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Mister Dash and the Cupcake Calamity

Author : Monica Kulling

Publisher : Tundra Books

Page : 35 pages

File Size : 36,35 MB

Release : 2013-03-12

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1770494022

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Mr. Dash may not have a pedigree (he can count five different breeds of dogs as family), but from his furry head to his wagging tail, he is a gentleman. His fine manners make him a perfect companion to Madame Croissant. Their life together is graceful and civilized, what with walks in the park, stamp-collecting, and a passion for flowers. Mr. Dash is also in charge of delivering Madame Croissant's world-famous cupcakes. All is well until Daphne, Madame Croissant's rather lively niece, arrives to turn the cupcake world upside down. Filled with humour, this delectable story will appeal to dog-lovers AND cupcake-lovers the world over.



Come Back, Moon

Author : David Kherdian

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 32 pages

File Size : 28,34 MB

Release : 2013-10-15

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1442458879

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A sleepless bear hides the moon, much to the displeasure of his forest animal friends who miss dancing under its light in this new picture book by a Newbery Honoree and a two-time Caldecott Medalist. Full color.



Spic-and-Span!

Author : Monica Kulling

Publisher : Tundra Books

Page : 34 pages

File Size : 25,76 MB

Release : 2014-08-05

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 1770493816

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Born into a life of privilege in 1878, Lillian Moller Gilbreth put her pampered life aside for one of adventure and challenge. She and her husband, Frank, became efficiency experts by studying the actions of factory workers. They ran their home efficiently, too. When Frank suddenly died, Lillian was left to her own devices to raise their eleven children. Eventually, she was hired by the Brooklyn Borough Gas Company to improve kitchen design, which was only the beginning. Lillian Gilbreth was the subject of two movies (Cheaper by the Dozen and Belles on Their Toes), the first woman elected to the National Academy of Engineering, and the first female psychologist to have a U.S. postage stamp issued in her honor. A leading efficiency expert, she was also an industrial engineer, a psycologist, an author, a professor, and an inventor.



Clean Sweep! Frank Zamboni's Ice Machine

Author : Monica Kulling

Publisher : Tundra Books

Page : 34 pages

File Size : 16,87 MB

Release : 2016-01-05

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 1770497978

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When Frank Zamboni, along with his brother and cousin, opened their own skating rink in 1940 in Paramount, California, it could take an hour and a half for a crew to resurface the ice. They had to level the surface by shaving down the pits and grooves with a tractor, remove the shavings, wash the ice and find a way to give the rink its shining finish. Skaters became exasperated with the wait, so Frank was determined to do something about it. Could he turn a ninety-minute job for five men into a ten-minute task for only one? Working in the shed behind his ice rink, Frank drew designs and built models of machines he hoped would do the job. For nine years, he worked on his invention, each model an improvement on the one before. Finally, in 1949, Frank tested the Model A, which "cleaned the ice in one sweep around the rink." The rest is history.



Grant and Tillie Go Walking

Author : Monica Kulling

Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd

Page : 36 pages

File Size : 10,89 MB

Release : 2015-07-25

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1554984483

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Grant Wood believed that to be a real artist, he had to live in Paris. But once he got there, he realized that to be a great painter he needed to return to the people and places—and even animals—that he knew and loved the best. Inspired by the life of artist Grant Wood, this is the sensitively imagined story of the great American painter and a cow named Tillie. Skillfully mixing fact with fiction, Monica Kulling’s text explores the making of an artist, while Sydney Smith’s illustrations echo Grant Wood’s own techniques. The result is a gently wise picture book that will encourage young readers and artists to trust the love that is sometimes only found close to home. Includes an author’s note that provides biographical information about Grant Wood.



The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs

Author : Alexander McCall Smith

Publisher : Vintage Canada

Page : 130 pages

File Size : 16,79 MB

Release : 2010-04-30

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0307370380

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A deliciously entertaining new series by the bestselling author of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency The many fans of Precious Ramotswe will find further cause for celebration in the protagonist of Alexander McCall Smith’s irresistibly funny trilogy, the eminent (if shamefully under-read) philologist Professor Dr. Mortiz-Maria von Igelfeld of the Institute at Regensburg. Unnaturally tall, hypersensitive to slights, and oblivious to his own frequent gaucheries, von Igelfeld is engaged in a never-ending quest to win the respect he knows is due him. Portuguese Irregular Verbs follows the Professor from a busman’s holiday researching old Irish obscenities to a flirtation with a desirable lady dentist. In The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs, von Igelfeld practices veterinary medicine without a license, transports relics for a schismatically challenged Coptic prelate and is mobbed by marriage-minded widows on board a Mediterranean cruise ship. In At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances, the final novel in the trilogy, we find our hero suffering the slings of academic intrigue as a visiting fellow at Cambridge, and the slings of outrageous fortune in an eventful Columbian adventure.



The Marshmallow Mermaid

Author : Michael Dahl

Publisher : Capstone

Page : 41 pages

File Size : 16,56 MB

Release : 2010

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1434228029

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On Halo Nightly's eleventh birthday, her Aunt Pandora gives her a collection of jars filled with brightly colored candies. Soon she learns that the candies give her the incredible powers of nature. Halo uses the powers to combat Doozie Hiss, a rival student with superpowered hair.



The Tweedles Go Electric

Author : Monica Kulling

Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd

Page : 42 pages

File Size : 42,62 MB

Release : 2014-02-24

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1554984785

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Meet the Tweedles: Papa, Mama, daughter Frances and her brother, Francis. It’s the dawn of a new century—the twentieth century! — and the Tweedles have decided to buy a car. But no gas guzzler for this modern family. Only an electric car will do for them. Frances is the only member of her eccentric family who is not delighted when Papa decides they need an electric car. She would rather read a book. Frances knows that cars go fast, which can only lead to trouble. She is even less impressed when the family takes possession of the car and faces ridicule from more conventional citizens with their noisy, dirty, gas-fueled machines. But when Mr. Hamm is unable to get to the hospital because his car has run out of gas, Frances saves the day — and falls in love with automobile travel at the same time. With humorous allusions to the twenty-first century — which is better? Gas or electric? — The Tweedles Go Electric is a charming picture book about an odd and endearing family and their attempts to keep up with the times.



Lumpito and the Painter from Spain

Author : Monica Kulling

Publisher :

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 13,17 MB

Release : 2013

Category : Dachshunds

ISBN : 9781927485002

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Lump the dachshund, who lives with a photographer and a larger dog in Italy, travels to the south of France to meet Pablo Picasso, who promptly names him "Lumpito," in a story based on actual events.



The Cats on Ben Yehuda Street

Author : Ann Redisch Stampler

Publisher : Millbrook Press

Page : 36 pages

File Size : 22,22 MB

Release : 2014-08-01

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1512495328

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Kar-Ben Read-Aloud eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to bring eBooks to life! There are lots of cats on Ben Yehuda Street, but it is the friendship between a little grey cat with a pink collar and a fluffy white stray cat that brings two lonely neighbors together.