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Series
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The very sleepy Lion family tries to stay up very late at night, so they won't miss the most spectacular meteor shower of the year. Key word: star. Word family: -ar. Target vowel: r-controlled a. Target consonant: s. Genre: poetry. Themes: challenges.
Series
Reading rainbow volume 88
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Explains how waves, sand, and pebbles form at the seashore and describes the animals, plants, and shells that can be found on the beach when the tide goes out. Other segments: Suprises on the shore: LeVar shows how the shoreline is constantly changed by the wind, sun, and sea. He explores an island beach and finds seaweed, coral, waves, and animals that live inside shells ; Surprises in the sea: red mangrove trees and the animals that live in them...
3) Stellaluna
Series
Reading rainbow volume 108
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Bee City USA, Pollinators & Wildflowers - Children
Plant Wildflowers Campaign: Fiction for Kids ages 0 - 8
Storytime @ Home: Nighttime animals
Plant Wildflowers Campaign: Fiction for Kids ages 0 - 8
Storytime @ Home: Nighttime animals
Description
When the adorable fruit bat Stellaluna is separated from her mother, she is adopted by a family of birds, but soon finds that she just can't fit in. Her playmates like to sleep at night; she wants to fly. They whistle and sing; she doesn't even have a beak! But just when it seems like she'll always be an outsider, Stellaluna makes an amazing discovery. Now she'll learn to cherish the things that make her different from everyone else. And she'll see...
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Deep inside the Storybook Factory, where pictures, words, and imagination bring stories to life, Tad, Lily, Casey, and Dot decide to put a few new twists on a classic tale. The result is a fun-filled adventure that turns reading into a delightful game! Special features include sing-along songs to help little ones learn, complete with a string of read-along words that run across the screen.
Series
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
"To the ship, to the ship:" Lionel and Walter the pigeon think all pirates were men, so they won't let Leona and Clay join their pirate game. "The hopping hen:" Everyone in the library goes crazy when Lionel puts up the new rules. "Be bop:" When cool, jazzy shoes come out of a book and dances all over the library, everyone gets into the groove.
7) Vowel power
Series
Pub. Date
℗2014.
Language
English
Description
Welcome to a library like no other! The doors swing open to reveal a magical place where characters pop off the pages of books, vowels sing, and words take on a life of their own.
8) Feelings
Series
Reading rainbow volume 028
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Probes the world of feelings and how they affect us and those around us. Features the book "Feelings" by Aliki, which uses pictures, dialogs, poems and stories to portray various emotions we feel. Viewers get to meet Koko the gorilla and see how Koko communicates using sign language. Reviewed books are "Honey, I love and other love poems" by Eloise Greenfield, "Fireflies!" by Julie Brinckloe, and "Loudmouth George and the sixth-grade bully" by Nancy...
9) Reading club
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
To promote literacy, the library is giving out tee-shirts to young readers, and Franklin wants to be the first one in the neighborhood to wear one. Franklin succeeds in the challenge, but discovers he's read all his books so fast, he didn't get a chance to enjoy them.
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Bee City USA, Pollinators & Wildflowers - Children
Halloween-friendly (ages 2-8)
Plant Wildflowers Campaign: Fiction for Kids ages 0 - 8
Storytime @ Home: Nighttime animals
Halloween-friendly (ages 2-8)
Plant Wildflowers Campaign: Fiction for Kids ages 0 - 8
Storytime @ Home: Nighttime animals
Description
A group of bats fly into the library through an open window and have all kinds of after-hours fun. The little ones play at the water fountain and copy machine before they settle down for a magical story hour that includes the 'batification' of many children's classics.
Series
Reading rainbow volume 34
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The book explains what germs are, how bacteria and viruses affect the human body, and how the body fights against them. Other segments include: Finding out about germs: LeVar uses a microscope to discover what germs really look like ; How your body fights germs: animation featuring the body's defense team works in action ; How bacteria can help: a visit to an organic farm illustrates how micro-organisms are important to growing food.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When a sickly young girl suddenly becomes obsessed with inventing new things, her family and friends are all puzzled. 'What has gotten into Myne?' they wondered, never dreaming that the answer is not a 'What' but a 'Who': Urano Motosu, a book-loving apprentice librarian who died in an earthquake in Tokyo who somehow found herself in Myne's body! And since Myne's world is still in a medieval stage, where books can only be owned by the elite, the new...
13) Book buddies
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Inspire a love of reading and enjoy tales featuring favorite PBS KIDS bookworms. Daniel Tiger and O the Owl read together at the library. Then, Alma shares books with her community. Plus, Buster reads to win prizes, Watt and Windy visit the library, Rosie helps Mom set up for story time at the bookstore and much, much more.
14) Goosebumps 2
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
With their after school junk business, best friends Sonny and Sam hope to find treasure in other people's trash. But when cleaning out the old Stine house, they open a locked book that frees a supernatural nightmare. Slappy! Now, with the help of Sonny's sister, Sarah, they're in a race against time to get the sinister dummy and all the creatures he's brought to life back into the pages before he unleashes total pandemonium!
16) Goosebumps
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Upset about moving from a big city to a small town, teenager Zach Cooper finds a silver lining when he meets the beautiful girl, Hannah, living right next door, and makes a quick friend in Champ. But every silver lining has a cloud, and Zach's comes when he learns that Hannah's mysterious dad is in fact R.L. Stine, the author of the bestselling Goosebumps series. As Zach starts learning about the strange family next door, he soon discovers that Stine...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A young Aztec girl tells her little brother how the beautiful painted manuscripts of their culture are made, a tradition that began long before European colonizers arrived, and continued after to preserve the history, science, and religion of the Nahua-speaking people.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Susan is living through an unfulfilling marriage when she receives a package containing a novel manuscript from her ex-husband, Edward. The novel is dedicated to her but its content is violent and devastating. Susan cannot help but reminisce over her past love story with the author. Increasingly she interprets the book as a tale of revenge, a tale that forces her to re-evaluate the choices that she has made, and reawakens a love that she feared was...
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Chicka chicka boom boom: The letters of the alphabet race each other up the coconut tree. Five creatures: In a house filled with two parents, one girl, and two cats, counting has never been so much fun. Wild about books: Librarian Molly McGrew introduces a zoo full of animals to reading and they go simply wild about books. Inch by inch: To avoid getting eaten, a resourceful inchworm must figure out how to measure a nightingale's song. Bonus stories:...
20) Inkheart
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
When Mo Folchart reads a story aloud, the characters leap off the page. Literally. And that's a problem. One night he brings out three characters from Inkheart, a story set in medieval times and filled with magical beings. Capricorn and Basta are two villains. Dustfinger is a fire-eater. Now, 10 years later Mo's daughter, Meggie, discovers the truth and it's up to her to escape Capricorn's evil grasp. Mo has been searching for a long lost book that...
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