There are three rules to the old painted, music box: Wind the box three times only. Never shut the box when the music is playing. Never move the box before the music stops. Leo wouldn’t dream of breaking these rules, but does his stubborn cousin Mimi listen? She winds the box four times — and suddenly the paintings on its side come to life and a powerful witch is released. Now its up to Leo and Mimi to stop the witch, if only they can find the key to the music box — and the magical world it controls.
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Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
Johanna’s grandfather founded the largest clothing store in town and built up his wealth with his own hands–at least that’s the family legend. But when Johanna travels to Israel for a class project, she finds out that the family of Meta Levin originally owned the store. She learns that her grandfather legally acquired the company during the Nazi regime according to the anti-Semitic laws of the Third Reich. Johanna is worried: her family’s wealth is obviously founded on injustice. Should she keep silent, or should she wake the sleeping dogs?
Pippi Longstocking
In 1950, Viking published the original English version of Pippi Longstocking, the story of an irrepressible red-haired, freckle-faced girl who lived with a monkey and a horse, slept with her feet on the pillow, and found her way into the hearts of children all over the world. Now, Astrid Lindgren’s best-selling book has been given a sparkling new translation by the awardwinning Tiina Nunnally and delightful full-color illustrations by the critically acclaimed Lauren Child. This large-format gift book is sure to become the definitive edition of a favorite classic.
Iran (Discovering Cultures)
Iran culture and life.
Ian Penney’s Abc
Young readers have fun learning their ABCs by finding the objects beginning with the letter for each page. Colorful borders on each page show the entire alphabet.
Woolvs in the Sitee
With no family and little support from his only ally, Miss Radinski, Ben knows that he will have to venture onto the dangerous streets alone to face the woolvs that no one believes exist. The exact nature of the danger is not identified and so the book is open to many different interpretations. Uses invented spelling.
Sophie’s Dance
Whenever Sophie’s parents go out, Sophie gets to visit her grandmother. But tonight her parents are going to the big dance that only happens once a year, and Sophie desperately wants to go. Grandma explains that children are too young to stay out so late, and grandmothers are too old. Sophie convinces Grandma that dressing up in their finest and going to the dance is too important to skip. And when they get there, perhaps they’ll meet someone special who makes the trip worth the trouble.
Umm Al Madayan: An Islamic City through the Ages
Traces, in detailed drawings and text, the development through the ages of a fictional Islamic city in North Africa.
Moondrops: A First Book of Lullabies from around the World
This book has songs with an English translation. It also includes original languages.
It is originally published in Australia.
Flusi: The Sock Monster
Mum puts 10 socks in a washing machine and only nine socks come out. How they disappear (and where they go) is a mystery. Inexplicable, that is, until Maja meets Flusi, the Sock Monster. He’s a little creature of indisputable fierceness, overcome by desire to possess as many socks as possible.