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The Spider and the Fly

Mary Howitt, Tony DiTerlizzi · back to the book

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Runny Babbit

Shel Silverstein · 89 pages

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Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes

Beatrix Potter · 40 pages

Eight short nursery rhymes about Cecily Parsley, Goosey Gander, the five pigs, Pussy-Cat, three blind mice, Tom Tinker's dog, a garden, and Ninny Nanny Netticoat

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Instructions

Neil Gaiman · 40 pages

This advice for travelling through a fairytale landscape might just save you from being eaten by wolves or being lost for ever, but it is also a charming metaphor for living courageously and taking risks.

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Now We Are Six

A.A. Milne · 103 pages

A collection of poems reflecting the experiences of a little English boy growing up in the early part of the twentieth century.

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Five Little Monkeys Jumping On The Bed

Eileen Christelow · 32 pages

A counting book in which one by one the little monkeys jump on the bed only to fall off and bump their heads.

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Fox in Socks

Dr. Seuss · 61 pages

The book begins by introducing Fox and Knox (sometimes called "Mr. Fox" and "Mr. Knox") along with some props (a box and a pair of socks). After taking those four rhyming items through several permutations, more items are added (chicks, bricks, blocks, clocks), and so on. As the book progresses the Fox describes each situation with rhymes that progress in complexity, with Knox periodically complai

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Bear Feels Sick

Karma Wilson · 34 pages

When Bear is too sick to play, his animal friends go to his cave to make him soup and tea and keep him company.

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Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors

Joyce Sidman · 32 pages

In spring red sings from treetops: cheer-cheer-cheer, each note dropping like a cherry into my ear. In winter green waits in the hearts of trees, feeling the earth turn. Color comes alive in this whimsical, innovative book. Blue dances on summer lakes, green drips from spring leaves, black wafts mysteriously through autumn evenings. Together, an award-winning poet and a brilliant painter inspire u

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The Gruffalo's Child

Julia Donaldson · 32 pages

The Gruffalo's Child goes out to find the Big Bad Mouse she has heard so much about.

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The Real Mother Goose

Blanche Fisher Wright · 128 pages

An illustrated collection of popular nursery rhymes, reprinted from the 1916 original.

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The Owl and the Pussycat

Edward Lear · 32 pages

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Science Verse

Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith · 40 pages

When the teacher tells his class that they can hear the poetry of science in everything, a student is struck with a curse and begins hearing nothing but science verses that sound very much like some well-known poems.

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Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reverso Poems

Marilyn Singer · 32 pages

A collection of short poems which, when reversed, provide new perspectives on the fairy tale characters they feature.

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Flower Fairies of the Autumn

Cicely Mary Barker · 53 pages

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Hailstones and Halibut Bones

Mary O'Neill · 58 pages

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God Got a Dog

Cynthia Rylant · 48 pages

Cynthia Rylant and Marla Frazee imagine a God inspired to go out and experience human things"--

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The Night Before Christmas

Clement Clarke Moore · 32 pages

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The Wild Christmas Reindeer

Jan Brett · 32 pages

After a few false starts, Teeka discovers the best way to get Santa's reindeer ready for Christmas Eve.

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The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories

Tim Burton · 128 pages

A bizarre menagerie of characters--including Oyster Boy, Brie Boy, Match Girl, and Stick Boy--search for love and understanding in a world that does not comprehend oddities.

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Wynken, Blynken, and Nod

Eugene Field · 38 pages

A classic lullaby poem about three fishermen who try to catch the stars in nets of silver and gold.

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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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Hush Little Baby

Sylvia Long

In this variation on an old lullaby, a baby rabbit is promised an assortment of presents from its adoring parent.

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The Waterhole

Graeme Base · 32 pages

As ever growing numbers of animals visit a watering hole, introducing the numbers from one to ten, the water dwindles.

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