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Each booklet in the collection is inspired by traditional stories and allows novice readers to discover the marvelous world of fables. The author uses simple phrasing to recount the adventure of legendary characters. The illustrations help support the narrative and promote further study. Furthermore, each tale
delivers an important moral or life lesson that activates the imagination of young readers and encourages them to make deeper and more meaningful...
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Nancy, Barby, and Doug Holland looked forward to summer in New Hampshire without realizing what exciting secrets came with their new home. The summer would hold more than swimming and horseback riding, blueberry pancakes and picnics at the lake, but they didn't begin to guess how much more until Nancy bid for an old trunk at a country auction.
The Hollands were vacationing in an old house which had once belonged to a New Hampshire primitive artist...
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Once upon a time...
There were mischievous gnomes, sweet fairies, and talking animals who lived happily in the forest. There were also children, princes and princesses, magical flowers, and witches on flying brooms. There were, in fact, enchanted and amusing stories, all gathered in an incredible collection of fairy tales.
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Each booklet in the collection is inspired by traditional stories and allows novice readers to discover the marvelous world of fables. The author uses simple phrasing to recount the adventure of legendary characters. The illustrations help support the narrative and promote further study. Furthermore, each tale
delivers an important moral or life lesson that activates the imagination of young readers and encourages them to make deeper and more meaningful...
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Once upon a time...
There were mischievous gnomes, sweet fairies, and talking animals who lived happily in the forest. There were also children, princes and princesses, magical flowers, and witches on flying brooms. There were, in fact, enchanting and amusing stories, all gathered in an incredible collection of fairy tales.
Add this book to your cart and get ready to fly on the wings of imagination... get ready to dream!
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Charming stories - brimming with humor, whimsy, and imagination - include an Algonquin tale of how Glooskap conquered the Great Bull-Frog; "The Meeting of the Wild Animals," a Tsimshian myth recounting how all the animals came to fear the porcupine; "The Man Who Married the Moon" a Pueblo story; others. 6 full-page illustrations.
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The Tortoise and the Hare is a fable about perseverance and boasting. It is told from the perspective of a child observing the world and learning from it. In this truly unique series, Aesop is that child. He comes to life as an inquisitive, confident young raccoon who goes on a daily adventure and experiences each fable as it unfolds. Aesop's grandmother encourages him to go on these adventures and eagerly awaits his return. They share the message...
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Each booklet in the collection is inspired by traditional stories and allows novice readers to discover the marvelous world of fables. The author uses simple phrasing to recount the adventure of legendary characters. The illustrations help support the narrative and promote further study. Furthermore, each tale
delivers an important moral or life lesson that activates the imagination of young readers and encourages them to make deeper and more meaningful...
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Teach early readers about why it is important to be kind to others with this beautifully illustrated version of the Aesop fable, The Lion and the Mouse. This wordless picture encourages children to use their own words to tell the story, developing their oral language and reading skills. This 12-page beginning reading book is ideal for children ages 3-5.
73) The Blue Coat
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This Jewish tale is about Tom. His mom makes him a beautiful new blue coat and he wears it all the time. Until it starts to fall apart. What will his mother do? Find out how things can be re-purposed in this story of a mother's love.
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Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 7
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Ga'Hoole is victorious, but far from the great tree, in the bitter ashes of defeat under a full moon, Nyroc is born. And he will be bred to monstrous evil.Kludd is dead. Nyra, his mate, is determined that her hatchling, Nyroc, will fulfill his father's destiny: the vicious oppression of all the owl kingdoms. But Nyroc is a poor student of evil. A light grows in his heart, fed by scraps of forbidden legend and strange news of a place where goodness...
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A Little Frog's Heart is a hymn to Universal Grandparents, to their wisdom and eternal love for their grandchildren, a work of art which will find its admirers and readers among those who accept it as part of their lives. This picture is a perfect one but as we have already got used to author George Vîrtosu, the reader might well be baffled by the information he has never known his grandparents! Though a tragic one, this reality offered him the most...
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It was a cold and crisp Christmas Eve. The animals of the forest come from near and far, through the snow, to gather around Saint Nicholas and hear him read the most wonderful story ever written. He tells them how, many years ago on this very night, Joseph arrived in Bethlehem with his wife Mary just in time for her to give birth to baby Jesus. He reminds them all of the amazing events that happened that wondrous night, and how the animals were there....
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Les merveilleux contes rassemblés dans ce livre sont un voyage magique à travers des histoires imaginatives qui ont enchanté des générations d'enfants. Chaque page est une fenêtre ouverte sur un monde fantastique o des animaux qui parlent, des princes et des princesses, des sorcières et des lutins vivent des aventures passionnantes et apprennent d'importantes leçons de vie. En feuilletant les pages de ce livre, les enfants seront transportés...
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'I've thought of a game," said my cousin Julian.
"What kind of a game?" I asked.
"A different kind of game," Julian said. "We've never played it before."
It was a hot day and they had already seen the movie at the only theater in town. Yet the game that Julian devised to relieve the boredom-the game of Takers and Returners-was to affect the lives of all the children who took part in it.
Julian was fifteen, and thirteen¬-year-old Ellen had always...
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On every street there is a story. Roll up, roll up for a circus adventure in Edwardian Yarmouth, merry-go-race through King's Lynn history with fabulous fairground animals, get swept back in time with the marvellous mice of Wymondham, meet the magical medieval dragon of Norwich and the musical Owl of Holt, discover the magnificent street procession of a Tudor Queen and get ready to be bedazzled by the delightful dancer of a Georgian theatre. Inspired...
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