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What
I love about these books is the great variety of styles
and genres: fiction and pictures books that can mix wonderful
vocabulary with simple style and rich, emotionally complex
content, such as Doctor Desoto, or Music of the
Dolphins; nonfiction that moves the reader out into
world cultures or into our shared past, such as the Wilma
Rudolph biography Wi lma Unlimited or the global
look at what happens to lost baby teeth Throw Your Tooth
on the Roof; sheer and necessary satire and silliness,
such as Fred Marcellino's I, Crocodile, Babette Cole's
upside-down frog prince story Princess Smartypants
or Susan Meddaugh's Martha the Dog series; and gleeful
exaggeration, as in William Joyce's A Day with Wilbur
Robinson, or David Wiesner's June 29, 1999. These
are definitely the books written for kids (whether actual
kids or ex-kids) who are ready to be challenged by new ideas
and ways of thinking but aren't too big to laugh out loud.
Some of these books I have loved since I was a child, like
Sam, Bangs, and Moonshine, and some are brand new,
but will be classics. After all, who could possibly resist
being drawn into an opening such as Lucy Dove's:
"When wishes were horses and beggars could ride, in a stone
castle by the sea there lived a rich laird." ~
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Elliott
bat Tzedek, CLI Manager, Program Development
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| 1. |
A
Day with Wilbur Robinson |
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William
Joyce |
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| 2. |
Doctor
DeSoto |
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William
Steig |
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| 3. |
I,
Crocodile |
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Fred
Marcellino |
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| 4. |
June
29, 1999 |
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David
Wiesner |
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| 5. |
Lucy
Dove |
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Janice
DelNegro |
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| 6. |
The
Music of the Dolphins |
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Karen
Hesse
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| 7. |
Princess
Smartypants |
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Cole
Babette |
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Sam,
Bangs, and Moonshine |
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Evaline
Ness |
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Throw
Your Tooth on the Roof |
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Selby
Beeler |
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| 10. |
Wilma
Unlimited |
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Kathleen
Krull |
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