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Mouse Soup

Arnold Lobel · 64 pages

"Weasel is ready for his dinner, and poor Mouse is it. Can Mouse stop Weasel from serving up mouse soup for supper? The clever mouse tells the weasel four stories to make the soup tasty & then manages to trick the weasel and get home safely. This Level Two I Can Read is geared toward kids who read on their own but still need a little help."--

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Little Bear

Else Holmelund Minarik · 63 pages

Celebrate the timeless warmth of a mother's love with the very first ever I Can Read book! Meet Little Bear, a friend to millions of children. And meet Mother Bear, who is there whenever Little Bear needs her. When it is cold and snowy outside, she finds just the right outfit for Little Bear to play in. When he goes to the moon, she has a hot lunch waiting for him on his return. And, of course

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In a People House

Dr. Seuss, Theo LeSieg · 36 pages

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If You Give a Moose a Muffin

Laura Numeroff · 32 pages

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The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales

Jon Scieszka · 54 pages

The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales is the ultimate in fractured fairy tales. Not only do the characters create their own stories, they also design the structure of the book itself. Classic fairy tales are deconstructed and rewritten with different but recognizable names, such as The Princess and the Bowling Ball, The Really Ugly Duckling, The Tortoise and the Hair and Chicken Lick

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The Magic Finger

Roald Dahl · 63 pages

Angered by a neighboring family's sport hunting, an eight-year-old girl turns her magic finger on them.

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Return to the Hundred Acre Wood

David Benedictus · 208 pages

It was eighty years ago, on the publication of The House at Pooh Corner, when Christopher Robin said good-bye to Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood. Now they are all back in new adventures, for the first time approved by the Trustees of the Pooh Properties. This is a companion volume that truly captures the style of A. A. Milne-a worthy sequel to The House at Pooh Corner and

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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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I'm Bored

Michael Ian Black

When a bored girl meets a potato who finds children tedius, she tries to prove him wrong by demonstrating all of the things they can do, from turning cartwheels to using their imaginations.

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Du Iz Tak?

Carson Ellis · 48 pages

Du iz tak? What is that? As a tiny shoot unfurls, two damselflies peer at it in wonder. When the plant grows taller and sprouts leaves, some young beetles arrive to gander, and soon—with the help of a pill bug named Icky—they wrangle a ladder and build a tree fort. But this is the wild world, after all, and something horrible is waiting to swoop down—booby voobeck!—only to be carried off in turn.

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Chickens to the Rescue

John Himmelman · 32 pages

Six days a week the chickens help the Greenstalk family and their animals recover from mishaps that occur on the farm, but they need one day to rest.

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By Mouse and Frog

Deborah Freedman

"Mouse has one idea about what a book should be and how to tell a story. Frog has another. What happens when these two very different friends try to create a book together?"--

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Tea Rex

Molly Idle

"Cordelia and her brother host a tea party for an unusual guest--a T-Rex!"--

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The King, the Mice and the Cheese

Nancy Gurney, Eric Gurney · 64 pages

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Froodle

Antoinette Portis

One day, amidst the usual chirps, tweets, and caws, a little brown bird decides to try singing a new song and sets off an interesting reaction.

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Rhyming Dust Bunnies

Jan Thomas

As three dust bunnies, Ed, Ned, and Ted, are demonstrating how much they love to rhyme, a fourth, Bob, is trying to warn them of approaching danger.

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The Elephant's Child: How the Elephant Got His Trunk

Rudyard Kipling, Karen Baicker · 35 pages

Because of his "'satiable curtiosity" about what the crocodile has for dinner, the elephant's child and all elephants thereafter have long trunks.

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Mooseltoe

Margie Palatini

Moose thinks he has all his Christmas preparations taken care of, but at the last minute he must come up with a substitute for the Christmas tree.

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The Berenstains' B Book (Bright & Early Books)

Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain · 64 pages

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If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

Laura Joffe Numeroff · 32 pages

Relating the cycle of requests a mouse is likely to make after you give him a cookie takes the reader through a young child's day.

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The Hat

Jan Brett · 33 pages

When Lisa hangs her woolen clothes in the sun to air them out for winter, the hedgehog, to the amusement of the other animals, ends up wearing a stocking on his head.

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Skippyjon Jones in Mummy Trouble

Judy Schachner · 32 pages

Skippyjon Jones, a Siamese kitten who thinks he's a Chihuahua, dreams of traveling to ancient Egypt with his gang of Chihuahua amigos

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Piggies

Audrey Wood, Don Wood · 32 pages

Ten little piggies dance on a young child's fingers and toes before finally going to sleep.

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