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author: Robert N. Munsch rating: asin: 0920236162 binding: Paperback list price: $5.95 USD amazon price: $5.95 USD

Elizabeth, a beautiful princess, lives in a castle and wears fancy clothes. Just when she is about to marry Prince Ronald, a dragon smashes her castle, burns her clothes with his fiery breath, and prince-naps her dear Ronald. Undaunted and presumably unclad, she dons a large paper bag and sets off to find the dragon and her cherished prince. Once she's tracked down the rascally reptile, she flatters him into performing all sorts of dragonly stunts that eventually exhaust him, allowing her to rescue Prince Ronald. But what does Prince Not-So-Charming say when he sees her?

author: Shana Corey rating: asin: 0439078199 binding: Hardcover list price: $17.99 USD amazon price: $12.23 USD

Amelia Bloomer is not a proper lady. She thinks proper ladies of the 19th century are silly. They're not allowed to vote, not supposed to work, and all that fuss about clothes!

author: Robert N. Munsch Sheila McGraw rating: asin: 0920668372 binding: Paperback list price: $5.95 USD amazon price: $4.95 USD

The mother sings to her sleeping baby: "I'll love you forever / I'll love you for always / As long as I'm living / My baby you'll be." She still sings the same song when her baby has turned into a fractious 2-year-old, a slovenly 9-year-old, and then a raucous teen. So far so ordinary--but this is one persistent lady. When her son grows up and leaves home, she takes to driving across town with a ladder on the car roof, climbing through her grown son's window, and rocking the sleeping man in the same way.

author: Bernard Waber rating: asin: 0395205034 binding: Paperback list price: $6.95 USD amazon price: $6.95 USD

Ira is thrilled to spend the night at Reggie's, until his sister raises the question of whether he should take his teddy bear.

author: Dubose Heyward rating: asin: 0395159903 binding: Hardcover list price: $15.00 USD amazon price: $10.20 USD

The country bunny attains the exalted position of Easter Bunny in spite of her responsibilities as the mother of twenty-one children.

author: Mary Ann Hoberman rating: asin: 0152024409 binding: Paperback list price: $7.00 USD amazon price: $7.00 USD

Peter wants only milk, Lucy won't settle for anything but homemade lemonade, and Jack is stuck on applesauce. Each new addition to the Peters household brings a new demand for a special meal. What's a mother to do? Even though Mrs. Peters picks, peels, strains, scrapes, poaches, fries, and kneads, the requests for special foods keep coming. It isn't until her birthday arrives that a present from her children solves the problem with a hilarious surprise that pleases everyone.

author: Wilhelmina Harper rating: asin: 0525467858 binding: Hardcover list price: $15.99 USD amazon price: $10.87 USD

Wilhelmina Harper's The Gunniwolf is a classic-beloved by readers, storytellers, and teachers. Unavailable for years, it is back with fabulous new illustrations by Barbara Upton, perfect for our time. Its vibrant, rhythmic read-aloud text-sprinkled with dialect-tells the story of Little Girl, who is forbidden to enter the jungle for fear of meeting the Gunniwolf. But when she does, this version's Gunniwolf seems almost playful-if just a little scary. But Little Girl learns her lesson, and a new generation of listeners will be rapt with delight at this "guten sweeten" book.

author: Robert Bright rating: asin: 0590421263 binding: Paperback list price: $2.50 USD amazon price: $2.50

Grownups will shiver with delight when they recognize this old favorite. Georgie the mild-mannered little ghost has been around for over half a century, his gentle ways happily haunting generations of children. Georgie is quite content with his quiet routine in the home of the Whittakers. Every evening he creaks a loose board on the stairs and squeaks the parlor door. This is the cue for Mr. and Mrs. Whittaker to go to bed, Herman the cat to start to prowl, and Miss Oliver the owl to wake up and hoot. But one day when Mr.