Don Freeman
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Diary of a spider: This spider is a lot like a normal kid--he goes to gym class and has Grandparents Day at school. But he also gets to spin sticky webs, take wind-catching lessons, and have a fly as a best friend! Roberto the insect architect: Roberto the termite travels to the big city to follow his dream of becoming a successful architect. Norman the doorman: Norman, the guard of the Art Museum, is surprised when his sculpture wins first prize...
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Corduroy longs for someone to take him home, but he searches for his missing button around the department store first. When the zookeeper leaves the door open, the happy lion decides to walk through town to visit his friends. Big diesel engines threaten to run Mike Mulligan and his old steam shovel, Mary Anne, out of business. A mother's love and a baby's smile bond the two together. Silly Auntie will try anything to get Baby to smile. Two owls discover...
46) The human comedy
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The place is Ithaca, in California's San Joaquin Valley. The time is World War II. The family is the Macauley's -- a mother, sister, and three brothers whose struggles and dreams reflect those of America's second-generation immigrants. In particular, fourteen-year-old Homer, determined to become one of the fastest telegraph messengers in the West, finds himself caught between reality and illusion as delivering his messages of wartime death, love,...
48) Bearymore
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A circus bear has trouble hibernating and dreaming up a new act at the same time.
53) The guard mouse
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Clyde, a guard at Buckingham Palace, whose job is to keep wee animals from straying on to the royal grounds, gives his visiting cousins a tour of London.
55) Space witch
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Tilly Ipswitch, Queen of Halloween, decides to spend Halloween frightening creatures on other planets.
58) Goodwin the goat
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When Goodwin the goat discovers an artist's paint tubes, he becomes covered in color when he eats them and is soon made into a tourist attraction by Farmer Mac Duff.
60) Will's quill
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A goose named Willoughby visits London, meets a friendly actor-playwright named Shakespeare, and helps make literary history.