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One Was Johnny: A Counting Book

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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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Not Your Typical Dragon

Dan Bar-el

"When Crispin Blaze turns seven, he's expected to breathe fire like all the other dragons. But instead of fire, he breathes a host of unusual things"--Provided by publisher.

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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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The Very Fairy Princess

Julie Andrews Edwards, Emma Walton Hamilton

Despite her scabby knees and dirty fingernails, Geraldine knows that she is a princess inside and shows it through her behavior at home and in school.

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'Twas The Night Before Thanksgiving

Dav Pilkey · 32 pages

School children on a field trip to Mack Nugget's farm save the lives of eight turkeys in this poem based on The Night Before Christmas. The incomparable Dav Pilkey adapts Clement Moore's classic Christmas poem to tell his wacky Thanksgiving tale. The day before Thanksgiving, eight boys and girls take a field trip to a turkey farm. They have fun playing with eight exuberant turkeys but are shocked

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There Are Cats in This Book

Viviane Schwarz · 32 pages

The reader is invited to lift the flaps and follow the cats as they play with yarn, boxes, pillows, and fish.

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Spork

Kyo Maclear · 32 pages

A humorous “multi-cutlery” tale about how Spork — half spoon, half fork — finally finds his place at the table. A charming story for anyone who has ever wondered about their place in the world.

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Everybody Sleeps (But Not Fred)

Josh Schneider · 32 pages

Allthough animals everywhere are sleeping, a youngster with an active imagination and a hefty to-do list resists bedtime with adventurous flair.

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How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World

Marjorie Priceman

Since the market is closed, the reader is led around the world to gather the ingredients for making an apple pie. Includes recipe.

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Noisy Night

Mac Barnett · 30 pages

A clever picture book about a multi-level apartment building's occupants and their many nighttime noises.

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Mr. Impossible

Roger Hargreaves · 36 pages

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Beep! Beep! Go to Sleep!

Todd Tarpley

When his three rambunctious robots give every possible excuse not to go to sleep, what's a little boy to do? With a fun refrain that will have readers of all ages chanting along, here's a book that kids will be begging to read every night before bed.

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Boo Hoo Bird

Jeremy Tankard · 30 pages

When Bird gets hit on the head while playing ball, his friends have many suggestions to try to make him feel better.

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The Last Basselope: One Ferocious Story

Berkeley Breathed · 32 pages

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But No Elephants

Jerry Smath · 41 pages

Grandma Tildy finally agrees to take an unwanted elephant into her home, but soon regrets her decision.

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Remarkable Farkle Mcbride

John Lithgow · 40 pages

The musical prodigy Farkle McBride tries a number of instruments before discovering that conducting the orchestra makes him happy.

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Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose

Dr. Seuss · 40 pages

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Popcorn

Frank Asch · 40 pages

Sam’s Halloween party is popping—with a massive amount of popcorn! Find out how he and his friends handle the delicious surplus in this reissue of a classic picture book from celebrated and award-winning author and illustrator Frank Asch.

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There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Shell!

Lucille Colandro, Skip Hinnant · 32 pages

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No Bears

Meg McKinlay

Ruby is in charge of this book. And she'll tell you something right now. There are NO BEARS in it. Not even one. Ella wants to tell you a story - a story with absolutely no bears. You don't need bears for a book. You need pretty things like fairies and princesses and castles and maybe funny things and exciting things. In Ella's kind of story, there are no bears in the village or the castle or the

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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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We're in the Wrong Book!

Richard Byrne · 32 pages

When a potato sack race goes awry, Bella and Ben find themselves bumped from their familiar page into uncharted territory. It's a brave new world of lollipops and sphinxes--and Bella and Ben are on one page-turning adventure. How will they find their way back into their very own book?

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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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Otter in Space

Sam Garton

After visiting an outer space exhibit in a museum, Otter and Teddy decide they need a moon rock, and the only way to get one is to build a space ship and go get one.

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