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The Tale of Despereaux

Kate DiCamillo · 270 pages

The adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin.

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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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Frog and Toad Are Friends

Arnold Lobel · 64 pages

Frog and Toad Are Friends is an American children's picture book, written and illustrated by Arnold Lobel and published by Harper & Row in 1970. It inaugurated the Frog and Toad series, whose four books completed by Lobel comprise five easy-to-read short stories each. It was a Caldecott Honor Book, or runner-up for the American Library Association Caldecott Medal, which recognizes the year's best

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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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The Little Prince

Antoine De Saint-Expury · 147 pages

"All grown-ups were once children . . . but only few of them remember it." It’s the Sahara Desert, and a pilot has crashed his plane. When suddenly a young boy—with golden hair and a loveable laugh, and who claims to have fallen to Earth—appears before him and asks him to draw a sheep, what does he do? He draws it! Thus begins this poetic and sublime adventure, an enchanting fable, which encloses

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The Little Prince

Antoine Saint-Exupéry · 118 pages

The Little Prince recounts the relationship between an adult and a child. The adult is an aviator who has crash landed in the Sahara desert. The child is a golden-haired prince who has arrived on Earth after taking a circuitous route from his home on a distant asteroid. The prince's tales of sheep and baobab trees and roses and the inhabitants of miniscule planets reveal many truths about the absu

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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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The Little Prince & Letter to a Hostage

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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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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Llama Llama Mad at Mama

Anna Dewdney · 32 pages

A young llama wants to play but must go shopping with his mother instead, and so he gets angry and makes a mess at the store.

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Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock

Eric A. Kimmel · 32 pages

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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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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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Martha Speaks

Susan Meddaugh · 32 pages

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Horton and the Kwuggerbug and more Lost Stories

Dr. Seuss · 53 pages

"A collection of 'lost' stories written and illustrated by Dr. Seuss and published in magazines between 1950 and 1955. Includes an introduction by Seuss scholar Charles D. Cohen"--

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The Great Paper Caper

Oliver Jeffers · 36 pages

When tree branches begin disappearing and paper airplanes are left in their place, the forest creatures carry out an investigation to find the culprit who has been stealing their homes.

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The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher

Beatrix Potter · 58 pages

A frog fishing from his lily pad boat doesn't catch any fish, but one catches him - what will happen next?

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Blinky Bill

Dorothy Wall · 305 pages

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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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The Three Little Pigs

Elizabeth Ross

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Where's My Mom?

Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler · 32 pages

Monkey Puzzle tells the tale of a young monkey who has lost his mummy. He searches through the jungle for her with the help of a friendly butterfly. The tale unfolds in rhythmical rhyming verse with bright coloured, fun illustrations.

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