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Author
Publisher
Viking Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Bored with sweet, boring picture books about cute and fluffy creatures, a group of unpopular animals tries to write an adventure story featuring themselves, with unwanted help from over-eager Bunny.
83) Zen shorts
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Stillwater the bear moves into the neighborhood, the stories he tells to three siblings teach them to look at the world in new ways. "Michael, " said Karl. "There's a really big bear in the backyard." This is how three children meet Stillwater, a giant panda who moves into the neighborhood and tells amazing tales. To Addie he tells a story about the value of material goods. To Michael he pushes the boundaries of good and bad. And to Karl he demonstrates...
85) The SOS file
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
71 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The students in Mr. Magro's class submit stories for the SOS file about their biggest emergencies, and then they read them aloud for extra credit.
87) What I call life
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Placed in a group foster home, eleven-year-old Cal Lavender learns how to cope with life from the four other girls who live there and from their storytelling guardian, the Knitting Lady.
88) Wolf story
Author
Publisher
Linnet Books
Pub. Date
1988.
Physical Desc
82 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
A young father tells his five-year-old son humorous variations on the theme of a hen escaping the clutches of a wily wolf.
Author
Series
Pig in a wig volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
34 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and rhyming text introduce an increasing, then decreasing, cast of characters sharing a boat in a moat with a pig in an enormous wig.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
29 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Nathaniel's great-grandfather, who is 100 years old, loves to tell stories from his past but seeks someone to join him with a new batch of stories.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
103 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fourth-grader Brian Higman worries about how his teacher Miss Fromme--nicknamed The General--will react when he fails to hand in a writing assignment, but he ends up being able to tell his story, after all.
Author
Publisher
NorthSouth
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"When the sun goes down, fireflies, bats, and nighthawks wake up. Together they follow the call of the Night Librarian and visit the Twilight Library. The creatures make themselves comfortable on the forest floor as the Night Librarian transports them to the land of imagination with her silken silver stories"--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
A mother shares with her daughter stories of the generations of women in their family as each individual has passed along the tales and a glittering necklace to her own daughter. Includes notes on the author's exploration of her ancestry.
95) Hour of the bees
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
At first, twelve-year-old Carol is not happy to be spending the summer helping her parents move her grandfather to an assisted living home, but as the summer wears on, she finds herself drawn to him, fascinated by his amazing stories.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
First edition
Physical Desc
[31] pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Duckie, a terry cloth duck, loses his brain and can no longer tell stories to the other toys, Tuff Fluff the private investigator must solve the case.
98) Look back!
Author
Publisher
Crocodile Books, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
After his Dominican Grannie tells him of her attempts to catch the mischievous Ti Bolam when she was young, Christopher decides he will go after the strange being himself.
99) Three up a tree
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Sam and Spider build a tree house and go there with Lolly to trade stories.
100) Stories 1, 2, 3, 4
Author
Publisher
McSweeney's McMullens
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
111 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
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