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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: The Story of Snow White

Disney Book Group · Disney Press
Pages: 112
Format: Print book

Snow White is the fairest in the land. When the wicked queen wants that title for herself, Snow White flees into the forest where she meets the Seven Dwarfs. But the queen is determined to be the fairest in the land. Will Snow White ever escape her evil clutches and live happily ever...
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The Day I Became a Bird

Ingrid Chabbert · Kids Can Press
Pages: 40
Format: Print book

The day he starts school, a young boy falls in love for the very first time. Sylvia sits in front of him at school, and he's so in love with her, she's all he can see. But sadly, Sylvia doesn't see him. In fact, it seems the only thing Sylvia has eyes for is birds. ?There are birds...
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Emily Loves To Bounce

Stephen Michael King · Philomel Books
Pages: 32
Format: Book

Boing! Emily is full of life. She's full of smiles. But most of all, she's full of bounce. On her head,on her toes, on her bottom. Skipping bounces, springing bounces, singing bounces. Wherever she may be, you can be sure she's in the air! This adorable, energetic book by award-winning...
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Paddington at the Beach

Michael Bond · HarperCollins; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover

Nothing goes quite according to plan when Paddington Bear goes to the beach. Especially when, one by one, he is joined by hungry and sneaky! seagulls. Will Paddingtons lunchtime snack be safe?Paddington Bear has charmed readers for generations. This classic summer counting adventure is perfect...
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Duck, Duck, Porcupine!

Salina Yoon · Bloomsbury Usa
Pages: 64
Format: Print book

Big Duck likes to boss around her younger brother, Little Duck, and she fancies herself the leader of their trio--when joined by their gentle friend Porcupine. Little Duck doesn't speak yet, but through his expressions and his actions, he shows that he has a better grasp on any situation...
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Magic Tree House #53: Shadow of the Shark

Mary Pope Osborne · Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Jack and Annie are diving into danger when the magic tree house whisks them away to shark-infested waters in this NEW adventure in the New York Times bestselling Magic Tree House series! It's a dream vacation for Jack and Annie - or is it? When Teddy, a young sorcerer, offers to send...
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I Want To Be A Musician

Dan Liebman · Firefly Books
Format: Paperback

The I Want to Be... series gives young children a realistic insight into the working day of adults. Easy-to-read captions and color photographs of women and men from different cultures help children understand whats involved in each occupation. Young readers learn to respect the importance...
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How Things Work: Facts and fun, questions and answers, things to make and do

Sophie Dauvois · Thames & Hudson, 2015. ©2015
Pages: 63
Format: Print book

An interactive book that answers all the questions young children have about how things work, from the creators of the innovative art-and-science magazine and television showHow Things Work is designed to appeal to and encourage the curiosity that young children have about the objects around...
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A Tiger Tail:

Mike Boldt · Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 40
Format: Print book

From the creative mind of rising star Mike Boldt comes a hilarious and original tale about overcoming back-to-school jitters, making new friends, and taking things in stride.

Anya wakes up to discover that she has grown a tiger tail. Yes, a striped tiger tail. It also happens to be the first...
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The Whale

Cynthia Rylant · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 61
Format: Print book

Newbery Medalist Cynthia Rylant brings the peaceful sounds, sights, and characters of the coast vividly to life in the second book of the Lighthouse Family series, in which the family helps reunite a baby beluga whale with its mother.Pandora, Seabold, Whistler, Lila, and Tiny have all been...
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Thank you, Jackson: How one little boy makes a BIG difference

Niki Daly · Frances Lincoln Children's Bks
Format: Hardcover

Jackson the donkey works very hard, carrying loads of mielies, carrots and potatoes up the hill to market every week, from the little farm where he lives with the farmer, his wife Beauty and his son Goodwill. But one day Jackson just stops, halfway up the hill. The farmer pushes him, pulls...
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Tales from Christmas Wood

Suzy Senior · Lion Children's
Pages: 29
Format: Print book

Christmas wood is full of animals: Badger, Fidgety Fox, Owl (not Wise Old Owl, just Owl) , the Rabbit family, Tiny Mouse, and Robin. All the animals are getting ready to celebrate - Badger is looking for new friends, Tiny is making (and eating) gingerbread, and Rosie Rabbit just wants...
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Cat and Dog

Else Holmelund Minarik · Harpercollins
Pages: 40
Format: Print book

"Woof, woof!" "Meow, meow!" Cat and dog, two playful pets, make the perfect zany match: whether the dog is taking a dip in the bird's bath, or the cat is snacking on bones, the result is hilarious! The simple text by the author of Little Bear, Else Holmelund Minarik,...
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A New Friend

Poppy Green · Little Simon
Format: Hardcover

In this first of a charming series about a little mouse and her forest friends, Sophie Mouse must convince her classmates—and herself—that a new student is nothing to fear. Even if he is a snake! Readers will delight in The Adventures of Sophie Mouse! In the first book of The Adventures...
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The Cricket in Times Square

George Selden · Square Fish
Pages: 132
Format: Paperback

Tucker is a streetwise city mouse. He thought he'd seen it all. But he's never met a cricket before, which really isn't surprising, because, along with his friend Harry Cat, Tucker lives in the very heart of New York City -- the Times Square subway station. Chester Cricket never intended...

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