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There's a Wocket in My Pocket!

Dr. Seuss · 32 pages

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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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Please Try to Remember the First of Octember!

Theo LeSieg · 41 pages

Every wish is fulfilled on the First of Octember.

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The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs

Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith · 32 pages

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Rhyming Dust Bunnies

Jan Thomas

As three dust bunnies, Ed, Ned, and Ted, are demonstrating how much they love to rhyme, a fourth, Bob, is trying to warn them of approaching danger.

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Crazy Hair

Neil Gaiman · 36 pages

Bonnie encounters all sorts of exotic animals and marvelous things inside a man's crazy hair.

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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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George's Marvellous Medicine

Roald Dahl · 96 pages

In this popular Dahl story, George creates a very special medicine to cure his grandma of her nasty habits. Great new Quentin Blake cover as well as a whole new exciting end section about Roald Dahl and his world.

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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

T.S. Eliot · 56 pages

T. S. Eliot’s playful cat poems have delighted readers and cat lovers around the world ever since they were first published in 1939. They were originally composed for his godchildren, with Eliot posing as Old Possum himself, and later inspired the legendary musical Cats. Now with vibrant illustrations by the award-winning Axel Scheffler, this captivating edition makes a wonderful new home for Mr.

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Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

Judi Barrett · 32 pages

Life is delicious in the town of Chewandswallow where it rains soup and juice, snows mashed potatoes, and blows storms of hamburgers--until the weather takes a turn for the worse.

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Amelia Bedelia

Peggy Parish · 63 pages

A literal-minded housekeeper causes chaos in the Rogers household when she attempts to make sense of some instructions.

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Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!

Mo Willems · 38 pages

No matter how hard he pleads and begs, the pigeon is not supposed to drive the bus while the driver is away, but pigeon tries every persuasive trick a young child knows to get you to say "Yes."

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A Bad Case of Stripes

David Shannon · 32 pages

In order to ensure her popularity, Camilla Cream always does what is expected, until the day arrives when she no longer recognizes herself.

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Go, Dog. Go!

P.D. Eastman · 64 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 Berenstains' B Book (Bright & Early Books)

Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain · 64 pages

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A Book of Nonsense

Edward Lear · 111 pages

A collection of over 200 limericks with the author's original illustrations and nonsense songs and stories.

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If You Give a Moose a Muffin

Laura Joffe Numeroff · 32 pages

Chaos can ensue if you give a moose a muffin and start him on a cycle of urgent requests.

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Little Pea

Amy Krouse Rosenthal · 32 pages

Little Pea hates eating candy for dinner, but his parents will not let him have his spinach dessert until he cleans his plate.

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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

Bill Martin Jr., John Archambault · 40 pages

An alphabet rhyme/chant that relates what happens when the whole alphabet tries to climb a coconut tree.

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Stuck

Oliver Jeffers

Floyds Drachen steckt in einer Baumkrone fest. Um ihn wieder runterzukriegen, wirft Floyd alles Mögliche und Unmögliche in Richtung Krone. Erst den einen Schuh, dann den andern. Und dann alles, was ihm in die Hände gerät. Sogar ein Orang-Utan und ein Wal landen im Grün der Baumkrone. Nichts hilft und auch die Feuerwehr kann nichts ausrichten. Sie steckt mit allen Feuerwehrmännern direkt in den Äst

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