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62) Lucy Goose
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Lucy Goose lives on a farm with all the other animals, and when she inadvertently hatches a baby duckling she has a new friend and follower to teach about life and friendship in the barnyard.
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Language acquisition and development in hearing children is explored on this DVD. Through each stage of development, from infancy to the schoolage years, language becomes more complex and understanding broadens. While children are learning to speak, they are also learning skills which enable them to read and write. This DVD explores how the acquisition of language is influenced by the adults who interact with the child and by the society or culture...
67) Just like Floss
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Floss the sheep dog has a litter of puppies and Floss's owners want to keep the one that is just like Floss.
69) A bird will soar
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After a tornado, Axel, who loves birds, finds an injured eaglet, and helps to rescue it--and also helps to resolve the problems in his broken family, and draw his father back home.
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"Love You Head To Toe combines Ashley Barron's illustrations with a simple rhyming text that compares babies to baby animals. Each comparison takes up one spread and features the baby animal and the baby each engaged in a similar action-whether it's a baby riding on his mother's back, just like a duckling, or a baby curled up in a ball, just like a hedgehog. The most obvious strength of the book lies in Ashley's illustrations--the babies and the baby...
76) Funny Frank
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Gertie the hen is appalled when her son Frank wants to swim with the ducks, but Jemima and her mother, the farmer's wife, make him a special outfit so that his dream can come true.
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Set in the 1860s, a story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution. Its author, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, who was the last in a line of Sicilian princes, wrote the novel in the 1950s, inspired by the decline of his own family. This edition of his work, lyrically translated by Archibald Colquhoun, also includes two short stories and a brief memoir of the author's childhood. --
78) Big enough
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Mama Elephant explains to her son Max that some activities have to wait until he is older ; but no matter how old he is, he will never be too big for his mother's love.
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"In a tiny village in rural Iran, Zal's demented mother--horrified by his pale skin and hair, the opposite of her own--becomes convinced her baby is evil. She puts him in a wire birdcage on her veranda with the rest of her caged flock, and there he stays for the next ten years: eating birdseed and insects, defecating on the newspaper he squats upon, squawking and shrieking like the other birds.He is rescued from that hell and adopted by a behavioral...