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Chicken forgets
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Miska Miles |
A forgetful chicken, off to pick blackberries for his mother, almost comes home with flies, weeds, or clover blossoms instead. |
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Otter in the cove
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Miska Miles |
Maggie is heartbroken when her father announces he must kill the otters who are eating the abalone he fishes. |
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Wharf rat
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Miska Miles |
After an oil slick fouls the beach a disrupted rat finds haven on a freighter. |
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Apricot A B C
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Miska Miles |
An apricot falls to the ground and becomes a thing to be examined by insects, eaten by a villainous hen, and covered by the processes of nature to grow again. Each page introduces a new letter of the… |
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Gertrude's pocket
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Miska Miles |
Gertrude wanted to hurt Watson but tearing his only shirt brought more serious consequences than she anticipated. |
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Noisy gander
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Miska Miles |
A gosling discovers just how useful his father's loud honking can really be. |
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Uncle Fonzo's Ford
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Miska Miles |
A ten-year-old girl is very much embarrassed by her uncle who intends well but always does things wrong, so that everyone laughs, especially the boy next door. |
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Annie and the Old One
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Miska Miles |
A Navajo girl unravels a day's weaving on a rug whose completion, she believes, will mean the death of her grandmother. |
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