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Fireboat by Maira Kalman
Category: Children's | Series: Picture Puffin Books (Paperback)
This is the inspiring true story of the John J. Harvey -- a retired New York City fireboat reinstated on September 11, 2001. Originally launched in 1931, the Harvey was the most powerful fireboat of her time. After the September 11 attacks, with fire hydrants at Ground Zero inoperable and the Hudson Riv ...Show more
How to Lose All Your Friends by Nancy Carlson
Category: Picture Books | Series: Picture Puffin Books (Paperback)
With exuberant pictures and a tongue-in-cheek sense of humor, the author of I Like Me! takes a light-hearted look at bratty behavior that will have children laughing in recognition while learning exactly how not to behave. Colored-pencil illustrations throughout.
Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen/Jerry Pinkney
Category: Classics | Series: Picture Puffin Books (Paperback)
Hans Christian Andersen's classic tale is beautifully adapted by Caldecott Honor illustrator Jerry Pinkney. Plucking a Danish girl from America's 19th century melting pot, this adaptation sheds new light on the invisibility of the poor among the prosperous--a circumstance as familiar in Andersen's day a ...Show more
Niccolini's Song by Chuck Wilcoxen
Category: Children's | Series: Picture Puffin Books (Paperback)
Niccolini is no ordinary night watchman in the train yard. He sings the anxious locomotives to sleep every night with a traindreaming song about "gentle hills, steady tailwinds, and feathers for freight." Soon parents start to bring their crying babies and sleepless children to the rail yard, hoping to ...Show more
Sam and the Tigers by Julius Lester
Category: Picture Books | Series: Picture Puffin Books (Paperback)
Sam lives in the town of Sam-sam-sa-mara, where everyone is named Sam, and the animals and people live and work together. On his way to school one morning, he's stopped by a hungry tiger. Rather than being eaten, Sam makes the tiger a deal.
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