Henkes, Kevin
Summary: Five friends sit happily on a windowsill, waiting for something amazing to happen. The owl is waiting for the moon. The pig is waiting for the rain. The bear is waiting for the wind. The puppy is waiting for the snow. And the rabbit is just looking out the window because he likes to wait! What will happen? Will patience win in the end? Or someday will the friends stop waiting and do something...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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Summary: Features nine of Henkes picture book stories featuring his mouse characters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2006
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Summary: "On his eighth birthday, Billy Miller wishes for something exciting to happen. None of his wishes are answered the way he expects, but he does have lots of surprises--and the final one is possibly the best one ever"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: A little mouse thinks her name is absolutely perfect until she starts school and all the kids make fun of her. Awards: Gold Medal, The New York Festivals; CINE Golden Eagle; Gold Award, Worldfest-Flagstaff; ALA Notable Audio; "Children's Favorite," Aspen Shortsfest; Honor Title, Storytelling World
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Weston Woods Studios, a subsidiary of SCHOLASTIC Inc 1998
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Henkes, Kevin.
Summary: Lilly loves everything about school, especially her teacher, but when he asks her to wait a while before showing her new purse, she does something for which she is very sorry later.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1996
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Summary: Fascinated by the colors, shapes, sounds, and movements of the many different birds she sees through her window, a little girl is happy to discover that she and they have something in common.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2009
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Summary: Chrysanthemum loves her name, until she starts going to school and the other children make fun of it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1991
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Summary: A mouse named Wemberly, who worries about everything, finds that she has a whole list of things to worry about when she faces the first day of nursery school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2000
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Summary: Seven-year-old Billy Miller starts second grade with a bump on his head and a lot of worries, but by the end of the year he has developed good relationships with his teacher, his little sister, and his parents and learned many important lessons.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Children's Books 2013
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Summary: Illustrations and easy-to-read text introduce such basic concepts as adjectives, adverbs, daytime, and nighttime as they follow five elephants marching from dawn to dusk.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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Summary: "Snow falls, animals burrow, and children prepare for the wonders winter brings"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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Summary: Twelve-year-old Mitch and his mother are spending the summer with his grandparents at Bird Lake after his parents separate, and ten-year-old Spencer and his family have returned to the lake where Spencer's little brother drowned long ago and as the boys become friends and spend time together, each of them begins to heal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2008
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Summary: When her teacher announces that he is getting married, Lilly the mouse sets her heart on being the flower girl at his wedding.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2006
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Summary: When Old Bear falls asleep for the winter, he has a dream that he is a cub again, enjoying each of the four seasons.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2008
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Summary: Penny feels guilty after taking a beautiful blue marble that she sees in Mrs. Goodwin's grass, but gets a pleasant surprise when she goes to return it the next day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2013
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Summary: "Animals and children alike watch as the world transforms from the dark and dead of winter to a full and blooming spring"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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Summary: "Introduces concepts and vocabulary of fall--autumn colors, changes in plants and animals . . . and wind, which soon leads to the next season"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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Summary: "Amelia Albright dreams about going to Florida for spring break like everyone else in her class, but her father--a cranky and stubborn English professor--has decided Florida is too much adventure. Now Amelia is stuck at home with him and her babysitter, the beloved Mrs. O'Brien. The week ahead promises to be boring, until Amelia meets Casey at her neighborhood art studio. Amelia has never been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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Summary: The week of her tenth birthday, Alice and her parents go to Sanibel Island, Florida, just as they do every year, but this time some of the people who are always there are missing and some new people have come, which unsettles Alice, who wants things to be exactly the same as they alway are.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2011
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Summary: When Kitten mistakes the full moon for a bowl of milk, she ends up tired, wet, and hungry trying to reach it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2004
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Summary: As he hops along a little rabbit wonders what it would be like to be green as grass, tall as fir trees, hard as rocks, and flutter like butterflies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2011
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Summary: After helping her mother weed, water, and chase the rabbits from their garden, a young girl imagines her dream garden complete with jellybean bushes, chocolate rabbits, and tomatoes the size of beach balls.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2010