George Ella Lyon
5) Planes fly!
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English
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Illustrations and easy-to-read rhyming text celebrate different kinds of planes, their instruments, what they carry, and what it is like to go for a flight.
6) Trucks roll!
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English
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Illustrations and simple, rhyming text reveal many different--and sometimes silly--items that trucks can haul.
7) Trains run!
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English
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Illustrations and simple, rhyming text reveal different kinds of trains, how they run, and the sounds they make.
8) Boats float!
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English
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In rhyming text the reader is introduced to all the different kinds of boats floating on rivers, lakes, oceans, and ponds.
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English
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Six fictional characters, in cycles of linked poems, relate their memories of the historic day in 1963 when more than 250,000 people from across the United States joined together to march on Washington, D.C., calling for civil and economic rights for African Americans.
11) Mother to tigers
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English
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Tells the story of how Helen Frances Theresa Delaney Martini cared for baby zoo animals, started the first zoo nursery and became the first woman zookeeper at the Bronx Zoo.
12) Come a tide
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English
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A girl provides a lighthearted account of the spring floods at her rural home.
13) A sign
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English
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The author simply describes how she considered various careers as she grew and how she combined them all into her work as a writer.
15) Book
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Swedish
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This poem compares a book to a house, a treasure chest, a farm, and a tree full of leaves.
16) Cecil's story
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English
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A boy thinks about the possible scenarios that exist for him at home if his father goes off to fight in the Civil War.
17) Time to fly
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English
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"A mama bird tries to convince a baby bird to leave the nest"--
18) A traveling cat
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English
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When discovered on the playground in front of the drive-in movie screen, Boulevard, a stray cat, stays in her new home for a short while before taking to the road.
20) Sleepsong
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English
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Parents tuck their child into bed as they talk about little animals that are also going to sleep in their nests, dens, and caves.