Mem Fox
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English
Description
"Both video and audio quality are excellent. This is a video that teachers and parents will love to use when talking of grandparents, the elderly, and love." - School Library Journal
In this very special story, Wilfrid Gordon helps his 96-year-old friend, Miss Nancy, regain some of her memories. Beloved Australian author Mem Fox wrote Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge in the hope of bringing children and the elderly together and it remains a modern-day...
Author
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English
Description
We all hope and expect our children will learn to read, but how many of us realize we can get our kids on the road to reading simply by reading aloud to them every day? With passion and humor, Mem Fox explains why reading aloud to young children has such an impact on their ability to readand on their entire lives. Writing as an ordinary mother as well as a bestselling author and internationally respected literacy expert, Fox explores when and where...
4) Possum magic
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Language
English
Formats
Description
When Grandma Poss's magic turns Hush invisible, the two possums take a culinary tour of Australia to find the food that will make her visible once more.
5) Sleepy bears
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Language
English
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Description
When winter comes, six sleepy bears are rhymed to sleep by Mother Bear.
9) Tough Boris
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Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
Although he is a very tough pirate, Boris von der Borch cries when his parrot dies.
14) Time for bed
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Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
As darkness falls various animal parents get their children ready for sleep.
15) Baby bedtime
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"After all the kissing and the hugging and the rocking and the snuggling, there at last comes a time for sleeping"-- Provided by publisher.
16) This & that
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In rhyming text Mother mouse tells her child stories at bedtime.
18) Hello baby!
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Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A baby encounters a variety of young animals, including a clever monkey, a hairy warthog, and a dusty lion cub, before discovering the most precious creature of all.
19) Hunwick's egg
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Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
When a wild storm sends a beautiful egg to Hunwick the bandicoot's burrow, he decides to give it a home and become its friend.
20) Ducks away!
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
One by one five little ducklings tumble off the bridge into the river below--and mother duck follows them.
