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Author
Series
Chester books volume 2
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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Description
The battle of the picture-book makers, Chester and Mélanie Watt, continues. Is one book big enough for these two creative heavyweights?
4) Chester
Author
Series
Chester books volume 1
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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Description
The author wants to tell a story about a mouse but Chester the cat redos the story using himself.
Author
Language
English
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Historical Fiction - YA
Historical Fiction- Adult/ YA
Jewish Heritage Month - Young Adult/Adult
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Historical Fiction- Adult/ YA
Jewish Heritage Month - Young Adult/Adult
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Description
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
Author
Series
Elephant and Piggie books volume 14
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Gerald the elephant tells his best friend Piggie a long, crazy story about how he broke his trunk.
10) Toys in space
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A group of toys, left out at night for the first time, begins to be afraid but the WonderDoll distracts them by weaving a story of lost toys, space travel, and a strange alien.
Author
Series
Scary stories for young foxes volume 1
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"A collection of six connected stories that follows a group of fox kits as they fight to survive in an unforgiving wilderness"--
12) Zen ghosts
Author
Series
Zen books (Jon J Muth) volume 3
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Description
On Halloween night, Stillwater the giant panda tells Karl, Addy, and Michael a spooky and unusual story. Based on a Zen koan.
14) Advent storybook
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
As Benjamin Bear opens each door on his Advent calendar while waiting impatiently for Christmas, his mother tells him a story, based on that day's picture, about a little bear's journey to Bethlehem to see the Christ Child.
15) Max's words
Author
Series
Max books (Kate Banks) volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Max cuts out words from magazines and newspapers, collecting them the way his brothers collect stamps and coins, they all learn about words, sentences, and storytelling.
17) Icefall
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Description
Princess Solveig and her siblings are trapped in a hidden fortress tucked between towering mountains and a frozen fjord, along with her best friend and an army of restless soldiers, all awaiting news of the king's victory in battle, but as they wait for winter's end and the all-encompassing ice to break, acts of treachery make it clear that a traitor lurks in their midst.
Author
Series
Starry River of the Sky volume 2
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
An innkeeper's chore boy discovers that a visitor's stories hold the key to returning the moon to the Starry River of the Sky.
20) Zen shorts
Author
Series
Zen books (Jon J Muth) volume 1
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
When Stillwater the giant panda moves into the neighborhood, the stories he tells to three siblings teach them to look at the world in new ways. Includes factual note on Zen.
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