George Shannon
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English
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It's easy to take a cookie out of the cookie jar: just reach in. But how does it get in there in the first place? It's more complicated than you might think. Someone has to milk the cow, grow the wheat, harvest the sugar cane-everyone has a special job to do to make that cookie possible.
In Who Put the Cookies in the Cookie Jar?, George Shannon and Julie Paschkis take us on a delicious cookie journey, showing how many hands work together so that...
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English
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A man is thrown in jail for picking up a rope. A student earns one hundred points on his math and history tests, yet fails both classes. A spider saves a fugitive from a legion of warriors. A farmer buys a cow, a horse, and a donkey, all with a single ear of corn.... Each of the eighteen stories in this book is true, technically. But each is also a lie.
In his second collection of "true lies" from around the world, George Shannon challenges young...
5) The surprise
Author
Pub. Date
c1983
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Squirrel gives his mother a special surprise on her birthday.
10) One family
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In this story that introduces numbered groups from one to ten, we realize that families can be many things.
11) Heart to heart
Author
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Upset that he has forgotten a valentine for his friend Mole, Squirrel starts to make a fancy card but discovers a better gift.
13) Hands say love
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and simple, rhyming text reveal that hands, as they carry out ordinary tasks, are also showing love.
16) April showers
Author
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
A group of frogs enjoys dancing in the rain so much that they seem not to notice a snake sneaking up on them.
17) Turkey Tot
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When Turkey Tot and his friends spot some fat, juicy blackberries hanging high above their heads, Turkey Tot tries hard to figure out a way to reach them.
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