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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.

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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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.

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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.

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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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.

Hardcover:

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

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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.

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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.

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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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

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

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

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

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.

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