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A retelling of a traditional West African tale that reveals how the mosquito developed its annoying habit. A mosquito annoyed the iguana, who frightened the python, who scared the rabbit, and now the whole jungle is in an uproar because the sun won't rise. The animals discuss the situation and decide to punish the mosquito. Even today, whenever we hear a mosquito buzz, we smack it hard!
7) Earth Mother
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Portrays a day in the life of Earth Mother who, as she tends plants and animals around the world, meets three of her creations and offers advice on how to make the world more perfect.
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Title on accompanying disc: The people could fly : an American-African folktale.Narrated by James Earl Jones and Virginia Hamilton. Pea-pod man: Raven the creator -- Finding night: Quat the creator -- Endless sea of mud: Death the creator -- Bursting from the hen's egg: Phan Ku the creator -- Traveling to form the world: Old Man the creator -- First man becomes the devil: Ulgen the creator -- Turtle dives to the bottom of the sea: Earth Starter the...
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"A streamlined train and a little old train journey through hills and over mountains, crossing rivers and plains, in this treasured story from Margaret Wise Brown, author of Goodnight Moon. Reimagined with bold and vibrant art by Geisel Award-winning artist Greg Pizzoli, this updated edition is perfect for fans of things that go."--Provided by publisher.
11) The secret river
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
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2011, c1955
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Young Calpurnia takes her dog, Buggy-horse, and follows her nose to a secret river in a Florida forest, where she catches enough fresh fish to feed her hungry neighbors, even after giving some to the forest creatures she meets on the way home.
12) Northern lullaby
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Philomel Books
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c1992
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A child says goodnight to the natural world and all those that occupy it.
13) Sabriel
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Ever since she was a tiny child, Sabriel has lived outside the walls of the Old Kingdom, away from the random power of Free Magic, and away from the Dead who won't stay dead. But now her father, the Mage Abhorsen, is missing, and to find him Sabriel must cross back into that world.
Though her journey begins alone, she soon finds companions: Mogget, whose seemingly harmless feline form hides a powerful and perhaps malevolent spirit; and Touchstone,...
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In the mid-nineteenth century, a French professor and his two companions, trapped aboard a fantastic submarine as prisoners of the deranged Captain Nemo, come face to face with exotic ocean creatures and strange sights hidden from the world above.
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Writers of the future volume 39
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25 Award-winning Authors and Illustrators
Brilliant new worlds
Captivating new ideas
Powerful new stories of action, adventure, and fantasy
Just imagine…
• It's game on, the fate of the universe is on the line-and you're about to go all in.
• Saving the mammoths is in your hands-can you conjure the magic to make it happen?
• You've got a monster BFF-whom you're hiding from your own monster-hunting family.
• You're part of...
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