William Steig
1) Shrek!
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Horribly hideous Shrek leaves home and terrifies everyone he encounters in his search for his equally ugly bride.
2) Spinky sulks
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Language
English
Description
Convinced that the world is against him and that his family does not love him, Spinky spends his days sulking and nothing his family does to cheer him up seems to help.
4) C D B!
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Language
English
Description
Letters and numbers are used to create the sounds of words and simple sentences 4 u 2 figure out with the aid of illustrations.
5) Wizzil
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Language
English
Formats
Description
A bored witch causes trouble when she decides to take revenge on an old man, but her mischief leads to a happy ending.
Publisher
First Run Features
Language
English
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Description
Relates the story of Abel, an elegant and romantic mouse who gets swept away in a flood and stranded for over a year on a deserted island. The Story of the Dancing Frog - a mother tells her young daughter a curious story from their family history.
9) Amos & Boris
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[1971]
Edition
[1st ed.]
Physical Desc
[32] p. col. illus. 24 x 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Amos the mouse and Boris the whale have little in common except that they are both mammals and save each other's lives.
11) Zeke Pippin
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c1994
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
One day, as fate would have it, Zeke Pippin moseys outside, finds a harmonica in the street, and is soon regaling his family with the prelude to La Traviata. But when his mother, father, sister, and brother promptly fall asleep, Zeke wonders how he can "go on living with such nincompoops" -- and runs away from home. After several other would-be music lovers pass out when he starts to play, Zeke concludes that his harmonica has magical powers, and...
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Series
Nonpareil book volume 31
Language
English
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Description
A New York Times–bestselling, comical take on world history from the beloved New Yorker humorist.
So, you think you know most of what there is to know about people like Nero and Cleopatra, Alexander the Great and Attila the Hun, Lady Godiva and Miles Standish? You say there's nothing more to be written about Lucrezia Borgia? How wrong you are, for in these pages you'll find Will Cuppy footloose in the footnotes of history. He transforms these...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Atheneum Books for Young Readers edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
A lighthearted verse tour of the animal kingdom offers a glimpse of the characteristics and eccentricities of its creatures, both wild and domestic.
17) Potch & Polly
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lively Potch pursues the girl of his dreams, the darling Polly Pumpernickel.
18) The bad island
Author
Publisher
Windmill Books
Pub. Date
[1969]
Physical Desc
[32] p. col. illus. 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
When flowers began to bloom on the miserable island the ugly beasts had always had to themselves, the beasts became so enraged they killed one another.
