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A mouse helps a wizard discover what's lacking in his magic spells.

Hardcover:

9780819305138 | Atheneum, June 1, 1971, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: A mouse helps a wizard discover what's lacking in his magic spells.

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

New versions of fifteen more old fables.

Hardcover:

9780819307507 | Atheneum, March 1, 1974, cover price $6.50 | About this edition: Imaginative drawings accent amusing versions of fourteen of Aesop's moral tales

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Inspired by a picture in the nursery rhyme book left on the barn floor, Mrs. Mooley, the cow, is determined to jump over the moon, despite the ridicule of the other barnyard animals.

Hardcover:

9780307106865 | Golden Books, May 1, 2002, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Inspired by a picture in the nursery rhyme book left on the barn floor, Mrs.
9780307620422 | Goldencraft, February 1, 1975, cover price $7.62 | About this edition: All the barnyard animals laugh when the farmer's cow decides to jump over the moon

Library:

9780307175502 | Reissue edition (Artist & Writers Guild Books, September 1, 1993), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Inspired by a picture in the nursery rhyme book left on the barn floor, Mrs.

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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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

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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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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The kitten-sized dragon that shows up in Billy Bixbee's bedroom one morning quickly grows despite Billy's mother's insistence that dragons don't exist

Paperback:

9780307118417 | Golden Pr, July 1, 1977, cover price $1.95 | About this edition: Billy Bixbee's mother won't admit that dragons exist until it is nearly too late.

Hardcover:

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

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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.

Wilma Witch turns people into food at a supermarket. The reader can experience several fragrances by scratching and sniffing treated pages.

Hardcover:

9780394839219 | Spi brdbk edition (Random House Childrens Books, October 1, 1978), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Mrs.

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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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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.

When Ralph's owners go to work and leave him alone and lonely, the parrot decides to fly out to the street and meet some people who will pay attention to him

Hardcover:

9780385121583 | Doubleday, August 1, 1979, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: An independent parrot flies out into the world to meet people but no one notices him until he spots a fire and saves the day.

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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.

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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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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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When the monster that a small boy and girl have drawn on a wall comes suddenly alive and pursues them, it is a race to get back to the wall to erase the troublesome monster

School and Library:

9780152710316 | Harcourt Childrens Books, September 1, 1981, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: A graffiti monster that two children draw on a wall comes alive and chases them until the little boy remembers to use the eraser.

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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 young robin eats until he gets so fat he cannot keep up with the southbound flock, gets lost, and is nearly eaten by a wolf

Hardcover:

9780137833320 | Prentice Hall, March 1, 1982, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A robin who has eaten until he looks more like a ball than a bird finds when fall comes that he can only walk south while the other robins fly.

Paperback:

9780671669690 | Reissue edition (Aladdin Paperbacks, October 1, 1989), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: A robin who has eaten until he looks more like a ball than a bird finds when fall comes that he can only walk south while the other robins fly.

School and Library:

9780671666989 | Reissue edition (Simon & Schuster, October 1, 1989), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A robin who has eaten until he looks more like a ball than a bird finds when fall comes that he can only walk south while the other robins fly.

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Convinced he is under a magic spell, a dragon buys a body-building guide in order to transform himself into a man.

School and Library:

9780152578855 | Harcourt Childrens Books, June 1, 1982, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Believing he is really a handsome prince under a magic spell, Sam the dragon decides to use body building to make himself into the man he wants to be

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A fox is helped by a goose from dangerous situations he encounters when he ignores the goose's counsel.

Hardcover:

9780671666767 | Prentice Hall, December 1, 1982, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: A fox is helped by a goose from dangerous situations he encounters when he ignores the goose's counsel.

Paperback:

9780138101770 | Reprint edition (Aladdin Paperbacks, March 1, 1986), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: A fox and a goose encounter a variety of exciting adventures while jogging through the woods one day

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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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