Carol Shields

2) Larry's party

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3) Small ceremonies

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4) The box garden

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5) The bugliest bug

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All kinds of insects compete to see who is the "bugliest" bug of all, but there is a sinister surprise behind the contest.

6) Wombat walkabout

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Rhyming text follows six little wombats on walkabout and a hungry dingo following, envisioning them as his lunch until the wombats turn the tables on him.

7) I am really a princess

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A child imagines herself a princess and contrasts her everyday life with the one she could have in a castle with infinitely permissive parents.

8) Saturday night at the dinosaur stomp

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Scholastic big books

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When it's rock 'n' roll time during the prehistoric era, many different kinds of dinosaurs gather to twist, twirl, and tromp at a Saturday night party.

9) Baby's got the blues

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"Have you ever wondered what a day in the life of an infant is really like? In this bluesy story, sometimes being a baby is enough to make you cry."--Provided by publisher.

10) After the bell rings: poems about after-school time

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