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The gruffalo
Just what is the Gruffalo? He has terrible tusks... and terrible claws... and terrible teeth in his terrible jaws. But do all those things make him the scariest creature in the deep dark wood? One brave little mouse with a big imagination doesn't think so! When Mouse takes a stroll through the woods, he meets a fox, an owl, and a snake who all want to eat him. So clever Mouse scares th…
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- 9781509804757
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 27 cm
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- D
The twits
How do you outwit a Twit? Mr. and Mrs. Twit are the smelliest, ugliest people in the world. They hate everything -- except playing mean jokes on each other, catching innocent birds to put in their Bird Pies, and making their caged monkeys, the Muggle-Wumps, stand on their heads all day. But the Muggle-Wumps have had enough. They don't just want out, they want revenge.
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- 9780141326207
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- 86 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
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- D
Zomo the rabbit : a trickster tale from West Africa
Zomo the Rabbit is a prominent member of the family of animal tricksters that populate the traditional tales of West Africa. These humorous stories of mischief and cunning are told to instruct as well as to entertain and have been kept alive by the powerful oral traditions of the African peoples.
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- 9781415592663
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 23 cm
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- 398.2 MCD
Shadow
Shadow lives in the forest... It goes forth at night to prowl around the fires. It even likes to mingle with the dancers... Shadow... It waves with the grasses, curls up at the foot of trees... But in the African experience Shadow is much more. The village storytellers and shamans of an Africa that is passing into memory called forth for the poet Blaise Cendrars an eerie image, shifting …
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- 0689718756
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- 40 pages : illustration ; 28 cm
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- B
Flossie & the fox
A wily fox, notorious for stealing eggs, meets his match when he encounters a bold little girl in the woods who insists upon proof that he is a fox before she will be frightened.
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- 0590458841
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 23 cm
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Sly fox and red hen
Favourite stories are retold in a lively natural language to help children to develop the confidence to read alone. Henny Penny and her friends are on their way to tell the king that the sky is falling when they meet a hungry fox.
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- 0721419542
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- 27 pages : illustration ; 17 cm
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- Read it yourself : Level 2
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- F08
Chicken Little
"The sky is failing! The sky is failing!" Chicken Little and her feathered friends are all aflutter when she gets a mysterious bump on the head. Steven Kellogg's hilarious retelling and irresistible illustrations bring fresh delight to this timeless classic of chain reaction panic.
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- 9780688070458
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 27 cm
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- F08
Lon Po Po : a Red-Riding Hood story from China
"Not for the faint-hearted, Lon Po Po (Grandmother Wolf), is a tale of a menacing danger and courage....(Young's) command of page composition and his sensitive use of color give the book a visual force that matches the strength of the story and stands as one of the illustrator's best efforts." --Booklist"Absolutely splendid." -- Kirkuse Reviews. "An extraordinary and powerful book."
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- 0590440691
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
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- F11
The Great race : an Indonesian trickster tale
"Though there's no claim that this art style has any relationship to the original tale, it's an apt match. The book designer adapted the work to the printed page, keeping the intense blood red and ebony black. Each double-page spread takes on an exciting life of its own. A note provides background information on the tale, and an afterword tells the story of the illustrations with photographs of…
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- 9789380340159
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- 36 pages : illustration ; 28 cm
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- 398.2 SCO
Puss in boots
Charles Perrault's Puss in Boots has been an irresistible magnet for countless illustrators ever since this classic French tale was first published in 1697. So the question arises: Do we really need another edition of Puss? Presented with Fred Marcellino's magnificent interpretation of this nimble new translation of the authentic text, book lovers young and old are apt to decide that this Puss …
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- 9780374460341
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- 30 pages : illustration ; 27 cm
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- 398.21 PER
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