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Pancakes for Breakfast

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A Squash and A Squeeze

Julia Donaldson · 32 pages

With the help of an old man and all of her animals, an old lady realizes that her house is not as small as she thought it was.

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Mr. Putter & Tabby Pour the Tea

Cynthia Rylant

Mr. Putter gets an old cat to share his life with him.

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A Sick Day for Amos McGee

Philip C. Stead · 34 pages

"Amos McGee, a friendly zookeeper, always made time to visit his good friends: the elephant, the tortoise, the penguin, the rhinoceros, and the owl. But one day--'Ah-choo!'--he woke with the sniffles and the sneezes. Though he didn't make it into the zoo that day, he did receive some unexpected guests."--Dust jacket.

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Queen of the Falls

Chris Van Allsburg · 40 pages

GR 3-5. Be transported back to 1901 and meet Annie Edson Taylor. When her charm school closes Annie needs to find a way to earn money. She has a great idea after reading a newspaper article about the throngs that go to Niagara Falls each summer. With determination of steel, this 62-year old lady sets out to design and build a barrel, in which she’ll plunge over Niagara Falls, thus realizing he

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Where Are You Going, Baby Lincoln?

Kate DiCamillo · 112 pages

At seven minutes past midnight, thirteen-year-old Conor wakes to find a monster outside his bedroom window. But it isn't the monster Conor's been expecting-- he's been expecting the one from his nightmare, the nightmare he's had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments. The monster in his backyard is different. It's ancient. And wild. And it wants something from Conor. Something

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Little Blue Truck Leads the Way

Alice Schertle · 38 pages

A country truck feels out of place in the speedy, noisy city until he comes to the rescue during a giant traffic jam.

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Mrs. Katz and Tush

Patricia Polacco · 32 pages

A long-lasting friendship develops between Larnel, a young African-American, and Mrs. Katz, a lonely Jewish widow, when Larnel presents Mrs. Katz with a scrawny kitten without a tail.

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Uncle Jed's Barbershop

Margaree King Mitchell · 40 pages

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Duck On A Bike

David Shannon · 32 pages

A duck decides to ride a bike and soon influences all the other animals on the farm to ride bikes too.

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Otis

Loren Long

When a big new yellow tractor replaces Otis, the friendly little tractor, he is cast away behind the barn, but it is only Otis who can come to the rescue when trouble happens.

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Pancakes for Findus

Sven Nordqvist

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James Herriot's Treasury for Children: Warm and Joyful Tales by the Author of All Creatures Great and Small

James Herriot · 272 pages

A collection of the author's stories for children, including "Moses the Kitten," "The Market Square Dog," and "Smudge, the Little Lost Lamb."

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Moses the Kitten

James Herriot, Peter Barrett · 32 pages

A bedraggled orphaned kitten is nursed back to health on a Yorkshire farm, and when he recovers turns out to have a very unusual idea about the identity of his mother.

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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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Mr. Putter Tabby Write the Book

Cynthia Rylant, Arthur Howard · 44 pages

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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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The Mousehole Cat

Antonia Barber · 32 pages

When the Great Storm-Cat threatens the small English village of Mousehole, only an old fisherman's cat can soothe its fierceness during a dangerous sea venture.

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All the World

Liz Garton Scanlon · 40 pages

Pictures and rhyming text celebrate a family's day spent going to the beach, shopping at the market, eating at a restaurant and spending the evening with the rest of the extended family.

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Babar and Father Christmas

Jean de Brunhoff

Babar’s children have caught wind of a fellow in Man’s country named Father Christmas who brings joy and toys to little children. “If only we could bring him here,” they wish. So they write the Christmas saint a letter inviting him to visit them. When they get no reply, Babar, ever the good father, rushes out to find the red-suited one. After much searching, and with the help of a dog named Duck,

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Pancakes, Pancakes!

Eric Carle · 31 pages

By cutting and grinding the wheat for flour, Jack starts from scratch to help make his breakfast pancake.

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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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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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