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Rob Cardwell
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Salt Water City is an island kingdom blessed with beautiful beaches and rich green forests. Many visitors come to enjoy the peaceful surroundings-they walk the forest paths and stroll the pristine beaches. They come for a sense of renewal. On a cold windy night, however, a new group of visitors, descend upon Salt Water City. These are the Green Greedies, spell weaving gremlins. When they weave their magic spells around the king and his court the people...
2) Boo!
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Boo! is the story of a young girl's trip to the dentist on Halloween. She has a very active imagination that is, fueled by each step of the visit from pulling up in front of the dental office to meeting the receptionist to meeting the hygienist, etc. The illustrations go back and forth, from what she, imagines to what is real. The receptionist is a goblin, until she isn't. The hygienist is a witch until we meet her. The dentist is a vampire, but no....
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Eduardo is an egg. He lives in an egg carton in the refrigerator of the Macintosh house on Blueberry St. When his fellow eggs begin disappearing he becomes alarmed ,and he and the other food groups devise a plan to find out where they are going. A sad tale that has a happy ending (beginning?).
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Mr. Toad's world is a messy one. Does he like it like that? You bet. How messy? Very. It's a study in misadventures by our Mr. Toad. His day begins in the swamp and he decides that this day is going to be something out of the ordinary, something special. He has a hankering for jellybeans and he knows just where to find them. Thus begins his adventure/misadventure and chaos ensues.
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Vincent and Victoria are vines climbing different sides of an abandoned cottage in the woods. One is on the sunny side, the other in the shadows. Together they learn that their goal is the same and they help each other achieve that goal, which is to climb on to the roof and head to the top, while following the sun. This is a picture book that stresses the positive goal of cooperation and friendship.
6) Clouds
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Willie is standing on the beach and looks up. He sees a message in the sky and rides his bike home. Later that night he is visited by an unknown force in the form of a mist or cloud. It invites him on a journey of discovery. Throughout the summer, the clouds return many times in different forms and Willie accepts their invitation to explore. Maybe we are not alone. Maybe there has been an intelligent life form here since the beginning. Could it have...
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When Robbie and Belle's parents go out for the evening they enlist the grandparents for babysitting duty. What looks like a long boring night turns into anything but. The kids learn a lot about their grandparents that they couldn't possibly have imagined. It will be a night they will never forget. A night filled with adventure.
8) Ben's Room
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Ben's mother has attempted to get Ben to clean his room without any success. He opens a picture book titled JUNGLES and begins leafing through its pages. He falls asleep and subsequently has a dream/nightmare filled with various wild animals made from the messy elements scattered about his room. Upon awakening, he is quite motivated to clean his room.