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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Description
A celebration of the many ways children interact with books.
A celebration of books of all shapes and sizes introduces readers to the magical world that can be found within books and features endearing youngsters discovering the first wonders of the books in their world.
Author
Series
Time warp trio series volume 12
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
73 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
5) Book
Author
Publisher
Familius
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Description
"In a world dazzled by the latest gadgets and mesmerized by Internet videos, the humble book seems like the most ordinary thing that could be. And perhaps it is--until you learn to look closer ... and closer ... and closer ... and you're suddenly in a world that only you can imagine."--
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"The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport, Idaho, today, and on a spaceship bound for a distant exoplanet decades from now, an ancient text provides solace and the most profound human connection to characters in peril. They all learn the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly...
8) Don't blink!
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
53 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Description
"A page turns every time you blink, bringing you closer to the end of the book--and bedtime"--
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Formats
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Step one: Find a story. (A good one.) Step two: Find a reading buddy. (Someone nice.) Step three: Find a reading spot. (Couches are cozy.) Now: Begin. Kate Messner and Mark Siegel chronicle the process of becoming a reader: from pulling a book off the shelf and finding someone with whom to share a story, to reading aloud, predicting what will happen, and -- finally -- coming to The End. This picture book playfully and movingly illustrates the idea...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
We all know kids who carry a book everywhere they go. Kids who can't stop reading, even if it's long after bedtime. Kids who love nothing more than sitting quietly in the corner, turning page after page...
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xii, 948 pages : illustrations (some color, portraits, facsimiles, photographs) ; 25 cm
Description
Encompassing fiction, poetry, science and science fiction, memoir, travel writing, biography, children's books, history, and more, 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die moves across cultures and through time to present an eclectic collection of titles, each described with the special enthusiasm readers summon when recommending a book to a friend.
13) The reader
Author
Publisher
Amazon Children's Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Description
A boy and his dog hike to the top of a very tall, snowy hill where they play, enjoy a snack, and then share their favorite book before sledding home.
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"What is the value of a liberal education? Traditionally characterized by a rigorous engagement with the classics of Western thought and literature, this approach to education is all but extinct in American universities, replaced by flexible distribution requirements and ever-narrower academic specialization. Many academics attack the very idea of a Western canon as chauvinistic, while the general public increasingly doubts the value of the humanities....
16) Library day
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Series
Publisher
Aladdin Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 unnumbered volume : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
Beloved author Anne Rockwell celebrates books, the love of reading, and of course, libraries, with a gorgeous new picture book about a child's first visit to the library! One day, a young boy visits the library for the very first time. While he's there he listens to stories, reads books and magazines, and learns that there are also movies, crafts, chess, and puppet shows--something for everyone! With simple, lyrical text and bright illustrations that...
18) Frankencrayon
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Description
If the crayons cannot stop the scribble monster, this picture book and the play "Frankencrayon" may have to be canceled.
19) A child of books
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Description
A young reader introduces a boy to the many imaginative worlds that books bring to life.
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Pub. Date
2022.
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"In a working-class town in a county west of London, a schoolgirl scribbles in the back pages of her exercise book, thrilling to the first sparks of her own inventiveness. As she grows, she becomes one on whom nothing is lost. Not the novels an eccentric customer slips her at the grocery store where she works as a checkout clerk, or the indelible outline of the careening creature himself. Not the growing heaps of books in which she loses-and finds-herself....
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