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Angelina's Big City Ballet

Katharine Holabird · Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

For the first time ever, Angelina is visiting the most famous city in Mouseland: the Big Cheese! She can't wait to explore the city and perform her fairy ballet. But her cousin Jeanie tells Angelina that tap dancing is much better than ballet. How can the two girls overcome their differences...
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Walt Disney's Classic Storybook

Disney · Disney Press; 1 edition
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

This second edition of Walt Disney's Classic Storybook Collection retells some of Disney's best known stories, including Sleeping Beauty, Bambi, Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella, Lady and the Tramp, and more. Also featured are charming stories such as Mickey Mouse and Pluto Pup,...
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Dinosaur Kisses

David Ezra Stein · Candlewick Press
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

WHOMP! An energetic young dinosaur figures out her own way to give a kiss in the latest from the creator of the Caldecott Honor-winning Interrupting Chicken.For newly hatched dinosaur Dinah, the world is an exciting place. There is so much to see and do. She tries this - STOMP! And she tries...
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Secret Life of Pets Deluxe Step into Reading #2

Andrea Posner-Sanchez · Random House Books for Young Readers
Pages: 24
Format: Library Binding

Illumination Entertainment and Universal Pictures present The Secret Life of Pets, a comedy about the lives our pets lead after we leave for work or school each day. This Step 2 Step into Reading leveled reader is perfect for boys and girls ages 4 to 6!
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A Castle Full of Cats

Ruth Sanderson · Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

The queens cats have taken over the palace, and the king has had enough! Beloved artist Ruth Sanderson brings her signature detailed and lush style to this humorous story of royal compromise. Told in rhyme, and with dozens of cats on each page, this gorgeous book is sure to have cat lovers...
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Thirsty, Thirsty Elephants

Sandra Markle · Charlesbridge
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Elephants never forget During a drought in Tanzania, Grandma Elephant is in search of water for her herd. Little Calf follows along and mimics her grandmother at each stop on their journey. When Grandma leads them to a watering hole she recalls from years before, the elephants are overjoyed...
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The Midnight Library

Kazuno Kohara · Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Perfect for bedtime reading, pay a visit to the Midnight Library where you can snuggle up for a nighttime story. There is a little library that only opens at night. In the library there is a little librarian--and her three assistant owls--who helps everyone find the perfect book. The library...
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Betty Goes Bananas

Steve Antony · Schwartz & Wade Books
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Like Molly Bang's When Sophie Gets Angry - Really, Really Angry, this book offers families a perfect opportunity to openly discuss emotions and behavior. Meet Betty, a gorilla. She wants to eat a banana, but . . . try as she might, she can't open it! Poor Betty - she just can't...
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7 Ate 9

Tara Lazar · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

6 has a problem. Everyone knows that 7 is always after him. Word on the street is that 7 ate 9. If that's true, 6's days are numbered. Lucky for him, Private I is on the case. But the facts just don't add up. It's odd.Will Private I put two and two together and solve the problem . . . or is 6 next...
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Jake and the Never Land Pirates Save Me, Smee!

Disney Book Group · Disney Press
Pages: 24
Format: Paperback

Arrr! Captain Hook finds a treasure map that leads him into the most perilous places in all of Never Land! Now it's up to Jake and his crew to help Mr. Smee save the Captain from himself.
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Boats for Papa

Jessixa Bagley · Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

Buckley and his Mama live in a cozy cabin by the ocean. He loves to carve boats out of the driftwood he finds on the beach nearby. He makes:big boatslong boatsshort boats andtall boats,each one more beautiful than the last, and sends them out to sea. If they don't come back, he knows they've...
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Monkey: Not Ready for Kindergarten

Marc Tolon Brown · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

Marc Brown, creator of the beloved Arthur books and TV show, offers a charming new character - and a fun and reassuring story about preparing for the first day of school. Kindergarten is only a week away . . . but Monkey is NOT ready. What if he gets on the wrong bus? What if they don't...
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One Potato, Two Potato

Todd H. Doodler · Little Simon
Format: Hardcover

This delightfully silly story will have you laughing for “more potatoes, more!”Mr. Potato was having a party. His friends were all invited.He set a festive table.Mr. Potato was excited! Then it’s one potato, two potato, three potato, four showing up at Mr. Potato’s...
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Work: An Occupational ABC

Kellen Hatanaka · Groundwood Books
Format: Hardcover

An alphabetical tour through the coolest jobs you can imagine - and some you might never have heard of! With a sophisticated, minimalist design and visual jokes to interpret on every page, Work: An Occupational ABC introduces children both to the alphabet and to a range of alternative...
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