Rodari, Gianni
Summary: A collection of nearly seventy short and surreal stories told by Signor Bianchi, a traveling salesman, to his daughter over the telephone nightly.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Enchanted Lion Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RODGriffiths, Andy
Summary: Andy and Terry live in a 26-storey treehouse. It has a bumper car rink, a skate ramp, an antigravity chamber, an ice cream parlor with 78 flavors, and the Maze of Doom. This time, the two friends have a whole week to finish their next book, and Andy even knows what it should be about; the story of how he and Terry first met. But, life is never boring in the treehouse, and emergency shark...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: Jack is not fond of the bossy narrator of his fairy tale! When Jack is told to trade his beloved cow Bessie for some magic beans, throw the beans out the window, climb the ENORMOUS beanstalk that sprouts overnight, and steal from a GIANT, he decides this fairy tale is getting out of control. In fact, he doesn't want to follow the story line at all. Who says Jack needs to enter a life of daring,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: It is late and Crabby just wants to sleep, but Plankton keeps Crabby awake with questions and chatter--until a request for a bedtime story takes an unexpected turn.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2019
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Summary: Gooney Bird Greene: There's never been anyone like Gooney Bird Greene at Watertower Elementary School. She is the star of story time with her "absolutely true" stories. But do her classmates have stories good enough to share?
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC LOWStahl, Jon
Summary: While two monsters argue over how the story they are telling should go, Dennis, a very hungry dragon, is listening nearby--and he has very definite ideas about how this story should end.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STASteinberg, Avi
Summary: "Once upon a time there was a story no one has ever heard before, inspired by a carrot on the run, a knight who'd trade his sword for a pal, and an alien who just wants to get some rest and relaxation. It's a story about how to tell a story. From choosing a main character to crafting a problem to solve to arriving at a satisfying conclusion"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STESitomer, Alan Lawrence.
Summary: When Jake and Jenny say they are bored with all their books and retold tales, their father makes up a new bedtime story about a princess who drives a monster truck and battles aliens aided by a cupcake-baking unicorn.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SITFalatko, Julie
Summary: Bored with sweet, boring picture books about cute and fluffy creatures, a group of unpopular animals tries to write an adventure story featuring themselves, with unwanted help from over-eager Bunny.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FALGriffiths, Andy
Summary: Andy and Terry's 13-storey treehouse is the most amazing treehouse in the world! It's got a bowling alley, a see-through swimming pool, a tank full of man-eating sharks, a giant catapult, a secret underground laboratory and a marshmallow machine that follows you around and shoots marshmallows into your mouth whenever you're hungry. Well, what are you waiting for? Come on up!
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC GRIGriffiths, Andy
Summary: "Andy and Terry are once again inviting readers to come hang out with them in their astonishing 39-story treehouse (it used to be 13 stories, then 26 stories, but they keep expanding). And this year they will have even more time to jump on the world's highest trampoline, toast marshmallows in an active volcano, swim in the chocolate waterfall, pet baby dinosaurs, and go head-to-trunk with the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC GRILowry, Lois.
Summary: A most unusual new student who loves to be the center of attention entertains her teacher and fellow second graders by telling absolutely true stories about herself, including how she got her name.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2002
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED LOWVelasquez, Eric
Summary: Ramsey dons his superhero cape to rescue Grandma from the huge octopus she is trying to cook--or is he simply telling a story? Includes author's note on the story's origin and a recipe for Octopus stew.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VELFalatko, Julie.
Summary: "Snappsy's ordinary day is interrupted by a meddling narrator"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FALStein, David Ezra.
Summary: Little Red Chicken wants Papa to read her a bedtime story, but interrupts him almost as soon as he begins each tale.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E STECopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE STECopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STEVirján, Emma J.
Summary: Illustrations and rhyming, easy-to-read text introduce an increasing, then decreasing, cast of characters sharing a boat in a moat with a pig in an enormous wig.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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2 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN VIRStein, David Ezra.
Summary: Little Red Chicken wants Papa to read her a bedtime story, but interrupts him almost as soon as he begins each tale.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011