Jane Yolen
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With rhyming text, this soothing bedtime book is an ode to baby birds everywhere and sleepy children home safe in their own beds. As a mother describes to her child how many species of birds nest, from pigeons on concrete ledges to owls in oak tree boles to swallows above barn doors.
83) On bird hill
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Whimsical rhyming text accompanies colorful illustrations depicting how a boy and his dog discover a mother bird in her nest with her newly hatched chick.
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"A young woman hunts for her wayward shadow at the school where she first learned magic--while another faces a test she never studied for as ice envelopes the world. The tasks assigned a bookish boy lead him to fateful encounters with lizards, owls, trolls, and a feisty, sarcastic cat. A bear wedding is cause for celebration, the spinning wheel and the tower in the briar hedge get to tell their own stories, and a kitchenmaid finds out that a lost...
85) Bear outside
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A little girl wears a bear on the outside to keep her safe and to be her friend, just as some people have a fierce animal inside to protect them.
86) Elsie's bird
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Young Elsie must find a way to adapt to her new home on the Nebraska prairie after she and her father leave their comfortable city life in Boston.
87) On Duck Pond
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A young boy and his dog on a serene pond that erupts in a cacophony of birds, frogs, turtles, and other creatures.
93) Briar Rose
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A retelling of the German folktale Briar Rose, also known as Sleeping Beauty, set amid forests patrolled by the German army during World War II.
100) Waking dragons
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In the morning, dragons wake up, tumble out of bed, and get ready to fly into the sky.