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A Birthday for Frances
As her little sister Gloria’s birthday approaches, Frances wavers between being generous’and being jealous. ‘[Frances] is every youngster who chafes at being the un-birthday child.
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A Canon of Vegetables
Raymond Sokolov applies to vegetables the original concept of his book THE COOK’S CANON: 101 Classic Recipes Everyone Should Know, fusing imaginative recipes with a wealth of food lore. His…
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A Child’s Book of Poems
William Blake, Kate Greenaway, Emily Dickinson: the writers in this charming anthology of 200 poems—first published in 1969—are among literature’s most beloved. And Gyo Fujikawa’s appealing illustrations depict children of…
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A Child’s Garden of Verses
Originally published in 1885, A Child’s Garden of Verses has served as a wonderful introduction to poetry for each new generation. Stevenson’s beloved poems celebrate childhood in all its complexity…
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A Child’s Good Night Book
Night is coming and small things without words are going to sleep . . . sleepy bunnies, sleepy birds, and sleepy children, too, are getting under their covers. “Jean Charlot’s…
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A Christmas Carol
“Bah Humbug!” That’s how Ebeneezer Scrooge feels about Christmas–until the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future decide to show the crotchety old miser the error of his ways. Together…
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A Contextualistic Worldview
This selection of articles by Lewis E. Hahn addresses the philosophical school of contextualism and four contemporary American philosophers: John Dewey, Henry Nelson Wieman, Stephen C. Pepper, and Brand Blanshard. Stressing…
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A Day in the Life of the United States Armed Forces
On October 22, 2002, more than 125 of the world’s finest photographers set out on a unique global mission. Their instructions were simple: look beyond the daily news headlines, dig…
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A Father Like That
A boy knows all about fathers. He knows there are little things a father understands, like how to play checkers and when to bend the rules at bedtime. And he…
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A Fine, Fine School
This funny picture book from Newbery Medal winner Sharon Creech, author of Walk Two Moons, and New Yorker cartoonist Harry Bliss is a delight for kids, with its colorful illustrations and gentle comeuppance for…
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A Friendly Companion to Plato’s Gorgias
A comprehensive study of “one of the most elusive and subtle” of all the Platonic dialogues.The Gorgias begins with a discussion of the nature and value of rhetoric and develops…
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