26 Fairmount Avenue
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Children's author-illustrator Tomie dePaola describes his childhood experiences at home and in school through funny, dramatic, and memorable moments. Illustrations....
G. P. Putnam's Sons
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26 Fairmount Avenue
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Many things happened the year Tomie's family built their new house at 26 Fairmount Avenue, in Meriden, Connecticut, including the hurricane of 1938, Tomie's first day of kindergart...
Puffin Books
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A Child's Portrait of Shakespeare
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"Burdett's magical use of Shakespeare . . . (allows) second graders (to) learn about the playwright and his plays using their imagination and creative energy".--Anne Barry, Library...
Firefly Books
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A Fire in My Hands
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Unavailable since 1998, Soto's beautiful collection of poems, based on his experience of growing up as a Mexican-American in California's San Joaquin Valley, is available once agai...
Harcourt Children's Books
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A Girl from Yamhill
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Follows the popular children's author from her childhood years in Oregon through high school and into young adulthood, highlighting her family life and her growing interest in writ...
HarperTrophy
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A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams
$18.00
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When he wrote poems, he felt as free
as the Passaic River as it rushed to the falls.
Willie's notebooks filled up, one after another. Willie's words gave him freedom and...
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
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Author: A True Story
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So begins the story of Helen Lester, author of Tacky the Penguin and many other popular books for children. By sharing her struggles as a child and later as a successful author, sh...
Houghton Mifflin Company
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Author: A True Story
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Lester tells her personal story, sharing her struggles as a child and later as a successful author. Using her unique ability to laugh at her mistakes, Lester creates a guide for yo...
Houghton Mifflin Company
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Bad Boy: A Memoir
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From bad boy to role model, this is the author's story of his life as a troublemaker and truant while growing up in Harlem in the 1940s and '50s. In his own words, Walter Dean Myer...
Amistad Press
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Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare
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How did a man from an unremarkable family create a legacy of plays that are performed today in every part of the world? "Bard of Avon" presents "a remarkably rounded picture of Sha...
Mulberry Books
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Beatrix Potter
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The life story of the author of many beloved children's books....
Holiday House
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Bill Peet: An Autobiography
$23.00
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Bill Peet tells his life story, including his years with Disney, with illustrations on every page....
Houghton Mifflin Company
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Boy: Tales of Childhood
$12.00
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Dahl tells the story of his adventures and misadventures as a child: his involvement in the Great Mouse Plot of 1924; his first automobile ride, in which he nearly lost his nose; h...
Penguin Books
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Boy: Tales of Childhood
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Dahl recounts his days as a child growing up in England--from his years as a prankster at boarding school to his envious position as a chocolate tester for Cadbury's. Illustrations...
Puffin Books
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Boy: Tales of Childhood
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"'I am only eight years old, ' I told myself. 'No little boy of eight has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible.'"
So thought Roald Dahl in 1924 when his plan to get revenge ...
Farrar Straus Giroux
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