Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.39 | Kids, Fiction literature | 21 August 2011
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Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger
Hooray! Wayside School is Open Again!All the kids from Wayside School had to spend 243 days in horrible schools while Wayside closed to get rid of the cows (Don't ask!). Now the kids are back and the fun begins again on every floor. Miss Much has prepared a Day on the 30th floor--with dogs and cats and frogs and skunks and pigs, and an orange named Fido causing a terrible commotion. In Mrs. Drazil's class, they're throwing a coffeepot, a sack of potatoes, a pencil sharpener, and a light bulb out the window to see which hits the ground first.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.39 | Kids, Fiction literature | 21 August 2011
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The Books of Elsewhere - The Shadows
When eleven-year-old Olive moves into the crumbling old mansion on Linden Street, she's right to think there's something weird about the place, especially the walls covered in creepy antique paintings. But when she finds a pair of old-fashioned glasses in a dusty drawer, she discovers the most peculiar thing yet. She can travel inside these paintings to Elsewhere, a world that's strangely quiet . . . and eerily sinister.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.39 | Kids, Fiction literature | 20 August 2011
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The King's Stilts
The King's Stilts is a children's book by Dr. Seuss, published in 1939. Unlike many of Dr. Seuss's books, it is narrated in prose rather than verse. The King's Stilts tells the story of King Bertram of Binn, who dedicates himself to safeguarding his kingdom, which lives in a precarious existence. It is surrounded by water, which is held back from flooding the land by a ring of dike trees, which are in turn subject to attack from flocks of nizzards. To protect the kingdom, a legion of Patrol Cats is organized to keep the nizzards at bay, and King Bertram sees to their care personally.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.39 | Kids, Fiction literature | 20 August 2011
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The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
Each time Bartholomew Cubbins attempts to obey the King's order to take off his hat, he finds there is another one on his head. Set in feudal times, the story begins in the Kingdom of Didd, when King Derwin is riding through a street past Bartholomew Cubbins, a poor boy in the market. Bartholomew removes his hat, according to the laws, but another hat mysteriously appears; when he attempts to remove this one too, another one appears again, and this continues, even as he removes more and more hats, each growing in extravagance and beauty from the 451st hat onwards.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.39 | Kids, Fiction literature | 20 August 2011
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Scrambled Eggs, Super!
Scrambled Eggs Super! is a 1953 book by American children's author Dr. Seuss. It tells of a boy named Peter T. Hooper, who makes scrambled eggs prepared from eggs of various exotic birds.