The man who walked between the towers
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Mordicai Gerstein
Offers the incredible and true story of French aerialist Philippe Petit who walked, danced, and performed tricks for more than an hour on a tightrope set up between the two towers of the World Trade Center in 1974.
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My friend Rabbit
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Eric Rohmann
After letting Rabbit play with his toy plane, Mouse finds himself in a real jam as the plane gets stuck high in a tree, but despite Rabbit's persistent assistance, Mouse's plane just won't come free. Reprint.
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The three pigs
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David Wiesner
The three pigs escape the wolf by going into another world where they meet the cat and the fiddle, the cow that jumped over the moon, and a dragon. By the creator of the Caldecott Honor book, Sector 7.
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So you want to be president?
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Judith St. George
Complete with full-color illustrations, a revised edition of a Caldecott-winning book provides young readers with colorful profiles on many of the most popular presidents--now including "dubya"--along with humorous tales, anecdotes, behind-the-scenes stories, and more.
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Joseph had a little overcoat
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Simms Taback
An old Eastern European folk song provides the basis for a tale about a peasant who devises clever uses for his worn-out overcoat. By the creator of the Caldecott Honor Book There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly. 30,000 first printing.
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Snowflake Bentley
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Jacqueline Briggs Martin
A Caldecott-winning tale illuminates the work of photographer Wilson Bentley, who throughout his life endeavored to capture the extraordinary beauty of snowflakes in his icy Vermont home. By the author of Banjo Granny and the illustrator of From Dawn Till Dusk. Reprint.
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Rapunzel
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Paul O. Zelinsky
A retelling of the German folktale in which a beautiful girl with long golden hair is kept imprisoned in a lonely tower by a sorceress
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Golem
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David Wisniewski
A saintly rabbi miraculously brings to life a clay giant who helps him watch over the Jews of sixteenth-century Prague
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Officer Buckle and Gloria
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Peggy Rathmann
Officer Buckle puts everyone to sleep with his painfully dull if informative lectures on safety, until he takes on a new partner, Gloria, Napville's new police dog, who knows just how to liven up Officer Buckle's safety speeches. BOMC.
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Smoky night
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Eve Bunting
Full-color artwork by the illustrator of Neighborhood Odes accompanies an insightful look into the issue of urban violence, as seen through the eyes of Daniel, who worries about his cat, Jasmine, when he and his mother seek shelter during a riot.
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Grandfather's journey
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Allen Say
The author-artist of Tree of Cranes provides a moving, beautifully illustrated study of his family's own cross-cultural experience, in personal reminiscences of his grandfather's life in America and Japan that convey a love for both countries.
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Mirette on the high wire
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Emily Arnold McCully
In a story set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Paris, Mirette, a young girl living in the Widow Gateau's boarding house, becomes the pupil of a former tightrope walker and, in exchange, gives her teacher a valuable lesson about faith and courage.
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Tuesday
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David Wiesner
Frogs rise on their lily pads, float through the air, and explore nearby houses while their inhabitants sleep
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Black and white
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David Macaulay
Four brief "stories" about parents, trains, and cows, or is it really all one story? The author recommends careful inspection of words and pictures to both minimize and enhance confusion
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Song and dance man
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Karen Ackerman
Grandpa demonstrates for his visiting grandchildren some of the songs, dances, and jokes he performed when he was a vaudeville entertainer
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Owl moon
by
Jane Yolen
On a winter's night under a full moon, a father and daughter trek into the woods to see the Great Horned Owl. A Caldecott Medal Book.
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Hey, Al
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Arthur Yorinks
A city janitor and his treasured canine companion are transported by a large colorful bird to an island in the sky, where their comfortable paradise existence threatens to turn them into birds as well
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The Polar Express
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Chris Van Allsburg
A magical train ride on Christmas Eve takes a boy to the North Pole to receive a special gift from Santa Claus, in a slip-cased gift edition of the holiday classic. A Caldecott Medal Book.
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Saint George and the dragon : a golden legend
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Margaret Hodges
Retells the segment from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, in which George, the Red Cross Knight, slays the dreadful dragon that has been terrorizing the countryside for years and brings peace and joy to the land. A Caldecott Medal winner. Reissue.
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Shadow
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Blaise Cendrars
Free verse evocation of the eerie, shifting images of Shadow which represents the beliefs and ghosts of the past and is brought to life wherever there is light, fire, and a storyteller
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Jumanji
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Chris Van Allsburg
Left on their own for an afternoon, two bored and restless children find more excitement than they bargained for in a mysterious and mystical jungle adventure board game
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Fables
by
Arnold Lobel
Twenty original fables about an array of animal characters from crocodile to ostrich
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