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4) Zen ghosts
Author
Series
Zen books (Jon J Muth) volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
On Halloween night, Stillwater the giant panda tells Karl, Addy, and Michael a spooky and unusual story. Based on a Zen koan.
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Appears on these lists
2019 Graded Reading Lists: Grades 2 & 3
Asian and Pasifika Voices: Picture Books
Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
Asian and Pasifika Voices: Picture Books
Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
Description
A boy and his grandfather cross a language and cultural barrier using their shared love of art, storytelling, and fantasy.
8) Juan Hormiga
Author
Publisher
Elsewhere Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Juan Hormiga, the greatest storyteller of his entire anthill, loves to recount his fearless grandfather's adventures. When Juan and his fellow ants gather around for story time, he hypnotizes all with tales of his grandfather's many exploits - including his escape from an eagle's talons and the time he leapt from a tree with just a leaf for a parachute. When he's through telling these tales, Juan loves to cozy up for a nice long nap. He's such a...
10) The storyteller
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Griffin's grandmother showers him with love, encouragement, and a world of stories, all of which stand him in good stead when it is time for her to depart and he is left to tell his own stories--and hers.
11) Idea jar
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
What happens when the story ideas--from a bored Viking to a space robot--kept in a teacher's special jar escape and get rowdy?
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
At the first annual meeting of WOOF--Words of Our Friends--assorted dogs preserve their heritage by sharing tales of canines throughout history, including Abu, who ruled all of Egypt except for one pesky cat, and Zippy, who simply must find the squeaky toy.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the cursed house.
15) Sweet dreaming
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Molly's mother imagines stories to lull her to sleep, from swooping birds to a quiet beach, and soon one of them has nodded off.
18) Ivan the terrier
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A terrier named Ivan keeps interrupting story hour. Ivan loves a good story. Like that one about the three bears or those three gruff billy goats. Where else can a dog find such playmates action fun...or a cookie? Ivan's own good story lands him just where he loves to be. In your lap.
19) The octopus
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Grandpa helps his favorite grandpup to avoid scratching his chicken pox by telling how he once had to fight off an octopus during a terrible storm.
20) Witch Hazel
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A girl is transformed by the magical power of stories through the shared memories of a kind "witch" named Hazel"--
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