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Oregon

The Lion and the Rat: A Fable by La Fontaine

#hardcover #fables #kids #highinterest #children #picturebook #livingbook #childrensbook #fun #fable 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Fresh Morals, Beastly Fables

A FableThere once was an Eagle and a Lion who had worked together on a lot of books. They did The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs!, The Stinky Cheese Man, and Math Curse.'Everyone is waiting for Science Curse,? said their editor, Queen Bee.'Okay,? said Eagle Scieszka and Lion Smith. ?So why don't we make a book of weird fables with strange morals and call is Squids Will Be Squids?And they did.MORAL: With these guys, you just never know.Fables have been around for a very long time. Aesop was famous for telling them, although he wasn't the first'or the best-looking. Now from the incomparable team who stood fairy tales on their heads with The Stinky Cheese Man, come fables as you've never heard them before. There's the story of ?Little Walrus,? who tells just a little too much of the truth, and the morality tale of the boastful ?Piece of Toast and Fruit Loops.' We read of Slug, so busy admiring herself that she doesn't see the steamroller behind her, and learn the wise lessons of ?Hand, Foot, and Tongue? (Moral: There are some things we don't talk about at the dinner table).In their inimitable style, Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith have created contemporary fables that reflect all the bossiness, sneakiness, bragging and silliness of our everyday lives. Of course, these tales are handled with such tact and sensitivity that we would never recognize a person like ourselves in them'would we?Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith are an enormously popular and highly acclaimed author and illustrator team. Mr. Scieszka perfected his keen ear for juvenile humor as an elementary school teacher. He now writes full time. Mr. Smith is a filmmaker as well as a writer and illustrator. He recently designed the characters for the film version of Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach. Jon Scieszka lives in Brooklyn, New York. Lane Smith lives in New York City.

Squids Will Be Squids

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A West African Folk Tale

Chinye lives with her cruel stepmother and lazy stepsister, but her life changes for the better when a mysterious old woman in the forest directs her to a magic gourd.

Chinye

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Hans Christian Anderson

Wear on edges, stamp on inner cover, name and sticker on back cover. No other flaws.

Texas

A nightingale sings so sweetly for the emperor of China that it becomes the darling of the court. But when the emperor receives a mechanical nightingale that can sing one tune again and again, he judges the clockwork bird better than the original--realizing too late what a real treasure he once had. Music by Academy Award-winning composer Mark Isham. Full color.

The Emperor and the Nightingale

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Michigan

It’s Mine! 

The Tiger and the Tortoise 

Illinois

The Legend of Sleepy Hallow & Other Stories in The Sketch Book

Carol Lynn Pearson

Utah

A Fable for Our Times

Whether for a couple just staring life together or a couple who has faced many of the day-to-day challenges of family life hand in hand, this fable offers a glimpse into the unfathomable depth of love.

The Lesson

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The Mouse’s Wedding 

Roger Housden

Massachusetts

A Fable about Finding the Heart's True Desire

Inspired by the poetry of Rumi, the great Sufi mystic, a restless young man heads out on a epic voyage of the heart that takes him from the hills of Florence to the mosques of Konya, Turkey, and into the heart of religious mysticism.

Chasing Rumi

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Richardo Keens-Douglas

Smoke-free pet-friendly home NO returns 😍🌈 books probably have owner labels inside (not always in pix)

New York

A Folk Tale

"In this humourous folktale, Matt hides his few pennies safely under a stone. When a scoundrel steals the money, the village chief charges the stone with stealing" Cf. Our choice, 2001.

The Trial of the Stone

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The Pied Piper

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Signs of aging on cover. See photos. Thank you for supporting our non-profit choir and supporting the voices of women and girls!

Minnesota

The Grindstone of God

The Gols Coin

#hardcover #shipiro #fairbanks #childhood #fable #dreams #shivers

"On the outskirts of Fairbanks, six-year old Robbie meets a mesmerizing girl his own age, and together they explore the mysterious woodland surrounding their homes ... Told as a parable, and vividly observed, Too far is a ... story of an end to innocence that captures the triumphs and follies of the child's imagination as it struggles to remain boundless and free."--Jacket.

Too Far

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M. Scott Peck

There is one flaw there was a name inscription on inside page. It’s glued to the cover. No other
Flaws. See pics. 

A Fable of Faith, Love and Family

On a walk in a meadow near her home, Jenny encounters a friendly snowflake named Harry, whose arrival opens up a world of ideas, questions, spiritual exploration, and discovery for Jenny. All ages.

The Friendly Snowflake

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Maine

Rabbit’s Snow Dance

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Rudyard Kipling

Former school library copy with expected markings and wear. 

The Elephant's Child

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Ed Young

HC with dust jacket. DJ shows minimal edge wear. Tight binding. Pages in very good condition.

California

What About Me?

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Thomas Bulfinch

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

This extensive collection of classical Greek and Roman, Eastern, and Norse mythology, and early European legends includes a mythological dictionary-index.

Bulfinch's Mythology

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Kinky Friedman

It's a Christmas tale only a man called Kinky could tell.

King Jonjo Mayo the First is in a bind. Every Christmas, he commissions an artist to paint a traditional nativity scene to be dramatically revealed after midnight mass. This year, though, the date is mere weeks away, and he still has not yet found his painter. The king decides to take a chance on a peculiar, mute boy whose artistic genius and clairvoyance are rumored throughout the kingdom. He sends three valiant, if begrudging, knights to seek out the boy in the remote countryside. Finally, they find Benjamin -- and he is, indeed, peculiar. Nobody knows if the child is up to the task, but the king's Christmas tradition -- and Benjamin himself -- might just be saved by a Christmas miracle that comes in the form of a very special pig -- who is rather peculiar herself

A Fable

Putting a new twist on a Christmas tale in his own inimitable way, Friedman offers this story set in a magic kingdom. Commissioned by the king to paint the nativity scene to be unveiled at Christmas midnight mass, a ten-year-old autistic boy boy, who has never spoken, befriends a pig who helps him find his voice and his heart.

The Christmas Pig

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Brooks Hansen

Bette, a mother sparrow separated by accident from her mate, takes her chicks on a long search when a faithful reindeer permits her to make a nest in his antlers.

Caesar's Antlers

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Paulo Coelho

A parable set against the backdrop of the French Pyrenees follows an independent but restless young woman whose life is changed forever by an encounter with a childhood friend, now a mesmerizing seminarian and rumored miracle worker. Reprint. $35,000 ad/promo. Tour.

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The Lion and the Rat: A Fable by La Fontaine

Jon Scieszka; Lane Smith (Illustrator)

Squids Will Be Squids

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Chinye

Hans Christian Anderson

The Emperor and the Nightingale

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It’s Mine!

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The Tiger and the Tortoise

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The Legend of Sleepy Hallow & Other Stories in The Sketch Book

Carol Lynn Pearson

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Carol Lynn Pearson

The Lesson

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The Mouse’s Wedding

Roger Housden

Chasing Rumi

Richardo Keens-Douglas

The Trial of the Stone

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Carl Withers

The Grindstone of God

Alma Flor Ada

The Gols Coin

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Too Far

M. Scott Peck

The Friendly Snowflake

James & Joseph Bruchac

Rabbit’s Snow Dance

Rudyard Kipling

The Elephant's Child

Ed Young

What About Me?

Thomas Bulfinch

Bulfinch's Mythology

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The Christmas Pig

Brooks Hansen

Caesar's Antlers

Paulo Coelho

By the River Piedra I Sat down and Wept