John and El's Favorite Books

The bears' picks for best books: June 2000
These titles should be available at your local library.

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Moongame by Frank Asch

When little bird and bear play hide and seek,
the moon plays too, in this simple tale
of childlike imagination.

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Weslandia by Paul Fleischman
Illustrated by Kevin Hawkes

This quirky, comic tale of an innovative child's
successful attempt to cope with the monotony
of suburbia, explodes with bright, detailed
illustrations of an alternate world of possibilities.


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The Tale I told Sasha by Nancy Willard.
Illustrated by David Christiana

In this impressionistic tale, fanciful
interpretive paintings reveal
the surprising nature of things
in the elusive world of lost and found.


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A is for Amos by Deborah Chandra
Illustrated by Keiko Narahashi

Young audiences will delight in the rhythmic text,
which accompanies a girl as she rides her horse,
Amos, across pages splashed with watercolor images
of streams and storms and glorious mud.


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Black Cat by Christopher Myers

Striking photo-collages accompanied
by a rhythmic refrain effectively capture
the wanderings of a city cat,
silhouetted against an urban landscape.

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Barbara Lintner of the Urbana Free Library in Urbana, IL.  AKA, Natalie's Mom.


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