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"It's the perfect gift! Encourage a lifelong love of reading with this collection of six Beginner Books bound together in one sturdy hardcover book--each story inspired, written, or illustrated by Dr. Seuss! Written in rollicking rhyme and perfect for beginning readers,The Big Violet Book of Beginner Books features the following beloved titles: What Pet Should I Get?, Come Over to My House, If I Ran Your School by the Cat in the Hat, Dr. Seuss's Book...
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"All Burt the beetle wants to do is settle down and find the perfect home for himself. Should he build his home out of silk like monarch butterflies? Or make it out of wood fibres and saliva like wasps? Or maybe he could just move into a human home? What does the perfect home for a June beetle look like anyways? And how will Burt know when he's found it? Follow along in this charming and humorous tale as Burt learns all about different insect habitats...
6) Puzzleheart
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When nonbinary twelve-year-old Perigee tries to reunite their dad with his estranged mother, they end up facing off against their grandmother's mysterious sentient "puzzle house," which has a dangerous agenda all its own.
7) Corner
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In this mostly wordless picture book, a crow finds itself inhabiting a corner space and proceeds to try to make it livable with a plant, a bed, and other furnishings. When it seems the space needs something more, the crow turns to art, decorating the walls with elaborate designs. When it still seems that something is missing, the crow adds a window which opens up the bird's world to new possibilities.
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"2008. The house Maxine and Seb have just bought was a bargain -- a huge Georgian townhouse on the edge of Peckham Rye, it needs a lot of work but Max couldn't resist it. Now they are in, though, nothing seems to be going right -- and as the problems mount up, Max starts to doubt her relationship as well as her decision. Is Seb all he seems to be? And why are the neighbours so evasive about the house's previous owner? 1994. Cookie and his parents...