My Uncle -- by Jenny Thorne (Author) (Book - Child)
"When climbing turns out to be fraught with peril, Uncle decides to take up fishing." From Card Catalgo
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Age groups: Preschool/Kindergarten (3-5), School Age (6-12)
Rumpelstiltskin -- by Brothers Grimm (Author) (Book - Child)
"The visual characterization of Rumpelstiltskin is a triumph: an odd elfin man with bulbous eyes, a gigantic, flat black hat, impossibly skinny arms and legs, and long, pointed black shoes. This...
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Age groups: Preschool/Kindergarten (3-5), School Age (6-12)
The Snowman -- by Raymond Briggs (Author) (Book - Child)
"Who needs words to tell a story? a little boy makes friends with a snowman. He wakes up on a snowy day, tells his mother he's going outside, then begins a flurry of snowman-building. That night, he...
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Age groups: Preschool/Kindergarten (3-5), School Age (6-12)
Lentil Soup -- by Joe Lasker (Author) (Book - Child)
"The farmer's wife cooks seven different lentil soups on seven different days before she discovers her mother-in-law's secret ingredient." From Card Catalog
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Age groups: Preschool/Kindergarten (3-5), School Age (6-12)
James and the Giant Peach -- by Roald Dahl (Author) (Book - Child)
"When poor James Henry Trotter loses his parents in a horrible rhinoceros accident, he is forced to live with his two wicked aunts, Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker. After three years he becomes "the...
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Age groups: Preschool/Kindergarten (3-5), School Age (6-12)
How to Eat Fried Worms -- by Thomas Rockwell (Author) (Book - Child)
"How to Eat Fried Worms has happily repulsed children since its original publication in 1973. Now youngsters can experience this classic story in a whole new yucky way, by listening to it on...
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
No One is Going to Nashville -- by Mavis Jukes (Author) (Book - Child)
"Sonia's relationship with her father and stepmother is so warmly real that all three characters seem to leap into life in a story that is a refreshing tonic to mean old. But, at its heart the book...
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
The Muffin Fiend -- by Daniel Pinkwater (Author) (Book - Child)
"From Pinkwater we expect the pure wackiness of a mind given to bizarre bolts of imagination. Absurdities and a few gaps in logic aside, we get it in spades. Someone is stealing all the muffins in...
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Tales from the Jungle Book -- by Rudyard Kipling (Author) (Book - Child)
"An adaptation of the well-known adventures of Mowgli, a boy reared by a pack of wolves, and the wild animals of the jungle." From Card Catalog
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Beware! These Animals Are Poison! -- by Barbara Brenner (Author) (Book - Child)
"Discusses various facts about poisonous animals with emphasis on how they deliver their venom to other animals as a means of survival." From Card Catalog
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)