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Thursday, November 1, 2007


STARTED & FINISHED:

Van Allsburg, Chris. (1992). The widow's broom. New York: Houghton Mifflin.


[A must read every Halloween. Read this to a bunch of rowdy 4th & 5th grade boys on a camping trip and had them MESMERIZED.]




McCarthy, Peter. (1999). Little Bunny on the move. New York: Henry Holt & Company.


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Riddle, Tohby. (1997). The great escape from City Zoo. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.


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Agee, Jon. (1988). The incredible painting of Felix Clousseau. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.


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