Theme: Toys

Nora’s Surprise

By Book Importer | Published: May 5, 2011

Nora’s outdoor tea party with her toys at the home of some friendly geese is disrupted by Benji, the greedy sheep from next door, but he eventually makes amends.

Descriptors: Europe, France, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9), Realistic Fiction » Other Themes: , , , , » Leave a comment

Next Please

By Book Importer | Published: May 5, 2011

One by one, injured toys are called from the waiting room and sent out as good as new, until only the fifth one is left.

Descriptors: Concept Book, Early Years (ages 2-6), Europe, Germany, Nonfiction, Picture Book » Other Themes: , , , » Leave a comment

I Am Pangoo the Penguin

By Book Importer | Published: May 5, 2011

Feeling neglected when Danny goes to sleep with his new stuffed animals rather than with him, Pangoo runs away to the zoo to live with the real-life penguins.

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My Little Train

By Book Importer | Published: December 17, 2010

A little train goes for a ride, taking all the stuffed animals where they want to go.

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I Like To Play

By Book Importer | Published: December 7, 2010

A celebration of the common love of play shared by children throughout the world is a lavishly photographed visual essay depicting young people from a diverse range of cultures engaged in activities from games and dancing to pretending and cuddling.

Descriptors: Concept Book, Early Years (ages 2-6), International, Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , , , , » Leave a comment

While You Are Sleeping

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 29, 2007

A girl’s bedside toys go to great lengths to keep her safe at night while she is asleep.

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Der Standhafte Zinnsoldat

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 29, 2007

Two vanished dolls are discovered by a home builder. They are given to children and they are dumped after the children grew so that they didn’t need the dolls any more.  The dolls’ journey begins from sewers, ocean, exotic foreign land, and placed in a museum in the end of the story.

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Brave Bitsy And The Bear

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 29, 2007

A small toy rabbit and a large woodland bear come to each other’s rescue during the winter

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Icefire

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

While researching the existence of dragons for an essay that could win him a trip to the Arctic, Chris realizes that an ancient treasure may exist there, guarded by bears, and that he has some role in its protection. Sequel to A fire within.

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A Girl Named Disaster

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

While fleeing from Mozambique to Zimbabwe to escape an unwanted marriage, Nhamo, an eleven-year-old Shona girl, struggles to escape drowning and starvation and in so doing comes close to the luminous world of the African spirits.

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