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Discover your toddler’s story-telling skills with this wordless addaptation of Aesop’s fable “The Lion and the Mouse.” A mouse accidentally disturbs a lion from his sleep, the lion decides to let the mouse run free and the mouse returns the favor later. Colorful, engaging illustrations tell the tale beautifully and will prompt your child to [...]
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One rainy day Fanny decides to write a story about her favorite doll Annabelle. Journey through Fanny and Annabelle’s experiences as they discover the art of telling a story, learn a lesson about right & wrong and have loads of fun along the way. A happy, upbeat tale perfect to launch loads of at-home projects. [...]
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Potty Training Boys the Easy Way is based on the premise that training boys is implicitly more difficult than training girls. “Boys are known to take longer, learn later & have more problems than girls,” explains Caroline Fertleman, MD. To counteract such difficulties, co-authors Fertleman and Simon Cave offer up a step-by-step process for getting [...]
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One of the funniest kid’s books we’ve seen in a while, Posh Dog is a very entertaining riff on doggie pop culture. Forget “blow-dry-when-washed” and “fancy, attitudey” dogs and bring on the “sweet willy-nilly” and “not-too-proud or loud” dogs. A beautiful, great read for dog owners and lovers alike – it’ll please parents & children [...]
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Meet Craneosaurus, Dozeratops, Digasaurus and other prehistoric trucks in this big, beautiful action adventure great for young readers with an imagination. Millions of years ago Dinotrux “rumbled, roared and chomped.” Meet and greet the collection via vivid colorful pictures in this oversized hardcover book.
Dinotrux: By Chris Gall. Little, Brown and Company.
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Take a trip to beautiful Paris and meet a spunky little girl named Madeline, whose life has been turned upside down because she has to have her appendix removed. Journey through the ups, downs and happy endings (all the little girls in boarding school want scars too!) while enjoying the lyric prose and beautiful Parisian [...]
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Wow is pretty much all we can say about Maurice Sendak’s most famous book (1964 Caldecott Medal Winner). This is a fabulous fantasy story about a wild boy named Max who is sent to bed without supper. During his punishment, Max slips into a fantasy world of “Wild Things.” He becomes King of all the [...]
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Crack open this classic and step back into childhood. A train filled with toys, milk and “good things to eat” breaks down and can’t get to the children on the other side of the mountain. The train begs and begs other trains to help, but all refuse. Then along comes the bright eyed Little Blue [...]
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A very hungry little lady turns pink from eating too many pink cupcakes. Her mom rushes her to the doctor who diagnoses her with Pinkitis and prescribes lots of green foods. You can imagine what she does with this prescription. The lesson here is that sometime “just one more” is too much. You may have [...]
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Grab a tissue. Hide the lump in your throat. A few tears might drop when the mother sings to her son, “I’ll love you forever, I’ll like you for always, as long as I’m living, my baby you’ll be.” In this classic, readers watch the son grow from a baby to a father himself. We’ll [...]
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