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Books in An Aladdin Book series

  • Everybody Needs a Rock

    Byrd Baylor, Peter Parnall

    Paperback (Aladdin, Sept. 1, 1985)
    Everybody needs a rock -- at least that's the way this particular rock hound feels about it in presenting her own highly individualistic rules for finding just the right rock for you.
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  • Whose Mouse Are You?

    Robert Kraus, Jose Aruego

    Paperback (Aladdin, Dec. 1, 1986)
    A lonely little mouse has to be resourceful to bring his family back together.In a series of delightfully imaginary achievements, “nobody’s mouse” transforms himself into the beloved hero of his mother, father, sister, and brand-new baby brother. In their very first collaboration, Robert Kraus and Jose Aruego give charm and validity to one of childhood’s more difficult experiences. Tender and catchy, Robert Kraus’s rhyming text, combined with Jose Aruego’s large, vibrantly clever illustrations, makes for a storytime classic.
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  • Everyone Knows What a Dragon Looks Like

    Jay Williams, Mercer Mayer

    Paperback (Aladdin, Oct. 1, 1984)
    Because of the road sweeper's belief in him, a dragon saves the city of Wu from the Wild Horsemen of the north.
    M
  • Journey Home

    Yoshiko Uchida, Charles Robinson

    Paperback (Aladdin, Oct. 31, 1992)
    After their release from an American concentration camp, a Japanese-American girl and her family try to reconstruct their lives amidst strong anti-Japanese feelings which breed fear, distrust, and violence
    V
  • The Case of the Baker Street Irregular

    Robert Newman

    Paperback (Aladdin, Oct. 1, 1984)
    When his guardian, Mr. Dennison, is kidnapped in London, Andrew seeks out Screamer, a girl whose brother, one of the Baker Street Irregulars, helps solve cases with Sherlock Holmes
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  • Welcome Home, Jellybean

    Marlene Fanta Shyer

    Paperback (Aladdin, March 31, 1988)
    Neil Oxley's older sister, Geraldine, is coming home for the first time. After spending most of her life in institutions for the retarded, she is finally going to live with her family and adapt to the real world. Skillful juxtaposition of two seemingly incompatible elements--light humor and the serious theme of mental retardation . . . This is a notable piece.--School Library Journal.
  • The gorilla did it

    Barbara Shook Hazen

    Paperback (Atheneum, March 15, 1977)
    A gorilla not only wakes a little boy up, but it messes up his room and makes his mother angry.
  • A Woggle of Witches

    Adrienne Adams

    Paperback (Aladdin, Sept. 1, 1985)
    The witches are frightened by strange creatures on the night of their special celebration
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  • Hi, Cat!

    Ezra Jack Keats

    Paperback (Aladdin, Oct. 1, 1988)
    Archie's day would have been great if he had not started it by greeting the new cat on the block
    J
  • Franklin Stein

    Ellen Raskin

    Hardcover (Atheneum, Jan. 1, 1972)
    Friendless Franklin Stein decides to make a friend out of odds and ends.
  • Illuminations

    Jonathan Hunt

    Paperback (Aladdin, March 31, 1993)
    A medieval alphabet book, illustrated in the style of illuminated manuscripts, presenting aspects of the Middle Ages from alchemist to zither
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  • I Feel the Same Way

    Lilian Moore, Robert M. Quackenbush

    Paperback (Atheneum, June 1, 1976)
    Short, illustrated poems about nature, inner thoughts, and shared feelings.
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