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Goober the elephant is distressed when he loses his shadow

Hardcover:

9780819310477 | Dutton Childrens Books, September 1, 1981, cover price $5.50 | About this edition: Goober the elephant is distressed when he loses his shadow.

Paperback:

9780819311153 | E P Dutton, September 1, 1983, cover price $1.95 | About this edition: Goober the elephant is distressed when he loses his shadow.

Library:

9780836808742 | Reissue edition (Gareth Stevens Pub, January 1, 1993), cover price $17.27 | About this edition: Goober the elephant is distressed when he loses his shadow

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A caterpillar brags to everyone she sees that she will change into a butterfly, until a polliwog tells her that he will change into something different too

Paperback:

9780671662813 | Reprint edition (Aladdin Paperbacks, February 1, 1985), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: A caterpillar brags to everyone she sees that she will change into a butterfly, until a polliwog tells her that he will change into something different too

School and Library:

9780671662806 | Simon & Schuster, November 1, 1987, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Impressed by the proud caterpillar's boast that she will turn into a butterfly when she grows up, a polliwog determines to watch the caterpillar very carefully and turn into a butterfly too.

Reinforced:

9780606041836 | Demco Media, February 1, 1985, cover price $14.66 | About this edition: A caterpillar brags to everyone she sees that she will change into a butterfly, until a polliwog tells her that he will change into something different too

Prebinding:

9781435245518 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 18, 2008), cover price $15.99
9780808563686 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $18.40 | About this edition: A caterpillar brags to everyone she sees that she will change into a butterfly, until a polliwog tells her that he will change into something different too

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Considered useless by the potter and his family because it is cracked, a little pot becomes the center of attention when it is chosen to make a Christmas piƤnata.

Hardcover:

9780819308153 | Macmillan Pub Co, October 1, 1975, cover price $6.50 | About this edition: A cracked Mexican clay pot feels ugly and useless until a little girl discovers it just before a holiday celebration

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Product Description: Tommy doesn't believe in a fairy godmother's magic so he gets a donkey's head while his sister gets the fairy godmother and three wishes.

Library:

9780394939117 | Random House Childrens Books, June 1, 1978, cover price $4.99 | About this edition: Tommy doesn't believe in a fairy godmother's magic so he gets a donkey's head while his sister gets the fairy godmother and three wishes.

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Paperback:

9789501101232 | Editorial Sigmar S.A.C.I., August 30, 1990, cover price $4.95

Although he enjoys playing with the village children instead of scaring them, Dooly, a giant who never grew, can't quite forget that giants are supposed to be big, brave, and scary.

Library:

9780399607851 | Putnam Pub Group, January 1, 1973, cover price $5.29 | About this edition: A giant who has never grown to a proper giant height is forced to play with the village children instead of frightening them

Twenty-six familiar sayings that make comparisons, one for each letter of the alphabet, prompt children to use their memories and imaginations and to create comparisons of their own
By Marcia Folsom, Michael Folsom and Jack Kent (illustrator)

Paperback:

9780899193519 | Houghton Mifflin, March 1, 1985, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Introduces the letters of the alphabet with such familiar sayings as A--Straight as an arrow, B-Snug as a bug in a rug.

School and Library:

9780899193038 | Houghton Mifflin, March 1, 1985, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Introduces the letters of the alphabet with such familiar sayings as A--Straight as an arrow, B-Snug as a bug in a rug.

An optimistic hen hatches a turtle, an alligator, and an ostrich before she discovers how to hatch a chick.

School and Library:

9780027502008 | Atheneum, February 1, 1975, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: A hen is supprised to discover that she has hatched a baby alligator

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Paperback:

9780590021746 | Scholastic Paperbacks, June 1, 1987, cover price $2.95

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Because he goes unnoticed by his peers at the circus, Floyd, an elephant the size of a mouse, runs away and gains recognition by defying a cat that threatens a group of mice

Hardcover:

9780385140997 | Doubleday, August 1, 1979, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: A lonely elephant the size of a mouse runs away from the circus because no one ever notices him.

Hardcover:

9780307623607 | Goldencraft, September 1, 1977, cover price $7.62

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Three Danish tales center around the preposterous actions of a hoddy doddy--or foolish fellow--as he attempts to shake hands with a lobster and out-cuckoo a cuckoo

Hardcover:

9780688801922 | Greenwillow, March 1, 1979, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Presents three Danish tales of foolish fellows: The Lobsters, The Clock, and The Patriot.

Library:

9780688841928 | Greenwillow, March 1, 1979, cover price $10.88 | About this edition: Presents three Danish tales of foolish fellows: The Lobsters, The Clock, and The Patriot.

Sam and Pam take their time bringing home ice cream for the family and find a surprise in the package at the end of their journey
By R. W. Alley (illustrator), Gail Herman and Jack Kent

Paperback:

9780679807902 | Random House Childrens Books, September 1, 1990, cover price $2.25 | About this edition: Sam and Pam take their time bringing home ice cream for the family and find a surprise in the package at the end of their journey

Presents entertaining new versions of Beauty and the Beast, Snow White, Puss in Boots, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty

Library:

9780394931357 | Random House Childrens Books, July 1, 1976, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Presents entertaining new versions of Beauty and the Beast, Snow White, Puss in Boots, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty

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Whimsical drawings highlight the retelling of five popular tales of magic and enchantment--Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, The Frog Prince, Toads and Diamonds, Jack and the Beanstalk, and The Golden Goose

Library:

9780394942179 | Random House Childrens Books, September 1, 1979, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Presents five familiar fairy tales rewritten with tongue in cheek endings.

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Simple humorous illustrations provide unexpected turns to familiar nursery rhymes involving King Cole, Jack Horner, Old Mother Hubbard, Little Jumping Joan, and others

Hardcover:

9780307657985 | Goldencraft, June 1, 1977, cover price $9.25 | About this edition: Color drawings provide a new look at fifty Mother Goose rhymes.
9780307157980 | Golden Pr, February 1, 1977, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Color drawings provide a new look at fifty Mother Goose rhymes.

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Product Description: Twenty-two valentines children can draw or write their own messages on, with 122 full-color preprinted message stickers.

Paperback:

9780590324007 | Scholastic, January 1, 1987, cover price $2.50 | About this edition: Twenty-two valentines children can draw or write their own messages on, with 122 full-color preprinted message stickers.

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Product Description: One boring rainy day, Jim Jimmy James makes friends and plays games with his reflection, who is called James Jimmy Jim.

Hardcover:

9780688025410 | Olympic Marketing Corp, March 1, 1984, cover price $3.98 | About this edition: One boring rainy day, Jim Jimmy James makes friends and plays games with his reflection, who is called James Jimmy Jim.

Joey, a young kangaroo, is bored in his mother's pouch and, when he invites his friends over, they show up with play equipment that dismays Joey's mother

Hardcover:

9780135103487 | Prentice Hall, August 1, 1984, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Joey, a young kangaroo, becomes bored playing alone in his mother's pouch and invites some friends over to play with him.

Paperback:

9780671664602 | Reprint edition (Aladdin Paperbacks, April 1, 1987), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Joey, a young kangaroo, becomes bored playing alone in his mother's pouch and invites some friends over to play with him.

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Joey, a young kangaroo, faces many problems when he runs away after being told to clean his room by his mother

Paperback:

9780671679361 | Simon & Schuster, June 1, 1989, cover price $2.98 | About this edition: After Joey, a young kangaroo, runs away in search of a better place to live, other animals try out his mother's empty pouch while she is looking for him.

School and Library:

9780671664619 | Prentice Hall, August 1, 1985, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: After Joey, a young kangaroo, runs away in search of a better place to live, other animals try out his mother's empty pouch while she is looking for him.

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Hardcover:

9781600105814 | Reprint edition (Idea & Design Works Llc, February 1, 2010), cover price $39.99

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By Bruce Canwell (contributor), Jack Kent and Dean Mullaney (editor)

Hardcover:

9781600107825 | Idea & Design Works Llc, July 12, 2011, cover price $39.99

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Little Nina, after wishing hard, suddenly becomes as big as a grown-up and gets to experience their viewpoint, as the adults in her life become knee-high.

Hardcover:

9780385151276 | Doubleday, December 1, 1980, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Bored with being knee-high to all the world, Nina wishes extra hard to grow and suddenly finds herself grown quite big, with all the grown-ups knee-high to her

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Responding to her mother's desire to hear a story, Laura tells of a time when she was big and her mother was so little that she fit in her pocket, fell out, and was swallowed by a series of progressively larger animals

School and Library:

9780689306778 | Atheneum, February 1, 1979, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Laura tells her mother a bedtime story about the perilous rescue of a tiny woman.

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Little Peep, a recently hatched chick, impertinently challenges the old barnyard rooster as to which of them really makes the sun rise

Paperback:

9780671670528 | Reprint edition (Aladdin Paperbacks, October 1, 1989), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: A chick is warned by the other barnyard animals never to annoy the old rooster, because without him to bring up the sun, there may be no future.

School and Library:

9780671670511 | Reissue edition (Simon & Schuster, October 1, 1989), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A chick is warned by the other barnyard animals never to annoy the old rooster, because without him to bring up the sun, there may be no future.

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