Glasses for D. W.


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Get ready for the cutest aardvark in the world - ARTHUR! He's an eight-year-old read-a-holic sweetie with the cheekiest, bossiest little sister ever - D. W. Wherever ARTHUR and Buster, the Brain, Muffy and Francine hang-out, there's always adventure. So settle down, snuggle-up and get stickering. . . . GLASSES FOR D. W. Whatever big brother ARTHUR'S got, baby sis D. W. wants too and she thinks his glasses are so cool she wants a special pair - even though her eyesight is perfect! Pink heart-shaped love glasses, sparkly diamond-encrusted specs, goggles with built-in windscreen wipers. . . . ARTHUR thinks D. W. 's glasses obsession is getting out of control, so he invents a special brotherly miracle cure. . . .




Glasses for D.W.


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D. W., longing to wear glasses like her big brother Arthur, sets out to prove she needs them.




D.W. Griffith: Master of Cinema


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Exhaustively researched and accessibly written, D.W. Griffith: Master of Cinema is a remarkably comprehensive biography of the legendary director and his days creating his craft at the American Biograph Company between 1908 through 1913. Meticulously detailed, utilizing a wealth of archival documents and photographs, the book effectively details Griffith’s place as a film pioneer. Even a casual film fan can see the lines being drawn from the techniques Griffith developed to modern cinematic experience. Ira Gallen’s exploration of Griffith’s family and his early life sets the stage for his career, and give great context for who he would become. His intricate details about early stage and film paint such a vivid and evocative picture of the time that you will be truly drawn into another world while reading it.




D.W. the Picky Eater


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Arthur the Aardvark and his little sister, D.W., are off to a wedding. Arthur is going to be a page-boy and to hold the wedding ring, but D.W. is too small to be a bridesmaid. However, when the ring rolls away, it takes D.W. and her own big idea to save the day.




Rosie's Glasses


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A special pair of glasses alters how a little girl sees the world. In this wordless picture book, Rosie wakes up in a monochrome world, with a dark cloud over her head. As she plods through her day, mishaps thwart her, noises assault her ã and the rain makes everything worse. But then Rosie finds a pair of strange glasses. When she puts them on, her world is transformed into vivid color, and her dark cloud disappears. Are the glasses magic? Or could it be that changing how we look at the world can change the way we experience it? Who needs rose-colored glasses? Happiness is in the eye of the kid!




The Collected Works of D.W. Winnicott


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D.W., Go to Your Room!


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For use in schools and libraries only. When Mom sends D.W. to her room, a ten-minute time-out seems like forever.




Irena's Children


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Presents the story of a Holocaust rescuer to reveal the formidable risks she took to her own safety to save some 2,500 children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II.




Once You Break a Knuckle


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In the remote Kootenay Valley in western Canada, good people sometimes do bad things. Two bullied adolescents sabotage a rope swing, resulting in another boy's death. A heartbroken young man chooses not to warn his best friend about an approaching car. Sons challenge fathers and break taboos. Crackling with tension and propelled by jagged, cutting dialogue, D.W. Wilson's stories reveal to us how our best intentions can be doomed to fail or injure, how our loves can fall short or mislead us, how even friendship - especially friendship - can be something dangerously temporary. An intoxicating cocktail of adrenaline and vulnerability, doggedness and dignity, Once You Break a Knuckle explores the courage it takes just to make it through another day.




Arthur's Really Helpful Word Book


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Uses labeled illustrations and brief text showing Arthur and his family and friends at the zoo, in the snow, in the kitchen, at Grandpa's farm, and in other settings to present vocabulary words.