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A child travels to visit her grandmother, "practically on the other side of the world" on a lime green train with orange doors.
Starting in space, an alien family bids adieu to their offspring (they look a lot like octopuses) who then head for earth landing in the ocean. When read the other way, he journeys home.
Look! Watch various animals in their own environment with a young dreamer. Here, expressive but realistic watercolor illustrations are truly worth a thousand words. They are accompanied by brief, repeating language just right for new readers.
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While Mama Duck and her five ducklings left their pond for a trip to town, the ducklings fall into trouble. With help from the townspeople, the Duck family is reunited in this handsomely illustrated, touching story based on an actual event.
Benign-looking, cheerful creatures love playing with color as they lend red, blue and yellow to make new colors for gray monsters. Energetic lines and lively language swirl and dance across the pages of this spirited homage to color and creativity.
At the behest of Pete, the pirate parrot, a group of grubby pirates clean themselves up for a little girl's party. Polly, however, wants real pirates at her birthday celebration! Comic illustrations combine with straightforward text for a piratical tale.
Ol' Mama Squirrel scares off anyone or anything that tries to encroach on her tree home with a fierce "chook, chook, chook!" Onomatopoeic language and comic illustrations tell a recognizable tale about a small but heroic rodent.
Whether or not the primates introduced from 1 to 10 are familiar, readers are sure to appreciate meeting them in arresting portraits. A self-portrait of the illustrator other humans are accompanied by concluding text: "All primates. All one family.
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An unseen narrator asks a terrified rabbit to depict the not-so-big-bad wolf on a chalkboard. When it arrives, rabbit is no longer frightened but hugged by a child in a wolf suit.
The children are distressed that it's raining while visiting their grandfather. But Grandpa has the children don rain gear to "find colors for garden stew." Vegetables collected, the family makes and eats a delicious stew.