Shake Dem Halloween Bones


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It's Halloween night. The city is quiet. The city is still. But as the lights go down, the music comes up - and the guests start to arrive at the hip-hop Halloween ball! And oh, what a party it is. Told in hip-hop rhyming text, L'il Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks, Tom Thumb, and all of their fairy-tale friends come together for a rapping, stomping, shaking Halloween romp. Scoo-bee-doo-bee-doo-wah. Yeah!




Rattlebone Rock


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When skeletons, ghouls, witches, and assorted other spooky creatures take up the rock beat, a town has its best-ever Halloween.




Halloween Hustle


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Skeleton is dancing his way to a Halloween party, but as he grooves across town, he keeps stumbling, tumbling, and falling apart.




Career Awareness Packet


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A rendition of a traditional African American spiritual.




The Caboose who Got Loose


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Tired of being last on the smoky, noisy train, Katy wishes for some way to escape the endless track.




Eat Your Peas


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Mom offers increasingly fantastic bribes to get Daisy to eat her peas, but what Daisy actually wants is quite simple.




Over in the Garden


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Over in the garden, mother insects and their children enjoy various activities from morning sun to evening moon.




Bein' with You This Way


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A poem about human differences and similarities, accompanied by paintings of an interracial group of children sharing a sunny day and the universal childhood joy of just being together.




Summer Sun Risin'


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An African American boy enjoys a summer day on his family's farm, milking the cows, fishing, and having fun.




Till Year's Good End


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Discover what life was like for peasants living in Medieval Europe through this calendar of their daily labors and chores. Based on a Medieval Book of Hours, Till Year’s Good End describes the monthly activities of rural peasants in England during the Middle Ages. Rhyming couplets banner the top of each page while a paragraph for each month elaborates on the daily chores, showing the round of seasons in the farm year. “Each turn of the page reveals a new month and its chores, from plowing, planting and pruning to mending, spinning, and milling.” — Publishers Weekly