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2024 Summer Reading K-5 Challenge #18 - Reading is an Adventure - Poetry & Novels in Verse
National Poetry Month
National Poetry Month
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A boy who turns into a TV set and a girl who eats a whale are only two of the characters in a collection of humorous poetry illustrated with the author's own drawings. Come in - for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins. The Unicorn and the Bloath live there, and so does Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout who will not take the garbage out. It is a place where you wash your shadow and plant diamond gardens, a place where shoes fly, sisters...
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Once again, David Sedaris brings together a collection of essays so uproariously funny and profoundly moving that his legions of fans will fall for him once more. He tests the limits of love when Hugh lances a boil from his backside, and pushes the boundaries of laziness when, finding the water shut off in his house in Normandy, he looks to the water in a vase of fresh cut flowers to fill the coffee machine. From armoring the windows with LP covers...
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2024 Summer Reading K-5 Challenge #18 - Reading is an Adventure - Poetry & Novels in Verse
Audiobooks - Kids & Youth
Audiobooks - Kids & Youth
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"More than 100 funny new poems from Jack Prelutsky, the nation's first children's poet laureate, in a wide array of poetic forms, from haiku to concrete poems and everything in between, and hilariously illustrated in black-and-white on every page"--
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Experience the humor and danger of the hunting camp, and what it took to stop, the near, extinction of the American elk.
Joe Back, the author of that much-loved and beautiful book of the trail, Horses, Hitches, and Rocky Trails, again takes us into high hunting country and the pack site. But, this time he tells a rollicking good story that, despite its humor, has at its core a serious concern about men, animals, and nature.
By both word and his...
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Return to a simpler time in the West, when it is still uncertain, which is the dominant species, Man or Moose.
Ever meet an intoxicated moose? You will in this hilarious yarn about Nosy the Moose, which takes place at the edge of the wilderness. It is the guffaw-packed story about what happens, when Moose tangles with Man and how a half-civilized Alces Americana demonstrates he is, more than a match for homo sapiens.
This high-spirited adventure...
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Modern library of the world's best books volume 85
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"An authentic American genius. . . . Mr. Thurber belongs in the great lines of American humorists that includes Mark Twain and Ring Lardner." -Philadelphia Inquirer
James Thurber's unique ability to convey the vagaries of life in a funny, witty, and often satirical way earned him accolades as one of the finest humorists of the twentieth century. A bestseller upon its initial publication in 1945, The Thurber Carnival captures the depth of his talent...
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Selected from the best-selling picture book by Jeff Foxworthy, these humorous poems are ready for beginning readers to enjoy. From meeting Auntie Brooke and Uncle Keith to searching for tadpoles and snakes, young readers will love discovering Jeff's vibrant neighborhood for themselves.