Dan Yaccarino
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Billy and Goat are best friends, but they have different styles. Billy likes to smell the roses - Goat likes to eat them! So it's no surprise that they have different ideas of how to enjoy the state fair. For Billy, the crowds and the noise are pretty intimidating. He's happy to wait in the livestock pens until the best-goat contest begins. But Goat's not one to sit when he could run. Faster than you can say butter sculpture, Goat's out of the pen...
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Billy and Goat are best friends, but they have different styles. Billy likes to smell the roses - Goat likes to eat them! So it's no surprise that they have different ideas of how to enjoy the state fair. For Billy, the crowds and the noise are pretty intimidating. He's happy to wait in the livestock pens until the best-goat contest begins. But Goat's not one to sit when he could run. Faster than you can say butter sculpture, Goat's out of the pen...
87) Carnival
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A carnival offers all the fun and excitement of flying balloons, shooting basketballs, riding ponies, and walking through a haunted house.
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Doug and his parents are off to visit the grandbots. But when their journey is interrupted by some sheep in the road, Doug goes from downloading information about farm animals to actually interacting with them! Doug gets to learn by doing; he herds sheep, milks a cow, gathers eggs, and then uses good old-fashioned 'horse sense' to get their car back on the road.
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Doug and his parents are off to visit the grandbots. But when their journey is interrupted by some sheep in the road, Doug goes from downloading information about farm animals to actually interacting with them! Doug gets to learn by doing; he herds sheep, milks a cow, gathers eggs, and then uses good old-fashioned 'horse sense' to get their car back on the road.
91) Bam, bam, bam
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In this noisy poem, a wrecking ball demolishes old houses and stores to make way for a skyscraper.
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I stink! : Live through a stinky night in the life of a New York City garbage truck that likes to eat alphabet soup.
Trashy Town: Follow Mr. Gilly around Trashy Town until his truck is full of glorious garbage.
Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel: Big diesel engines threaten to run Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel out of business until he finds just the job to prove their worth.
The remarkable riderless runaway tricycle: An old tricycle is mistaken...
95) Doug unplugged
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Doug is a robot. His parents want him to be smart, so each morning they plug him in and start the information download. After a morning spent learning facts about the city, Doug suspects he could learn even more about the city by going outside and exploring it. What follows is an exciting day of adventure and discovery. Doug learns amazing things by doing and seeing and touching and listening. And above all, by interacting with a new friend.
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Omigosh, it's Oswald! Oswald is a big blue octopus who's learning to stand on his own eight feet! Accompanied by his pet hotdog Weenie, and his friend Henry, a finicky penguin, along with an energetic flower named Daisy, Oswald greets the world with wide-eyed wonder and enthusiasm on his whimsical adventures. Included in these episodes are adventures featuring a little duckling, an accidental double date, an ice cream truck, a camping trip, the...
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Trashy town: Come along with the smiling, energetic trash man, who dumps, dives and smashes until his truck is full of glorious garbage.
I stink!: Join the fun on this raucous and stinky night in the life of a New York City garbage truck, as it keeps the city clean.
The paperboy: Join a paperboy and his dog as they savor the silence of early morning, while delivering a newspaper along a route they know by heart.
I'm dirty!: Clank! Rattle! Bang!...
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Twelve stories that will have children reading all summer long. Stories include the beloved I Stink, live through a stinky night in the life of a New York City garbage truck that likes to eat alphabet soup and I'm Dirty, find out just how dirty a backhoe can get while doing its' job. Other stories include Mike Mulligan And His Steam Shovel; Trashy Town; The Remarkable Riderless Runaway Tricycle; The Beast Of Monsieur Racine; Arnie The Doughnut; and...