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Way Up and Over Everything

by McGill, Alice

In this retelling of a folktale, five Africans escape the horrors of slavery by simply disappearing into thin air.

What to Do about Alice?

How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy!

by Kerley, Barbara

A brief biography in pictures and simple text of Alice Roosevelt, the daughter of Theodore Roosevelt and his first wife.

Cowboy & Octopus

by Scieszka, Jon

Peanut butter and jelly. George and Martha. Frog and Toad. Cowboy and . . . Octopus? Yes, that's right. Meet Cowboy and Octopus—the next great pair to become a...

Aunt Nancy and the Bothersome Visitors

by Root, Phyllis

Clever Aunt Nancy manages to foil all those who try to get the better of her.

Comets, Stars, the Moon, and Mars

Space Poems and Paintings

by Florian, Douglas

"Twenty whimsical poems about space." amazon.com

Jack Plank Tells Tales

by Babbitt, Natalie

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Pictures from Our Vacation

by Perkins, Lynne Rae

Given a camera that takes and prints tiny pictures just before leaving for the family farm in Canada, a young girl records a vacation that gets off to a slow s...

Hey, You!

Poems to Skyscrapers, Mosquitoes, and Other Fun Things

by Janeczko, Paul B.

This collection of 25 poems includes imaginative odes to such unexpected items as mailboxes, snowflakes, and sea horses.

Moses

When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom

by Weatherford, Carole Boston

Describes Tubman's spiritual journey as she hears the voice of God guiding her north to freedom on that very first trip to escape the brutal practice of forced...

Ballet of the Elephants

by Schubert, Leda

Sparkling watercolor-and-ink illustrations dance across the page and spill out onto a horizontal foldout of elephants and ballerinas spotlighted togetherin the...