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121. The paperboy
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A paperboy and his dog enjoy the quiet of the early morning as they go about their rounds.
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Illustrations and easy-to-read text express a child's awareness of being filled with deep emotions, from joy to sorrow and anger to compassion, but above all, love.
123. Puss in boots
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A retelling of the French fairy tale in which a clever cat wins his master a fortune and the hand of a princess.
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Delightful and imaginative nonsense talk is enhanced by equally nonsensical drawings
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Raven, a Pacific Coast Indian trickster, sets out to find the sun.
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The names of colors are woven into unrhymed poems that celebrate the seasons.
127. The relatives came
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The relatives come to visit from Virginia and everyone has a wonderful time.
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Examines the life of Peter Mark Roget and his invention of the thesaurus.
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This picture book biography of William Carlos Williams traces childhood events that lead him to become a doctor and a poet.
130. Rosa
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Provides the story of the black woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus in Alabama set in motion all the events of the civil rights movements that resulted in the end of the segregated South.
A brief illustrated account of Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955, and the subsequent bus boycott by the black community.
131. The rough patch
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Farmer Evan and his dog do everything together and, especially, in the garden but when his dog passes away Evan lets his garden fill with weeds until a pumpkin vine brings new hope.
132. Rumpelstiltskin
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A strange little man helps the miller's daughter spin straw into gold for the king on the condition that she will give him her first-born child.
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Sam and Dave are sure they will discover something exciting if they just keep digging their hole.
134. Sector 7
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While on a school trip to the Empire State Building, a boy is taken by a friendly cloud to visit Sector 7, where he discovers how clouds are shaped and channeled throughout the country.
135. Seven blind mice
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Retells in verse the Indian fable of the blind men discovering different parts of an elephant and arguing about its appearance. The illustrations depict the blind arguers as mice.
136. Sleep like a tiger
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4 stars
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At bedtime a young girl asks "Does everything in the world go to sleep?"
137. Snow
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4 stars
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As snowflakes slowly come down, one by one, people in the city ignore them, and only a boy and his dog think that the snowfall will amount to anything.
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Retells the tale of the beautiful princess whose lips were red as blood, skin was white as snow, and hair was black as ebony.
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Describes the life and work of the courageous man who changed the way people saw the galaxy, by offering objective evidence that the earth was not the fixed center of the universe.
Describes the life and work of Galileo who changed the way people saw the galaxy, by offering objective evidence that the earth was not the fixed center of the universe.
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Madcap revisions of familiar fairy tales.