9781741149654
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- 57 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
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The wild swans : also includes The nightingale
A princess has eleven brothers. The twelve siblings live happily and well, until their father decides to remarry. Their new stepmother is a wicked woman, and she turns all the brothers into swans and banishes the princess from the palace. And so it is left to Elisa to endure countless hardships alone in order to save her beloved brothers from the spell. This edition also contains a new trans…
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- 9781782691228
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- 61 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
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- A
The story of the ugly duckling
Once upon a time a mother duck sat hatching her eggs but was very bored as no one came to see her. But one day the eggs began to crack and tall the little ducklings peeped out. "Cheep,cheep," they said, "What a big world!" "Quack, quack," said the mother duck, happily.
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- 10 pages : illustration ; 26 cm
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- F18
The ugly duckling and other stories
The Nursery Collection brings together the world's best-loved traditional stories and nursery rhymes. Retold with very young children in mind, the stories are excellent for reading aloud while the rhymes retain all their fun and jollity. Hilda Offen's richly colourful illustrations breathe life and mischief into all the wonderful characters to be found in this collection.
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- 1856980235
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- 25 pages : illustration ; 23 cm
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- Nursery Collection
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- F18
The ugly duckling
For two hundred years, Hans Christian Andersen's The Ugly Duckling has been a childhood favorite all over the world. Now Robert Ingpen brings his spectacular adaptation to new generations of readers. Born bigger and different than the other hatchlings, the ugly duckling is ridiculed by his brothers and sisters, rejected by the other ducks, and eventually shunned by his own mother. The little b…
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- 0732315662
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- 8 pages : illustration ; 29 cm
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- F18
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