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One child. One swing. An obliging dad. The inevitable plea to go "Higher! Higher!" Add Leslie Patricelli's wildly expressive illustrations, and an everyday pastime reaches new heights of humor and whimsy. How high can it go? Higher than a giraffe? Taller than a mountain? Is Earth the final frontier? The creator of a popular series of board books rises to the occasion with an ingenious picture book of very few words that expresses the giddy glee of...
5) Flat Stanley
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Flat Stanley volume 1
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"Based on the original Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown"--T.p. verso.
A picture book version of the story in which a bulletin board falls on Stanley while he is sleeping, and he finds that being flat has its advantages.
7) My garden
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After helping her mother weed, water, and chase the rabbits from their garden, a young girl imagines her dream garden complete with jellybean bushes, chocolate rabbits, and tomatoes the size of beach balls.
10) Skippyjon Jones
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Skippyjon Jones, whose alter ego is El Skippito, saves a roving band of Mexican Chihuahuas from a gigantic bumblebee that is tormenting them.
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Through his imaginative journey, Alexander discovers how great men become heroes: a tough president has a soft spot for nature, a proud warrior is also the most peaceful, and sometimes, being brave about what makes you different will not only help you break records, but inspire others.
12) Brave Molly
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2019.
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In this story without words, Molly must overcome her fear of the shadowy monsters that only she can see in order to return a lost book, and so make a new friend.
13) The wrong book
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2024.
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In this giggle-inducing story, the narrator is WRONG about everything, including that bicycles say cock-a-doodle-doo and firefighters shout Ding Dong! before putting out a fire, until the characters within the book set him straight.
15) If
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Illustrations present such imaginative possibilities as worms with wheels, caterpillar toothpaste, and whales in outer space.
16) Say zoop!
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[2017]
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Minimal text and simple directions, and the reader's imagination lead the reader to experiment with different types of sound in this interactive book.
17) The squiggle
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As she walks to the park with her school class, a young girl finds a piece of string which her imagination turns into a dragon's tail, an acrobat, fireworks, a storm cloud, and more.
18) Sloth slept on
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2015.
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When three children find a mysterious creature sleeping in a tree in their backyard, they search through books and use their imagination to find out what it is.
19) Not a box
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To an imaginative bunny, a box is not always just a box.