Summary: Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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Summary: An illustrated version of the well-known poem about a wily spider who preys on the vanity and innocence of a little fly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2002
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOWKnight, Hilary.
Summary: Captivated by Edward Lear's poem, a boy and girl turn into the owl and the pussycat and set sail in a pea green boat for The Land Where the Bong Tree Grows.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 1983
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 1988
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Summary: "A celebration of the winter solstice and the Yuletide season. As the sun set on the shortest day of the year, early people would gather to prepare for the long night ahead. They built fires and lit candles. They played music, bringing their own light to the darkness, while wondering if the sun would ever rise again"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2019
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Summary: Presents five traditional rhymes along with shapes for young readers to trace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Silver Dolphin Books, an imprint of Printers Row Publishing Group 2016
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE Board BannisterSummary: Beowulf and Grendel are in war-torn Spain, where honor is hard-fought, allegiances are dubious, and the bulls run wild. Amidst it all comes a young knight named Rodrigo, who fights for the name he's lost, the land he loves, and the virtue they've both forgotten.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2018
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Summary: "It is a story known around the world. Born of an Arabic tale, it has been interpreted hundreds of times in Persian, Turkish, and Indian languages. It has influenced playwrights, composers, filmmakers, scholars, modern popular language, the first opera of Islamic origin, and individuals as varied as Aleister Crowley and Eric Clapton. The tragic tale of love unfulfilled - Majnun and Layla. Qays...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Life Drawn, an imprint of Humanoids, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DAMAndreae, Giles
Summary: Poem about different type of dinosaurs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiger Tales 2005
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Summary: Identical text with variant illustrations printed back to back and inverted with a pop-up illustration at the center.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 2007
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Summary: As penpals for a high school English assignment, poetry-loving sophomore Jonathan and popular-athlete senior Adam explore their growing relationship through a series of letters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019