Fanning, Jim

Summary: Spotlighting 100 characters from the 1920s to the 2020s, this book features vintage and modern illustrations from The Walt Disney Company and Andreas Deja's personal archives, as well as essays exploring the history of Disney animation. You can re-create and draw the best of Disney's characters while celebrating the Disney design process, character evolutions, and artist interpretations.-- From...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Walter Foster Publishing, an imprint of The Quarto Group 2023

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Summary: A biography of the man who made public parks an essential part of American life. He made enormous contributions to the American landscape, believing a park was both a work of art and a necessity for urban life. Olmsted's efforts to preserve nature created an "environmental ethic" decades before the environmental movement became a force in American politics.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Kim, Carol

Summary: "In 1811, while exploring the cliffs near Lyme Regis, England, 12-year-old Mary Anning made the find of a lifetime. There in the rocks was the skeleton of a strange creature. Mary's find was later named Ichthyosaurus, a reptile that lived more than 250 million years ago. Anning went on to have a long career finding and identifying dinosaur fossils. However, her work often went unrecognized by...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2023

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Wanning, Esther.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 1998

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Kerbel, Deborah

Summary: "One hundred years ago, juvenile diabetes was a death sentence for millions of people around the world, most of them children. this book tells the story the discovery of insulin, a treatment for this disease and one of the most impactful milestones in medical science. Frederick Banting was a young doctor who was haunted by the memories of the diabetic children he'd treated at Toronto's Hospital...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books Inc. 2021

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Canning, Amanda

Summary: Explore the world's most thrilling snow adventures with the latest instalment in Lonely Planet's Epic series. From skiing British Columbia's Coast Mountains to ice-caving in Iceland and splitboarding the mountains of Hokkaido in Japan, this book contains 50 first-person stories plus a further 150 route ideas.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lonely Planet Global Limited 2023

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Disney

Summary: "What does a seed need to grow into a flower or vegetable? In A Surprise Garden, your child learns some "fun-damentals" of gardening when Rabbit presents each of his friends with surprise seeds to plant."--Back cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Advance Publishers, L.C. 2003

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Doane, Morgan

Summary: Aimed at a new generation of indoor gardening enthusiasts, this book is a perfect guide for anyone keen to see their plant offspring thrive. Gaining ground on food and pet photos on social media, plants have found popularity in the small home, and are being proclaimed the new stars of Instagram. This beautiful little book is ideal for the novice 'plant parent', providing tips on how to choose...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Laurence King Publishing 2018

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Bonning, Tony

Summary: When a fox cleans his den to prepare for a visit from his uncle, his trash makes the rounds to the homes of other animals before ending up right back where it began.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1998

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Bayarri, Jordi

Summary: "Mary Anning made some of the most notable fossil discoveries of the nineteenth century. Her uncovering of ichthyosaur remains, plesiosaurus remains, and more expanded people's knowledge of prehistoric life. This graphic biography follows Anning from her early life in a family of fossil hunters in a coastal British town to her years as a collector who impacted scientific research and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2023

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Disney

Summary: When Nemo gets caught on his way to school, his father comes to the rescue.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Disney 2004

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Disney

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Publisher / Publication Date: 1994

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Disney

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Enterprises, Inc. 1998

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Disney

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Records 2005

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Blanning, Beverley.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 2008

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Haining, Peter.

Summary: Argues that the legendary character Sweeney Todd was an actual historical figure who committed his crimes in eighteenth-century London and was victimized by the poverty and crime that was prevalent in the underworld of that time period.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Robson 2007

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Manring, Michael.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1989

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Disney

Summary: Simba and Nala try to disturb the other animals by roaring, but the animals just ignore them.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1997

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Disney

Summary: Tigger's friends try to warn him to be careful as he bounces through the woods because he might hurt himself or someone else.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: ADVANCE PUBLISHING 1996

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Lanting, Frans.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Taschen 1997

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Banting, Erinn

Summary: Raina Telgemeir's books are loved by children around the world. She writes about things that are difficult to discuss with others.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: AV2 0000

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