The Tale of Custard the Dragon

The Tale of Custard the Dragon PDF

Author: Ogden Nash

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Published: 1998-04-01

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9780316590310

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In this humorous poem, Custard the cowardly dragon saves the day when a pirate threatens Belinda and her pet animals.

The Best of Ogden Nash

The Best of Ogden Nash PDF

Author: Ogden Nash

Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781566637039

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More of Ogden Nash's poems have come to light, both in the voluminous Nash collection at the University of Texas at Austin, and in family letters and papers. So his daughters have once again produced The Best of Ogden Nash, the definitive Nash anthology. Some of these new poems reveal a darker side of the poet; others are full of fun. But all display the talent of the man whose verse entranced America--and a good part of the world--from the time of the Great Depression until his death in 1971. While earlier collections were organized chronologically, The Best is arranged by subject matter: the subjects of Nash's poems cannot always be identified by his titles, so fans of a particular poem will not have to search for it in vain.

The Lady With the Alligator Purse

The Lady With the Alligator Purse PDF

Author: Inc. Nadine Bernard Westcott

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Published: 2009-05-30

Total Pages: 17

ISBN-13: 0316073474

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The old jump rope/nonsense rhyme features an ailing young Tiny Tim.

The Hundred Dresses

The Hundred Dresses PDF

Author: Eleanor Estes

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780152052607

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Eleanor Estes's The Hundred Dresses won a Newbery Honor in 1945 and has never been out of print since. At the heart of the story is Wanda Petronski, a Polish girl in a Connecticut school who is ridiculed by her classmates for wearing the same faded blue dress every day. Wanda claims she has one hundred dresses at home, but everyone knows she doesn't and bullies her mercilessly. The class feels terrible when Wanda is pulled out of the school, but by that time it's too late for apologies. Maddie, one of Wanda's classmates, ultimately decides that she is "never going to stand by and say nothing again." This powerful, timeless story has been reissued with a new letter from the author's daughter Helena Estes, and with the Caldecott artist Louis Slobodkin's original artwork in beautifully restored color.

Long Walk to Freedom

Long Walk to Freedom PDF

Author: Nelson Mandela

Publisher: Little, Brown

Published: 2008-03-11

Total Pages: 576

ISBN-13: 9780759521049

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The book that inspired the major new motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's antiapartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule. He is revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality. LONG WALK TO FREEDOM is his moving and exhilarating autobiography, destined to take its place among the finest memoirs of history's greatest figures. Here for the first time, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela tells the extraordinary story of his life--an epic of struggle, setback, renewed hope, and ultimate triumph.

Puff, the Magic Dragon

Puff, the Magic Dragon PDF

Author: Peter Yarrow

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9781402747823

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The adventures of a boy and his dragon friend are recounted in this classic song from the 1960s.

The Knight and the Dragon

The Knight and the Dragon PDF

Author: Tomie dePaola

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1998-02-03

Total Pages: 19

ISBN-13: 1524739219

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What happens when a sheepish knight and a not-so-fierce dragon fight for the very first time? Well, it's no ordinary battle since the knight has to go to the castle library to learn about dragon-fighting and the dragon must dig through his ancestor's things to find out how to fight a knight! "Spontaneity of line and feeling are backed by zesty colors and a jovial, tongue-in-cheek tone to which children can relate—a top springtime choice." —Booklist "There's a swirl of good-humored life to the book." —The New York Times Book Review