Summary: In his unique fiction/documentary hybrid, the pioneering William Greaves presides over a beleaguered film crew in New York's Central Park, leaving them to try to figure out what kind of movie they're making. This wildly innovative sixties counterculture landmark is expanded 35 years later by its unconventional follow-up, Take 2 1/2. The sequel sees the actors reunited in a more personal,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC SYMMartin, Bill, Jr./ Archambault, John/ Ehlert, Lois (ILT)
Summary: An alphabet rhyme/chant that relates what happens when the whole alphabet tries to climb a coconut tree.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Merchandise & 0000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JE SPANISH MARSummary: All the colors of the earth: Reveals in verse that despite outward differences, children everywhere are essentially the same and all are lovable. Foolish frog: A dramatization of Charles L. Seeger's and Pete Seeger's song of the same title in which a foolish bullfrog explodes with pride when he hears someone singing a song about him. Over in the meadow: Counting song in which flowers and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weston Woods Studios 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SINMartin, Bill
Summary: In a rhythmic alphabet chant, all the letters race one another up the coconut tree. On board pages.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD MARMartin, Bill
Summary: An alphabet rhyme/chant that relates what happens when the whole alphabet tries to climb a coconut tree.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1993
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE FIC MARMartin, Bill
Summary: A told B, and B told C, I'll meet you at the top of the coconut tree. In this lively alphabet rhyme, all the letters of the alphabet race each other up the coconut tree. Will there be enough room? Oh, no - Chicka Chicka Boom! Boom! The well-known authors of Barn Dance and Knots on a Counting Rope have created a rhythmic alphabet chant that rolls along on waves of fun. Lois Ehlert's rainbow of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Paperbacks 2000
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC MARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC MARCopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MARArchambault, John.
Summary: Grandmother Rose's garden provides a place for children of different backgrounds to meet and become friends.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Silver Press 1997
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ARCArchambault, Brigitte
Summary: "A woman lives alone in a small house situated in a tidy yard surrounded by a seemingly impenetrable wall. She spends her days reading, swimming, and watching TV. She eats regular meals and keeps her house clean. But the simplicity is deceiving, because the woman has no idea how she came to live in her house, and--most importantly-what exists beyond the wall. Her only source of information is a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: BDANG 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ARCArchambault, John.
Summary: Twelve mice that live in a cuckoo clock wander out to find birthday cake and have a party while Max the cat sleeps.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2004
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E ArcCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ARCCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FICTION ArchambaultAnders, Elouise
Summary: "For anyone looking to drink less, to leave alcohol permanently on the shelf, or to wake up a little less hung over on Sunday, shake and stir up your next party with Nixology. Full of classics like the Martini, Negroni, and Cosmo, Nixology is full of recipes that are full of flavor instead alcohol. Whip up single cocktails, batches to share, or low-ABV drinks for a tiny buzz. Whether it's a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Smith Street Books 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.874 ANDGottschalk, Louis Moreau
Contents: Le banjo : fantasie grotesque, op. 15 (3:12) -- Bamboula : danse de nègres, op. 2 (9:20) -- Le bananier : chanson nègre, op. 5 (2:44) -- La savane : ballade créole, op. 3 (7:01) -- Tremolo : grande étude de concert, op. 58 (3:54) -- La jota aragonesa : caprice espagnol, op. 14 (2:57) -- Manchega : étude de concert, op. 38 (3:03) -- Souvenirs d'Andalousie : caprice de concert sur la caña, op. 22...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL GOTTSGottschalk, Louis Moreau
Contents: The banjo : fantasie grotesque : opus 15 (3:22) -- La scintilla = The spark : mazurka, opus 20 (2:56) -- Ojos criollos = Les yeux creoles, or, Danse cubaine : opus 37 (2:15) -- Marche funèbre : opus 64 (posthumous) (5:28) -- Bamboula : danse des nègres : opus 2 (7:12) -- Souvenir de Porto Rico : marche des Gibaros : opus 31 (5:10) -- The dying poet = Le poète mourant : méditation (5:00) -- Le...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways 1992
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL GOTGiglio, Louie.
Summary: Not everyone may frequent the church on the corner, but we each have a place of worship. For some, it's at the office. For others, before the mirror. Still others, on the basketball court. You were created to worship! So you naturally find a place to do it. But to worship anything less than God robs both Him and us. It's at the foot of the cross where we reel, trying to comprehend how a holy...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: christianaudio.com 2011
View online at Hoopla
Stowell, Louie
Summary: Kit is a wizard. The youngest wizard in the world, in fact. But her magic keeps going wrong, and all kinds of weird stuff has started happening - exploding fireballs, animals talking when they shouldn't be, and a very strange new arrival in a nearby park. So Kit and her two best friends - along with their local librarian - set off to investigate, and to save the world again.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fantasy, Call number: JT Fantasy Stowell 2020Zong, Louie
Summary: The reader is asked to help a bear scientist and a frog scientist test how books work in a variety of experiments, from shaking and turning the book upside down to whispering secrets and more. Includes information on the scientific method.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ZONGreenfield, Eloise
Summary: Through historical information, poems, illustrations, and photographs, the author shows the ways in which African American midwives have helped families over the course of hundreds of years.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alazar Press 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 618.2 GRELourie, Bruce.
Summary: There are over 80,000 synthetic chemicals in commerce today, including hormone-disrupting phthalates and air pollutants. Smith and Lourie prove how easily our bodies absorb these chemicals from the foods we eat, the air we breathe, and the products we smear on our skin-- day after day. Then they give us the good news about what is in our control and the steps we can take for reducing our toxic...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 LOULourie, Peter
Summary: A riveting adventure biography of Fridtjof Nansen, the pioneer of polar exploration, with a focus on his harrowing three-year journey to the top of the world. A celebrity among the ranks of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton at the turn of the twentieth century, Fridtjof Nansen contributed tremendous amounts of new information to our knowledge about the Arctic. At a time when the North Pole was...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 NANLouie, Rebecca.
Summary: You may think you need a big yard to compost. Think again. Compost City teaches you how to easily choose and care for a compost system that fits perfectly into your (tiny) space, (busy) schedule, and (multifaceted) lifestyle. Whether you live in a cramped apartment or a sprawling town house, or you dream of composting in a shared space with a group of friends or colleagues, Compost City...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roost Books 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 640 LOUStowell, Louie
Summary: Save the library, save the world! Kit can't stand reading. She'd much rather be outside, playing games and getting muddy, than stuck inside with a book. But when she's dragged along to the library one day by her two best friends, she makes an incredible discovery - and soon it's up to Kit and her friends to save the library...and the world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JT Fantasy Stowell 2019Stowell, Louie
Summary: Reluctant reader Kit discovers her wizarding powers and the magic she can wield through books to help save the local library, and its resident dragon, from a power-hungry tycoon.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC STOStowell, Louie
Summary: After one prank too many, trickster god Loki has been banished to live as a kid on Earth. If he can show moral improvement within one month, he'll be allowed to return to Asgard. If not? Eternity in a pit of angry snakes. School, fake "parents," and an eleven-year-old Thor's farts are pure misery. But when a bigger threat than Loki's mischief comes to Earth, Loki will have to decide whether...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books 2022
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Louie, Elaine.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hearst Books 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 747.9 LOUStowell, Louie
Summary: A funny and fascinating how-to guide for budding astronauts, providing a crash course on what it takes to travel into space. Answers all the big questions about space travel, from “How do rockets work?” and “What do astronauts do all day?” to “How do you go to the toilet on a spaceship?” Explores the technology that astronauts use, from space suits to Soyuz spacecraft, and the scientific...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2015