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  • I Know an Old Lady

    G Brian Karas

    Paperback (Scholastic Inc., March 15, 1994)
    "I know an old lady who swallowed a fly. / I don't know why she swallowed a fly. / Perhaps she'll die." In Brian Karas's zany interpretation of this classic children's song, a young boy spies an old lady with a big appetite for animals. (Musical score included.)
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  • The Village Garage

    G. Brian Karas

    eBook (Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), June 25, 2013)
    Through the year and no matter the weather, workers at the Village Garage are always busy. With the help of their trusty trucks, they clean the streets of sticks and leaves in the spring; patch potholes in preparation for summer traffic; pick up the leaves in the fall; and spray the roads with sand and salt during winter. Young truck enthusiasts will love watching the garage workers operate their terrific trucks and keep the roads in top shape through every season!The Village Garage is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
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  • The Windy Day

    G. Brian Karas

    Hardcover (Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, May 1, 1998)
    A blustery wind creates havoc in an otherwise quiet town, resulting in such unusual happenings as whirling wedding cakes, airborne alarm clocks, and bouncing bananas, until a little boy decides to greet the exciting wind. Children's BOMC.
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  • I Know an Old Lady

    G. Brian Karas

    Library Binding (Scholastic, March 1, 1995)
    Reviving the classic children's song about the old lady who swallowed a fly, zany full-color artwork introduces a young narrator so surprised by the lady's appetite that he records each meal in his reporter's notebook and on film.
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  • The Class Artist

    G. Brian Karas

    Hardcover (Greenwillow, Aug. 1, 2001)
    Despite the trouble he has at first working on art projects at school and with the help of his big sister Martha, Fred develops his creativity and becomes the class artist.
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  • Home on the Bayou: A Cowboy's Story

    G. Brian Karas

    Hardcover (Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, Oct. 1, 1996)
    Ned, a young cowboy from the wide open West, proves that home can be anywhere with only the slightest adjustments after he moves to swamp country and has a run-in with the alligators and a western-style showdown with the school bully, Big Head Ed.
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  • Carlita Ropes the Twister

    G. Brian Karas

    Paperback (Steck-Vaughn Company, Jan. 1, 1999)
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  • The Village Garage

    G. Brian Karas

    Hardcover (Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), June 8, 2010)
    Through the year and no matter the weather, workers at the Village Garage are always busy. With the help of their trusty trucks, they clean the streets of sticks and leaves in the spring; patch potholes in preparation for summer traffic; pick up the leaves in the fall; and spray the roads with sand and salt during winter. Young truck enthusiasts will love watching the garage workers operate their terrific trucks and keep the roads in top shape through every season!The Village Garage is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
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  • Bebe's Bad Dream

    G. Brian Karas

    Hardcover (Greenwillow Books, April 5, 2000)
    Bebe has a problem. Aliens are trying to eat her for dinner. She can see their beady eyes. She can hear their slurpy lips. They are everywhere, and they are out to get her.It doesn't matter to Bebe that her mother and her friends and ever her mean older brother, Walter (talk about a problem!), are telling her that the aliens are just a bad dream. Bebe KNOWS.Just as she finally knows it is up to her to send them back to deep space, forever.
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  • Throw Your Tooth on the Roof: Tooth Traditions from Around the World

    Selby B Beeler, MR G Brian Karas

    Library Binding (Perfection Learning, Sept. 1, 2001)
    Travel around the world and discover the surprising things children do when they lose a tooth. Selby B. Beeler spent years collecting traditions from every corner of the globe for this whimsical book, and G. Brian Karas adds to the fun, filling every page with humorous detail. He perfectly captures the excitement and pride that children experience when a tooth falls out.
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  • Young Zeus by G. Brian Karas

    G. Brian Karas

    Hardcover (Scholastic Press, March 15, 1887)
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  • 7 X 9 = Trouble!

    Claudia Mills, MR G Brian Karas

    Library Binding (Perfection Learning, Sept. 1, 2004)
    It's not just 7 x 9 but multiplication in general that is trouble for third-grader Wilson WIlliams . . . Mills' sympathetic and detailed treatment of Wilson's travails makes this both a suspenseful and satisfying beginning chapter book. --The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
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