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School and Library:

9780374332754 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 28, 2008, cover price $16.95

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This delightful interpretation of the traditional folk song follows Tom, an otter pup, as he embarks on a grand adventure through various seasons where he enthralls everyone he encounters with his energetic piping--especially a pretty otter named Molly.

Hardcover:

9780374380434 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 1, 2004, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A skillful piper makes people happy as he goes about playing music that lightens their burdens and makes them want to dance.

With the help of two animal fishermen, a young winged lion learns to read, to love books, and to fly properly.

Hardcover:

9780374399740, titled "The Lion's Share" | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 2000, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: With the help of two animal fishermen, a young winged lion learns to read, to love books, and to fly properly.

Paperback:

9780374444815, titled "The Lion's Share" | Reprint edition (Sunburst, August 11, 2003), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: With the help of two animal fishermen, a young winged lion learns to read, to love books, and to fly properly.

School and Library:

9780374345327, titled "The Lion's Share" | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 2000, cover price $16.00 | also contains Black Widow 2: The Tightly Tangled Web | About this edition: With the help of two animal fishermen, a young winged lion learns to read, to love books, and to fly properly.

Prebinding:

9780613718660, titled "Lion's Share" | Turtleback Books, August 30, 2003, cover price $15.75

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When his ramshackle rain machine breaks down, Thunder Dragon receives some valuable assistance from Sam Panda, whose skillful tinkering repairs the broken machine.

Hardcover:

9780374363932 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 1, 1992, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: When the rackety rain machine that rolls across the sky breaks down, Thunder Dragon seeks the help of Sam Panda down on Earth

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When a fox catches six of her seven goslings, Mother Goose quickly devises a way to outwit him

Hardcover:

9780374350727 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 1, 1989, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A do-nothing mouse doesn't lift a paw to help when Mother Goose is away at market day and Fox comes calling.

Paperback:

9780374453978 | Reprint edition (Sunburst, September 1, 1991), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: When a fox catches six of her seven goslings, Mother Goose quickly devises a way to outwit him

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A lullaby in which a moon man fishes the sea for many treasures
By Chris Conover (illustrator) and Mildred Plew Meigs

Library:

9780688087074 | William Morrow & Co, September 1, 1990, cover price $14.88 | About this edition: A lullaby in which a moon man fishes the sea for many treasures

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Shares the traditional nursery rhyme about the simple-minded Simon, who tries to catch a whale in a pail, roast a snowball, and wash with polish

Hardcover:

9780374369217 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 1, 1987, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Presents an illustrated version of the simpleton's misadventures.

Paperback:

9780374400965 | Reprint edition (Sunburst, December 1, 1989), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Presents an illustrated version of the simpleton's misadventures.

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Illustrates the well-known American folk song about the courtship and marriage of the frog and the mouse

Hardcover:

9780374324667, titled "Froggie Went-A-Courting" | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1986, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Illustrates the well-known American folk song about the courtship and marriage of the frog and the mouse.

Paperback:

9780374424749 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 1, 1988), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Illustrates the well-known American folk song about the courtship and marriage of the frog and the mouse

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While enslaved by an old wizard's magic powers, Boots, a poor farmer's son, is aided by the wizard's daughter to escape and free himself, and the whole land, from the wizard's evil

School and Library:

9780316153140 | Little Brown & Co, October 1, 1984, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A farmer's son, enslaved by an evil wizard, is aided by the man's lovely daughter in freeing the whole land from the wizard's spell.

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Harry becomes entangled with a witch on Halloween night and is transformed into a poodle.
By Chris Conover (illustrator) and Barbara Dillon

School and Library:

9780688007638 | William Morrow & Co, March 1, 1982, cover price $10.25 | About this edition: A boy refuses to resist a dare and finds himself in a spooky, yet funny, situation in a haunted house on Halloween

A story about a small, green beast whose cushy life as companion to lonely children is interrupted whenever his charge outgrows him

Hardcover:

9780688222543 | William Morrow & Co, February 1, 1981, cover price $11.75 | About this edition: A small pea green beast spends his days being a child's companion.

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When the bear insults the kingbirds' chicks, a humorous battle ensues between the land animals and the flying creatures of the world.
By Chris Conover (illustrator), Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm and Lore Segal (trans)

Hardcover:

9780374306182 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, August 1, 1979, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Bear insults the home and family of the king of the birds prompting the world's winged creatures to square off against all four-footed creatures, but the wily kingbird lights on a stratagem to avoid battle

Little Cat visits the supermarket, the laundromat, the service station, and the library in search of his mother

School and Library:

9780590073479 | Atheneum, April 1, 1978, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Little Cat searches everywhere for his mother, convinced she is lost and cannot find the way home.

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While helping his school-bus driver find his two lost dogs, a young boy gains a new sense of belonging and accepts the fact that he is adopted

School and Library:

9780723261360 | Viking Pr, October 1, 1976, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: As a result of his friendship with his school bus driver, Peter gains a greater understanding of what it means to be adopted.

A retelling of the nursery song about the six little ducks who go to market with a quack, quack, quack

Hardcover:

9780690010367 | Ty Crowell Co, August 1, 1976, cover price $10.50 | About this edition: A retelling of the nursery song about the six little ducks who go to market with a quack, quack, quack

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Thinking that to rub the ball on top of the church steeple will make his wish for his mother's happiness come true, a young boy climbs the steeple and then can't get down again.
By Clyde Robert Bulla and Chris Conover (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780690005271 | Ty Crowell Co, November 1, 1974, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Jan, the blacksmith's son, must climb the village steeple to free his family and friends from their fears of the fierce bandit, Lazlo

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