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A Bargain for Frances

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Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type

Doreen Cronin · 32 pages

When Farmer Brown's cows find a typewriter in the barn they start making demands, and go on strike when the farmer refuses to give them what they want.

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Days with Frog and Toad

Arnold Lobel · 64 pages

Good friends like Frog and Toad enjoy spending their days together. They fly kites, celebrate Toad's birthday, and share the shivers when one of them tells a scary story. Here are five funny stories that celebrate friendship all day, every day.

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Lilly's Big Day

Kevin Henkes · 40 pages

When her teacher announces that he is getting married, Lilly the mouse sets her heart on being the flower girl at his wedding.

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You Will Be My Friend!

Peter Brown

This is a humorous children's book about making friends. Lucy is determined to make a new friend with one of the forest animals but struggles with how to make friends. Then, a flamingo stops by and Lucy finally makes a friend.

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The Berenstain Bears Get in a Fight

Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain · 32 pages

After causing a family commotion when they fight with each other, the Berenstain cubs learn that sometimes even the best of friends don't get along.

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Are You My Mother?

P.D. Eastman · 64 pages

When a baby bird hatches while his mother is out searching for food, he leaves the nest for a series of adventures to try to determine his mother's identity.

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The Amazing Bone

William Steig · 32 pages

On her way home from school, Pearl finds an unusual bone that has unexpected powers.

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A Big Guy Took My Ball!

Mo Willems · 60 pages

Piggie is upset because a whale took the ball she found, but Gerald finds a solution that pleases all of them.

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How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night?

Jane Yolen · 34 pages

Mother and child ponder the different ways a dinosaur can say goodnight, from slamming his tail and pouting to giving a big hug and kiss.

Talking AnimalsChildren'sIllustrated BookHeartwarming
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The Cricket in Times Square

George Selden · 151 pages

An updated version of the timeless children's classic featuring a business-savvy mouse, a kind alley cat, and a talented country cricket, featuring a new foreword and revisions by YA author Stacey Lee. 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 v

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Chanticleer and the Fox

Geoffrey Chaucer · 36 pages

One of the most delightful fables in our heritage is the story of the proud cock and the witty fox who flattered him. Chaucer told the story with vigorous rhythm and singing words; Barbara Cooney has adapted it for chidlren and illustrated it with pictures as handsome as a medieval herbal. Chanticleer was a merry rooster, "His comb was redder than fine coral and turreted like a castle wall, his

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Llama Llama Mad at Mama

Anna Dewdney · 32 pages

A young llama wants to play but must go shopping with his mother instead, and so he gets angry and makes a mess at the store.

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The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame · 192 pages

Since its first publication in 1908, generations of adults and children have cherished Kenneth Grahame's classic, The Wind in the Willows. For in this entrancing, lyrical world of gurgling rivers and whispering reeds live four of the wisest, wittiest, noblest, and most lovable creatures in all literature--Rat, Mole, Badger, and Toad of Toad Hall. Like true adventurers, they glory in life's simples

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Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose

Dr. Seuss · 40 pages

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Fish is Fish

Leo Lionni · 32 pages

When his friend, the tadpole, becomes a frog and leaves the pond to explore the world, the little fish decides that maybe he doesn't have to remain in the pond either.

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The Three Ninja Pigs

Corey Rosen Schwartz · 134 pages

Practice makes perfect in this kick-butt fractured fairy tale. Why does this wolf think he can come to town and blow all the houses down? These three little pigs just aren't going to take it from that bully anymore! The first starts aikido lessons---he'll make mincemeat out of that wolf! His brother learns a little jujitsu--he'll chop that guy to pieces! But when the wolf actually appears, i

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Just Me and My Dad

Mercer Mayer · 40 pages

Father and son go camping, but who is really taking care of whom?

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The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh: A Classic Disney Treasury

Janet Campbell, Teddy Slater, Stephanie Calmenson · 192 pages

Among the favorite bedtime stories of Walt Disney's own children were A. A. Milne's tales of a round bear named Winnie the Pooh. Realizing how popular these tales would be with all children, Walt Disney decided that the creatures of the Hundred-Acre Wood deserved to be immortalized in animated film. In 1966, Walt Disney released Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree, the first short film featuring t

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If You Give a Moose a Muffin

Laura Joffe Numeroff · 32 pages

Chaos can ensue if you give a moose a muffin and start him on a cycle of urgent requests.

Talking AnimalsChildren'sIllustrated BookHeartwarming
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Thumbelina

Hans Christian Andersen · 32 pages

Thumbelina is one of the most charming and childlike tales of the great Danish story-teller, Hans Christian Andersen. It is presented in a brief retelling, with pictures by Gustaf Tenggren, the Swedish-American artist whose pictures are loved by children everywhere.

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Babar and His Children

Jean de Brunhoff · 48 pages

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Miss Spider's Tea Party

David Kirk · 32 pages

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The Little Prince & Letter to a Hostage

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Bear's New Friend

Karma Wilson · 40 pages

Bear and his friends persuade a bashful owl to play with them.

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