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Jan Wahl
Books in Order: 50 titles
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Hedy and her Amazing Invention
What else could someone known as the "world's most beautiful woman" offer? How about inventing a technology that allows us to use Wi-Fi? In one of the first books written for children about the amazing life and work of actress and inventor Hedy Lamar...
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The Hunter
As a hunter sets out early one morning, he is greeted by the sights and sounds of autumn in the forest. Leaves rustle. A rabbit darts out. Finches fly overhead. When he comes across the deer he has been seeking, the hunter watches. He waits. And then...
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I Met a Dinosaur
What is a stegosaurus doing at the gas station? Why is an apatosaurus on its way to the park? After a visit to the Museum of Natural History, a young girl takes the memory of those prehistoric beasts with her and begins to see the creatures in the mo...
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The Screeching Door
JAN WAHL grew up in North-West Ohio where as a child he played piano on a radio program called The Kiddies Karnival. Next came the creation of traveling magic and puppet shows and shadowplays. Once he appeared at the Toledo Town Hall with the legenda...
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The Art Collector
It was a chicken. It was magic.
Oscar's Great-Granny showed him how to draw. Oscar was not good at drawing. But he loved art, so he kept the drawing of a red chicken that Great-Granny gave to him and he loved to look at it. He bought another ... -
How the Children Stopped the Wars
This is the inspirational tale of Uillame, a young shepherd, who sets off to end a war. Beautifully written in a timeless voice, How the Children Stopped the Wars will provoke questions about violence and provide a powerful message of peace in today'...
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Little Johnny Buttermilk
Johnny Buttermilk's work is never done. Every day he carries pails of milk to market for his mother. Every day he is set upon by the witch who wants to steal the milk. And every day he must think of some fresh plan to outwit her. Enough is enough. Ho...
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Pleasant Fieldmouse
Here is Pleasant Fieldmouse, as enchanting a small creature as one might hope to meet. And here, too, are his friends, Mrs. Worry-Wind Hedgehog, Haunted Beaver, Graybeard Tortoise, and many, many others.
Their happy adventures in the forest,...
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The Enchanted Sled
On my rusty sled I go /
into whirling lands of snow . . .Like building a jolly snowman or skating on an icy pond, riding a sled down a hill of freshly fallen snow is a classic childhood joy of winter. In The Enchanted Sled, author Jan ...
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Knock! Knock!
A perfect spooky read-aloud for any time of year
A long time ago, in Scotland, a little witch named Ella La Grimble sat alone at her spinning wheel when she heard a KNOCK! KNOCK! at her door.
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Three Pandas
Yip, Yap, and Yep are three pandas. One day they decide to leave the forest and see the world. "There are apples and berries and eggs to eat," says Yep. "There are cities and things to do," says Yap. So the pandas take a train to the city. There, the...
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The Singing Geese
Sam, the unlucky farmer, brings home a goose for his wife to cook for dinner, but just as they are about to sit down to eat, a flock of geese flies through the window in an attempt to save their unfortunate companion....
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S.O.S. Bobomobile
Professor Mickimecki and juvenile genius Melvin Spitznagle use their marvelous invention, the Bobomobile--part-submarine, part-tank--to cross the Atlantic Ocean to uncover the mystery of the Loch Ness Monster. Reprint....
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Little Eight John
Despite his mother's warning that kicking at the toad frogs will bring him bad luck, Little Eight John does so anyway and then is shocked when trouble comes looking for him, in a lively folktale from rural North Carolina....
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The Wizard of Oz Movie Storybook
Dorothy and her faithful friends the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion and Toto journey down to the Emerald City in the magical land called Oz. Features colorful stills from the 1939 motion picture....
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The Golden Christmas Tree
From the Golden Books archives comes a classic Christmas tale by a master storyteller and one of the great Golden Books illustrators.A forest is hushed for the animals' Christmas. The elephant brings a fir tree from far away, and the animals gather s...
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