A child's garden : a story of hope

Master storyteller Michael Foreman has created a timely and moving story of a child creating a garden of hope in the midst of poverty and war. Master storyteller Michael Foreman has created a timely and moving story of a child creating a garden of hope in the midst of poverty and war. A boy’s world is ruin and rubble, with a wire fence and soldiers separating him from the cool hills where …

The cabbage patch curse

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0143300687

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59 pages : illustration ; 19 cm

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The Cabbage Patch Fib

This story describes the drama that occurs when a father tells his son, Chris, that babies grow out of cabbages. Unfortunately, Chris then finds a baby in a cabbage patch and becomes an instant father.

Princess Cadance and the spring hearts garden

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My garden : Mi jardin

Rebecca Emberley's first eight board books featuring colorful images and simple words in both Spanish and English have sold a total of more than 779,000 copies. Here is another book in the same vein that should meet with the same degree of success. Spanish and English exist side by side in many areas of the country and these graphic books are a wonderful start in dual language learning.

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Octopus's garden

Come sing and dance around in an octupus’s garden in the shade! The classic Beatles song comes to life with colorful illustrations from bestselling illustrator Ben Cort and a CD with a new music recording and audio reading from stellar musician Ringo Starr. I’d like to be under the sea In an octopus’s garden in the shade He’d let us in, knows where we’ve been In his octopus’s …

City green

Celebrate the 25th anniversary of City Green—the environmentally and community-conscious classic that shows the wonderful things kids can do when they put their minds to it—with this new paperback edition. Right in the middle of Marcy’s city block is a vacant lot, littered and forlorn. Sometimes just looking at it makes Marcy feel sad. Then one spring, Marcy has a wonderful idea: Inste…

The carrot seed

When a little boy plants a carrot seed, everyone tells him it won't grow. But when you are very young, there are some things that you just know, and the little boy knows that one day a carrot will come up. So he waters his seed, and pulls the weeds, and he waits... This beautifully simple classic teaches the patience and technique of planting a seed and helping it grow. First published in 19…