Peter Sís
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
"Caldecott Honoree and Sibert Medalist Peter Sís honors a man who saved hundreds of children from the Nazis. In 1938, twenty-nine-year-old Nicholas Winton saved the lives of almost 700 children trapped in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia-a story he never told and that remained unknown until an unforgettable TV appearance in the 1980s reunited him with some of the children he saved. Czech-American artist, MacArthur Fellow, and Andersen Award winner Peter...
11) Fire truck
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Matt, who loves fire trucks, wakes up one morning to find that he has become a fire truck, with one driver, two ladders, three hoses, and ten boots. Features a gate-fold illustration that opens into a three-page spread.
12) The dreamer
Author
Language
English
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Description
A fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who grew up a painfully shy child, ridiculed by his overbearing father, but who became one of the most widely-read poets in the world.
15) Dinosaur!
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
While taking a bath, a young boy is joined by all sorts of dinosaurs.
17) Rumpelstiltskin
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Library bound edition.
Language
English
Description
A strange little man helps the miller's daughter spin straw into gold for the king on the condition that she will give him her first-born child.
18) Ballerina!
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A little girl puts on costumes of different colors and imagines herself dancing on stage.
20) Komodo!
Author
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
A young boy who loves dragons goes with his parents to the Indonesian island of Komodo in hopes of seeing a real dragon. Includes factual information about the Komodo dragon.
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