Joy Cowley
Author
Language
English
Description
Nature In a tropical rain forest in Central America, a red-eyed tree frog spends the night looking for food while avoiding potential predators. Award-winning photographer Nic Bishop's larger-than-life, gorgeous images document the hunt, which ends happily with the frog settling down in the leaves to spend his daylight hours sleeping! Joy Cowley's simple, readable text makes the frog's story fun, interesting, and accessible to young readers. This is...
11) Chicken feathers
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Relates the story of the summer Josh spends while his mother is in the hospital awaiting the birth of his baby sister, and his pet chicken Semolina, who talks but only to him, is almost killed by a red fox.
13) Pinocchio
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
English edition.
Language
English
Description
The naïve wooden puppet comes to life through illustrations that use a detailed woodblock and etching technique.
15) Snake and lizard
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories about the friendship between Snake and Lizard.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
This English edition published by Big & Small in 2016.
Language
English
Description
Presents a retelling of the tale about the three little pigs, each with a distinctive personality, who build houses of straw, sticks, and bricks, and the big, bad wolf who tries to blow their houses down and eat them.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
English edition.
Language
English
Description
Little Red Riding Hood sets off through the woods to her sick grandmother's house with a basket of food. On the way, she forgets her mother's instructions not to wander off the path and when she finally arrives at grandmother's house something is not quite right. Fortunately, an observant hunter passing by discovers their dilemma and sets things right.
19) Peter Pan
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
English edition.
Language
English
Description
Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up, is one of the immortals of children's literature. Peter Pan lives in Neverland, where he is aided in his epic battles with Red Indians and pirates by the motherly and resourceful Wendy Darling.
20) The nightingale
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
This English edition published by Big & Small in 2016.
Language
English
Description
An emperor prefers the tinkling of a bejeweled mechanical bird to the song of a real nightingale, but when he is near death, the nightingale's song restores his health.
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