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Falling for Rapunzel

Leah Wilcox - Puffin Books
Format: Paperback

The prince is hoping to fall for Rapunzel, but since she can't quite hear what he asks for, everything but her hair gets tossed out her window. Instead of her curly locks, she throws her dirty socks. Instead of silky tresses, out go lacey dresses. And you can predict the guaranteed-to-crack-kids-up...
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The Dirty Cowboy

Adam Rex - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

This ol boy needs a bath!After he finds a tumbleweed in his chaps and the numerous bugs buzzing around him affect his hearing, the cowboy decides its time to head to the river. Once there, he peels off all his clothes and tells his trusty old dog to guard them against strangers. He takes...
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Fanny's Dream

Caralyn Buehner
Format: Book

In this inventive take on the traditional Cinderella tale, Fanny Agnes is a sturdy farm girl with a big dream. Someday, she believes, she will marry a prince. When the town mayor announces he is throwing a grand ball, Fanny is convinced her time has come. She puts on her best calico dress...
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Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude

Kevin O'Malley - Walker Childrens; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Once upon a time there was ... a princess who loved all her beautiful ponies, a cool muscle dude who rode an awesome motorcycle. But a giant came and started stealing them! The dude came to fight the ugly, smelly giant with his mighty sword. She turned gold into thread while she cried for Buttercup,...
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Ten Big Toes and a Princes Nose

Nancy Gow - Union Square Kids
Format: Hardcover

Poor little princess... As soon as suitors caught a glimpse of her gigantic feet, they ran for the door. And in another kingdom, far far away, a kind prince had a similar problem: maidens made a hasty retreat the moment they saw his gigantic nose! But a serendipitous meeting on a ski slope...
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Nelly May Has Her Say

Cynthia C DeFelice - Farrar
Format: Print book

Nelly May Nimble and her twelve brothers and sisters live with their parents in a tiny cottage in the Bottoms, where there's never enough food to feed so many hungry mouths. Nelly May decides that she is old enough to earn her keep and takes a job as Lord Ignasius Pinkwinkle's new housekeeper...
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The Paper Bag Princess

Robert N Munsch - Annick Press
Format: Paperback

This bestselling modern classic features a princess who rescues a very snooty - and ungrateful - prince.
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Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale

Mo Willems - Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

Trixie, Daddy, and Knuffle Bunny take a trip to the neighborhood Laundromat. But the exciting adventure takes a dramatic turn when Trixie realizes somebunny was left behind Using a combination of muted black-and-white photographs and expressive illustrations, this stunning book tells a brilliantly...
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Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs: As Retold by Mo Willems

Mo Willems - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover

Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs is a new take on the fairy-tale classic Goldilocks and the Three Bears, so funny and so original - it could only come from the brilliant mind of Mo Willems, the author/illustrator of Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus and the Elephant and Piggie series....
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Tops and Bottoms

Janet Stevens - Harcourt Brace & Co.
Format: Print book

Hare solves his family's problems by tricking rich and lazy Bear in this funny, energetic version of an old slave story. With roots in American slave tales, Tops & Bottoms celebrates the trickster tradition of using one's wits to overcome hardship. "As usual, Stevens'...
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The Baby Beebee Bird

Diane Redfield Massie - HarperCollins
Format: Book

It is nighttime at the zoo. The animals are asleep. All is still, until. . . beebeebobbibobbi beebeebobbibobbi beebeebobbibobbi beebeebobbibobbi The baby beebee bird, new to the zoo, is singing his song. . .ALL NIGHT LONG! Nothing the animals do or say will stop him. Until, that is, they...
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Skippyjon Jones Shape Up

Judith Byron Schachner - Dutton Books for Young Readers
Format: Board book

Skippyjon has an overactive imagination. And he is pretty active himself. Here he shapes up with shapes: he runs in a circle, tap-dances on a square, orbits an oval. And then the great sword fighter shows his muscles.
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Bark, George

Jules Feiffer
Format: Print book

"Bark, George," says George's mother, and George goes: "Meow," which definitely isn't right, because George is a dog. And so is his mother, who repeats, "Bark, George." And George goes, "Quack, quack."What's going on with George? Find...
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If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

Laura Joffe Numeroff - Laura Geringer Books
Format: Library Binding

From the #1 New York Times bestselling team Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond, the award-winning If You Give a Mouse a Cookie is one of the most beloved children's books of all time. This book is a great first introduction to Mouse, the star of the If You Give series and a perennial favorite...
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Little Pea

Amy Krouse Rosenthal - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover

If Little Pea doesn't eat all of his sweets, there will be no vegetables for dessert! What's a young pea to do? Children who have trouble swallowing their veggies will love the way this pea-size picture book serves up a playful story they can relate to.
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Don't Touch My Hat

James Rumford - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Book

Out west, a lonesome prairie or two from anywhere, was a town called Sunshine. Sunshine was smaller'n most, bigger'n some, but cleaner and more civ'lized than 'em all. Sheriff John saw to that—him and his 10-gallon hat. . . .Sheriff John is a lawman in the wild, wild...
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Epossumondas

Coleen Salley - Harcourt, Inc.
Format: Audio CD

Who's Epossumondas? Why, he's his mama's and his auntie's sweet little patootie, that's who. He's also the silliest, most lovable, most muddleheaded possum south of the Mason-Dixon line!Better choose your words wisely when he's around, 'cause otherwise you never know what you'll...
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The Original Adventures of Hank the Cowdog

John R. Erickson - Maverick Books; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

Hank has been accused of murder! In a fit of despair, Hank resigns his position as Head of Ranch Security and decides to join the outlaw coyotes. There he's known as Hunk (that's Hank in coyote language). Hank meets Missy Coyote, sister to Scraunch -- the meanest, roughest, toughest,...
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Manana, Iguana

Ann Whitford Paul - Holiday House; Bilingual edition
Format: Book

Iguana is planning a fiesta. Tortuga the tortoise, Conejo the hare, and Culebra the snake all want to come. But do they want to help prepare? No! A lazy trio loses out in this clever update of the story of the Little Red Hen with a Mexican twist.
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Today I Will Fly!

Mo Willems - Hyperion Books for Children
Format: Hardcover

Gerald is careful. Piggie is not.Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can.Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to.Gerald and Piggie are best friends.Today, I Will Fly! is the funny introduction to the characters. Piggie is determined to fly. But Gerald the elephant knows that's impossible--isn't...
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Waking Beauty

Leah Wilcox - Puffin Books
Format: Paperback

When Prince Charming finds Sleeping Beauty and her fairies, he doesn't know what to do. The fairies try to tell him, but he keeps interrupting with crazy ideas of his own such as shouting, jumping on her bed, and pouring water on her. Of course none of those work, and he is mortified when...
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Jabut the Tortoise: A Trickster Tale from the Amazon

Gerald McDermott - Harcourt
Format: Print book

Of all the animals in the rain forest, Jabut was the favorite. His shell was smooth and shiny, and the songs he played on his flute were sweet. But his music was a reminder, too, of the mischievous pranks Jabut sometimes played. His song reminded Tapir of being tricked, Jaguar of being...
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Waking Beauty.

- Paw Prints
Format: Print book

Prince Charming tries all sorts of silly ways to wake Sleeping Beauty before he learns how he is really supposed to wake her up.
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