18 books like 'Twas the Night before Christmas
Why War Is Never a Good Idea
Simple, rhythmic text explores the wanton destructiveness of War, which has grown old but not wise, as it demolishes nice people and beautiful things with no consideration for the consequence
Shares: Juvenile poetry, Children's poetry, American poetry, Poetry
Dragon's Merry Christmas (Dragon Tales)
Dragon has a merry time in the Christmas season, decorating a tree outdoors, making a chocolate candy wreath, and sharing his Christmas gifts with needy animals.
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You read to me, I'll read to you
Here's a book With something new - You read to me! I'll read to you! We'll read each page To one another - You'll read one side, I the other. But who will read - Now guess this riddle - When the words are In the middle? The answer's easy! Plain as pie! We'll read together, You and I.
Shares: Juvenile poetry, Children's poetry, American poetry, Poetry
The Complete Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
From the book:Have you heard of the great Forest of Burzee? Nurse used to sing of it when I was a child. She sang of the big tree-trunks, standing close together, with their roots intertwining below the earth and their branches intertwining above it; of their rough coating of bark and queer, gnarled limbs; of the bushy foliage that roofed the entire forest, save where the sunbeams found a path…
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin
The Pied Piper pipes the village free of rats, and when the villagers refuse to pay him for the service he exacts a terrible revenge.
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Wendel's Workshop
A brilliantly funny robot adventure from award-winning author and illustrator Chris Riddell, creator of Once Upon a Wild Wood.Wendel is a very clever mouse – but not a very tidy one. If his inventions go wrong, Wendel just throws them away and starts again. So when Clunk, his robot assistant, fills the sock drawer with cups and saucers and makes tea in a Wellington boot, Wendel throws him on the…
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Barbie Horse Trouble Barbie Look Look
Golden Books launches fun new Barbie series this year. With everything from fairy tales to horse club books -- there's something for everyone with Barbie Rebecca's the new camper at the Lucky Horseshoe Camp and she thinks she doesn't need Barbie, or Stacie's help. Will Rebecca change her tune after her horse becomes frightened and tries to throw her? Find out in Horse Trouble
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That's Not My Dragon
Designed to develop sensory and language awareness, this board book shows pictures of dragons that have slimy spots, knobbly claws, a fuzzy tongue, and a prickly tail.
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The Father Christmas letters
A collection of illustrated letters from Father Christmas recapping the activities of the preceding year at the North Pole. The letters were written by the author to his children.
Shares: Santa Claus, Christmas, Children's fiction
Paddington
Adopting for their own the lost bear they find in Paddington Station, the Browns have some exciting first moments with him.
Shares: Picture books, Pictorial works, Animals, Children's fiction
The Wind in the Willows
The adventures of four amiable animals, Rat, Toad, Mole and Badger, along a river in the English countryside.
Shares: Christmas, Pictorial works, Animals, Children's fiction
A gold star for Zog
Each year, as Zog practices new skills learned at Madam Dragon's school, a little girl helps him out until one day he finds a way to help make her dream come true for herself, a new friend, and Zog.
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Instructions
This advice for travelling through a fairytale landscape might just save you from being eaten by wolves or being lost for ever, but it is also a charming metaphor for living courageously and taking risks.
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The bad child's book of beasts
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc was an Anglo-French writer and historian. He was one of the most productive writers in England in the early twentieth century. He was a well-known writer, poet, satirist, orator, sailor, soldier, man of letters, and political activist. 
In his life, he wrote many poems, essays, non-fiction literature and travel writings. But, he was best-known by…
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Little Dragon
Little Dragon are a Swedish electronic music band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 1996. The band consists of Yukimi Nagano (vocals, percussion), Erik Bodin (drums), Fredrik Wallin (bass) and Håkan Wirenstrand (keyboards).
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Where the Sidewalk Ends
NOW AVAILABLE AS AN EBOOK! Shel Silverstein, the New York Times bestselling author of The Giving Tree, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, and Every Thing On It, has created a poetry collection that is outrageously funny and deeply profound. Come in . . . for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins. You'll meet a boy who turns into a TV set, and a girl who eats a whale. The…
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The reluctant dragon
The boy who finds the dragon in the cave knows it is a kindly, harmless one, but how can he convince the frightened villagers and especially St. George the dragon killer that there is no cause for concern?
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The Greentail Mouse
The mice become so involved in their Mardi Gras masquerade they forget it is all in fun.
Shares: Picture books, Animals, Children's fiction