William Steig
22) The toy brother
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Yorick Bede has always considered his younger brother, Charles, a first-rate pain in the pants, and Charles thinks the same of Yorick. One day Yorick plays with his alchemist father's potions, and he accidentally shrinks himself to the size of a cockroach. Now suddenly Charles is the big brother. Though it's tempting to leave Yorick as a shrunken version of himself to teach him a lesson, Charles and the rest of the Bede family protect Yorick...
23) Yellow & pink
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Yellow & Pink is a witty picture book by William Steig, the creator of Shrek.
On a fine day, a thin, yellow puppet and a round, pink puppet sit in the sun. They wonder where they came from. Were they an accident of nature, created by a series of possible but improbable events? Did someone create them? They discuss their theories, and think they may have an answer. But just as they settle on a solution, a man arrives who
24) Gorky rises
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Clutching the bottle of magic potion he has made, a young frog falls asleep and wakes to find himself floating in the sky.
25) The amazing bone
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On her way home from school, Pearl finds an unusual bone that has unexpected powers.
26) Wizzil
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A bored witch causes trouble when she decides to take revenge on an old man, but her mischief leads to a happy ending.
28) Caleb & Kate
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When Caleb finds himself transformed into a dog and is unable to tell his wife his true identity, he decides to become her companion.
29) Tiffky Doofky
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Tiffky Doofky, a kindly garbage collector, spends his day waiting for a fortune teller's prophesy to come true.
30) Doctor De Soto
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Dr. De Soto, a dentist and a mouse, relieves the toothaches of various patients, except those with a taste for mice, until the day a fox comes to him in great pain.
31) Amos & Boris
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Befriended by a whale as he is drowning in the ocean, a mouse gets a chance to reciprocate years later in an equally unlikely situation.
32) C D B!
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Letters and numbers are used to create the sounds of words and simple sentences 4 u 2 figure out with the aid of illustrations.
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Children, octogenarians, and everyone in between know the work of William Steig, the beloved cartoonist and award-winning children's book author whose work graced the covers and pages of the New Yorker for more than 70 years. In Cats, Dogs, Men, Women, Ninnies & Clowns: The Lost Art of William Steig , Jeanne Steig uncovers more than 450 never-before-published cartoons by her husband and provides personal insight and anecdotes about his work and her...
36) Zeke Pippin
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[1994]
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First edition.
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One day, as fate would have it, Zeke Pippin moseys outside, finds a harmonica in the street, and is soon regaling his family with the prelude to La Traviata. But when his mother, father, sister, and brother promptly fall asleep, Zeke wonders how he can "go on living with such nincompoops" -- and runs away from home. After several other would-be music lovers pass out when he starts to play, Zeke concludes that his harmonica has magical powers, and...
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