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Although he is a very tough pirate, Boris von der Borch cries when his parrots dies.

An old woman who has outlived all her friends is reluctant to become too attached to the stray dog that visits her each day.

Eeny Mole encourages her sisters to face their fears as she has done and venture into the world up above.

When her family moves from Russia to the flat American prairie, Nora finds comfort in her new pet chicks, who ease her loneliness and even help her make a friend.--Junior Library Guild.

Curious Eeny Mole emerges from her dark hole home to discover the world up above.

Nina, the smallest of a group of Russian nesting dolls, is separated from her sisters and swept along on a dangerous journey that eventually brings her back home.

Some little pigs describe the many things and activities that their mother loves and shares with them.

"Edgar Degas is best known as a chronicler of the ballet, yet his work in monotype reveals his restless experimentation. In the mid-1870s, Degas was introduced to the monotype process -- drawing in ink on a metal plate that was then run through a press. Captivated by the monotyp...

Describes all the things that a grandfather likes, especially what he enjoys doing with his grandchild.

Young Lydia struggles to say goodbye to her grandmother as her parents finish packing their wagon for the long journey to Oregon in the nineteenth century.

The classic literary canon meets the comics artists, illustrators, and other artists who have remade reading in Kick's magisterial, three-volume, full-color "The Graphic Canon," including a Sherlock Holmes mystery, an H.G. Wells story, an illustrated guide to the Beat writers, a ...

Earl Keese is a slightly overweight, fairly average guy who is approaching middle age. He leads a reasonably comfortable life with his family in their suburban home until the house next door is bought by a truly odd couple, Vic and Ramona, who quickly proceed to drive Earl crazy....

Describes the life and work of Eratosthenes, the Greek geographer and astronomer who accurately measured the circumference of the Earth.

A lullaby in which a parent, while knitting a blanket for a child, describes the dreams of each of the objects pictured in the blanket.

When a shiny brown nut pops out of the ground, each animal wants it for him or herself, but the extraordinary nut turns out to be the source of a delicious treat for everyone.

"A chilling exposé of the international effort to minimize the health and environmental consequences of nuclear radiation in the wake of Chernobyl. Governments and journalists tell us that though Chernobyl was "the worst nuclear disaster in history," a reassuringly small number ...

Clyde, the rabbit, is ready to start school, but after talking with his brother, he is worried about what will happen at lunchtime.