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Books with title Weekly Reader children's book club presents The Midnight fox

  • Weekly reader children's book club presents Prince Bertram the Bad

    Arnold Lobel

    Hardcover (Harper & Row, March 15, 1963)
    A very naughty prince makes one mistake too many when he shoots a stone at a witch.
  • Weekly Reader children's book club presents The pai-pai pig

    Joy Anderson

    Unknown Binding (Harcourt, Brace & World, March 15, 1967)
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  • Weekly Reader Children's Book Club presents Joey runs away

    Jack Kent

    Hardcover (by arrangement with Prentice-Hall, Jan. 1, 1985)
    After Joey, a young kangaroo, runs away in search of a better place to live, other animals try out his mother's empty pouch while she is looking for him.
  • Weekly reader children's book club presents Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The magical car

    Ian Fleming

    Hardcover (Random House, March 15, 1964)
    Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car is a children's novel written by Ian Fleming for his son Caspar, with illustrations by John Burningham. Fleming, better known as the creator of James Bond, took his inspiration for the subject from a series of aero-engined racing cars called "Chitty Bang Bang", built by Count Louis Zborowski in the early 1920s at Higham Park. Fleming had known Higham Park as a guest of its later owner, Walter Wigham, chairman of Robert Fleming & Co. Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang was loosely adapted as a 1968 film of the same name with a screenplay by Roald Dahl and Ken Hughes; a subsequent novelization was also published. The film was produced by Albert R. Broccoli, co-producer of the James Bond film series. In the book, Commander Caractacus Pott is an inventor who buys and renovates an old car after gaining money from inventing and selling whistle-like sweets to Lord Skrumshus, the wealthy owner of a local confectionery factory. The car, a "Paragon Panther", was the sole production of the Paragon motor-car company before it went bankrupt. It is a four-seat touring car with an enormous bonnet. After the restoration is complete, the car is named for the noises made by its starter motor and the characteristic two loud backfires it makes when it starts. At first Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang is just a big and powerful car, but as the book progresses the car surprises the family by beginning to exhibit independent actions. This first happens while the family is caught in a traffic jam on their way to the beach for a picnic. The car suddenly instructs Commander Pott to pull a switch which causes Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang to sprout wings and take flight over the stopped cars on the road. The car takes them on more adventures and ends up helping them thwart the plans of gangster gun-runners. It ends by flying them off to more adventures.
  • Weekly Reader Children's Book Club presents Cannonball Simp

    John Burningham

    Hardcover (Bobbs-Merrill, March 15, 1966)
    A children's story about an abandoned dog who becomes the star of the circus. He became friends with the clown and travelled around the countryside.
  • Weekly Reader Children's Book Club Presents: Lyle and the Birthday

    Bernard Waber

    Hardcover (Houghton Mifflin Company, March 15, 1966)
    Lyle is jealous when the Primm family plans a big celebration for Joshua's birthday. Will anyone ever celebrate Lyle's birthday with him?
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  • Weekly Reader children's book club presents The Midnight fox

    Betsy Cromer Byars

    Unknown Binding (Viking Press, March 15, 1968)
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  • Weekly reader children's book club presents Best friends for Frances

    Russell Hoban

    Hardcover (Harper & Row, March 15, 1969)
    Best Friends for Frances [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 1969] Hoban, Russell
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  • Weekly Reader Children's Book Club presents The flash children

    Mabel Esther Allan

    Hardcover (Dodd, Mead, March 15, 1975)
    Unsure whether they will like their new home in Cheshire, three children soon become involved with a visually handicapped schoolmate and the restoration of a British manor house.
  • Weekly Reader Children's Book Club Presents: Lyle and the Birthday Party

    Bernard Waber

    Board book (Houghton, Mifflin Company, March 15, 1966)
    Mrs. Primm fears Lyle the crocodile is terribly sick, when in reality he's just "green" over Joshua's birthday party.
  • Weekly Reader Children's Book CLub presents Hide and seek fog

    Alvin R Tresselt

    Hardcover (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, March 15, 1965)
    Weekly Reader Children's Book CLub presents Hide and seek fog [Jan 01, 1965] Tresselt, Alvin R ...
  • Weekly Reader Children's Book Club presents The teeny, tiny witches

    Jan Wahl, Margot Tomes

    Hardcover (Putnam, March 15, 1979)
    A children's book about little witches