Tag Archives: Stories

Room on the Broom

Rating: (26 reviews)
Author: Julia Donaldson
Publisher: Puffin
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There’s always room for one more on this affable witch’s broomstick… or is there? In another mild-mannered tale from the creators of the Smarties Prize-winning picture book, The Gruffalo, a witch and her happily purring cat fly through the wind on their [...]

Beck Beyond the Sea (Disney Fairies Chapter Books)

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Kimberly Morris
Publisher: RH/Disney

Book Description
Beck can’t help wondering what lies outside Pixie Hollow. Then Beck meets a flock of Explorer Birds and has her chance. With Vidia’s special pixie dust, Beck can fly faster and farther than ever before. She joins the far-flying Explorer Birds, to see what’s beyond [...]

Jumanji

Rating: (26 reviews)
Author: Chris Van Allsburg
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
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When Judy and Peter find a board game in the park, they take it home, hoping to alleviate their boredom. One live lion, an erupting volcano, and a dozen destructive monkeys later, the children are no longer bored. Their jungle adventure game has come [...]

Ten Little Fingers (Board Books for Babies)

Rating: (21 reviews)
Author: Annie Kubler
Publisher: Child’s Play International
Product Description
This award winning series has been specifically designed for babies. A great introduction to books through well-known nursery songs and interactive text. By Annie Kubler. Ages: birth - 2 years Manufacturer: Marlon Creations

How to Find Flower Fairies

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Cicely Mary Barker
Publisher: Warne

Book Description
“Children, the knowledge that I am passing to you is precious and must be carefully guarded…”
After centuries of being hidden from human sight, the Flower Fairies allowed Cicely Mary Barker a glimpse into their enchanted fairy world in Fairyopolis. Now you can continue [...]

The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread

Rating: (332 reviews)
Author: Kate Dicamillo
Publisher: Candlewick
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Kate DiCamillo, author of the Newbery Honor book Because of Winn-Dixie, spins a tidy tale of mice and men where she explores the “powerful, wonderful, and ridiculous” nature of love, hope, and forgiveness. Her old-fashioned, somewhat dark story, narrated “Dear Reader”-style, begins “within the walls [...]

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Rating: (144 reviews)
Author: Judith Viorst
Publisher: Aladdin
Product Description
Judith Viorst. Poor Alexander! He woke up with gum in his hair; his mom forgot to put dessert in his lunch bag; there were lima beans for dinner, and kissing on TV even the cat refuses to sleep in his bed. Some days are just [...]

The Three Snow Bears

Rating: (6 reviews)
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Publisher: Putnam Juvenile

Book Description
Aloo-ki glances up from fishing and sees her sled dogs floating off on an ice floe. She races after them and comes upon an igloo. Being a curious girl, she goes inside only to find no one home. That’s because the polar bear family who [...]

Fairest

Rating: (41 reviews)
Author: Gail Carson Levine
Publisher: HarperCollins

Book Description
In the kingdom of Ayortha, who is the fairest of them all? Certainly not Aza. She is thoroughly convinced that she is ugly. What she may lack in looks, though, she makes up for with a kind heart, and with something no one else [...]

Ella Enchanted (Trophy Newbery)

Rating: (1075 reviews)
Author: Gail Carson Levine
Publisher: HarperTrophy
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At birth, Ella is inadvertently cursed by an imprudent fairy named Lucinda, who bestows on her the “gift” of obedience. Anything anyone tells her to do, Ella must obey. Another girl might have been cowed by this affliction, but not feisty Ella: “Instead of making [...]