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If You Give a Cat a Cupcake

Laura Joffe Numeroff · 32 pages

A series of increasingly far-fetched events might occur if someone were to give a cupcake to a cat.

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Scaredy Squirrel

Melanie Watt · 36 pages

Meet Scaredy Squirrel, a squirrel who never leaves his nut tree because he's afraid of the unknown "out there." But then, something unexpected happens that may just change his outlook

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In a People House

Dr. Seuss, Theo LeSieg · 36 pages

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Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories

Dr. Seuss · 90 pages

Includes three humorous stories in verse, Yertle the Turtle, Gertrude McFuzz, and The Big Brag, followed by commentary and end notes, reproductions of illustrations from other Dr. Seuss books, and two poems, "The Ruckus" and "The Kindly Snather."

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Eloise

Kay Thompson, Hilary Knight · 65 pages

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Mercy Watson: Something Wonky This Way Comes

Kate DiCamillo · 91 pages

When Mr. and Mrs. Watson and their pig, Mercy, take in a movie at the Bijou Drive-In, mayhem ensues after Mercy smells the enticing scent of hot buttered popcorn.

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Russell the Sheep

Rob Scotton

Russell the sheep tries all different ways to get to sleep.

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Funnybones

Allan Ahlberg · 32 pages

Three skeletons--a grownup, a child, and a dog--take a walk at night through a dark town.

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The Seven Silly Eaters

Mary Ann Hoberman · 40 pages

Peter only wants milk, Lucy insists on pink lemonade, and Jack is stuck on applesauce. Each new addition to the Peters clan brings another demand for a special dish. Mrs. Peters, loving mother that she is, does her best to fulfill each new request but the preparations get to be exhausting. It isn't until her birthday arrives that an unexpected present from her seven youngsters solves her problem a

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Hooray For Diffendoofer Day!

Jack Prelutsky · 60 pages

The students of Diffendoofer School celebrate their unusual teachers and curriculum, including Miss Fribble who teaches laughing, Miss Bonkers who teaches frogs to dance, and Mr. Katz who builds robotic rats.

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The Complete Adventures of Curious George

Margret Rey, H.A. Rey · 422 pages

The adventures of the ingenious little monkey who left the jungle to live with the man in the yellow hat.

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Larf

Ashley Spires · 30 pages

"No one believes Larf exists, and he likes it that way. Larf, you see, is a sasquatch, the only sasquatch in the world (or so it seems). He has a very pleasant, and very private, life in the woods, where on any given day he might be found jogging, gardening or walking Eric, his pet bunny. But everything changes one morning when Larf discovers that another sasquatch is scheduled to make an appearan

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Wombat Stew

Marcia K. Vaughan · 32 pages

A dingo intent on making wombat stew receives cooking suggestions from the other animals, unaware that they are protecting their fellow creature.

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Moo, Baa, La La La!

Sandra Boynton

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It's a Busy, Busy World

Richard Scarry · 92 pages

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The Princess in Black and the Hungry Bunny Horde

Shannon Hale, Dean Hale · 90 pages

Princess Magnolia and her unicorn, Frimplepants, are on their way to have brunch with Princess Sneezewort, an occasion Frimplepants enjoys more than anything in the world. But just when he can smell the freshly baked bread and the heaping platters of sugar-dusted doughnuts, Princess Magnolia’s glitter-stone ring rings. The monster alarm! After a quick change in the secret cave, Princess Magnolia a

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The Book with No Pictures

B.J. Novak · 48 pages

This innovative and wildly funny audiobook by award-winning humorist/actor B.J. Novak will turn any listener into a comedian. You might think a book with no pictures seems boring and serious. Except . . . here’s how books work. Everything written on the page has to be said by the person reading it aloud. Even if the words say . . . BLORK. Or BLUURF. Even if the words are a preposterous song ab

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I Need My Monster

Amanda Noll · 32 pages

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Fantastic Mr. Fox

Roald Dahl · 96 pages

The main character of Fantastic Mr. Fox is an extremely clever anthropomorphized fox named Mr. Fox. He lives with his wife and four little foxes. In order to feed his family, he steals food from the cruel, brutish farmers named Boggis, Bunce, and Bean every night. Finally tired of being constantly outwitted by Mr. Fox, the farmers attempt to capture and kill him. The foxes escape in time by bur

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Cindy Ellen: A Wild Western Cinderella

Susan Lowell · 40 pages

Cindy Ellen loses one of her diamond spurs at the square dance in this wild western retelling of the classic Cinderella story.

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I Know a Wee Piggy

Kim Norman

A cumulative, rhyming tale of an ordinary pig who leaps out of his boy's arms at a state fair and wallows in color after color, turning himself into a work of art.

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Doctor De Soto

William Steig · 32 pages

Dr. De Soto, a mouse dentist, copes with the toothaches of various animals except those with a taste for mice, until the day a fox comes to him in great pain.

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Winnie-the-Pooh

A.A. Milne · 160 pages

A.A. Milne's Pooh stories need no introduction; they have been loved by generations of children and their parents ever since they were first published in 1926. In his autobiography, Milne wrote: 'The animals in the stories came for the most part from the nursery. My collaborator [his wife] had already given them individual voices, their owner by constant affection had given them the twist in th

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Miss Nelson Is Missing!

Harry Allard · 32 pages

The kids in Room 207 take advantage of their teacher's good nature until she disappears and they are faced with a vile substitute.

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