Weston Woods Studios
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Scholastic
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[2010]
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Includes Goodnight Moon, faithfully adapted from the original book and featuring a beautiful musical score; A Creature Was Stirring (seen through the eyes of a child, a new adaptation of the classic Christmas poem); and Gladys Goes Out to Lunch (Gladys the gorilla smells something delicious and leaves the zoo to find out what it is).
2) LMNO peas
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Get ready to roll through the alphabet with a jaunty cast of busy little peas. Featuring a range of zippy characters from Acrobat Peas to Zoologist Peas, this delightful picture book highlights a variety of interests, hobbies, and careers - each one themed to a letter of the alphabet - and gives a wonderful sense of the colorful world we live in. Children will have so much fun poring over the detailed scenes that they won't even realize they're learning...
5) Math curse
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When the teacher tells her class that they can think of almost everything as a math problem, one student acquires a math anxiety which becomes a real curse. From the inventive team that brought you The Stinky Cheese Man, a tale of a girl in the relentless grip of math-mania. What if you think of everything as a math problem--and you spend your morning tabulating your teeth and calculating your corn flakes? You've got the math curse, that's what! Let...
12) Rapunzel
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A retelling of a folktale in which a beautiful girl with long golden hair is kept imprisoned in a lonely tower by a sorceress. Includes a note on the origins of the story.
13) Peter's chair
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When Peter finds out that his blue furniture is being painted pink for his new baby sister, he takes the last unpainted item, a chair, and runs away.
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them despite their groundbreaking successes. Includes biographies on Dorothy Jackson Vaughan (1910-2008), Mary Winston Jackson (1921-2005), Katherine Colman Goble Johnson (1918- ), Dr. Christine Mann Darden (1942- ).
Katherine, Dorothy, Mary, and Christine were all good...
17) Diary of a worm
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A young worm discovers, day by day, that there are some very good and some not so good things about being a worm in this great big world.
19) Owl moon
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On a winter's night under a full moon, a father and daughter trek into the woods to see the Great Horned Owl.