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DK Readers L1: Little Dolphin

Sue Unstead · DK Children
Format: Hardcover

Little Dolphin tells the story of a young dolphin who wants to swim with the older dolphins. This Level 1 DK Reader features read-together stories for children just beginning to learn to read with short sentences, simple vocabulary, and word repetition, together with special picture dictionary...
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Grandma and the Great Gourd: A Bengali Folktale

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni · Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Once upon a time, in a little village in India, there lived an old woman. Everyone in the village called her Grandma. One day, Grandma received a letter from her daughter, who lived on the other side of the jungle. "Please come and visit me," said the letter. "I haven't seen...
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Body Actions

Shelley Rotner · Holiday House
Format: Hardcover

This book is filled with photos of kids running, jumping, riding bikes, and using all five senses. The photos are overlaid with illustrations of the nervous, skeletal, muscular, respiratory, and circulatory systems and major organs to show the amazing ways in which active bodies function.
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DK Readers L1: Angry Birds Star Wars: Yoda Bird's Heroes

DK Publishing · DK Publishing
Pages: 32
Format: Paperback

With simple sentences and fun illustrations, young readers will meet Yoda Bird and the Rebel heroes as they try to defeat the Empire pigs in this all new Level 1 Reader, Angry Bird Star Wars: Yoda Bird's Heroes.
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Animals Home Alone

Loes Riphagen · Seven Footer Press
Format: Hardcover

Part picture book, part game, and all fun, Animals Home Alone, introduces readers to fifteen animals who begin to act in unusual ways when the humans are away,. In wordless pages, each animal finds a unique activity or bit of mischief to get into. At the book's conclusion, readers...
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Animal Friends: A Collection of Poems for Children

Michael Hague · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 31
Format: Hardcover

A new poetry collection illustrated by the incomparable Michael HagueDo you know what a spider wishes for? No rain. Many flies. Gentle feet that take no notice of one so small. That's all.How about a sheep? In this ode to animals big and small, furry and slimy, airborne, aquatic, and land...
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The Cow in the House

Harriet Ziefert · Viking Juvenile
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Bothered by his noisy house, a man goes to a wise man for advice.
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How to Help the Earth-by the Lorax

Tish Rabe · Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Book

The star of The Lorax by Dr. Seuss makes his Step into Reading debut in this rhymed reader that offers kids easy suggestions for going green! After explaining how the trash in a wastbasket ultimately ends up in a landfill or incinerator, the Lorax suggests realistic ways children can reduce...
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Show and Tell Bunnies

Kathryn Lasky · Candlewick; 1st edition
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Clyde is nervous about what he should take for show and tell, but he ends up sharing a wonderful surprise with his class.
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Brush of the Gods

Lenore Look · Schwartz & Wade
Format: Hardcover

This gorgeous picture book biography, according to Kirkus Reviews in a starred review, is a cheerful introduction not only to Wu Daozi, but to the power of inspiration. Who wants to learn calligraphy when your brush is meant for so much more? Wu Daozi 689-758, known as Chinas greatest painter...
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A Picture Book of Amelia Earhart

David A Adler · Holiday House
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

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Ready or Not, Woolbur Goes to School!

LESLIE HELAKOSKI · HarperCollins
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

The free-spirited, fluffy, one-of-a-kind sheep Woolbur is on his way to school, and he's MORE than ready ... But Maa and Paa aren't so sure. What if Woolbur isn't exactly ready for school? He's different. He's unusual. And his new hairdo is kooky! At school, Woolbur loves trying new things...
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