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Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as wel...
Gerald the elephant tells his best friend Piggie a long, crazy story about how he broke his trunk.
At bedtime, their father tells Grace and Walter a scary story about two children in a dark forest.
Little Red Chicken wants Papa to read her a bedtime story, but interrupts him almost as soon as he begins each tale.
"The clothesline swing is a journey through the troublesome aftermath of the Arab Spring. A former Syrian refugee himself, Ramadan unveils an enthralling tale of courage that weaves through the mountains of Syria, the va...
Bear, with the help of his animal friends, remembers the story he had hoped to tell before the onset of winter.
"An invitation to join The Fifth Avenue Story Society gives five New York strangers a chance to rewrite their own stories. Executive assistant Lexa is eager for a much-deserved promotion, but her boss is determined to ke...
When Little Red Chicken comes home excited about what she learned in school, she explains to Papa that every story has "an elephant of surprise."
A narrator's story is disrupted by the main character (Panda) who refuses to play the part.
A most unusual new student who loves to be the center of attention entertains her teacher and fellow second graders by telling absolutely true stories about herself, including how she got her name.
When Donut the bear is told his story is over and he has to leave, he employs trickery so the story can go on.
"It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon." This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The whole family--their two daughters and two sons,...
An interactive collection of illustrated book covers for thirteen different storybooks along with the story's beginning, but the reader invited to allow their imagination to take over and write the ending.
What happens when the story ideas--from a bored Viking to a space robot--kept in a teacher's special jar escape and get rowdy?
Illustrations and rhyming, easy-to-read text introduce an increasing, then decreasing, cast of characters sharing a boat in a moat with a pig in an enormous wig.
The unflappable Mrs. Kinky Kincaid is a trusted fixture in the life of the Irish village of Ballybucklebo, and it often seems that she's been there forever. But some forty years before and many miles to the south, she wa...
Bored with sweet, boring picture books about cute and fluffy creatures, a group of unpopular animals tries to write an adventure story featuring themselves, with unwanted help from over-eager Bunny.
"Deep in the woods, in a rustic cabin, lives an old man and the boy he's raised as his own. This sage old man has taught the boy the power of nature and how to live in it, and more importantly, to respect it. In Fishbone...
A boy and his grandfather cross a language and cultural barrier using their shared love of art, storytelling, and fantasy.