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21) Read to tiger
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A little boy who wants to read his book keeps being distracted by a tiger who is busy chomping on gum, growling, and practicing karate kicks.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"As young children, we are taught to read, but soon go on to forget just how miraculous a process it is, this turning of scratches and dots into understanding, unease and inspiration. Perhaps we need to stop and remember, stop and learn again how to read better. Damon Young shows us how to do exactly this, walking alongside some of the greatest readers who light a path for us."--
Author
Language
English
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Description
"An exhilarating volume that will ratchet up the joy for all reading groups "Wendy Lesser's extraordinary alertness, intelligence, and curiosity have made her one of America's most significant cultural critics," writes Stephen Greenblatt. In Why I Read, Lesser draws on a lifetime of pleasure reading and decades of editing one of the most distinguished little magazines in the country, The Threepenny Review, to describe a life lived in and through literature....
27) A child of books
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A young reader introduces a boy to the many imaginative worlds that books bring to life.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Here is the library, not just as a place that houses books, but as an experience. Fifteen poems celebrate the thrill of getting your first library card, the excitement of story hour, the fun of using the computer, the pride of reading to the dog, and the joy of discovering that the librarian understands you and knows exactly which books you'll love. The poems, compiled by noted poet and anthologist Lee Bennett Hopkins, pay homage to the marvels of...
29) Our library
Author
Language
English
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Description
A raccoon and his friends go to great lengths to make sure they will always have a library from which to borrow books.
31) My book box
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A determined elephant creates his own book box and discovers all the magic and fun of books and reading.
34) Inkspell
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Series
Language
English
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Description
When Dustfinger finds a crooked storyteller who can read him back to Inkscape, he leaves his apprentice Farid behind. Farid seeks out Meggie and the two follow him back into the enchanted book.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Encompassing fiction, poetry, science and science fiction, memoir, travel writing, biography, children's books, history, and more, 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die moves across cultures and through time to present an eclectic collection of titles, each described with the special enthusiasm readers summon when recommending a book to a friend"--Dust jacket.
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