Age: Germany

Materials from Germany

Counting With Apollo

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Apollo is a flexible dog who can change his shape to look like the numbers one to ten and who sometimes eats too many bones.

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What Eddie Can Do

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Eddie is too busy imagining adventures to learn how to tie his shoes, but when his friend Clara is in trouble, his mother shows him that knowing how to tie your shoe can come in handy.

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Freya On The Wall

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Fourteen-year-old Freya, whose home has always been in East Germany, offers her view of the complex events leading to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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Copp

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

A dollmaker cleverly schemes to pass his most beautiful doll off as a real girl, but he is outwitted by the townspeople he tries to deceive. Based on L

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Christmas in the Trenches

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

A World War I veteran tells his grandson of his experiences in 1914, when British and German soldiers declared a truce from fighting to celebrate Christmas together.

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Fritz’s Fish

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Fritz, who longs to have a pet, captures a fish after the river floods his neighborhood, but must decide how long he can keep him in the apartment bathtub.

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Babar’s World Tour

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Babar and his family take a trip around the world.

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