Steven Salerno
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English
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A touching picture book about a group of children who must say goodbye to a dear friend.
Margot is sad because her beloved pet, Tim, has died.
She and her friends band together to give him a proper sendoff. Melinda brings her French horn. Vincent brings balloons. Otto wears his best hat. When all gather together, they celebrate Tim's beautiful, simple life as they send him on a surprising farewell journey to a special place above the mountains and...
2) Wild Child
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English
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The jungle can be a scary place, but there is one creature who is the fiercest of all: it grabs, it pulls, it cries, it poops-it's the Wild Child! All the animals live in fear of this nasty baby who cannot be tamed or soothed. No matter what the animals try, the wild child just gets wilder! Can the animals join together to bring peace back to the jungle and make the wild child a mild child?
6) Bedtime!
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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When Melanie is too busy playing to get ready for bed, her mother gives the special bedtime treatment to the dog, and Melanie misses some of the best parts of the routine.
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39 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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English
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Documents the story of the Baseball Hall of Fame honorees, tracing how the Acerra family of New Jersey formed their own semi-pro baseball team in the 1930s and became the longest-running all-brother team in history.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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"Celebrating the inventor of the Crayola crayon! This gloriously illustrated picture book biography tells the inspiring story of Edwin Binney, the inventor of one of the world's most beloved toys. A perfect fit among favorites like The Day the Crayons Quit and Balloons Over Broadway"--
13) Pantaloon
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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English
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Pantaloon, a poodle with a sweet tooth, tries to prove to the Baker that he makes a great helper. Pantaloon, a poodle that really wants to be a baker's assistant, must find a way to prove his worth when the baker refuses to hire him, believing he will eat more than he bakes.
14) Mathematickles!
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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A collection of poems written in the form of mathematical problems and grouped according to seasonal themes.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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"There's a secret code inside you, a code called DNA. A code that tells your body's cells what they should do each day. It looks like twisted ladders, or tiny, twirling noodles. It makes us into people, instead of into poodles. Why can't humans breathe underwater? Why are some people tall and others short? Why do we resemble our parents and grandparents? This book explores all this and more in flowing, rhyming text, explaining cells, DNA, and genetics...
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The picture book biography of ingenious American inventor Leo Fender, creator of the world's most iconic Fender electric guitars. For readers who love Iggy Peck, Architect.
Leo Fender loved to thinker and tinker and take things apart and put them back together again. When he lost an eye in a childhood accident, he refused to think of himself as broken. With a new pair of magnifying glasses, Leo got back to doing what he loved, fixing machines big...
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English
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The World's Fair in Chicago, 1893, was to be a spectacular event: architects, musicians, artists, and inventors worked on special exhibits to display the glories of their countries. But the Fair's planners wanted something really special, something on the scale of the Eiffel Tower, which had been constructed for France's fair three years earlier. At last, engineer George Ferris had an idea-a crazy, unrealistic, gigantic idea. He would construct a...