Whether at home getting ready for the day, enjoying the beach, or at bedtime, Olivia is a feisty pig who has too much energy for her own good.

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Depicts the exciting life and adventures of a little girl who lives at the Plaza Hotel in New York.

A young girl describes the family reunion at her grandmother's house, from the food and baseball and photos to the flickering fireflies on the lawn.
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When a carload of their relatives pay a visit, a beleaguered family cannot tell one cousin from another.

Two girls, one white and one black, gradually get to know each other as they sit on the fence that divides their town.
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The 1960 civil rights sit-ins at the Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, are seen through the eyes of a young Southern black girl.

The many different animals that live in a great kapok tree in the Brazilian rainforest try to convince a man with an ax of the importance of not cutting down their home.
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Long before "going green" was mainstream, Dr. Seuss's Lorax spoke for the trees and warned of the dangers of disrespecting the environment.

When Lisa hangs her woolen clothes in the sun to air them out, Hedgie ends up wearing a stocking on his head, to the amusement of the other animals.
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When Nicki drops his white mitten in the snow, several animals sleep snugly in it . . . until the bear sneezes.

Thick clusters of vivid blue flowers cover the Texas hills. This retelling of the Comanche Indian legend of how a little girl's sacrifice brought the flower called bluebonnet to Texas.
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The hills and meadows of Texas and Wyoming are ablaze with the reds, oranges, and yellows of the Indian Paintbrush. How this plant received its name is told in an old Indian legend.

Beginning with Brown Bear, children see a variety of animals, each one a different color, and finally, a teacher looking at them.
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Zoo animals from polar bear to walrus make their distinctive sounds for each other, while children imitate the sounds for the zookeeper.

Annie is a young Navajo girl who refuses to believe that her grandmother, the Old One, will die. Sadly, Annie learns that she cannot change the course of life.

Through the seasons, whenever City Dog visits the country he runs straight for Country Frog's rock to play games with him, but during the winter things change for them both.

Four stories are told simultaneously, with each double-page spread divided into quadrants. The stories do not necessarily take place at the same moment in time, but are they really one story?

After she falls headfirst into a bird's nest, a baby bat is raised like a bird until she is reunited with her mother.

John's Grandpa is blind. But Grandpa has his own way of seeing. And for John this makes a day spent with Grandpa an adventure -- of new sounds and smells and ways of doing everyday things.

Mirette learns tightrope walking from Monsieur Bellini not knowing that he is a celebrated tightrope artist who has withdrawn from performing because of fear.
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A lyrical evocation of Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers.

Retells the story of Goldilocks and the three bears in rhyming text interspersed with Spanish words, which are defined in a glossary.

In this version of the classic tale, a girl climbs to the top of a giant beanstalk, where she uses her quick wits to outsmart a giant and make her and her mother's fortune.

Like her older brother, the Gingerbread Boy, who was eventually devoured by a fox, the Gingerbread Girl eludes the many people who would like to eat her but also has a plan to escape her sibling's fate.

A young boy and his mother bake a gingerbread baby that escapes from their oven and leads a crowd on a chase similar to the one in the familiar tale about a not-so-clever gingerbread man.

In this Red-Riding Hood story from China, three sisters staying home alone are endangered by Lon Po Po, a hungry wolf disguised as their grandmother.