Weston Woods Studios
41) Seven blind mice
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English
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Asian Pacific American Heritage - Children
Caldecott Medal & Honor Books - Present to 1938
Storytime @ Home: Bears
Storytime @ Home: Tails and Tales Summer Reading Challenge
Caldecott Medal & Honor Books - Present to 1938
Storytime @ Home: Bears
Storytime @ Home: Tails and Tales Summer Reading Challenge
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Retells in verse the Indian fable of the blind men discovering different parts of an elephant and arguing about its appearance. The illustrations depict the blind arguers as mice.
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A lone trombone playing solo is joined by various instruments, one by one, to create a joyous music performance in the lead story Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin. Other stories include Musical Max, when the neighbors start complaining about the noise Max stops practicing his trombone, bass, xylophone, flute, harmonica, cymbals, and synthesizer.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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The dot: Vashti doesn't think she can draw, but her teacher encourages her to "just make a mark and see where it takes you."
Amazing Grace: Grace's classmates discourage her from trying out for Peter Pan in the school play because she doesn't look the part.
Brave Irene: When Mrs. Bobbins, the dressmaker, gets too sick to deliver her dress on time, her daughter Irene steps in and battles powerful winds and snow to prove that where there is a will,...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In Make way for ducklings, a family of ducks are looking for a home in Boston. In The story about Ping, a young duckling gets separated from his family. In The ugly duckling, a swan is raised by a loving duck mother, but endures teasing for his awkward, un-ducklike appearance. In Angus and the ducks, a live action film with narration, a puppy investigates what's making so much noise. In Cat and Canary, the unlikely friends have a great time when their...
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"Giggle, giggle, quack": Farmer Brown goes on vacation, leaving his brother Bob in charge, but Duck has changed the care instructions for the animals. "The most wonderful egg in the world": Several animals have very beautiful features, but whoever lays the most wonderful egg will be crowned princess. "Wings: A tale of two chickens": Winnie unknowingly goes for a balloon ride with a sly fox. Can Winnie's sensible friend Harriet rescue Winnie before...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A cumulative nursery rhyme about the chain of events that started when Jack built a house.
With methods of eating and manners that are all toofamiliar, these mischievous dinosaurs offer an entertaining guide to table manners, and a reminder that positive and pleasant mealtime behavior gets the best results.
In Bugs! bugs! bugs! these whimsical verses are sure to inform and entertain little bug lovers. Includes bug facts in "Meet the bugs."
With...
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Description
Don't let the pigeon stay up late: One stubborn pigeon is not going to bed -- Knuffle Bunny free: Trixie and her family set off to visit her grandparents, but Knuffle Bunny has other ideas -- Edwina: Everyone loves Edwina except for a know-it-all who tries to convince everyone that dinosaurs are extinct.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Crazy hair day: Stanley is excited about Crazy Hair Day at his school, until he discovers that he has gotten the date wrong.
Petunia: A silly goose learns that it takes more than just carrying a book to become wise.
How do dinosaurs go to school?: Come along for a very unusual day at school as dinosaurs enjoy story time, show-and-tell, and recess.
Monty: Monty, an alligator taxi, decides that he needs a vacation when the kids' back seat-driving...
Language
English
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2nd Grade Rocks
Caldecott Medal & Honor Books - Present to 1938
Storytime @ Home: Celebrate Black Authors, Illustrators, Stories, and Experiences
Caldecott Medal & Honor Books - Present to 1938
Storytime @ Home: Celebrate Black Authors, Illustrators, Stories, and Experiences
Formats
Description
An illustrated version of the cumulative folk song in which the solution proves worse than the predicament when an old lady swallows a fly. Some pages are die-cut, permitting a portion of the next illustration to be seen.
56) Creepy carrots!
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"In this hilarious picture book, "The Twilight Zone" comes to the carrot patch as a rabbit fears his favorite treats are out to get him."--Container.
Series
Pub. Date
[2010], 2010
Language
English
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The gym teacher from the black lagoon: The kids say the new gym teacher is a real monster! Imagine their surprise when they discover he is a regular guy, and they like gym.
How do dinosaurs go to school? : Explains how little dinosaurs should behave during a typical school day.
Crazy hair day: Stanley is excited about Crazy Hair Day at his school, until he discovers that he has gotten the date wrong.
Math curse: When the teacher tells her class...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Description
Red Riding Hood. Mother always told Red Riding Hood not to talk to strangers. But the wolf she met along the way to Granny's was so charming and urbane. What could be the harm of telling him where she was going?
Goldilocks and the three bears. Three bears come home from a bicycling trip through the woods to find a little girl "all nice and cozy and fast asleep" in Baby Bear's bed.
Three little pigs. The classic story with a contemporary bent, of...
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Storytime @ Home: Celebrate Black Authors, Illustrators, Stories, and Experiences
Storytime @ Home: Celebrate Black Authors, Illustrators, Stories, and Experiences
Description
March on!: Martin Luther King Jr.'s sister recalls the day she heard him deliver his "I have a dream" speech.
Martin's big words: Introduces the ideas and accomplishments of Martin Luther King Jr. using some of his own words.
Rosa: Recounts how Rosa Parks set the events of the civil rights movement in motion by refusing to give up her seat on an Alabama city bus.
Henry's freedom box: A fictionalized story about a young slave who mails himself to...