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Veering from the convivial, scene-centered graphic interpretation often associated with this classic, Würbs offers a sparer take, narrowing each scene to softly focused images that are more suggestive than representational. The poem's opening lines are accompanied by an image of a lone candle burning in a brass candleholder, and the sleigh's rooftop landing shows two shadowy reindeer heads emerging from behind a foregrounded stone chimney. Santa's...

Presents the well-known poem about an important Christmas visitor.

Celebrates the shape of a spiral in nature, from rushing rivers to flower buds and even the shape of an ear.

The smart Mr. Fox uses his difficult tongue twisters to get the confused Mr. Know in trouble with his tongue.

Introduces Ann Soforth, Queen of Oogaboo, whom Tik-Tok, the clockwork man, assists in conquering the Nome King.

Two children sitting at home on a rainy day are visited by the Cat in the Hat, who shows them some tricks and games.

Contains the unabridged text of Macbeth as published in Volume VII of the second edition of the Works of William Shakespeare.

Join the free-for-all fun at the public library with these book-loving bats! Shape shadows on the walls, frolic in the water fountain, and roam the book-filled halls untilit's time for everyine, youung and old, to settle down into the enchantment of stortime. -- back cover.

In the style of Clement Moore's familiar Christmas poem, tells of a family's last minute preparations for summer vacation.

For most boys in a small Mississippi town, the biggest concern one hot summer is whether their annual July 4th baseball game will be canceled due to their county's anniversary pageant, but after the death of the old man to whom twelve-year-old star pitcher House Jackson has been secretly reading for a year, House uncovers secrets about the man and the history of baseball in Aurora County that could fix everything.