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The song 'I know an old lady who swallowed a fly' provides inspiration for this story of a shy person who literally develops an appetite for musical instruments ranging from popular to classical and from large to small.
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9781590789469 | Boyds Mills Pr, September 1, 2012, cover price $6.95
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9781590780435 | Boyds Mills Pr, March 1, 2004, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The song 'I know an old lady who swallowed a fly' provides inspiration for this story of a shy person who literally develops an appetite for musical instruments ranging from popular to classical and from large to small.
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9780448462660 | Grosset & Dunlap, August 16, 2012, cover price $7.99
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9781849194815 | Inspec/Iee, May 15, 2012, cover price $128.00
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9780448462110 | Grosset & Dunlap, March 29, 2012, cover price $4.99 | About this edition: No description available
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9780823419500 | Holiday House, February 7, 2011, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: This nontraditional tribute to Benjamin Franklin all in almanac format is brimming with humorous cartoons, instructive adages, and a wealth of information about a Founding Father who was as amusing as he was amazing.
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9780062035714 | Greenwillow, September 28, 2010, cover price $4.99
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9780062034090 | Harpercollins, October 5, 2010, cover price $10.99
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9780805063059 | 1 edition (Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, March 30, 2010), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: As a young boy in medieval Italy, Leonardo Fibonacci thought about numbers day and night.
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9781405144339 | Blackwell Pub, May 17, 2010, cover price $159.95 | About this edition: Minerals and rocks form the foundation of geologic studies.
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9781444334609 | Blackwell Pub, June 1, 2010, cover price $99.95 | About this edition: Minerals and rocks form the foundation of geologic studies.
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9781444319644 | Blackwell Pub, March 22, 2010, cover price $150.00
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9780823419050 | Holiday House, August 15, 2009, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Have you ever wondered how your favorite sport began?
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Product Description: A look at baseball features pithy, declarative sentences about the game of baseball and bright, happy pictures by an artist for The New Yorker.
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9780805023909 | Henry Holt & Co, April 1, 1993, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A simple introduction to the game of baseball, covering its equipment, players, and basic plays, is illustrated by scenes of a game in progress
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9780805051698 | Reprint edition (Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, March 15, 1997), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: While watching a game in progress, the reader is introduced to the game of baseball, covering its equipment, players, and basic plays
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9780606119801 | Reprint edition (Demco Media, April 1, 1997), cover price $13.49 | About this edition: While watching a game in progress, the reader is introduced to the game of baseball, covering its equipment, players, and basic plays
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9781442004160 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A look at baseball features pithy, declarative sentences about the game of baseball and bright, happy pictures by an artist for The New Yorker.
9780613027885 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $18.40 | About this edition: While watching a game in progress, the reader is introduced to the game of baseball, covering its equipment, players, and basic plays
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9781103129119 | Lightning Source Inc, January 31, 2009, cover price $32.99 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
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9781103129096 | Lightning Source Inc, January 31, 2009, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
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9781564785244 | Dalkey Archive Pr, December 30, 2008, cover price $8.00
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9781409917465 | Dodo Pr, November 15, 2008, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: Monsignor Patrick Joseph Hartigan (1878-1952) was an Australian Roman Catholic priest, educator, author and poet.
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9780823419203 | Holiday House, September 15, 2008, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: From the team that brought you "How Sweet It Is (and Was): A History of Candy" comes another humourous picture book about the history of underwear.
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9780688144838 | Greenwillow, May 1, 1997, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Presents a collection of eighteen brief folktales in which the reader is asked to explain how the folk character lied and told the truth at the same time
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9780688163716 | Reprint edition (Greenwillow, August 1, 1998), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Presents a collection of eighteen brief folktales in which the reader is asked to explain how the folk character lied and told the truth at the same time
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9780606157469 | Demco Media, January 1, 1999, cover price $13.14 | also contains True Lies: 18 Tales for You to Judge | About this edition: Presents a collection of eighteen brief folktales in which the reader is asked to explain how the folk character lied and told the truth at the same time
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9781435286139 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 22, 2008), cover price $14.99 | also contains True Lies: 18 Tales for You to Judge | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.
9780613122146 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Presents a collection of eighteen brief folktales in which the reader is asked to explain how the folk character lied and told the truth at the same time
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Product Description: Illus. in full color. "The tallest person is no taller than a toothpick in the town of Pee Wee, and when Lady Teena is abducted by a dragonfly, a tiny knight, riding his trusty ant, rescues the miniature maiden. This is a hit--an engagingly humorous storyline (set in very large type) features simple words and only a sentence or two per page...read more
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9781435284159 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $12.99 | About this edition: Illus.
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Product Description: One day in 1882, Thomas Edison flipped a switch that lit up lower Manhattan with incandescent light and changed the way people live ever after. The electric light bulb was only one of thousands of Edison’s inventions, which include the phonograph and the kinetoscope, an early precursor to the movie camera...read more
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9780448439679 | Grosset & Dunlap, April 30, 2006, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: A biography of the influential inventor who changed the way people live with his invention of the incandescent light bulb.
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9780448437651 | Grosset & Dunlap, December 29, 2005, cover price $4.99 | About this edition: A biography of the influential inventor who changed the way people live with his invention of the incandescent light bulb.
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9780606346344 | Demco Media, December 29, 2005, cover price $13.59 | About this edition: One day in 1882, Thomas Edison flipped a switch that lit up lower Manhattan with incandescent light and changed the way people live ever after.
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9781435272439 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 9, 2008), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: One day in 1882, Thomas Edison flipped a switch that lit up lower Manhattan with incandescent light and changed the way people live ever after.
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Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. With black-and-white illustrations that include a diagram of the famous Globe Theater, an addition to a popular biographical series puts together the pieces of Shakespeare's life and work, from his relocation from Stratford to London as a young man to his pursuit of a career in the theatre...read more
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9780448439044 | Grosset & Dunlap, December 28, 2006, cover price $4.99 | About this edition: Describes Shakespeare's life and work, from his relocation from Stratford to London as a young man to his pursuit of a career in the theater.
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9781435254954 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 25, 2008), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.
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Product Description: A humorist, narrator, and social observer, Mark Twain is unsurpassed in American literature. Best known as the author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, not unlike his protagonist, Huck, has a restless spirit. He found adventure prospecting for silver in Nevada, navigating steamboats down the Mississippi, and making people laugh around the world...read more
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9780448433196 | Grosset & Dunlap, May 1, 2004, cover price $4.99 | About this edition: Presents the life of Mark Twain, a steamboat pilot who became the great American humorist and writer of the 19th century.
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9780448435374 | Grosset & Dunlap, May 1, 2004, cover price $13.89 | About this edition: Presents the life of Mark Twain, a steamboat pilot who became the great American humorist and writer of the 19th century.
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9780606307574 | Demco Media, August 30, 2004, cover price $13.59 | About this edition: Presents the life of Mark Twain, a steamboat pilot who became the great American humorist and writer of the 19th century.
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9781435254893 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 25, 2008), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: A humorist, narrator, and social observer, Mark Twain is unsurpassed in American literature.
9781417628247 | Turtleback Books, May 1, 2004, cover price $14.75 | About this edition: Presents the life of Mark Twain, a steamboat pilot who became the great American humorist and writer of the 19th century.
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9781564784643 | Gardners Books, November 7, 2007, cover price $8.85 | About this edition: Over the past twenty years, the Review of Contemporary Fiction has earned a reputation for being one of the most important journals covering contemporary literature.
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9781564784858 | Dalkey Archive Pr, October 15, 2007, cover price $8.00
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Product Description: The Review of Contemporary Fiction is a tri-quarterly journal that features critical essays on fiction writers whose work resists convention and easy categorization. The Review's aesthetic focus has been called many things—postmodern, experimental, avant-garde, metafictional, subversive—but in bringing this aesthetic to a wider audience it also seeks to expose the artificial barriers that exist between and within cultures...read more
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9781564784759, titled "The Review of Contemporary Fiction Summer 2007" | Dalkey Archive Pr, August 15, 2007, cover price $8.00 | About this edition: The Review of Contemporary Fiction is a tri-quarterly journal that features critical essays on fiction writers whose work resists convention and easy categorization.
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Product Description: Put on your blue suede shoes and get ready for another addition to the Who Was…? series! The King could not have come from humbler origins: Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, during the Depression, he grew up with the blues music of the rural South, the gospel music of local churches, and the country-western classics...read more
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9780448446424 | Grosset & Dunlap, August 16, 2007, cover price $4.99 | About this edition: Profiles the 'King of Rock 'n Roll,' focusing on how he got his start in singing and how his style influenced later musicians.
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9781435254992 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 25, 2008), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Put on your blue suede shoes and get ready for another addition to the Who Was…?
9781417827794 | Turtleback Books, August 1, 2007, cover price $14.75 | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.
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9780548076873 | Kessinger Pub Co, July 30, 2007, cover price $52.95 | About this edition: This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
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9781425374099 | Kessinger Pub Co, March 30, 2006, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
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