The Lion, the Tortoise, and the Princess Gazelle


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A boastful and proud lion and a slow and small tortoise have a common problem. They both want to marry the beautiful Princess Gazelle! The princess gives them a challenge: they must each build her a house. Whoever finishes first will have the princess’s hand. The lion is sure he will defeat the tortoise. But the tortoise has a plan that just might work!




Arab Folktales


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Louisiana Folk-tales


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Scaling Up Compensation


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The Three Hostages


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The fourth of the five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan. Here we find our hero Richard Hannay living a quiet life in the countryside with a wife and young child but his past comes back to haunt him and he once more must face up to an arch-enemy.




The Book of Imaginary Beings


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As we all know, there is a kind of lazy pleasure in useless and out-of-the-way erudition-The compilation and translation of this volume have given us a great deal of such pleasure; we hope the reader will share some of the fun we felt when ransacking the




Little Zoo Animals Coloring Book


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Mini-format menagerie of 60 animals — from aardvarks to zebras. Cavalcade of charming, realistically drawn creatures includes kangaroos, elephants, a grizzly bear, a walrus, penguins, a weasel, an eagle, an orangutan, a mountain lion, and dozens of other animals — many depicted with their young. Captions.




Thalaba the Destroyer


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A to Zoo


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A guide to 12,000 titles cataloged under 700 subjects and indexed by author, title, and illustrator.




African Short and Funny Stories


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A collection of stories for fun and relaxation. All the stories are fictitious and intended for fun but each one carried a hidden message and a brief look into African folk tales. These stories were told around the fire in the village square in the moon light This was the the process of passing history and tradition to children as the only way of teaching in the traditional African setting