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The Memory of an Elephant by Alex Lasker
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"The Memory of an Elephant" is an epic saga told by an aging African elephant as he makes a last, perilous journey to find the humans who rescued him as an orphan some fifty years ago...Categorized as:
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![Beatrix Potter The Complete Tales by Beatrix Potter]()
Beatrix Potter The Complete Tales by Beatrix Potter
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBeautifully designed and carefully proofed for digital publication, this collection includes: • 630 unique illustrations relevant to its content; • 22 of Beatrix Potter’s Tales arranged in the order in which they were first published so they may be read in their proper sequence; • Table of Contents with Quick Navigation...Categorized as:
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![Bears on Wheels by Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain]()
Bears on Wheels by Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAbout the Book: Bears on Wheels A new edition of the classic Berenstain Bears story, ideal for children just beginning to read on their own. When the Berenstain Bears go acrobatic in the hilarious Bears onWheels, pre-school children begin to relate words to pictures whilelearning about numbers and counting... -
![The Girl and the Tiger by Paul Rosolie]()
The Girl and the Tiger by Paul Rosolie
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIsha is a girl who loves animals, but struggles in the confines of school. When she is sent away to live with her grandparents on the Indian countryside, she discovers a sacred grove where a young Bengal tiger has taken refuge. Isha knows that the ever-shrinking forests of India mean there are few places left for a tiger to hide... -
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![Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr.]()
Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr.
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsThe publication of Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See? and Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What Do You See? completes the bear book beginning reader series. Now, children can read all four books on their own in this special format. With the important pre-reading concepts of rhyme, rhythm, and repetition, these picture books have long been used as beginning readers...Categorized as:
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![The Fuzzy Duckling by Jane Werner Watson, Alice Provensen]()
The Fuzzy Duckling by Jane Werner Watson, Alice Provensen
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis book has engaging read-aloud texts and lively original illustrations that your child will want to look at again and again...Categorized as:
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![Four Little Kittens by Golden Books]()
Four Little Kittens by Golden Books
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFour kittens become four different types of cats when they grow up -- alley cat, ship's cat, farm cat, and house cat... -
![Chez Bob by Bob Shea]()
Chez Bob by Bob Shea
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the hilarious author of Who Wet My Pants?, Unicorn Thinks He's Pretty Great, and the Dinosaur Vs. series comes a kid-pleasing read-aloud about a devious alligator who learns to love! Welcome to Chez Bob, which seems like a real restaurant ... until you realize .. -
![Koda by Patricia Hermes, Patricia Hermes]()
Koda by Patricia Hermes, Patricia Hermes
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFor anyone who has ever dreamed of hearing a horse’s story . . .Independence, Missouri, 1846Koda is a bay quarter horse with a white blaze. He loves to explore the countryside and run free with his human friend Jasmine nearby. But after Koda sets out with Jasmine’s family on a long and dusty wagon train journey on the Oregon Trail, he finds out what is truly important to him... -
![Morris Goes to School by Bernard Wiseman]()
Morris Goes to School by Bernard Wiseman
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMorris the moose has an exciting day in school learning the alphabet, counting, singing, spelling, and doing other things that make him a unique moose... -
![Slinky Malinki Catflaps by Lynley Dodd]()
Slinky Malinki Catflaps by Lynley Dodd
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSlinky Malinki Catflaps is a hilarious rhyming story by Lynley Dodd.Slinky Malinki wakes from a cosy sleep, stretches and slips out through the catflap and into the night. He's soon joined by his friends Greywacke Jones, Butterball Brown, the Poppadum kittens and the rest of the gang. Hobnobbing happily on the wall,ten in a row, the cats are disturbed by the crotchety Scarface Claw... -
![Zootopia: Judy Hopps and the Missing Jumbo-Pop (Disney Picture Book by Walt Disney Company]()
Zootopia: Judy Hopps and the Missing Jumbo-Pop (Disney Picture Book by Walt Disney Company
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOfficer Judy Hopps is on an exciting case in Zootopia. Her day started out like any other, until she stumbled across a crying elephant who was missing his Jumbo-pop. Hand-in-hand, the two retraced his steps and followed clues across the city... -
![He Bear, She Bear by Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain]()
He Bear, She Bear by Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsYoung girls and boys can be anything they want to be--regardless of gender--in this empowering and fun Berenstain Bears board book!We'll jump and dig and build and flyThere's nothing that we cannot try... -
![I'll Follow the Moon by Stephanie Lisa Tara, Lee Edward Födi]()
I'll Follow the Moon by Stephanie Lisa Tara, Lee Edward Födi
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOn a quiet, moonlit beach, a baby green sea turtle stirs from a dream of home. Slowly, slowly, with a tap, click, crack, the baby turtle embarks upon a mysterious nighttime journey. Gentle, tender verse and enchanting illustrations carry this tranquil tale from sand to sea... -
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![Oi Dog! (Oi Frog and Friends) [Paperback] Kes Gray, Claire Gray by Kes Gray, Claire Gray]()
Oi Dog! (Oi Frog and Friends) [Paperback] Kes Gray, Claire Gray by Kes Gray, Claire Gray
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrog is changing the rules...Dogs no longer sit on frogs. Phew! Dogs now sit on logs - and everyone else is going to have to sit somewhere different too... -
![Sammy the Seal by Syd Hoff]()
Sammy the Seal by Syd Hoff
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSammy, the adventurous seal, leaves the zoo for the day and ventures into the big, busy city. Along the way he finds a school full of kids and new things to do—and he even learns to read!"So funny and so original that it promises to be one of the most successful books in this best-selling series... -
![Animal Person: Stories by Alexander MacLeod]()
Animal Person: Stories by Alexander MacLeod
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe highly anticipated new book of short fiction from the O. Henry Prize winner Alexander MacLeod—a magnificent collection about the needs, temptations, and tensions that exist just beneath the surface of our lives... -
![Peanut by Linas Alsenas]()
Peanut by Linas Alsenas
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the author/illustrator of MRS. CLAUS TAKES A VACATION, an utterly charming story of an old lady who makes an elephant her new pet dog.When an old lady finds a small elephant in the park, what is she to do? Take him home and treat him like a pet dog, of course! Peanut's not like other dogs, though . . . and another walk in the park reveals that he's missing from the circus... -
![The King Penguin by Vanessa Roeder]()
The King Penguin by Vanessa Roeder
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKing Penguin is off to find subjects who will listen to him—as long as they don’t eat him first, in this cheeky tale by beloved author-illustrator Vanessa RoederPercival the King Penguin doesn’t think he’s asking for too much when he makes all the rules—he is a king after all. But he’s tired of the other penguins protesting, so he’s off to find subjects who are more obedient and supportive... -
![Duncton Stone by William Horwood]()
Duncton Stone by William Horwood
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsUnder the cruel leadership of Quail, sectarian Newborns have taken control of the key systems of Moledom. But the loyal followers of the Stone have not given up. In Duncton Wood, home of spiritual truth and liberty, resistance lives on. Its champion is the timid Library aide Pumpkin, while in holy Uffington, Fieldfare inspires revolt...Categorized as:
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![Someone to Look Up To by Jean Gill]()
Someone to Look Up To by Jean Gill
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBy IPPY and Global Ebook Award Winner Jean Gill A dog's life in the south of France. From puppyhood, Sirius the Pyrenean Mountain Dog has been trying to understand his humans and train them with kindness.How this led to their divorce he has no idea. More misunderstandings take Sirius to Death Row in an animal shelter, as a so-called dangerous dog learning survival tricks from the other inmates...Categorized as:
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![Hamsters Make Terrible Roommates by Cheryl Klein]()
Hamsters Make Terrible Roommates by Cheryl Klein
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTwo hamster roommates with wildly different personalities crammed in one cage--what could go wrong in this hilarious story about introverts versus extroverts?It's been two hundred and five days since Henry has had peace. That's because it's been two hundred and five days since Marvin has come to live with him... -
![Duncton Tales by William Horwood]()
Duncton Tales by William Horwood
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA century after the great days of moledom described in the great Chronicles, Privet, a lonely female pilgrim from the north, arrives in fabled Duncton Wood. Only old Stour, Master of the Library, realizes the importance of her quest... -
![Nop's Trials by Donald McCaig]()
Nop's Trials by Donald McCaig
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHere is the story of a family and two remarkable individuals -- Lewis Burkholder, a farmer in Virginia, and his young Border Collie, Nop. When the dog is stolen, Nop embarks on an ordeal of peril and hardship that he survives only through courage and love... -
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![Turkey for Thanksgiving by Eve Bunting]()
Turkey for Thanksgiving by Eve Bunting
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMr. and Mrs. Moose try to invite a turkey to their Thanksgiving feast...Categorized as:
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![The Berenstain Bears Go to Camp by Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain]()
The Berenstain Bears Go to Camp by Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"Though Grizzly Bob's Day Camp looks exciting, Brother and Sister Bear are apprehensive. But after spending a few days trying things out, they discover they can have fun."--The Reading Teacher...Categorized as:
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![For Love of a Horse by Patricia Leitch]()
For Love of a Horse by Patricia Leitch
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBook by Leitch,...Categorized as:
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![Where the Irises Bloom by Will Lowrey]()
Where the Irises Bloom by Will Lowrey
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the big city, everyone has a story — even the lost souls.Life on the streets can be tough for a kitten. Between neighborhood hooligans, trains and traffic whizzing past, unforgiving weather, and grumpy raccoons competing over scraps of food in the garbage cans, every day is a struggle to survive... -
![The Cow Loves Cookies by Karma Wilson]()
The Cow Loves Cookies by Karma Wilson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe horse loves hay, the chickens need feed, the geese munch on corn, the hogs devour slop, the dog eats treats, but the cow loves…COOKIES? Don’t miss this barnyard treat, featuring a new cover, from the author of the New York Times bestselling Bear series... -
![Chicken Cheeks by Michael Ian Black]()
Chicken Cheeks by Michael Ian Black
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSome bears will go to any length to get some honey. This one recruits every animal that comes along to form, well, a stack. The result? Tail of the duck to the gluteus maximus of the duck-billed platypus (with many other rears in between). Readers will giggle with delight at the bird's eye view of some hysterical animal bottoms... -
![The Berenstain Bears and Mama's New Job (First Time Books by Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain]()
The Berenstain Bears and Mama's New Job (First Time Books by Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen Mama turns her quilt-making hobby into a business, the Bear family worries that she won't have time for them...Categorized as:
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![Book! Book! Book! by Deborah Bruss, Tiphanie Beeke]()
Book! Book! Book! by Deborah Bruss, Tiphanie Beeke
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen the children go back to school, the animals on the farm are bored, so they go into the library in town trying to find something to do... -
![Buffalo Fluffalo by Bess Kalb]()
Buffalo Fluffalo by Bess Kalb
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIntroducing a sweet and silly buffalo who tries to bluff and fluff his way into being bigger than he really is. This laugh-out-loud story by an Emmy-nominated comedy writer shows it’s okay to be yourself.I’m the Buffalo FluffaloI heave and I huffaloLeave me alone becauseI’ve had enuffalo.Buffalo Fluffalo arrives on the scene puffed up with self-importance... -
![The Plot Chickens by Mary Jane Auch]()
The Plot Chickens by Mary Jane Auch
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHenrietta loves to read. When she clucks buk, buk, buk at the library, the librarian knows exactly what to recommend. Then Henrietta decides to write a book. With the help of her three aunties, she hatches a plot...Categorized as:
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![brer rabbit again by Enid Blyton]()
brer rabbit again by Enid Blyton
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsContains 38 short stories...Categorized as:
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![House of tribes by Garry Kilworth]()
House of tribes by Garry Kilworth
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn every mouse's long life, there comes a time when ancestral voices tell him to move on. Pedlar, a yellow-necked mouse, has reached that point. Told to leave the Hedgerow and go on a long journey, the adventurous mouse says his farewells and sets out for a far-distant country knows as The House...Categorized as:
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![Merry Christmas, Squirrels! by Nancy Rose]()
Merry Christmas, Squirrels! by Nancy Rose
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMost squirrels spend their winter days hiding acorns in the snow. Not Mr. Peanuts. He loves Christmas and he's very excited when Cousin Squirrel invites him to spend Christmas at his place. After a busy day building snowmen, sledding, snowshoeing, and roasting chestnuts, Mr. Peanuts and Cousin Squirrel settle in to wait for Santa .. -
![Humphrey's Playful Puppy Problem by Betty G. Birney]()
Humphrey's Playful Puppy Problem by Betty G. Birney
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEveryone’s favorite classroom pet is now starring in chapter books! Humphrey, the classroom hamster of Room 26, loves spending weekends with his classmates. This week, he is going home with Richie. Humphrey is going to help him with his science experiment (hamsters LOVE-LOVE-LOVE to be helpful). But Humphrey finds a surprise at Richie’s house... -
![Dino-Gro by Matt Myers]()
Dino-Gro by Matt Myers
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the New York Times bestselling illustrator of Battle Bunny comes a laugh-out-loud story of a little sponge dinosaur that keeps growing...and growing...and growing....Cole is very excited about his new Dino-Gro toy... -
![The Cat and The City by Nick Bradley]()
The Cat and The City by Nick Bradley
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn Tokyo – one of the world’s largest megacities – a stray cat is wending her way through the back alleys. And, with each detour, she brushes up against the seemingly disparate lives of the city-dwellers, connecting them in unexpected ways.But the city is changing... -
![Little Songs in the Shade of Tamaara by محمد عفيفي, Mohammed Afifi]()
Little Songs in the Shade of Tamaara by محمد عفيفي, Mohammed Afifi
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsParadise, for the skeptic Mohammed Afifi, was just four steps down from his porch into a sunny garden. There he would sit, morning and evening, in the shadow of Tamaara, his beloved tamarhinna tree, soaking up the sights, sounds, and smells of his precious corner of the natural world. From an old, yellow straw chair, Afifi would train his perceptive gaze on that garden in all its detail... -
![The Portable Jack Kerouac by Jack Kerouac]()
The Portable Jack Kerouac by Jack Kerouac
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis one-volume omnibus, planned by the author before his death and now completed by his biographer, Ann Charters, makes clear the ambition and accomplishment of Jack Kerouac's "Legend of Duluoz" - the story of his life told in the course of his many "true-story novels, " including "On the Road... -
![Farmer Duck by Martin Waddell]()
Farmer Duck by Martin Waddell
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMartin Waddell's uplifting modern fable and Helen Oxenbury's humor and pathos make this a very special collaboration.Farmer Duck isn't your average duck. This duck cooks and cleans, tends the fields, and cares for the other animals on the farm—all because the owner of the farm is too lazy to do these things himself... -
![Secret Pizza Party by Adam Rubin]()
Secret Pizza Party by Adam Rubin
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHow does Racoon love pizza? Oh, let him count the ways. He loves the gooey cheesy-ness, salty pepperoni-ness, sweet sweet tomato-ness, and of course the crispity crunchity crust... -
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![Alfie the Christmas Cat by Rachel Wells]()
Alfie the Christmas Cat by Rachel Wells
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe next purrfect read from Rachel Wells – a true festive treat! Christmas is around the corner, and Alfie and George can’t wait. This year, the residents of Edgar road have come together to put on a festive show and raise money for a local homeless shelter... -
![Something's Wrong!: A Bear, a Hare, and Some Underwear by Jory John]()
Something's Wrong!: A Bear, a Hare, and Some Underwear by Jory John
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA picture book about a bear whose friends help him make it through a bad day!Jeff the bear has definitely forgotten something. He ate his breakfast, he watered his plant, he combed his fur...what could it be? Why does he feel so oddly off? So he asks his friend Anders the rabbit what could possibly be wrong. It couldn't have anything to do with the fact that he's wearing underwear...over his fur. -
![It's an Orange Aardvark! by Michael Hall]()
It's an Orange Aardvark! by Michael Hall
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAcclaimed New York Times -bestselling picture book creator Michael Hall delivers a funny and suspenseful story about colors, ants, aardvarks, and rainbows that will appeal to Lois Ehlert fans and fans of The Very Hungry Caterpillar , by Eric Carle... -
![Journeys to the Heartland by William Horwood]()
Journeys to the Heartland by William Horwood
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn age of heroes is dawning...The time has come for the wolves of Europe to take back their ancient Heartland. For centuries is has been corrupted and poisoned by the Mennen and by the evil Magyar wolf-pack. Only by reclaiming it can the true gods be reborn and the natural order restored. All over Europe, wolves are beginning the quest in answer to a mystical summons... -
![Seekers at the Wulfrock by William Horwood]()
Seekers at the Wulfrock by William Horwood
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTHE DRAMATIC CONCLUSION TO THE MAGNIFICENT SAGA OF WOLVES FROM ONE OF THE WORLD'S FAVOURITE STORYTELLERS... 'The wolf's eyes transfixed me, commanded me to rise and leave now, commanded me to journey on, journey home where I began, to where you and I must go.' Under the austere yet inspiring leadership of Klimt, the Wolves of time have taken back the Heartland... -
![Tom's Sausage Lion by Michael Morpurgo]()
Tom's Sausage Lion by Michael Morpurgo
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBut it's true,' Tom shouted. 'It was a real lion, I know it was.'No-one believes Tom when he says he has seen a lion - padding around the orchard with a string of sausages in its mouth! No-one, that is, except for Clare, the cleverest girl in the class...
![Oi Dog! (Oi Frog and Friends) [Paperback] Kes Gray, Claire Gray by Kes Gray, Claire Gray](https://48f-1.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/books/small/66b49de3ad5098575ddcade9.jpg)
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