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Books in Rainbow Books series

  • How Much Is A Million?

    David M. Schwartz, Steven Kellogg

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books, Dec. 28, 2004)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Text and pictures try to make possible the conceptualization of a million, a billion, and a trillion.
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  • A River Ran Wild: An Environmental History

    Lynne Cherry

    Library Binding (Perfection Learning, April 1, 2002)
    From the author of the beloved The Great Kapok Tree comes an enlightening story of restoration and renewal. Readers learn how the modern-day descendants of the Nashua Indians and European settlers were able to combat pollution and restore the beauty of the Nashua River in Massachusetts. Full-color illustrations.
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  • Borreguita And The Coyote

    Verna Aardema, Petra Mathers

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books, Jan. 20, 1998)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A little lamb uses her clever wiles to keep a coyote from eating her.
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  • The First Dog

    Jan Brett

    Hardcover (Harcourt Children's Books, Oct. 10, 1988)
    Kip the Cave Boy offers to share all his woolly rhino ribs if Paleowolf will use his keen nose, fine ears, and sharp eyes to keep Kip from being eaten up. When Paleowolf agrees with a bark and a wag of his tail, Kip names his new friend Dog.
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  • Bionic Bunny Show

    Marc Brown

    Paperback (Little, Brown Young Readers, Sept. 30, 1985)
    As an ordinary rabbit in real life is portrayed as a bionic bunny on his television series, the reader views all the production efforts that provide that illusion.
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  • A Medieval Feast

    Aliki

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books, Sept. 25, 1986)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Describes the preparation and celebration of a medieval feast held at an English manor.
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  • The Furry News: How to Make a Newspaper

    Loreen Leedy

    Hardcover (Holiday House, March 1, 1990)
    Big Bear, Rabbit, and the other animals work hard to write, edit, and print their newspaper, "The Furry News." Includes tips for making your own newspaper and defines a number of newspaper terms.
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  • Uncle Willie And The Soup Kitchen

    Dyanne Disalvo-Ryan

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books, April 24, 1997)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Learning from his uncle Willie that there are less fortunate people in the world and the importance of helping them, a young boy volunteers for a day's work at a soup kitchen and learns how he can make a difference.
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  • Louis the Fish

    Arthur Yorinks, Richard Egielski

    Library Binding (Perfection Learning, May 1, 1986)
    'One day last spring, Louis, a butcher, turned into a fish. Silvery scales. Big lips. A tail. A salmon'...Yorinks and Egielski work together as if they were one. Their joint pacing and a variety of verbal and visual viewpoints make Louis the Fish an outstanding and refreshingly unusual picture book. --Starred, School Library Journal
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  • Peek 'N Squeak 1-2-3

    Yuko Green

    Board book (Island Heritage, Oct. 1, 2005)
    Peek and "squeak" along with your keiki as this interactive story teaches children to count up to 10 with Little Dolphin. Young readers will enjoy counting along and squeezing the toy dolphin every time the dolphin icon appears.
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  • Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain

    Verna Aardema

    Library Binding (Perfection Learning, May 1, 1992)
    The story of how Ki-pat ingeniously brings rain to the arid Kapiti Plain. Cumulative rhyming tale with the rhythm and repetition of The House That Jack Built . . . Illustrations are stylized, simple, and dramatic.--School Library Journal.
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  • Three Days On A River In A Red Canoe

    Vera B. Williams

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback, Aug. 1, 1984)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The narrator, her cousin and their mothers learn to pitch a tent, build a fire, and lower a canoe over waterfalls while canoeing down a river.
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