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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....
42) Anna's book
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Publisher
Dutton Childrens' Books
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 18 cm.
Description
Anna loves her new book, so after her mother reads it to her three times, she starts reading it to her teddy bear.
43) Wolves
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Description
When a young rabbit checks out a library book about wolves, he learns much more about their behavior than he wanted to know.
44) Born to read
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
Description
A little boy named Sam discovers the many unexpected ways in which a love of reading can come in handy, and sometimes even save the day.
46) Library day
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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...
48) Frankencrayon
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If the crayons cannot stop the scribble monster, this picture book and the play "Frankencrayon" may have to be canceled.
49) Library Lil
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Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Description
A formidable librarian makes readers not only out of the once resistant residents of her small town, but out of a tough-talking, television-watching motorcycle gang as well.
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Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
xxi, 378 pages ; 20.5 cm
Description
The New Lifetime Reading Plan provides readers with brief, informative and entertaining introductions to more than 130 classics of world literature. From Homer to Hawthorne, Plato to Pascal, and Shakespeare to Solzhenitsyn, the great writers of Western civilization can be found in its pages. In addition, this new edition offers a much broader representation of women authors, such as Charlotte Brontë, Emily Dickinson and Edith Wharton, as well as...
52) 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....
57) The jacket
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Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Description
Book is very happy when he is finally found by the perfect child, and delighted to become one of her favorite things, but the girl also loves her dog, Egg Cream, whose clumsiness, messiness, and drool threaten to ruin Book. Includes directions for making a book jacket.
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