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Alexandra the rock eater
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Dorothy Van Woerkom |
Alexandra cleverly outwits the dragons as she attempts to find food for her one hundred children. |
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Becky and the bear
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Dorothy Van Woerkom |
A young girl in colonial Maine manages to catch a bear in an unusual way. |
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Donkey Isabel
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Dorothy Van Woerkom |
Donkey Ysabel is upset when she is replaced by a car but proves to her farmer owner that she is still superior to an automobile. |
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Hidden messages
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Dorothy Van Woerkom |
Describes Ben Franklin's experiments with ant communication, Jean Henri Fabre's with moths, and the subsequent discovery by scientists of pheromones by which animals do indeed convey messages. |
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A hundred angels singing
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Dorothy Van Woerkom |
A young girl reflects on the nativity and compares it to her present day Christmas celebration. |
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Let us go to Bethlehem!
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Dorothy Van Woerkom |
Easy-to-read retelling of the birth of Jesus Christ. |
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Queen Who Couldn't Bake Gingerbread
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Dorothy Van Woerkom |
When the King of Mulligatawny is unable to find a queen who bakes gingerbread, he finally realizes there are more important things to consider in selecting a wife. |
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The rat, the ox, and the zodiac
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Dorothy Van Woerkom |
Recounts how the Rat came to be the animal representing the first year of the Chinese zodiac. |
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Harry and Shellburt
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Dorothy Van Woerkom |
Harry and Shellburt, two good friends, rerun the classic race between the tortoise and the hare. |
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