Joseph Slate, Author, Alison Jay, Illustrator , illus. by Alison Jay. Putnam $15.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-399-24014-0
Everyone knows where the bright Christmas star leads, but did anyone ever wonder where it came from?In this sort of prequel to the Nativity, Slate (the Miss Bindergarten books) imagines, in rhyming couplets (with the title refrain), the origins of...
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Joseph Slate, Author, Felicia Bond, Illustrator Laura Geringer Book $9.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-029533-2
Little Porcupine is, quite literally, the star of the holiday play. First published in 1982 as How Little Porcupine Played Christmas, Joseph Slate's Little Porcupine's Christmas, illus. by Felicia Bond, remains as charming as ever. (Oct.)
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Joseph Slate, Author, E. B. Lewis, Illustrator , illus. by E. B. Lewis. Putnam $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-24342-4
Transposing a Buddhist story he encountered in Rudyard Kipling's Kim
, Slate (the Miss Bindergarten series) moves the setting to the antebellum South and casts as speaker an escaping slave who rescues an orphaned, ill slave child. Forced into...
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Joseph Slate, Author, Ashley Wolff, Illustrator , illus. by Ashley Wolff. Picture Puffin $6.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-14-250005-7
"In this exuberant follow-up to Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten, the border-collie teacher builds up to a celebration of the 100th day of class, a party that's certain to inspire similar festivities in kindergartens everywhere,
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Joseph Slate, Author, Ashley Wolff, Illustrator Dutton Books $16.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-525-45446-5
Any child made anxious by the first day of kindergarten should find great comfort in this book's two parallel stories: 26 young animals--from an alligator named Adam to a zebra named Zach--get ready for their first day of school, while a teacher...
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Joseph Slate, Author, Ashley Wolff, Illustrator Puffin Books $6.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-230127-2
The fabulous canine teacher contracts the flu, but while she stays home to recover, the students in her kindergarten help the substitute find his way around the classroom, A to Z. Ages 3-up. (Feb.)
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Joseph Slate, Author, Ashley Wolff, Illustrator Putnam Publishing Group $5.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-21790-6
Animals clean their stable in preparation for a very special visitor. PW praised this ``quiet, understated rendering of the Nativity'' that ``resonates with genuine warmth and spirit. Wolff's accomplished block prints convey the gentle friendliness...
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Joseph Slate, Author, Ashley Wolff, Illustrator Dutton Children's Books $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-525-46000-8
In this exuberant follow-up to Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten, the border-collie teacher kicks off a celebration of the 100th day of class by asking her students to bring in ""100 of some wonderful, one-hundred-full thing!"" The...
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Joseph Slate, Author, Ashley Wolff, Illustrator Dutton Children's Books $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-525-46710-6
Everyone's favorite canine teacher is back for an alphabetical tour of the community in Miss Bindergarten Takes a Field Trip with Kindergarten by Joseph Slate, illus. by Ashley Wolff. The class meets the people who keep their neighborhood going...
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Joseph Slate, Author, Ashley Wolff, Illustrator, Ashley Wolff, With Putnam Publishing Group $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-21537-7
`` `Who is coming to our house?' `Someone, someone,' says Mouse.'' In trusting anticipation, the animals ready the stable, cleaning, sweeping, stacking hay, and lining a crib. The visitors are, of course, Mary and Joseph, as weand the animalslearn...
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Joseph Slate, Author, Ashley Wolff, Illustrator, Puffin, Author , illus. by Ashley Wolff. Picture Puffin $6.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-14-056273-6
Miss Bindergarten vigorously prepares for the first day of school as her 26 prospective students (one for each letter of the alphabet) do the same. "Any child made anxious by the first day of kindergarten should find great comfort in this book&#
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