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Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Fulfilling her mother's dying wish, anthropologist Susannah Connolly travels from her lifelong home on the Connecticut shoreline to the fabled French Camargue, to see its famous white horses, find a mysterious saint linked to her family's history, and fall in love with an American journalist-rancher with a spirited but troubled daughter.
6) Toucans, too
Author
Publisher
Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Thinking the cockatoos have said "toucan stew," the toucans run away in a toucan canoe but the cockatoos set things right with some two-can stew.
7) I bug you
Author
Publisher
Little Simon, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Flit along with bugs of all kinds and reassure little ones that they're loved through wordplay and so moth love.
Author
Language
English
Description
Motherless, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. One day a slip of paper containing the word bondmaid flutters beneath the table. She rescues the slip, and is told that the word means "slave girl." Learning that words relating to women's and common folks' experiences often go unrecorded, Esme begins...
9) Worser
Author
Language
English
Description
William Wyatt Orser's life is turned upside down after his mother has a stroke, but the socially awkward, word-loving twelve-year-old finds glimmers of hope when he discovers friends who share his love of wordplay and books.
10) Cow says meow
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
This humorous picture book features bold graphic art, word play, silly animals, and unique cover cut-outs at the front and back.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In an alternate past--or possible future--a mighty tree stands on the banks of a winding river, bearing silent witness to the flow of time and change. A family farms the fertile valley. Soon, a village sprouts, and not long after, a town. Residents learn to harness the water, the wind, and the animals in order to survive and thrive. The growing population becomes ever more industrious and clever, bending nature itself to their will and their ambition:...
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Granny Adelaide's dying wish that each member of her fragmented family be present at her funeral, as well as at a picnic dinner featuring nostalgic family foods, forces her grandson to embrace the potential for peace with the father that abandoned his mother and siblings many years ago.
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Singapore, 1942. As Japanese troops sweep down Malaysia and into Singapore, a village is ransacked, leaving only two survivors and one tiny child. In a neighboring village, seventeen-year-old Wang Di is strapped into the back of a troop carrier and shipped off to a Japanese military brothel where she is forced into sexual slavery as a 'comfort woman.' After sixty years of silence, what she saw and experienced still haunts her. In the year 2000, twelve-year-old...
18) Sharko and Hippo
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"When Sharko calls for a boat, Hippo pulls out a goat. He wants a pole, but Hippo gives him a pail. And instead of bait, a beet and a boot! Hippo's coat pockets seem to have everything except what Sharko asks for!"--Jacket flap.
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.
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