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Mean Chickens and Wild Cucumbers

When a small hole appears in the fence separating the O'Brien's from the McCarthy's, and no one can be sure whether O'Brien's chickens or McCarthy's cucumber vines are to be blamed, the situation provokes a fence building competition

By David Small (illustrator) and Nathan Zimelman

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9780027937305 | Atheneum, March 1, 1983, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: A hole in the fence between their yards caused a feud between McCarthy and O'Brien, as each strives to build a fence higher than his neighbor's.

Almost Famous

Product Description: Almost Famous takes its place among the relatively few adult novels about professional baseball...The narrative is tough and unsentimental, the dialogue crisp and right-sounding...a dramatic and moving story. -Chicago Sun-Times Elegantly crafted, Small's first novel is a stunning debut...read more

By David Small

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Paperback:

9780595093731 | Backinprint.Com, April 1, 2000, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Almost Famous takes its place among the relatively few adult novels about professional baseball.

9780380657223 | Reprint edition (Avon Books, October 1, 1983), cover price $4.50 | About this edition: A promising young athlete must learn to come to terms with the tragedy that destroys his career and with the pain, responsibility, and love that are an essential part of life itself

No Rival Love

By David Small

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Paperback:

9780875084954 | Christian Literature Crusade, June 1, 1984, cover price $4.95

Illusion and Reality: The Meaning of Anxiety

Product Description: An examination of the roots and causes of psychological distress.

By David Small

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Hardcover:

9780460045933 | J M Dent & Sons Ltd, September 1, 1984, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Discusses normality, shyness, language, anxiety, and deception, and argues that we create an artificial, happy world to avoid confronting the pain and insecurity of the real world

Paperback:

9780094774407 | Constable & Robinson Ltd, November 1, 1997, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: An examination of the roots and causes of psychological distress.

The Guidebook for Winning Adventures

Gives advice on playing adventure games, explains how they are written and maps, and provides solutions, in code, to six popular games

By David Small and Sandy Small

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Paperback:

9780671559557 | Pocket Books, April 1, 1985, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Gives advice on playing adventure games, explains how they are written and maps, and provides solutions, in code, to six popular games

The Christmas Box

Eager to see all the presents, the family comes downstairs on Christmas morning to find just one long thin box under the tree.

By Eve Merriam and David Small (illustrator)

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9780688052560 | William Morrow & Co, September 1, 1985, cover price $14.93 | About this edition: At first, a family is disappointed on Christmas morning when there is only one long, thin present under the Christmas tree

The River in Winter

Product Description: The River in Winter is the story of seventeen-year-old Joe Weatherfields attempt to find love, mercy, and redemption in a world charged with the moral wreckage of family decisions made long before he was born. His search carries him from Massachusetts to Florida and finally to Dunnocks Head, Maine, where he rediscovers his long-estranged grandfather and quickly becomes involved in a kidnapping, a murder, and a long-buried scandal all of which leads him to the hard irredeemable lesson that the innocent are often as guilty as the damned...read more

By David Small

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Hardcover:

9780393023947 | W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1, 1987, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Joe Weatherfield's grandfather Henry shoots a German boy in France during World War I and Joe recalls how that one bullet 'travels on,' setting off a series of tragedies that affect three generations of Weatherfields

Paperback:

9780595197989 | Iuniverse Inc, August 1, 2001, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: The River in Winter is the story of seventeen-year-old Joe Weatherfields attempt to find love, mercy, and redemption in a world charged with the moral wreckage of family decisions made long before he was born.

The King Has Horse's Ears

Only the king and his barber know that the king has horse's ears, until the secret gets outs just in time for the king's wedding day.

By David Small and Peggy Thomson

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9780671649531 | Simon & Schuster, September 1, 1988, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: No one but the royal barber knows that King Horace--who seems to have a perfect life--has horse's ears until, on his wedding, the secret is revealed

As: A Surfeit of Similes

Defines the mode of comparison known as simile and provides many examples in rhyming text.

By Norton Juster and David Small (illustrator)

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Hardcover:

9780688081393 | William Morrow & Co, March 1, 1989, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Defines the mode of comparison known as simile and provides many examples in rhyming text.

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9780688081409 | William Morrow & Co, March 1, 1989, cover price $15.89 | About this edition: Defines the mode of comparison known as simile and provides many examples in rhyming text.

American Politics: How It Really Works

The award-winning author of 'Poverty in America' provides a contemporary, clear-eyed, and useful account of the political process as it is shaped by federal, state, and local governments, the courts, the press, and the average citizen

By Milton Meltzer and David Small (illustrator)

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9780688074944 | William Morrow & Co, March 1, 1989, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The award-winning author of 'Poverty in America' provides a contemporary, clear-eyed, and useful account of the political process as it is shaped by federal, state, and local governments, the courts, the press, and the average citizen

Box and Cox

The adventures of Box, a printer, and Cox, a hatter, who are always in the same place but never at the same time.

By Grace Chetwin and David Small (illustrator)

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9780027183146 | Simon & Schuster, April 1, 1990, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Box and Cox--of whom one works days, and the other, nights--unknowingly share a room at the home of Mrs.

Almost Famous: A Novel

A promising young athlete must learn to come to terms with the tragedy that destroys his career and with the pain, responsibility, and love that are an essential part of life itself

By David Small

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Paperback:

9780393306668 | Reissue edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, July 1, 1990), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A promising young athlete must learn to come to terms with the tragedy that destroys his career and with the pain, responsibility, and love that are an essential part of life itself

Drawing the Map: Equality and Efficacy of the Vote in Canadian Electoral Boundary Reform

By Canada. Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing (corporate author) and David Small (editor)

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Paperback:

9781550021073 | Dundurn Pr Ltd, June 1, 1991, cover price $19.99

Alone: A Novel

Exploring the fragile web of family relationships, this chronicle of Earl Dimes, who loses everything familiar in his life--especially his son--in one act of infidelity, reveals him as he awakens to the emptiness of his emotionally guarded existence

By David Small

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Hardcover:

9780393029918 | 1 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, September 1, 1991), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Exploring the fragile web of family relationships, this chronicle of Earl Dimes, who loses everything familiar in his life--especially his son--in one act of infidelity, reveals him as he awakens to the emptiness of his emotionally guarded existence

Fighting Words

When best friends Dale and Leda decide they really hate each other, they roll up their sleeves and engage in a whimsical battle of fighting words.

By Eve Merriam and David Small (illustrator)

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Hardcover:

9780688096762 | William Morrow & Co, March 1, 1992, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Envious of each other's individual traits and circumstances, two friends meet for a 'fight'--a shouting match of interesting words such as lummox, kinkajou, and balderdash

Library:

9780688096779 | William Morrow & Co, March 1, 1992, cover price $14.93 | About this edition: Envious of each other's individual traits and circumstances, two friends meet for a 'fight'--a shouting match of interesting words such as lummox, kinkajou, and balderdash

Ruby Mae Has Something to Say

Tongue-tied Ruby Mae Foote fulfills her dream of speaking for world peace at the United Nations when her nephew Billy Bob invents a device to solve her speech problem

By David Small

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Hardcover:

9780517582480 | Crown Pub, July 1, 1992, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Tongue-tied Ruby Mae Foote fulfills her dream of speaking for world peace at the United Nations when her nephew Billy Bob invents a device to solve her speech problem.

Paperback:

9780517885918 | Reprint edition (Dragonfly, October 1, 1999), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Tongue-tied Ruby Mae Foote fulfills her dream of speaking for world peace at the United Nations when her nephew Billy Bob invents a device to solve her speech problem

Library:

9780517582497 | Crown Pub, July 1, 1992, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: Tongue-tied Ruby Mae Foote fulfills her dream of speaking for world peace at the United Nations when her nephew Billy Bob invents a device to solve her speech problem.

Prebinding:

9780613229289 | Turtleback Books, March 1, 2001, cover price $15.60 | About this edition: Tongue-tied Ruby Mae Foote fulfills her dream of speaking for world peace at the United Nations when her nephew Billy Bob invents a device to solve her speech problem

Hoover's Bride

Hoover's house is overrun with dust until he marries a vacuum cleaner, but he soon discovers that humans and appliances are not meant to wed.

By David Small

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Hardcover:

9780517597071 | Crown Pub, September 1, 1995, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Hoover's house is overrun with dust until he marries a vacuum cleaner, but he soon discovers that humans and appliances are not meant to wed

Paperback:

9780439812184 | Scholastic, May 1, 2006, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Hoover's house is overrun with dust until he marries a vacuum cleaner, but he soon discovers that humans and appliances are not meant to wed.

Library:

9780517597088 | Crown Pub, September 1, 1995, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Hoover's house is overrun with dust until he marries a vacuum cleaner, but he soon discovers that humans and appliances are not meant to wed

George Washington's Cow

By David Small

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9789996343940 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, November 1, 1996, cover price $25.01

George Washington's Cows

Product Description: "George Washington's cows were kept upstairs,And given their own special room.They never were seen by light of day.No matter for what or by whom."These cows are just the beginning of George's problems. To be sure, his hogs are helpful around the house, but it irks Martha when their parties are better than hers...read more

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Hardcover:

9780374325350, titled "George Washington's Cows" | Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 1, 1994, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Humorous rhymes about George Washington's farm where the cows wear dresses, the pigs wear wigs, and the sheep are scholars

9780874994063, titled "George Washington's Cows" | Har/cas edition (Live Oak Media, April 1, 1992), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Humorous rhymes describe George Washington's farm, where the cows wear dresses, the pigs wear wigs, and the sheep are scholars.

Paperback:

9780874994056, titled "George Washington's Cows" | Pap/cas edition (Live Oak Media, July 1, 2005), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Humorous rhymes describe George Washington's farm, where the cows wear dresses, the pigs wear wigs, and the sheep are scholars.

9781595190338, titled "George Washington's Cows" | Pap/com edition (Live Oak Media, July 1, 2005), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Humorous rhymes tell about George Washington's farm where the cows wear dresses, the pigs wear wigs, and the sheep are scholars.

9781595190345, titled "George Washington's Cows" | Pap/com edition (Live Oak Media, October 30, 1997), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: "George Washington's cows were kept upstairs,And given their own special room.

9780374425340, titled "George Washington's Cows" | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 11, 1997), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Humorous rhymes about George Washington's farm where the cows wear dresses, the pigs wear wigs, and the sheep are scholars

Reinforced:

9780606113649, titled "George Washington's Cows" | Reprint edition (Demco Media, April 1, 1997), cover price $14.77 | About this edition: Humorous rhymes about George Washington's farm where the cows wear dresses, the pigs wear wigs, and the sheep are scholars

Prebinding:

9781435264489, titled "George Washington's Cows" | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 25, 2008), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: "George Washington's cows were kept upstairs,And given their own special room.

9780613024884, titled "George Washington's Cows" | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $17.15 | About this edition: Humorous rhymes about George Washington's farm where the cows wear dresses, the pigs wear wigs, and the sheep are scholars

As Silly As Bees Knees, As Busy As Bees: An Astounding Assortment of Similes

Previously published under the title, As: A Surfeit of Similes, a delightful book by the author of The Phantom Tollbooth defines the mode of comparison known as simile and provides many examples in rhyming text. Reprint. K.

By Norton Juster and David Small (illustrator)

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9780688163600 | Beech Tree Books, September 1, 1998, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Defines the mode of comparison known as simile and provides many examples in rhyming text

Paper John

The skill and patience of Paper John, an amiable gentleman who lives in a paper house and makes his living folding beautiful paper flowers, birds, and boats, is put to the test in a battle against Satan

By David Small

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Hardcover:

9780874994513 | Har/cas edition (Live Oak Media, September 1, 1998), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: A good-hearted fellow who lives by the sea in a paper house and makes paper boats for the village children comes up against the devil in a life or death situation which can be salvaged only by his skill with paper folding.

9780374357382 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1987, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A good-hearted fellow who lives by the sea in a paper house and makes paper boats for the village children comes up against the devil in a life or death situation which can be salvaged only by his skill with paper folding.

Paperback:

9780874994520 | Pap/cas edition (Live Oak Media, November 30, 1998), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Paper John moves to a little town by the edge of the sea and makes his living folding beautiful paper flowers, birds, and boats.

9781595190673 | Pap/com edition (Live Oak Media, November 30, 1998), cover price $47.95 | About this edition: Paper John moves to a little town by the edge of the sea and makes his living folding beautiful paper flowers, birds, and boats.

9781595190666 | Pap/com edition (Live Oak Media, November 30, 1998), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Paper John moves to a little town by the edge of the sea and makes his living folding beautiful paper flowers, birds, and boats.

9780874994506 | Pap/cas edition (Live Oak Media, August 1, 1998), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A good-hearted fellow who lives by the sea in a paper house and makes paper boats for the village children comes up against the devil in a life or death situation which can be salvaged only by his skill with paper folding.

9780374457259 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 1, 1989), cover price $8.99 | About this edition: A good-hearted fellow who lives by the sea in a paper house and makes paper boats for the village children comes up against the devil in a life or death situation which can be salvaged only by his skill with paper folding.

Prebinding:

9780613123655 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $17.15 | About this edition: A good-hearted fellow who lives by the sea in a paper house and makes paper boats for the village children comes up against the devil in a life or death situation which can be salvaged only by his skill with paper folding.

As Silly As Knees, As Busy As Bees

Defines the mode of comparison known as simile and provides many examples in rhyming text

By David Small (illustrator)

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Reinforced:

9780606154437 | Demco Media, January 1, 1999, cover price $11.59 | About this edition: Defines the mode of comparison known as simile and provides many examples in rhyming text

Favorite Author Collection: David Small and Sarah Stewart

By David Small and Sarah Stewart

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Paperback:

9780874997118 | Pap/cas edition (Live Oak Media, December 1, 1999), cover price $71.95

The Gardener

A series of letters relating what happens when, after her father loses his job, Lydia Grace goes to live with her Uncle Jim in the city but takes her love for gardening with her.

By David Small (illustrator)

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Reinforced:

9780606178402 | Demco Media, April 1, 2000, cover price $15.77 | About this edition: A series of letters relating what happens when, after her father loses his job, Lydia Grace goes to live with her Uncle Jim in the city but takes her love for gardening with her.

Imogene's Antlers

Overnight Imogene grows huge antlers which shock her mother, delight the servants, and force Imogene to readjust her movements.

By David Small (illustrator)

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Hardcover:

9780375810480 | Crown Pub, September 1, 2000, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: One Thursday Imogene wakes up with a pair of antlers growing out of her head and causes a sensation wherever she goes.

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