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Olive Books
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Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
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avg rating 3.86 — 277,819 ratings — published 2008
Bodies Are Cool (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.58 — 2,817 ratings — published 2021
The Love Hypothesis (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 2,051,779 ratings — published 2021
The Velveteen Rabbit (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 276,525 ratings — published 1922
Wonder (Wonder, #1)
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avg rating 4.35 — 1,219,312 ratings — published 2012
Charlotte’s Web (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 2,093,487 ratings — published 1952
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
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avg rating 4.31 — 3,535,228 ratings — published 2005
Holes (Holes, #1)
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avg rating 4.02 — 1,392,189 ratings — published 1998
Island of the Blue Dolphins (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.88 — 354,139 ratings — published 1960
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 218,605 ratings — published 1960
Guess How Much I Love You (Board book)
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avg rating 4.39 — 148,825 ratings — published 1988
The Giving Tree (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 1,258,355 ratings — published 1964
The Shy Little Kitten (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 7,303 ratings — published 1946
Hello, Baby Animals (Board Book)
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avg rating 4.21 — 515 ratings — published
Dolly Parton: A Little Golden Book Biography (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.74 — 567 ratings — published
Hello, Garden Bugs: A High-Contrast Board Book that Helps Visual Development in Newborns and Babies (Board Book)
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avg rating 4.10 — 183 ratings — published
Hello, Ocean Friends: A Black-and-White Board Book for Babies That Helps Visual Development (High-Contrast Books)
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avg rating 4.25 — 283 ratings — published 2015
Bathe the Cat (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 2,051 ratings — published 2022
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (Board book)
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avg rating 4.27 — 193,884 ratings — published 1967
Blue Hat, Green Hat (Board Book)
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avg rating 4.24 — 12,018 ratings — published 1984
Sideways Stories from Wayside School (Wayside School, #1)
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avg rating 4.16 — 102,044 ratings — published 1978
The Wild Robot (The Wild Robot, #1)
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avg rating 4.22 — 129,886 ratings — published 2016
The Princess in Black (The Princess in Black, #1)
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avg rating 4.11 — 12,024 ratings — published 2014
The Cat in the Hat (Cat in the Hat, #1)
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avg rating 4.20 — 596,711 ratings — published 1957
Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy (Board book)
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avg rating 4.29 — 14,954 ratings — published 1983
Heidi (Heidi, #1-2)
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avg rating 4.04 — 214,192 ratings — published 1880
The Penguin Lessons (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 18,432 ratings — published 2015
The Girl Who Drank the Moon (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 118,931 ratings — published 2016
Where the Wild Things Are (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 1,083,307 ratings — published 1963
Bridge to Terabithia (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.06 — 600,988 ratings — published 1977
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (Rats of NIMH, #1)
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avg rating 4.17 — 187,424 ratings — published 1971
Dragons and Marshmallows (Zoey and Sassafras, #1)
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avg rating 4.39 — 5,453 ratings — published 2017
Giraffes Can't Dance (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 34,260 ratings — published 2012
Lumberjanes, Vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 81,720 ratings — published 2015
Roller Girl (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 70,957 ratings — published 2015
The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)
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avg rating 4.49 — 119,921 ratings — published 2015
Are You My Mother? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 254,679 ratings — published 1960
The Big Shrink (Upside-Down Magic, #6)
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avg rating 4.19 — 1,396 ratings — published 2019
Weather or Not (Upside-Down Magic, #5)
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avg rating 4.18 — 1,760 ratings — published 2018
Dragon Overnight (Upside-Down Magic, #4)
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avg rating 4.35 — 2,111 ratings — published 2018
Showing Off (Upside-Down Magic, #3)
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avg rating 4.32 — 2,734 ratings — published 2017
Sticks & Stones (Upside-Down Magic, #2)
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avg rating 4.25 — 3,722 ratings — published 2016
Upside-Down Magic (Upside-Down Magic, #1)
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avg rating 4.15 — 7,495 ratings — published 2015
Positively Izzy (Emmie & Friends #2)
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avg rating 4.09 — 11,905 ratings — published 2018
Invisible Emmie (Emmie & Friends, #1)
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avg rating 4.10 — 23,642 ratings — published 2017
The Field Guide (The Spiderwick Chronicles, #1)
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avg rating 3.93 — 95,076 ratings — published 2003
“Isaac took a long swig from the unmarked bottle. He'd tasted her cider before, but this bottle was completely different, yet just as wonderful. The apple was more prominent, yet not sweet, almost funky but in a good, blue-cheese way. He held the bottle up to the light and could see the sediment swirling in the bottom.
"This is amazing- so different from the other one."
Sanna grinned.
"You really like Olive? I wasn't sure when I blended it. Not everyone likes the murkiness."
"Olive?"
Sanna leaned against the counter, putting her weight on her wrist as she studied him for a long moment, her eyes squinting. She took a long drink from her own bottle.
"I see colors when I make ciders. I can't explain it. Each juice has its own hue. That's what those paintings represent."
She pointed at the watercolors over the fireplace. "A new color comes to me, and I blend the juices until I can re-create it in the flavor. And this one is Olive."
"You color-code your ciders?" He struggled to understand what she was telling him.
"No." She reached across the counter and pulled her journal toward her. She opened it and handed it to Isaac. As she sipped her cider, he studied the page, then the next page, then the next. On each was a swatch of layered color, all wildly different from one another- reds, greens, teals, colors he didn't really have names for. Next to the colors were measurements, apple varieties, percentages, and flavor notes. Scribbles filled the margins and equations contained both numbers and words. Things like sugars and acidity were measured and tested. It was part recipe book, part coloring book, and part wine label, with a hint of spell book. Looking at it was like opening a tiny door into the back of her head. She saw things that no one else did, an imaginary world of cider only she could see.
"You can see the color in your head?"
"It's the easiest way to explain it. A color pops into my head, and I know what it will taste like. When I blend the different raw ciders together, I know I have it right when it matches what I've imagined.”
― The Simplicity of Cider
"This is amazing- so different from the other one."
Sanna grinned.
"You really like Olive? I wasn't sure when I blended it. Not everyone likes the murkiness."
"Olive?"
Sanna leaned against the counter, putting her weight on her wrist as she studied him for a long moment, her eyes squinting. She took a long drink from her own bottle.
"I see colors when I make ciders. I can't explain it. Each juice has its own hue. That's what those paintings represent."
She pointed at the watercolors over the fireplace. "A new color comes to me, and I blend the juices until I can re-create it in the flavor. And this one is Olive."
"You color-code your ciders?" He struggled to understand what she was telling him.
"No." She reached across the counter and pulled her journal toward her. She opened it and handed it to Isaac. As she sipped her cider, he studied the page, then the next page, then the next. On each was a swatch of layered color, all wildly different from one another- reds, greens, teals, colors he didn't really have names for. Next to the colors were measurements, apple varieties, percentages, and flavor notes. Scribbles filled the margins and equations contained both numbers and words. Things like sugars and acidity were measured and tested. It was part recipe book, part coloring book, and part wine label, with a hint of spell book. Looking at it was like opening a tiny door into the back of her head. She saw things that no one else did, an imaginary world of cider only she could see.
"You can see the color in your head?"
"It's the easiest way to explain it. A color pops into my head, and I know what it will taste like. When I blend the different raw ciders together, I know I have it right when it matches what I've imagined.”
― The Simplicity of Cider
“Apple trees all look the same, like soldiers on parade. Olive trees are their exact opposite. Each has a personality. Their branches twist like copulating snakes in all directions.”
― Apophenia: Myths, Tales and Legends from an Imaginary World
― Apophenia: Myths, Tales and Legends from an Imaginary World
