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  • Thanksgiving Is For Giving Thanks

    Margaret Sutherland, Sonja Lamut

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books, Sept. 11, 2000)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A child lists all the things for which he is thankful, especially at Thanksgiving.
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  • Bus to Booville

    Wendy Wax

    Board book (Grosset & Dunlap, Aug. 25, 2003)
    These Halloween board books are the perfect treat for this fun holiday! Eye-catching, captivating photo-collage illustrations and rhyming text really make these books stand out. In Bus to Booville, a bus driver gets spooked when he picks up ghosts, witches, and skeletons on Halloween night. All the spooky characters are just kids in costumes on their way to a Halloween party...but it turns out that the normal-looking bus driver is a little monster, in a bus driver costume, and he's going to the party, too! You Can't Scare Me! is about a little girl whose friends keep trying to scare her with their spooky Halloween costumes. Nothing scares her...until she catches a glimpse of herself in the mirror, all dressed up in the spookiest costume of all! Written and illustrated by Wendy Wax.
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  • Wee Three Pigs

    Heidi Petach

    Paperback (Grosset & Dunlap, Sept. 23, 2002)
    A modern retelling of the classic fairy tale follows three pigs called Comet, Cupid, and Rudolph as they have a delightful Christmas adventure. Original.
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  • All Aboard Cars

    Catherine Daly Weir

    Paperback (Grosset & Dunlap, March 19, 1996)
    Text and illustrations introduce various types of automobiles including race cars, emergency vehicles, and cars of the future
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  • Hooray for Grandparents Day!

    Nancy Carlson

    Paperback (Puffin, Aug. 5, 2002)
    Arnie doesn't have grandparents to come to school on Grandparent's Day, but it turns out he has a lot of people who can substitute.
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  • The Three Little Pigs

    James Marshall

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books, Oct. 23, 2000)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The creator of the Caldecott Honor Book, Goldilocks and the Three Bears returns to give life to another classic fairytale, with his funny new dialogue and exuberant, cartoonlike illustrations.
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  • No Matzoh for Me!

    Nancy Krulik, Bryan Hendrix

    Paperback (Grosset & Dunlap, Jan. 27, 2003)
    Sammy wants nothing more than to be cast as one of the ten plagues in his Hebrew school's Passover play, but when his teacher assigns him the role of the matzoh, Sammy can't believe his bad luck. Original.
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  • Baby Whale

    Lynn Wilson

    Paperback (Grosset & Dunlap, May 2, 1991)
    Traces the life of a baby humpback whale and describes the characteristics and behavior of whales
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  • The Night Before St. Patrick's Day

    Natasha Wing, Amy Wummer

    Paperback (Grosset & Dunlap, Jan. 22, 2009)
    Natasha Wing puts an Irish twist on a Christmas classic. It's the night before St. Patrick's Day, and Tim and Maureen are wide awake setting traps to catch a leprechaun! When they wake the next morning to the sound of their dad playing the bagpipes and the smell of their mom cooking green eggs, they're shocked to find that they've actually caught a leprechaun. But will they be able to find his pot of gold?
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  • The Night Before Thanksgiving

    Natasha Wing, Tammie Lyon

    Library Binding (Paw Prints 2008-02-12, Feb. 12, 2008)
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  • The Night Before Summer Vacation

    Natasha Wing, Julie Durrell

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books, April 29, 2002)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. In an effort to pack everything that will be needed for their summer vacation, a little girl and her family are bound to overlook something, in a meter-perfect ""twist"" on Clement C. Moore's classic Christmas poem.
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  • Jack and the Jellybeanstalk

    Joan Holub, Benton Mahan

    Paperback (Grosset & Dunlap, Jan. 14, 2002)
    After Jack Rabbit trades his lunch for some magic jellybeans, a great adventure begins for him, in a fun-filled twist to the classic tale of a boy's journey up a beanstalk. Original.
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