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5) My book box
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A determined elephant creates his own book box and discovers all the magic and fun of books and reading.
7) I am a story
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: From cave drawings to the invention of the printing press and beyond, discover how a story has been told in many different ways from the past to today. Its always been around, making us happy, sad, excited, or scared and bringing people together. With simple text and beautiful illustrations, Dan Yaccarino reminds us of the power of story.
8) Off the page
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"When Delilah is united with Oliver, a prince literally taken from the pages of a fairytale, the line between what is on the page and what is possible is blurred, and all must be resolved for the two to live happily ever after"--
Author
Language
English
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Description
Every day, nine-year-old Yasmin borrows a book from Book Uncle, a retired teacher who has set up a free lending library next to her apartment building. But when the mayor tries to shut down the rickety bookstand, Yasmin has to take her nose out of her book and do something. But what can she do? The local elections are coming up but shes just a kid. She cant even vote! Still, Yasmin has friends ? her best friend, Reeni, and Anil, who even has a black...
14) The Losers Club
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alec, a sixth-grade bookworm always in trouble for reading instead of listening and participating in class, starts a book club, solely to have a place to read, and discovers that real life, although messy, can be as exciting as the stories in his favorite books.
Author
Series
Franklin School friends volume 1
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books, Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Kelsey is the best reader in her third grade class, and she is determined to lead her class to victory in the alll-school reading contest.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Most of what we say about books is really about the words inside them: the rosy nostalgic glow for childhood reading, the lifetime companionship of a much-loved novel. But books are things as well as words, objects in our lives as well as worlds in our heads. And just as we crack their spines, loosen their leaves and write in their margins, so they disrupt and disorder us in turn. All books are, as Stephen King put it, 'a uniquely portable magic'....
Author
Series
Creature from my closet volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Rob Burnside is visited by an especially strange closet creature: the CAT IN THE HAT mashed with GOLLUM from The Lord of the Rings"--
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The healing power of reading has been renowned since Aristotle; focus, flow and enlightenment can all be discovered through this universal act. The Art of Mindful Reading embraces the joy of absorbing words on a page, encouraging a state of mind as deeply therapeutic and vital to our wellbeing as breathing. Bibliotherapist Ella Berthoud asks if reading is our daily nourishment how best should it be consumed? How should you read mindfully? And why...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Young Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a letter summons him to begin an apprenticeship as a bookbinder--a vocation that arouses fear, superstition, and prejudice in their small community. Emmett has always been drawn to books, even though they are forbidden. Bookbinding is a sacred calling, Seredith informs her new apprentice, and under her watchful eye he learns to craft elegant leather-bound volumes in which they will capture something...
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