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The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade
Pub Date: Oct 31, 2011
Age Range: 4 - 8
This bright, brimming picture biography commemorates Tony Sarg, a brilliant, self-taught artist whose innovative helium balloons delighted legions of Macy's parade watchers from 1928 on.
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Pub Date: Oct 25, 2011
Age Range: 5 - 8
Banks and Kulikov's Max is back in his third escapade of wordplay.
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Pub Date: Oct 25, 2011
Age Range: 4 - 10
A girl leaves her sandcastle at dusk, just as the inevitable tide rushes in, and misses a small, plaintive light that appears in its window. Rushes of tingly surrealism continue throughout this wordless adventure story about the tiny inhabitants of the sandcastle, who escape by boat.
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Pub Date: Oct 25, 2011
Age Range: 10 - 12
Still ferrying dazzled readers to Dictionopolis and beyond 50 years after his first appearance, young Milo is accompanied this time through by encyclopedic commentary from our generation's leading (and most readable) expert on the history of children's literature and publishing.
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Pub Date: Oct 25, 2011
Age Range: 10 - 14
A compelling story rife with drama, suspense and heart.
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Pub Date: Oct 13, 2011
Age Range: 8 - 12
Problem novels, ghost stories, historical fiction--is there anything Newbery Medalist Peck cannot do? Apparently not.
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