"An insatiable boy made of clay devours everything in sight until a fiesty goat ruins his appetite. Vibrant paintings invigorate this retelling of a Russian folktale."
"Paperback. Pub Date :1997-04-01 Pages: 32 Language: English Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers Caught out in the rain. an ant takes shelter under a very tiny mushroom. Soon. a wet butterfly. then a drenched mouse. a dripping sparrow. and even a rain-soaked rabbit each beg to join him under his miniature umbrella. How can the ant let the others in when there is barely room enough for one But as the rain comes down and down. they ..."
"Chickens— Fiction. 2. Ducks— Fiction 3. Dreams — Fiction. 4. Stories in rhyme.]
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"adapted from a story by Korney Chukovsky by Mirra Ginsburg pictures by Byron
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"As Duckling sets off to explore the world, Chick is close behind, mimicking each of his actions with a perky "Me too." But when Duckling decides to go for a swim, his friend is in for a surprise. This charming tale, with brightly colored illustrations by Jose Aruego and Ariane Dewey, will delight small children who are also discovering the world around them."
"I first read Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita on a balcony of the Hotel Metropole in Saigon on three summer evenings in 1971. The tropical air was heavy and full of the smells of cordite and motorcycle exhaust and rotting fish and wood-fire stoves, and the horizon flared ambiguously, perhaps from heat lightning, perhaps from bombs. Later each night, as was my custom, I would wander out into the steamy back alleys of the city, ..."
"Before Brave New World Before 1984 There was WE In the One State of the great Benefactor there are no individuals only numbers Life is an ongoing process of mathematical precision a perfectly balanced equation Primitive passions and instincts have been subdued Even nature has been defeated banished behind the Green Wall But one frontier remains outer space Now with the creation of the spaceship Integral that frontier and whatever alien ..."
"I first read Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita on a balcony of the Hotel Metropole in Saigon on three summer evenings in 1971. The tropical air was heavy and full of the smells of cordite and motorcycle exhaust and rotting fish and wood-fire stoves, and the horizon flared ambiguously, perhaps from heat lightning, perhaps from bombs. Later each night, as was my custom, I would wander out into the steamy back alleys of the city, ..."
"A classic anthology of wildly inventive and comic tales that brilliantly satirize post-revolutionary Russia. “Amusing and excellent,” this famous collection of Soviet satire from 1918 to 1963 devastatingly lampoons the social, economic, and cultural changes wrought by the Russian Revolution (Isaac Bashevis Singer). Among the seventeen bold and inventive writers represented here are the brilliant Mikhail Bulgakov, Ilf and Petrov, Mikh ..."
"This portrait of Moliere, by Mikhail Bulgakov, goes far beyond mere biography. The Russian master brings a kindred spirit vividly to life in this novelistic story of art and the struggle it demands. Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Life of Monsieur de Moliere is a fascinating portrait of the great French seventeenth-century satirist by one of the great Russian satirists of our own century. For Bulgakov, Moliere was an alter ego whose destiny seem ..."
"Voyager Books is a registered trademark of Harcourt, Inc. The Library of
Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows: Ginsburg. Mirra. The
Chinese mirror. Summary: A retelling of a traditional Korean tale in which a mirror
brought ..."
"In Ginsburg's sprightly retelling of a Russian tale, a group of lovable Aruego-Dewey creatures take shelter in the rain. This book is one of the best-loved creations by this superb author-illustrator team. "Sparkling, expansive fun, sure to be a runaway story hour success".--Kirkus Reviews."
"As Duckling sets off to explore the world, Chick is close behind, mimicking each of his actions with a perky "Me too." But when Duckling decides to go for a swim, his friend is in for a surprise. This charming tale, with brightly colored illustrations will delight small children who are also discovering the world around them."
"It is time for bed. Caldecott Award winner Paul O. Zelinsky illustrates this bedtime story adapted from an Armenian song. The repetitive, rhyming text, and the slowly darkening pictures, gently lull a child to sleep."
"FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. How can an ant, butterfly, mouse, sparrow and rabbit all take shelter from the rain under the same mushroom when, at first, there was only room for the ant?"
"Two young bears out to see the world and outdo each other are both outdone by a sly fox, in an adaptation of a wry Hungarian folktale complemented with lively and colorful illustrations. Reprint."
"The too-clever fox, friendly hare, curious lamb, silly goose, and proud village cock from the author's four most popular picture books, collected here for the first time, come to life in jubilant, all-new illustrations."