Trina Schart Hyman
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The adventures of an eleven-year-old tomboy growing up in the mid-nineteenth century on the Wisconsin frontier. At age 11, Caddie Woodlawn is the despair of her mother and the pride of her father: a clock-fixing tomboy running wild in the woods of Wisconsin. In 1864, this is a bit much for her Boston-bred mother to bear, but Caddie and her brothers are happy with the status quo. Written in 1935 about Carol Ryrie Brink's grandmother's childhood, the...
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"In this classic satirical novel, published in 1889, Hank Morgan, a supervisor in a Connecticut gun factory, fall unconscious after being whacked on the head. When he wakes up he finds himself in Britain in 528 -- where he is immediately captured, hauled back to Camelot to be exhibited before the knights of King Arthur's Round Table, and sentenced to death. Things are not looking good. But Hank is a quick-witted and enterprising fellow, and in the...
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English
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"Celebrate the little moments that make each month special in this beautiful picture book featuring twelve poems about a family and the turn of the seasons. From the short, frozen days of January, through the light of summer, to the first snowflakes of December, Updike's poems rejoices in the familiar, wondrous qualities that make each part of the year unique. Hyman's award-winning paintings-- modeled after her own daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren--...
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Pub. Date
[1984]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 27 cm
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English
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Retells the segment from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, in which George, the Red Cross Knight, slays the dreadful dragon that has been terrorizing the countryside for years and brings peace and joy to the land.
10) Winter poems
Pub. Date
[1994]
Physical Desc
40 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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English
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A collection of winter poems ranging from late fall to early spring, by such authors as Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, and Wallace Stevens.
15) Rapunzel
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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Retells the tale of the beautiful girl imprisoned in a lonely tower by a witch.
18) Bearskin
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Pub. Date
[1997]
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unpaged : color illustrations
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English
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A brave young man who has been raised by a bear with unusual powers rescues a princess from a menacing dragon and fulfills a long-ago prophecy that he would marry the king's daughter.