Tag Archives: Mercer

Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast

November 16, 2007 – 7:59 am

Rating: (227 reviews)
Author: Robin Mckinley
Publisher: Eos
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This much-loved retelling of the classic French tale Beauty and the Beast elicits the familiar magical charm, but is more believable and complex than the traditional story. In this version, Beauty is not as beautiful as her older sisters, who are both lovely and kind. Here, in fact, Beauty [...]

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Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Magic

November 15, 2007 – 1:00 am

Rating: (22 reviews)
Author: Betty Macdonald
Publisher: HarperTrophy

Book Description
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle has a trick up her sleeveMrs. Piggle-Wiggle loves everyone, and everyone loves her right back. The children love her because she is lots of fun. Their parents love her because she can cure children of absolutely any bad habit. The treatment are unusual, but they work! [...]

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Sarah, Plain and Tall

November 13, 2007 – 6:43 pm

Rating: (163 reviews)
Author: Patricia MacLachlan
Publisher: HarperTrophy
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MacLachlan, author of Unclaimed Treasures, has written an affecting tale for children. In the late 19th century a widowed midwestern farmer with two children–Anna and Caleb–advertises for a wife. When Sarah arrives she is homesick for Maine, especially for the ocean which she misses greatly. The children fear that [...]

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Little Critter Storybook Collection (Little Critter)

November 13, 2007 – 2:24 pm

Rating: (7 reviews)
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Publisher: HarperFestival

Book Description
This new collection features seven of your favorite Little Critter stories! Join Little Critteras he enters the school science fair, builds his own growing machine, trains for a big race, enjoys a snowy day, becomes the captain of a tugboat, drives a dump truck, and spends a weekend with Grandma [...]

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Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle

November 12, 2007 – 4:30 pm

Rating: (54 reviews)
Author: Betty MacDonald
Publisher: HarperTrophy
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Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle has been wildly popular with children and adults for over 50 years. Children adore her because she understands them–and because her upside-down house is always filled with the smell of freshly baked cookies, and her backyard with buried treasure. Grownups love her because her magical common sense [...]

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More Adventures of the Great Brain

November 12, 2007 – 3:39 am

Rating: (10 reviews)
Author: John D. Fitzgerald
Publisher: Puffin

Book Description
Has Tom Jenkins, a.k.a. the Great Brain, given up his con-artist ways for a bicycle? Not for long. Soon the Great Brain is back to his old tricks, swindling and trading, even convincing the whole town there’s a prehistoric monster on the loose. But when someone robs [...]

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Just Me and My Dad (Look-Look)

November 10, 2007 – 6:54 pm

Rating: (20 reviews)
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Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Book Description
This well-loved Little Critter picture book has become a modern classic. It’s the tale of a father-and-son camping trip filled with Little Critter’s mistakes and good intentions. In spite of difficulties, however, the happy father and son manage to put up their tent, catch fish [...]

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