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The Bear That Wasn't

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Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back

Shel Silverstein · 112 pages

After leaving the jungle for the circus and a life of fame and wealth, a lion who taught himself to be the best shot in the world discovers he's not really a lion anymore, and not really a man, either.

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: A Play in One Scene

Lewis Carroll · 112 pages

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a young girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well

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The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

Bill Watterson · 254 pages

Beginning with the day Hobbes sprang into Calvin's tuna fish trap, the first two Calvin and Hobbes collections, Calvin and Hobbes and Something Under The Bed Is Drooling, are brought together in this treasury. Including black-and-white dailies and color Sundays, The Essential Calvin and Hobbes also features an original full-color 16-page story. Perhaps the most brilliant comic strip ever create

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The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs

Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith · 32 pages

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Mr. Tiger Goes Wild

Peter Brown · 48 pages

Are you bored with being so proper? Do you want to have more fun? Mr. Tiger knows exactly how you feel. So he decides to go wild. But does he go too far? Bored with city life and the proper behavior it requires, Mr. Tiger has a wild idea that leads him to discover his true nature. From Caldecott Honor artist Peter Brown comes a story that shows there's a time and place for everything...even going

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The Little Prince & Letter to a Hostage

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Leo the Lop

Stephen Cosgrove · 32 pages

Leo is a lop-eared rabbit whose ears go down, not up. The other normal rabbits laughed and laughed until they discovered that down was normal and up was not. A classic Serendipity story about the meaning of normal.

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The Bremen Town Musicians

Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

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The Story of Miss Moppet

Beatrix Potter · 40 pages

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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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Angelina Ballerina

Katharine Holabird · 32 pages

A pretty little mouse wants to become a ballerina more than anything else in the world.

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It's Not Easy Being a Bunny

Marilyn Sadler · 40 pages

Unhappy being a bunny, P.J. Funnybunny tries living with bears, birds, beavers, pigs, moose, possums, and skunks.

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Winnie The Pooh And The Blustery Day

A.A. Milne · 43 pages

It's a blustery day in the Hundred-Acre Wood. Winnie the Pooh and his good friend, Piglet, soon find themselves blown into an unexpected adventure... --back cover

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The Sailor Dog

Margaret Wise Brown · 32 pages

A dog who has always wanted to go to sea realizes his dream.

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The Three Bears

Paul Galdone · 32 pages

Three bears return from a walk and find a little girl asleep in the little wee bear's bed.

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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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Mr. Gumpy's Outing

John Burningham · 32 pages

Mr. Gumpy accepts more and more riders on his boat until the inevitable occurs.

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The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip

George Saunders · 90 pages

Gappers will get your goat. Literally. If You don't brush them off and return them to the ocean, whence they arrive every day, these bright orange, many eyead creatutes will cover your goats, and the goats will stop giving milk. In a village called Frip, goat's milk was the entire economy. Three families lived there — the Romos, the Ronsens, and a little girl named Capable and her widowed fathe

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Pinocchio

Carlo Collodi · 205 pages

"First published in serial form from 1881 to 1883 in Il Giornale dei bambini, the many adventures of Pinocchio, Geppetto's wooden puppet who came to life to laugh, cry, and dance like a real boy, garnered immediate acclaim as a children's story. Today Italians consider the novel, along with The Divine Comedy and The Decameron, one of their most important works of literature. Readers familiar only

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Paddington Bear

Michael Bond

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The Emperor's New Clothes

Hans Christian Andersen · 32 pages

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The Prince and the Pauper

Mark Twain · 270 pages

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The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily

Dino Buzzati · 192 pages

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