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1) Flotsam
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
The story of what happens when a camera becomes a piece of flotsam.
Author
Publisher
Reycraft Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Words are everywhere. But do you know where your favorite words come from? Maybe they plop to the ground from high up in the sky! Or maybe workers piece them together in big factories. Or maybe they come from a one-of-a-kind word-maker... but who could that be? Vivid letter-filled illustrations explore imaginative ways words are made as this book shares the secret to creating new words.
Author
Publisher
Hamish Hamilton Penguin Random House UK
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"From Acorn to Weasel: a Gorgeous, hand-illustrated, large-format spellbook celebrating the magic and wonder of the natural world. All over the country, there are words disappearing from children's lives. Words like Dandelion, Otter, Bramble, Acorn and Lark represent the natural world of childhood, a rich landscape of discovery and imagination that is fading from children's minds. The Lost Words stands against the disappearance of wild childhood....
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The story of "shy young Peter Mark Roget, [for whom] books were the best companions--and it wasn't long before Peter began writing his own book. But he didn't write stories; he wrote lists. Peter took his love for words and turned it to organizing ideas and finding exactly the right word to express just what he thought. His lists grew and grew, eventually turning into one of the most important reference books of all time"--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
What happens when you subtract just one letter from a word? Beginning with "without the A the beast is the best" a pack of silly creatures work their way through the alphabet, subtracting each letter from a different word to alter its meaning and tell a story.
Author
Language
English
Description
You've played the game. Now read the legend of how it all began...Long ago, in an ancient and distant realm called the Kingdom of Backyard, there lived a warrior named ROCK. Meanwhile in the Empire of Mom's Home Office, a second great warrior sought the glory of battle. And his name was PAPER. At the same time, in the Kitchen Realm, in the tiny village of Junk Drawer, lived a third warrior. They called her SCISSORS. These three were the strongest,...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
In this wordless story, a young girl and her grandmother view works inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art, while the balloon she has been forced to leave outside floats around New York City causing a series of mishaps that mirror scenes in the museum's artworks.
Author
Publisher
Gecko Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In this board book built on word play, each scene twists the animals' names into funny new words to share and delight in how they feel and sound. Bumblebee Grumblebee is for toddlers and adults to have fun experimenting with the way words are put together."--Provided by publisher.
13) Float
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Wordless picture book about a boy who loses his paper boat in the rain"--
Author
Series
Elephant and Piggie books volume 25
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Piggie is determined to thank everyone she knows, but Gerald thinks she will forget someone important"--
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Using the building verse of "The House that Jack Built," a farm girl creates a piñata of papier mâché with the help of a boy and the animals on the farm. Includes a glossary of Spanish words, and a step-by-step guide to building your own piñata.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co. Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In this wordless retelling of an Aesop fable set in the African Serengeti, an adventuresome mouse proves that even small creatures are capable of great deeds when she rescues the King of the Jungle.
17) Wolf in the snow
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When a wolf cub and little girl are lost in a snowstorm they must find their way home.