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Product Description: This energetic book takes young readers on a journey with a very curious baby elephant who has one question on his mind: What do crocodiles eat for dinner? But whenever he asks this question, he gets a spanking! Though he’s never seen a crocodile before, the baby elephant sets out to the banks of a river to find the answer to his question...read more
By Geoffrey Patterson (illustrator)

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9781845074920 | Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, April 27, 2010, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: This energetic book takes young readers on a journey with a very curious baby elephant who has one question on his mind: What do crocodiles eat for dinner?

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Product Description: In this lyrical, beautifully illustrated tale, a gypsy longs to see his old mother and father after many years of being apart. So he sets out on a great journey. Each night he rests and plays his lute. Four animals — the lion, the gray ibis, the scorpion, and the viper — hide in the shadows to listen to his beautiful music...read more

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9781845071400 | Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, February 27, 2004, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: In this lyrical, beautifully illustrated tale, a gypsy longs to see his old mother and father after many years of being apart.
9780711219090 | Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, July 1, 2002, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Each day the gypsy walks with the sea on his right and the mountains on his left, and each night he rests and plays his lute.

Library:

9780385415361 | Doubleday, January 1, 1991, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Attracted by his beautiful lute playing, a group of animals follows a traveling gypsy with great affection, even saving his life at a critical time

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Product Description: A new selection of 17 Old Testament stories, retold for young readers in a lively and highly readable way.
By Geoffrey Patterson (illustrator) and Martin Waddell

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9780711210400 | Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, April 1, 2001, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: A new selection of 17 Old Testament stories, retold for young readers in a lively and highly readable way.

Shows and describes specific breeds of workhorse, explains how they were used in England and the U.S., and discusses horseshoes, harnesses, and horse decorations.

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9780233977867 | Dutton Childrens Books, May 1, 1986, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Shows and describes specific breeds of workhorse, explains how they were used in England and the U.

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9780852363201 | Diamond Farm Book Pubns, July 1, 1998, cover price $9.95

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Product Description: Traces the history of bread and its making from prehistoric times to the present day. Describes the growing of the wheat and how it is ground into flour and eventually made into different kinds of bread.

Hardcover:

9780233976358 | Dutton Childrens Books, November 1, 1985, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Traces the history of bread and its making from prehistoric times to the present day.

Paperback:

9780852363218 | Diamond Farm Book Pubns, July 1, 1998, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Traces the history of bread and its making from prehistoric times to the present day.

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Product Description: Book by Patterson, Geoffrey

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9780233973562 | Dutton Childrens Books, April 1, 1983, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Examines the grasses and plants which make good hay and traces the evolution of haymaking equipment from simple wooden tools to present-day farm machinery.

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9780852363249 | Diamond Farm Book Pubns, July 1, 1998, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Book by Patterson, Geoffrey

Product Description: A history of dairy farming in Great Britain from the New Stone Age's taming of wild animals, to the making of butter in a churn, to pasteurization, to today's high speed bottling plants.

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9780233975368 | Dutton Childrens Books, June 1, 1984, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: A history of dairy farming in Great Britain from the New Stone Age's taming of wild animals, to the making of butter in a churn, to pasteurization, to today's high speed bottling plants.

Paperback:

9780852363232 | Diamond Farm Book Pubns, July 1, 1998, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A history of dairy farming in Great Britain from the New Stone Age's taming of wild animals, to the making of butter in a churn, to pasteurization, to today's high speed bottling plants.

Explores the various ways in which people have used sheep's wool since ancient times, tracing developments in sheep breeding and in weaving techniques, and examines the political significance of the wool industry

Hardcover:

9780233979236, titled "Story of Wool" | Dutton Childrens Books, February 1, 1988, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Explores the various ways in which people have used sheep's wool since ancient times, tracing developments in sheep breeding and in weaving techniques, and examines the political significance of the wool industry

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9780852363225 | Diamond Farm Book Pubns, July 1, 1998, cover price $9.95

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A naughty boy is given a strawberry horse in the hope that it will teach him to be kind, but when he sneaks out to go riding on the beach at night, the Moon steps in to teach him a lesson

Hardcover:

9780091765477 | Trafalgar Square Books, May 1, 1997, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A naughty boy is given a strawberry horse in the hope that it will teach him to be kind, but when he sneaks out to go riding on the beach at night, the Moon steps in to teach him a lesson

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Indigo returns home from a fishing trip and plays the beautiful song of the whale on his reed pipe to the whole village and, in doing so, convinces his father that his son's destiny is not with the family tradition of fishing but with music.
By Joyce Dunbar and Geoffrey Patterson (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780816738021 | Bridgewater Books, March 1, 1996, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Indigo wants to be a musician, not a fisherman like his father, and with the aid of an enormous whale he finally gets his wish

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Retells seventeen stories from the Old Testament--including the Creation, Adam and Eve, Noah, and Joseph and his brothers--making these tales accessible to young readers.
By Geoffrey Patterson (illustrator) and Martin Waddell

Hardcover:

9780395669020 | Ticknor & Fields, August 1, 1993, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A collection of Bible stories from the Old Testament, from the Creation to the adventure of Jonah

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Retells the Biblical story of Jonah, who failed to obey the commands of the Lord

Hardcover:

9780688112387 | Lothrop Lee & Shepard, March 1, 1992, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Retells the Biblical story of Jonah, who failed to obey the commands of the Lord

Library:

9780688112394 | Lothrop Lee & Shepard, March 1, 1992, cover price $13.93 | About this edition: Retells the Biblical story of Jonah, who failed to obey the commands of the Lord

When a greedy farmer decides he has no further use for his pig and takes her to market, the pig has some ideas of her own and runs away to find a new home.

Hardcover:

9780233974774 | Dutton Childrens Books, December 1, 1984, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: When a greedy farmer decides he has no further use for his pig and takes her to market, the pig has some ideas of her own and runs away to find a new home.

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Chronicles what life was like on an English farm just over a hundred years ago, showing how much the farmer relied on the horse and describing the long, hard hours the whole family spent ploughing, sowing, harvesting, and caring for the animals

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9780525972082 | Dutton Childrens Books, October 1, 1980, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Chronicles what life was like on an English farm just over a hundred years ago, showing how much the farmer relied on the horse and describing the long, hard hours the whole family spent ploughing, sowing, harvesting, and caring for the animals

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