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The animals in these books have quite the vocabulary and can talk to one-another!  
 
The Mouse and the Motorcycle

Beverly Cleary

In this imaginative adventure from Newbery Medal-winning author Beverly Cleary, a young mouse named Ralph is thrown into a world of excitement when a boy and his shiny toy motorcycle check into the Mountain View Inn.When the ever-curious Ralph spots Keith's red toy motorcycle, he vows to ride...
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Charlotte's Web

E B White
Format: Book

Since its publication in 1952, Charlotte's Web has become one of America's best-loved children's books. For fifty years, this timeless story of the pig named Wilbur and the wise spider named Charloette who saved him has continued to warm the hearts of readers everywhere. Now this
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Winnie-the-Pooh

A. A. Milne
Format: Print book

"Winnie-the-Pooh is a joy; full of solemn idiocies and the sort of jokes one weeps over helplessly, not even knowing why they are so funny, and with it all the real wit and tenderness which alone could create a priceless little masterpiece." Saturday Review1926 Show...
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Stuart Little

E. B. White - Harper & Row

A paperback edition of E.B. White's classic novel about one small mouse on a very big adventure! With black and white illustrations.Stuart Little is no ordinary mouse. Born to a family of humans, he lives in New York City with his parents, his older brother George, and Snowbell the cat....
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The Wizard of Oz: Centennial Edition

Baum, L. Frank

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz must be one of the best-known, charming and unique children's stories ever but it is also more than a children's story, Oz stands as a demarcation point between American's rural past and urban future, harmoniously uniting a democratic spirit and a utopia
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia)

C. S. Lewis - HarperCollins Narnia
Format: Hardcover

A beautiful hardcover edition of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, book two in C. S. Lewis's classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia.The full-color jacket features art by three-time Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator David Wiesner. The interior includes gorgeous black-and-white...
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The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame - Sterling Children's Books
Format: Print book

Another beautiful book by renowned artist Robert Ingpen in the popular Sterling Illustrated Classics series.
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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Robert C. O'Brien - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Having no one to help her with her problems, a widowed mouse visits the rats whose former imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise and long lived.
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The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread

Kate DiCamillo - Candlewick Press
Format: Paperback

"Forgiveness, light, love, and soup. These essential ingredients combine into a tale that is as soul-stirring as it is delicious." - BOOKLIST (starred review) Welcome to the story of Despereaux Tilling, a mouse who is in love with music, stories, and a princess named Pea....
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Into the Jungle: Stories for Mowgli

Katherine Rundell - Walker Books US
Format: Hardcover

Costa Children's Book Award-winning author Katherine Rundell pens Kipling estate-approved Jungle Book origin storiesThis wise and witty companion to Rudyard Kipling's 1894 classic is likewise a series of connected stories about the man-cub Mowgli and his adventures among the animals...
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Redwall

Brian Jacques - Philomel
Format: Hardcover

When Redwall Abbey is threatened by the evil rat Cluny, it is up to Matthias, a young mouse, to destroy the enemy.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll - Puffin Books
Format: Paperback

They're Puffin Classics for a reason, it's because they're the best.Follow Alice down the rabbit hole in this topsy turvy adventure!On an ordinary summer's afternoon, Alice tumbles down a hole and an extraordinary adventure begins. In a strange world with even stranger characters,...
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Bunnicula : a rabbit-tale of mystery

Deborah Howe - Atheneum Books for Young Readers; 1st edition
Format: Paperback

Though scoffed at by Harold the dog, Chester the cat tries to warn his human family that their foundling baby bunny must be a vampire.
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The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials

Philip Pullman - Yearling; 1st edition
Format: Print book

Lyra Belacqua is content to run wild among the scholars of Jodan College, with her daemon familiar always by her side. But the arrival of her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, draws her to the heart of a terrible struggle—a struggle born of Gobblers and stolen children, witch clans and armored...
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