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Books in Reading Rainbow Series series

  • Peter Spier's Rain

    Peter Spier

    Paperback (Yearling, March 10, 1997)
    This wordless picture book captures the beauty and wonder of a brother and sister's joyous experiences in the rain. Come along as they explore their neighborhood, splash through puddles, see where the animals hide, and make footprints in the mud. From the first small drops of rain to the clear blue sky of a bright new morning, Peter Spier's Rain will delight parents and children again and again.
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  • MIRANDA

    Tusa

    Paperback (Aladdin, May 31, 1986)
    Miranda loves to play Bach, Haydn, and Mozart on the piano, until the day she hears a one-man band playing boogie-woogie.
    Z
  • Animal Cafe

    John Stadler

    Paperback (Aladdin, May 31, 1986)
    Old Max never suspects the true source of his shop's financial success.
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  • Perfect the Pig

    Susan Jeschke

    Paperback (Scholastic, June 1, 1985)
    A tiny pig is granted his wish which leads to an almost perfect life.
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  • Visiting the Art Museum

    Laurene Krasny Brown, Marc Brown

    Hardcover (Dutton Juvenile, Sept. 2, 1986)
    As a family wanders through an art museum, they see examples of various art styles from primitive through twentieth-century pop art
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  • Duncan And Dolores

    Barbara Samuels

    Paperback (Aladdin, March 31, 1989)
    Dolores learns to curb some of her more smothering tendencies and wins the affection of her new pet cat, Duncan.
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  • Archibald Frisby

    Michael Chesworth

    Paperback (Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), March 11, 1996)
    Archibald Frisby, mad about science and wise beyond his years, is sent to camp to have fun and ends up broadening the horizons of his fellow campers.
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  • Pet Stories: You Don't Have to Walk

    Marc Brown, SeaStar Publishing Staff

    Paperback (Chronicle Books, July 15, 2000)
    Meet a multiplying family of fish, and a cat whose every good intention goes wrong! Includes five stories and two poems, featuring Marc Brown, Cynthia Rylant, Syd Hoff, Jack Prelutsky, Lee Bennett Hopkins, Henry Cole, Sucie Stevenson, and more.
    M
  • How My Parents Learned To Eat

    Ina Friedman, Allen Say

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books, April 27, 1987)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A young girl recounts the story of her parents' courtship as her father, an American sailor stationed in Yokohama, and her mother, a Japanese girl, overcome the problems of different cultures.
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  • The Gift of the Sacred Dog: Story and Illustrations

    Paul Goble

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books: A Division of Sanval, Oct. 1, 1984)
    Book by Goble, Paul
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  • Galimoto

    Karen Lynn Williams, Catherine Stock

    Library Binding (Paw Prints 2008-10-01, Oct. 16, 2008)
    "Kondi, a seven-year-old African boy, decides to make a galimoto -- a toy vehicle -- out of scraps of wire. He finds some wire...but it's not enough, so Kondi searches out more....Gentle text and...soft watercolors capture the essence of life in a contemporary African village.
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  • An Enchanted Hair Tale

    Alexis De Veaux, Cheryl Hanna

    Paperback (Harpercollins Childrens Books, Oct. 1, 1991)
    Sudan suffers from the general ridicule of his strange-looking hair, until he comes to accept and enjoy its enchantment.
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