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Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
The true story of a baby finch rescued and raised by the author and his wife. Stellina was a bird: "Cheep", a very little bird: "cheep!cheep!" So begins critically acclaimed author Matteo Pericoli's all-true story of how he and his wife, Holly, came to rescue and raise a little finch, Stellina, in the middle of New York City. When no zoo would take the abandoned bird, fallen from her nest onto a busy street, Holly took her home and gave her the best...
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
The latest addition to the Newbery Honor award-winning 26 Fairmount Avenue series.
World War II is raging in Europe, and Tomie finds that life has changed in many ways. Now he has to wear an extra sweater to school because they?re trying to conserve coal. Then tragedy brings the war home to the dePaola family, and all Tomie can do is ask ?Why?? Just as he did in I?m Still Scared, the first installment of The War Years, Tomie dePaola touchingly
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English
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The latest installment in the Newbery Honor-winning series from Tomie dePaola
First-grader Tomie dePaola experiences uncertainty in the weeks following the attack on pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. What are the grown-ups talking quietly about at home and even at school? why does his class have to go to the spooky furnace room for an air raid drill? why does the family hang thick black curtains over the windows? Tomie's mother is there to comfort...
First-grader Tomie dePaola experiences uncertainty in the weeks following the attack on pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. What are the grown-ups talking quietly about at home and even at school? why does his class have to go to the spooky furnace room for an air raid drill? why does the family hang thick black curtains over the windows? Tomie's mother is there to comfort...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
34 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 25 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Focuses on this American author's connection with steamboats on the Mississippi River while also presenting a history of the craft.
10) For the duration
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
99 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
From gas rationing to air-raid drills, as long as the war lasts, life is going to be different for Tomie. And sometimes different is hard. Fortunately, Tomie still has school, his family, and the things he's good at to carry him through.
11) What a year
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
72 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tomie has an eventful first grade year with his sixth birthday party, his first Halloween trick-or-treating followed by Thanksgiving, his first Christmas pageant, and a late night New Year's celebration.
12) On my way
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
73 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Children's author-illustrator Tomie De Paola describes his experiences at home and in school when he was a boy.
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