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| A Quetzalcoatl Tale of Corn |
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| Multicultural, Aztec, legend: Quetzalcoatl brings gift of corn to the Aztecs. |
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| Picture book: Peter experiences a great snowfall. |
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| Fable: Thirteen fables are illustrated with full-color paintings. |
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| Alligators All Around an Alphabet |
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| Alphabet: A family of alligators illustrate the alphabet with every day activities. |
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| Alphabet: A series of pictures change a letter into an object. |
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| Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions |
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| Alphabet,, African American: Traditions of twenty-six African peoples are presented in alphabetical order. |
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| Cirque du Freak: A Living Nightmare |
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| Horror: A frightening saga of a young boy whose visit to a mysterious freak show leads him on a journey into a dark world vampires. |
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| Alphabet: the ABCs are presented through rhythmic verse. |
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| Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type |
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| Picture Book: Cows revolt at Farmer Brown's farm. |
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| Counting: Photographs illustrate numbers. |
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| Dr. Coyote: A Native American Aesop's Fables |
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| Multicultural, fables, Native American: Collection of Aesop's fables with a Southwestern theme. |
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| Fantasy: Percy Jackson finds out that he is a child of an Olympian God when his mother sends him off to a private school. |
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| Concept: Colors, cars on a freight train, and concepts such as daylight, and darkness are developed. |
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| Frog and Toad Are Friends |
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| Easy-to-read, controlled vocabulary: Frog and Toad are seen in five short stories. |
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| Wordless: the adventures of a little boy and his frog when they go fishing. |
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| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone |
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| Fantasy: A young wizard is in a setting with magical possibilities. |
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| Fantasy: A young boy searches for different animals in the tall gras.. |
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| Native American, Multicultural: A Comanche tale about the bluebonnet. |
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| Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China |
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| Chinese Little Red Riding Hood: three sister - Shang, Tao, and Paotze- who are staying home alone are endangered by a wolf. The girls outwit the wolf in this version. |
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| Concept, storybook: when the teacher tells her clas that they can think of almost everything as a math problem, one student acquires a math anxiety which becomes a real curse, he tries to calculate everything around. |
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| Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children |
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| Fantasy, Sci-Fi: A boy tries to find information about his grandfather's strange childhood. |
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| Moja Means One: Swahili Counting |
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| Counting: Numbers from one through ten are shown in numbers written in Swahili, and illustrated with scenes of Africa. |
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| Mother Goose on the Rio Grande |
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| Collection of Mother Goose rhymes: tales told in English and Spanish. |
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| Mother Goose: Or the Old Nursery Rhymes |
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| Collection of Mother Goose rhymes: A small Mother Goose is illustrated with charming Greenaway children. |
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| Hispanic American, Multicultural (Miskito Indians): A central American tale is written in both English and Spanish. |
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| Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale |
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| African Cinderella Tale: An African folktale has some Cinderella elements. |
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| Officer Buckle and Gloria |
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| Picture storybook, friendship: A police dog adds humorous displays to safety tips. |
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| Wordless: A young mouse is lost on the day of the family picnic. |
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| Easy-to-read, controlled vocab: Sheep have an adventure while driving a Jeep. |
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| Picture storybook, fantasy, humorous: A very unusual cat causes both amusement and mischief when he entertains two bored children on a rainy day. |
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| Sci-Fi, fantasy: A boy changes a world that is devoid of conscience. |
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| Hispanic American, multicultural (Miskito Indians): A tale reflects the impact of European traders. |
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| Picture storybook, personification: A house is strong but needs love as it become dilapidated and lonely over the years. |
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| Peruvian, Multicultural (Noah's Ark story): A llama warns the people and animals to seek shelter on Huillcacoto to avoid the rising sea. |
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| The Mysteries of Harris Burdick |
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| Wordless: mystery and fantasy pictures encourage readers to plot their own stories. |
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| Picture storybook: this is the original tale of mischievous rabbit. |
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| Illustration-collage: A child must give up his toy rabbit after an illness. |
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| Alphabet: letters from a twenty-six act play. |
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| Multicultural, Hispanic: Nursery rhymes appear in Spanish and English. |
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| Wordless, fantasy: what occurs on Tuesday night when frogs float though the air. |
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| Where the Wild Things Are |
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| picture storybook, fantasy: Max's vivid imagination turns his room into a forest inhabited by wild things. |
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| Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears |
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| African Tale, cumulative, porquoi: tells the humorous reason for mosquitoes' buzzing. |
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| Counting: a counting story uses instruments. |
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| Counting book: when a cargo of rubber ducks falls into the sea, they choose different paths to where they are going. |
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| Humorous picture storybook: Camilla is diseased with stripes, then polka dots, and other pattern spoken around her. |
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| Alphabet book: alphabet book with beasts and animals for each letter of the alphabet. |
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| Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave |
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| Russian folktale: Evil stepmother sends girl to visit the witch, Baba Yaga. |
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| Trickster tale, Sioux Indians: Plains Indians trickster to defeat a boulder. |
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| Concept book: cutouts help children with learning about colors. |
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| Mother Goose's Words of Wit and Wisdom |
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| Folktales: collection of Mother Goose rhymes. |
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| Pete the Cat, I Love My New Shoes |
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| Easy-to-read, picture storybook: Pete the Cat takes a stroll with his new white shoes and they do not stay white. |
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| Counting book: Counting book using pigs. |
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| Concept book: finding shapes in every life. |
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| Norwegian Folktales: stories of fairies, dwarves, selkies, and other secret beings. |
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| Fairy tale from Finland: friends become rivals for the love of the Maiden of Northland. |
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| Jewish folktale: a passover "Ginger Bread Man" story. |
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| Persian folktale: evil stepsisters turn Settareh into a dove. |
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| Folktale from the Middle East: three young men save a beautiful princess. |
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| The Very Hungry Caterpillar |
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| Counting book, easy to read book: counting bok with a very hungry caterpillar. |
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| Picture storybook: the story of a storm that carried the boy and his boat. |
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| Picture storybook: Grandmother bakes a cake during thunder storm. |
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| Humorous folktale: grandfather tells grandchildren amazing stories. |
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| Humorous Jewish folktale: people of Chel are tricked into a burying a Channukkah tree. |
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| The Clever Boy and the Dangerous Animal |
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| Folktale from Afghanistan: boy introduces watermelon to a village that thinks it's a monster. |
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Mr. Vinegar and Mrs. Vinegar found gold left behind by robbers, when Mrs. Vinegar fell on top of them causing them to flee. Mr. Vinegar goes to the market and buys:
1. Traded the gold for an old red cow
2. Traded the old red cow for bagpipes
3. Traded bagpipes for gloves
4. Traded gloves for walking stick |
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| Dick Whittington and His Cat: how did Whittington become rich and get enough money to become famous? |
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| his cat had been sold for a great fortune to the King of Barbary whose palace had been overrun with mice. |
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| What three things did the brothers promise Dar they would do? |
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1. Not to sell the wari meat, but to give it away.
2. Never to hunt with guns, only with sticks.
3. To use the power of invisibility well. |
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| Why do the brothers become invisible? |
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| By holding on to Dar's vines. They stayed permanently invisible because they broke the promises they made to the Dar. |
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