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OBD Caldecott Medal Winners - YOUTH
OBD Wild About Books - YOUTH (March - May 2023)
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OBD Wild About Books - YOUTH (March - May 2023)
Popular Easy Fiction Authors
RLG Caldecott Medal List
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"Amos McGee, a friendly zookeeper, always made time to visit his good friends: the elephant, the tortoise, the penguin, the rhinoceros, and the owl. But one day--'Ah-choo!'--he woke with the sniffles and the sneezes. Though he didn't make it into the zoo that day, he did receive some unexpected guests."--Dust jacket.
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When Farmer Brown's cows find a typewriter in the barn they start making demands, and go on strike when the farmer refuses to give them what they want. Teaches reading comprehension, word recognition, character identification and vocabulary skills.
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Batavia Public Library Wonderbooks - YOUTH
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Wonderbooks at the Evergreen Park Public Library
Wonderbooks!
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Wonderbooks at the Evergreen Park Public Library
Wonderbooks!
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An assortment of animals living separate lives discover they need each other when they have a chance encounter on a river.
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OBD 1000 Books Before Kindergarten - YOUTH
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OBD Caldecott Medal Winners - YOUTH
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Something always seems to go wrong when Rabbit is around, but Mouse lets him play with his toy plane anyway because he is his good friend.
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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!
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Does everything in the world go to sleep? In a sincere, poetic, and imaginative dialogue between a not-so-sleepy child and understanding parents, the little girl decides "in a cocoon of sheets, a nest of blankets," she is ready to sleep, warm and strong, just like a tiger. Two-time Caldecott Honor medalist Pamela Zagarenski's rich, luminous mixed-media paintings effervesce with charming details that nonsleepy children could examine for hours. Winner...
10) Jumanji
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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.
11) Fables
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Twenty original fables about an array of animal characters from crocodile to ostrich.
12) If I ran the zoo
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If Gerald McGrew ran the zoo, he'd let all the animals go and fill it with more unusual beasts--a ten-footed lion, an Elephant-Cat, a Mulligatawny, a Tufted Mazurka, and others.
15) The big snow
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Despite their elaborate preparations for the winter, the animals and birds are delighted by a surprise banquet after a big snow.
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Houghton Mifflin reading the literature experience volume level 3+
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A Southern folktale in which kind Blanche, following the instructions of an old witch, gains riches, while her greedy sister makes fun of the old woman and is duly rewarded.
19) Ox-cart man
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Describes the day-to-day life of an early nineteenth-century New England family throughout the changing seasons.
20) Mice twice
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A round of uneasy hospitality results when Mouse and Dog arrive at Cat's house for dinner.
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