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Why Paint Cats
Why Paint Cats is a comedy book written by New Zealand author Burton Silver and illustrator Heather Busch. The book describes the practice of "cat painting" in art and history (that is, decorating cats with paint, as distinguished from painting...
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Giggle, Giggle, Quack
Giggle, Giggle, Quack is a children's book by Doreen Cronin. Illustrated by Betsy Lewin, this sequel to Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type tells the story of Farmer Brown's brother Bob, who is farm-sitting for the vacationing Farmer Brown. Farmer...
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Garden of the Purple Dragon
Garden of the Purple Dragon is a fantasy novel by Carole Wilkinson, published on September, 2005 by Macmillan Publishers and aimed at pre-teens. It is the second in the Dragonkeeper series and the predecessor to Dragon Moon.
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The Yearling
The Yearling is a 1938 novel written by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. It won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1939.
Rawlings's editor was Maxwell Perkins, who also worked with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and other literary luminaries. She...
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The Velveteen Rabbit
The Velveteen Rabbit or How Toys Become Real is a children's novel written by Margery Williams and illustrated by William Nicholson. It chronicles the story of a stuffed rabbit and his quest to become real through the love of his owner. The book was...
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The Great Redwall Feast
The Great Redwall Feast was written by Brian Jacques and illustrated by the well-known Redwall artist, Christopher Denise, and it was published in 1996.
The Great Redwall Feast is the first Redwall picture book, and it was written in the form of a...
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Little Women
Little Women (or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy) is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888). Written and set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts, it was published in two parts in 1868 and 1869. The novel...
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Ramona the Pest
Ramona the Pest is the first of Beverly Cleary's books to focus on Ramona Quimby as the protagonist. This children's book chronicles the adventures of Ramona's first few months at kindergarten. The book's title is derived from characterization of...
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Wolf Brother
"Six thousand years ago. Evil stalks the land. According to legend, only twelve-year-old Torak and his wolf-cub companion can defeat it. Their journey togother takes them through deep forests, across giant glacers, and into dangers thet never...
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Henry Huggins
Henry Huggins is a character appearing in a series of children's literature novels by Beverly Cleary, first appearing in Henry Huggins. Henry is a young boy living on Klickitat Street in Portland, Oregon. The novels take place in the 1950s, which is...
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The Tiger in the Well
The Tiger in the Well (1991) is a book by the English author Philip Pullman.
Twenty four year old Sally Lockhart is at a loss from the death of her lover, Frederick Garland. Two years later Sally's future seems to have improved with a successful...
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Duck for President
Duck for President is a children's book written by Doreen Cronin and illustrated by Betsy Lewin. Released in 2004 through Simon and Schuster, the New York Times Best Illustrated Book follows the further adventures of Farmer Brown's animals that were...
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Henry and Ribsy
Henry and Ribsy is a children's book by Beverly Cleary. It is the third in the Henry Huggins series, following Henry Huggins and Henry and Beezus.
Like most of the Henry Huggins books, the incidents in this book follow an ongoing plot line. In this...
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Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane
Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane is the second book in the Underland Chronicles.
Months have passed since Gregor first fell into the strange Underland beneath New York City, and he swears he will never go back. But he is destined to be a key player...
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The Wind in the Willows
The Wind in the Willows is a classic of children's literature by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters in a pastoral version of England. The novel is...
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The Animals of Farthing Wood
The Animals of Farthing Wood is the first book of the Animals of Farthing Wood book series. It was first published in 1979. An abridged version of 70 pages, by the same author, was published in 1993 to accompany the TV series.
The novel begins in...
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The Frog Prince, Continued
The Frog Prince, Continued (ISBN 0590981676) by Jon Scieszka (illustrated by Steve Johnson) is a picture book parody "sequel" to the tale of The Frog Prince, in which a princess kisses a frog which then turns into a prince. It was first published in...
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Winnie-the-Pooh
Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) is the first volume of stories about Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne. It is followed by The House at Pooh Corner. The book focuses on the adventures of a teddy bear called Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends Piglet, a small toy...
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The Second Jungle Book
The Second Jungle Book is a sequel to The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. First published in 1895, it features five stories about Mowgli and three unrelated stories, all but one set in India, most of which Kipling wrote while living in Vermont. All...
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Just So Stories
The Just So Stories for Little Children were written by British author Rudyard Kipling. They are highly fantasized origin stories and are among Kipling's best known works.
The stories, first published in 1902, are pourquoi stories, fantastic...
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The Jungle Book
The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories written by Rudyard Kipling. The stories were first published in magazines in 1893–4. The original publications contained illustrations, some by Rudyard's father, John Lockwood Kipling. Kipling was...
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All the Mowgli Stories
All the Mowgli Stories is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. As the title suggests, the book is a chronological compilation of the stories about Mowgli from The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book, together with "In the Rukh" (the...
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Eulalia
Eulalia! is the nineteenth book in the Redwall novel series by author Brian Jacques and illustrated by David Elliot. "Eulalia" ("Victory") is also the war cry used by the Salamandastron fighting Hares and Badgers. It comes from "Weialala leia", the...
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Wringer
Wringer is a Newbery Honor-winning 1997 young adult novel by Jerry Spinelli.
Palmer LaRue has to decide if he wants to become a "wringer". When someone turns ten years old in their community, they have to strangle ("wring") pigeons shot in the...
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Dogsong
Dogsong is a 1985 young adult novel by Gary Paulsen and is a Newbery Honor Book. It is about a fourteen-year-old Eskimo, Russel Susskit, who is searching for answers about his life that he cannot find. His father could not tell him the answers--but...
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Fantastic Mr. Fox
Fantastic Mr Fox is a children's novel written by Roald Dahl. It was published in 1970 by George Allen & Unwin in the UK and Alfred A. Knopf in the US, with illustrations by Donald Chaffin. The book was later published with new illustrations by Jill...
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Hoot
Hoot is a young adult novel by Carl Hiaasen. The story is set in Coconut Cove,Florida where Roy and his two new friends try to stop construction of a pancake house which would destroy a colony of burrowing owls who live on the site. The book won a...
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Owl Moon
Owl Moon is a 1987 children's picture book by Jane Yolen, illustrated by John Schoenherr. The book won many awards, most notably being the Caldecott Medal for its illustrations, and has appeared on the show Reading Rainbow. Owl Moon has been...
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The Sands of Time
The Sands of Time is the second book in the Hermux Tantamoq series, created by Michael Hoeye. The Sands of Time is the second in a series beginning with Time Stops for No Mouse, followed by No Time Like Show Time, and Time to Smell the Roses. In...
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Old Yeller
Old Yeller is a 1956 children's novel by Fred Gipson, which received a Newbery Honor in 1957. The title is taken from the name of the big yellow dog who is center of the book's story. In 1957 Walt Disney released a film adaptation starring Fess...
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R-T, Margaret, and the Rats of NIMH
R-T, Margaret, and the Rats of NIMH is a sequel to Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH and it continues the story after the end of Racso and the Rats of NIMH. It was written by Jane Leslie Conly, the daughter of the author of the original.
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Toad Heaven
Toad Heaven (ISBN 0-375-82764-1, Random House Books for Young Readers) is a 2005 children's novel by Morris Gleitzman, and a sequel to his 2004 book Toad Rage.
Limpy the cane toad has saved cane toads once, but people are still squashing the poor...
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Toad Rage
Toad Rage (ISBN 0375827633) is a book by Australian author Morris Gleitzman. It was published in the USA in 2004 by Random House.
Limpy is a partially squashed cane toad who lives in a quiet swamp. He is disappointed to know that cane toads around...
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Rare Beasts
Rare Beasts is the first book in the Edgar & Ellen series for young adults by Charles Ogden. First published in 2003 by Tricycle Press, the series is currently being published by Aladdin Paperbacks, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. The illustrator...
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Abel's Island
Abel's Island is a children's novel written and illustrated by William Steig. It won a Newbery Honor. It was published by Collin Publishers, Toronto, Canada in 1976. It is a survival story of a mouse stranded on an island.
The story is set in the...
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The Crystal Prison
The Crystal Prison is the second novel in the Deptford Mice Trilogy by Robin Jarvis (first published in 1989). Oswald is ill and he's hours from death. While Twit and Piccadilly vow to return to their home, Thomas arrives, telling Audrey that she...
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Esio Trot
Esio Trot is a children's novel written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake.
Mr. Hoppy is a shy old man who lives alone in an apartment. For many years, he has been secretly in love with Mrs. Silver, a woman who lives below him. Mr. Hoppy...
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Darkwing
Darkwing (known as Dusk in the United Kingdom) is a novel by Canadian author Kenneth Oppel. It is the prequel and fourth addition to the Silverwing series, and takes place 65 million years before the events of the first book, Silverwing. It...
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The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies
The Tale of Flopsy Bunnies is a book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter that was first published in 1909.
Flopsy and Benjamin Bunny have a hard time finding enough food for their numerous children, the Flopsy Bunnies. Peter Rabbit doesn't...
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The Runaway Bunny
The Runaway Bunny is a 1942 picture book written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd. The plot deals with a small rabbit, who wants to run away. His mother, however, tells him that "if you run away, I will run after you".
The book...
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The Tale of Tom Kitten
The Tale of Tom Kitten is a book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter. It was first published in 1907.
This book tells the story of three little kittens, Mittens, Tom Kitten and Moppet, who get into mischief. Their mother, Mrs. Tabitha Twitchit...
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Tarka the Otter
Tarka the Otter: His Joyful Water-Life and Death in the Country of the Two Rivers is a novel by Henry Williamson. The book narrates the experience of an otter. It was first published in 1927 by G.P. Putnam's Sons, with an introduction by the Hon....
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The Tale of Pigling Bland
The Tale of Pigling Bland is a book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter. It was first published in 1913.
The story is of Pigling Bland and his brother Alexander who are forced to go to market because there isn't enough food to feed all the...
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The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson is a children's book published by Beatrix Potter in 1930. Potter spent a holiday in Lyme Regis when she was seventeen, and used views of Lyme Regis, nearby Sidmouth, Ilfracombe, Hastings, Sussex, and Teignmouth...
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Catwings
Catwings is a children's book written by American author Ursula K. Le Guin, who is better known for her Earthsea fantasy novels, and illustrated by S. D. Schindler. It is written for children aged 7 to 10. It was followed by three sequels, making up...
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The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin
The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter and first published by Frederick Warne & Co. in August 1903. The story is about an impertinent red squirrel named Nutkin and his narrow escape from an owl...
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The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse
The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse is a book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter. It was first published in 1910.
The book tells the story of a wood-mouse named Mrs. Thomasina Tittlemouse and her efforts to keep her house in order despite numerous...
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Thomas
Thomas is the third novel in the Deptford Histories Trilogy by Robin Jarvis (first published in 1995).
Thomas tells of the midshipmouse Thomas Triton's adventures when he was young. He and his friend Woodget Pipple become embroiled in the hideous...
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The Final Reckoning
The Final Reckoning is the third novel in the Deptford Mice Trilogy by Robin Jarvis (first published in 1990).
The ghostly spirit of Jupiter is back, more powerful than ever before. Bent on revenge, he smothers the world in an eternal winter of ice...
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The Big Pets
The Big Pets is a children's picture book by Lane Smith. It was originally published in 1991 by Viking Books.
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The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse
The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse is a book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter. It was first published in 1918.
The book is a retelling of the Aesop Fable of The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse.
The country mouse, Timmy Willie, falls asleep in a...
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The Story of A Fierce Bad Rabbit
The Story of A Fierce Bad Rabbit is a children’s book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter. Seemingly written for a much younger audience than any of her previous books, it was first published in 1906.
A bad rabbit comes across a good rabbit...
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The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or, The Roly-Poly Pudding
The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding is a book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter. It was first published in 1908 as "The Roly-Poly Pudding". In 1926 it was re-published as "The Tale of Samuel Whiskers". It features the cat...
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Chrysanthemum
Chrysanthemum (ISBN 0-688-09699-9) is the title of a 1991 children's book by the American writer and illustrator Kevin Henkes. The plot deals with a young mouse named Chrysanthemum, who loves her name until classmates criticize it. However, a...
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Goodnight Moon
Goodnight Moon is an American children's book written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd. It was first published in 1947, and is a highly acclaimed example of a bedtime story. It is about a child saying goodnight to everything...
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Billy Budd
Billy Budd is a novella begun around 1886 by American author Herman Melville, left unfinished at his death in 1891 and not published until 1924. The work has been central to Melville scholarship since it was discovered in manuscript form among...
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Danny and the Dinosaur
Danny and the Dinosaur is a popular children's book by Syd Hoff, first published by Harper & Row in 1958. It has sold over six million copies and has been translated into a dozen languages. The book inspired two sequels by Syd Hoff: Happy Birthday,...
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a children's book written by Eric Carle, first published by the World Publishing Company in 1969. The winner of many awards, it has sold 30 million copies It is highly popular and has been praised for its use of easy...
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The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes
The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter and first published by Frederick Warne & Co. in October 1911. The story follows the misadventures of an eastern grey squirrel who is chased by other squirrels...
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The Tale of Two Bad Mice
The Tale of Two Bad Mice is a book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter. It was first published in 1904.
The story features two mice named Tom Thumb and Hunca Munca. Tom Thumb is a traditional hero in English folklore, and the name Hunca Munca...
