Dillon, Leo
Summary: In text and pictures, this book tells us how much better the world would be, if kids were allowed to run the world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Blue Sky Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2014
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Summary: Before the baby arrives a couple orders a rocking chair, and as the family grows and changes, the rocking chair is always there, a center of love and continuity.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Blue Sky Press, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DILDillon, Leo.
Summary: Synopsis: If you have ever been lucky enough to hear great jazz, then you will understand the pure magic of this book. Leo and Diane Dillon use bright colors and musical patterns that make music skip off the page in this toe-tapping homage to many jazz greats. From Miles Davis and Charlie Parker to Ella Fitzgerald, here is a dream team sure to knock your socks off. Learn about this popular...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Sky Press 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DILDillon, Leo.
Summary: In illustrations and rhyme describes the dancing of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, one of the most famous tap dancers of all time.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Sky Press 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Dillon 2002Summary: Two folktales from Asia. In Tale of the Mandarin ducks: a compassionate couple risk everything to reunite a pair of ducks. In The stonecutter: a lowly Japanese stonecutter dreams of power.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weston Woods Studios 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ASIBrown, Margaret Wise
Summary: Two little trains, one streamlined, the other old-fashioned, puff, puff, puff, and chug, chug, chug, on their way West.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Brown 2001Hamilton, Virginia.
Summary: The nineteen stories in this book focus on the magical lore and wondrous imaginings of African American women. A remarkable book that honors our heritage while giving us hope and inspiration for the future.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Sky Press 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 HAMMusgrove, Margaret.
Summary: Explains some traditions and customs of 26 African tribes beginning with letters from A to Z.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 1976
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 960 MUSBrown, Margaret Wise
Summary: Two little trains, one streamlined, the other old-fashioned, puff, puff, puff, and chug, chug, chug, on their way West.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2001
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Summary: Young Calpurnia takes her dog, Buggy-horse, and follows her nose to a secret river in a Florida forest, where she catches enough fresh fish to feed her hungry neighbors, even after giving some to the forest creatures she meets on the way home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2009
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC RAWAardema, Verna.
Summary: Rabbit has a problem - someone is inside her house and won't let her in.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Pied Piper 1979
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 AARAardema, Verna.
Summary: Reveals the meaning of the mosquito's buzz.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 1975
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 AARHerman, John
Summary: A lonely cow about to give birth on a cold winter's night finds shelter in a deserted shed with a man and a woman who are also having a baby.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2003
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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: JE HERMusgrove, Margaret.
Summary: Explains some traditions and customs of 26 African tribes beginning with letters from A to Z.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pied Piper 1980
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 MUSHamilton, Virginia
Summary: Retold Afro-American folktales of animals, fantasy, the supernatural, and desire for freedom, born of the sorrow of the slaves, but passed on in hope.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1985
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 HAMBurns, Khephra.
Summary: A fictional account of the nomadic wanderings of the boy who grew up to become Mali's great fourteenth-century leader, Mansa Musa.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace & Co. 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BURHamilton, Virginia
Summary: Recounts the journey of Black slaves to freedom via the underground railroad, an extended group of people who helped fugitive slaves in many ways.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1993
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Summary: Explains some traditions and customs of 26 African tribes beginning with letters from A to Z.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 1976
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 960 MUSHamilton, Virginia
Summary: In this West Indian version of the Rumpelstiltskin story, Lit'mahn spins thread into gold cloth for the king's new bride.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Blue Sky Press 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 HAMVerne, Jules
Summary: Retells the adventures of a French professor and his two companions as they sail above and below the world's oceans as prisoners on the fabulous electric submarine of the deranged Captain Nemo.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2000