Mark Young
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Abigail (the woodmouse), Russell (the hedgehog), Edgar (the mole), and Michelle (the badger)- known to their teacher as the Furlings- come face-to-face with dangers unintentionally brought to their forest world by the human pursuit of "progress." These woodland friends race against time to and work together as a team to help a friend in need. This exciting audio tale is based on the children's film Once Upon a Forest, produced...
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Scout & Friends head over to Shapeville in this delightful skill-building adventure that shows what a circle, square and triangle can really do. A new playground is being built at the park by the Beaver Brothers and soon the pets have their hands full helping with the construction. With the guidance of 'measuring' mice, the pets learn how to measure out all the various shapes, sizes, and dimensions needed to build the perfect parts of a perfect playground....
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Siblings Tad and Lily are overcome with first-day-of-school jitters. What will they have to learn? How will they know what time it is? To allay their fears, Edison shows them their classroom and their older brother Leap reassures them about school. It's normal to be nervous about a new situation, but Tad and Lily are now feeling confident and excited. Their school-related fears are transformed by finding out that phonics, counting, and the days of...
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Tad and Lily need the perfect collection of things to take to school for their math assignment. When they finally decide on moon rocks, there's just one problem--how will they get them? With some magical help from their firefly friend Edison, they board a rocket ship to start their quest. Soon the twins learn that math is everywhere, even in outer space! Together, Tad and Lily use their skills in counting, sorting, skip counting and recognizing patterns...
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The cops wanted to shoot me, my bosses thought I was a Bolshevik, and a local lawyer warned me that some people I was writing about might try to test the strength of my skull with a steel pipe. What more could any young reporter hope for from his first real job? The night Mark Leiren-Young drove into Williams Lake, British Columbia, in 1985 to work as a reporter for the venerable Williams Lake Tribune, he arrived on the scene of an armed robbery....
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The fascinating and heartbreaking account of the first publicly exhibited captive killer whale a story that forever changed the way we see orcas and sparked the movement to save them. Killer whales had always been seen as bloodthirsty sea monsters. That all changed when a young killer whale was captured off the west coast of North America and displayed to the public in 1964. Moby Doll, as the whale became known, was an instant celebrity, drawing 20,000...
10) Numbers ahoy
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Tad and Lily want to play a board game called Numbers Ahoy, but find it difficult because it requires a lot of counting. Their big brother Leap teaches them the basics of the game, and Edison uses his green learning stone to take them under the sea, where there are fun opportunities for counting. Unfortunately, there are also pirates, and Tad, Lily, and Edison must launch a mission to rescue their puppy pal Scout. Along the way, they learn about zero,...
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"Join Scout & Friends for another exciting LeapFrog learning adventure! When the pets long to learn about numbers, their magical car, Axle, whisks them away to Numberland. With the help of a new friend Max, they meet all the residents and build early number skills. Through in a surprise birthday party and it all adds up to plenty of fun on this sing-along counting adventure!"--Container.