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Calvin Coconut wants a dog — and ultimately finds the perfect pet at Dog Heaven. Now how can he and his mom's friend, Ledward, convince mom that Calvin really is responsible enough to have a dog?
Chester, the chubby but charming feline, wants to create his own masterpiece. But a writer/illustrator named Melanie Watts continues to thwart his creative efforts by hiding the tools of his trade.
Enjoy short, lively, and varied poems for different occasions and from Monday ("
Washday,/sloshday
") to Friday which is "
fishday in out town/Fat-fish, flat-fish/Cod- and cat-fish
" Line drawings on richly hued pages make an attractive and engaging colle
Two different environments, two different authors, one goal achieved: to bring alive the process of studying and documenting a fascinating mammal and insect.
Five children finally escape the confines of London to the white house in the country. There they meet the magical but grumpy Psammead. When their wishes become reality, the children find out that what you want is not always what you wish for.
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Best friends, Ivy & Bean, both desperately want to dance ballet with the drama of "Giselle." Instead, they must learn the basics and finally are cast as squid in the recital.
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Everyone knows that there are two sides to every story. Read a cleverly illustrated poem one way for one side; read the same poem in reverse and learn the other.
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Flat, cartoon-like, slyly humorous and slightly irreverent illustrations provide literal meanings for old sayings from A to Z. The fun comes in figuring out where these truisms may be used and what others may fill an alphabet.
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Meet a sea anemone, sea urchin, a sculpin and other inhabitants of a tide pool through poems (in each creature's voice) and an informative paragraph (in a different typeface).
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A child with great potential was born in Florida in 1923 to the "Tiger Family in the powerful Snake Clan," part of the Seminole Tribe. She listened to the history of her people and made it herself as the first female tribal leader.