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1) Pinocchio
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents the adventures of Pinocchio, a mischievous wooden puppet, who wants more than anything else to become a real boy.
3) Our fort
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Three friends set out to visit their secret fort at the edge of the woods, but as they are enjoying the freedom and nature all around them a big storm rolls in.
Author
Publisher
New York Review of Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When Peter, an eight-year-old London boy with neglectful parents and a distant nanny, is transformed into a cat after rescuing a stray, Jennie, from being hit by a car, Jennie takes care of him despite her contempt for humans.
Author
Publisher
New York Review of Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The companion to D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths, a treasured part of so many children's libraries, has returned to print after more than twenty years. The Caldecott medal-winning d'Aulaires once again captivate their young audience with this beautifully illustrated introduction to Norse legends, telling stories of Odin the All-father, Thor the Thunder-god and the theft of his hammer, Loki the mischievous god of the Jotun Race, and Ragnarokk, the...
11) Now open the box
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Although he knows no tricks, Peewee the circus dog is loved by all because he is the smallest dog in the world, but when he grows into a normal-size dog his days under the Big Top may be at an end.
13) The two cars
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
On a magic moonlit night, the sleek, shiny automatic new car and the beat-up old car with many miles on its speedometer go for a drive to see which car is the best.
14) Mouse house
Author
Publisher
The New York Review Children's Collection
Pub. Date
[2016?]
Language
English
Description
There is never any room for Bonnie, the baby mouse, in the flower pot, so she goes looking for a new mouse house.
15) Mio, my son
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Young Anders is carried away from his bleak life as an unloved foster child in Stockholm, Sweden, to become Mio, son of the King of Farawayland.
17) Wee Gillis
Author
Publisher
New York Review Children's Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Wee Gillis can not decide whether he wants to be a Highlander and stalk stags, like his father, or a Lowlander like his mother, and raise long-haired cows.
19) The backward day
Author
Publisher
New York Review children's Collection
Pub. Date
[2007], ©1950
Language
English
Description
Having decided that it is backward day, a boy dresses himself first in his coat, last in his socks, and continues in that way with the cooperation of his family.
Author
Publisher
NYR Children's Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"How to introduce kids to Shakespeare--not just to the stories behind the plays but to the richness of his language and the depth of his characters. That's the challenge that Leon Garfield, a wonderful children's book writer, undertook to meet in his monumental and delightful Shakespeare Stories. Here are twenty-one of the Bard's plays, presented in what is not a series of dry retellings, but rather a refashioning of the dramas as stories, in a way...
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