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Martha Freeman
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“Tales from Outer Suburbia” by Australian author-illustrator Shaun Tan is a collection of 15 hard-to-characterize pieces, including a faux found poem and step-by-step instructions for assembling your own pet from “burnt-out kitchen appliances, obsolete computer parts, defunct cassette players… whatever takes your fancy.”
Tan is this year’s winner of the prestigious Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award... read more »
Tan is this year’s winner of the prestigious Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award... read more »
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Who Stole Halloween?
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The Year My Parents Ruined My Life
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1997
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1,000 Reasons Never to Kiss a Boy
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Who Is Stealing the 12 Days of Christmas?
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Mrs. Wow Never Wanted a Cow (Beginner Books(R))
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Who Stole Grandma's Million-Dollar Pumpkin Pie?
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2009
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Who Stole Uncle Sam?
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The Case of the Rock 'n' Roll Dog
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2010
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Fourth Grade Weirdo
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2000
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The Trouble with Cats
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“Stitches” is a dark, dark fairytale that happens to be the true story of the author's childhood and coming of age. Marketed for young adults, the book left thoroughly grown-up me with my jaw agape. Small grew up in Detroit in the 1950s, his father a...more |
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Born in 1929, Russell Freedman is the master of old-school historical writing. The Newbery Medal is rarely given to nonfiction, but he won it for his biography of Lincoln in 1988. Freedman’s books are illustrated with engravings, paintings and maps–...more |
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| A Newbery an honor book this year is “Breaking Stalin’s Nose” by Eugene Velchin. Growing up in Moscow, 10-year-old Sasha reveres the great leader and teacher, Joseph Stalin, and wants only to be a Young Pioneer of the Communist Party. Then the Secret...more | |
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“A Ball for Daisy” is a perfect dog-meets-ball story told in squiggly, brilliant, primary hues. It is beautiful, and it is absolutely packed with every extreme of canine emotion: jubilation, desolation, resignation, and back again. And hey – what’s t...more |
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"Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours."
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Yogi Berra
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"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference."
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“Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”
― Ezra Pound
― Ezra Pound
“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel
― Elie Wiesel
“Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.”
― Yogi Berra, When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom From One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes
― Yogi Berra, When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom From One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes
