Favourite Kids Books checked out of Penticton Public Library

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	"Wonderfully mundane details of kids' lives in an apartment building.  Turns the fact that a kid only eats one bite of hot dog into something magical."

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	"A long story told without words, with plenty of room for reader improvisation eg. you can devise different parts for each of the jazz-playing monkeys, even the two coronets."

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	"A resourceful girl helps zoo animals.  The one library book that had to be read continuously for three weeks, but thankfully there are in-jokes and innovative design for the adults."

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	"Lovely and gentle.  It's only saccharine if you're not a kid."

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	"Terrifying.  Yet the kids love it, though they're scared by Richard Scarry books about rat pirates."

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	"For its genre I can't imagine a more entertaining book.  And the flaps are sturdy as heck."

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	"The best of his many books, with a truly chilling moment as a boy develops the film from ancient camera washed up on the beach."

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	"A wordless book with a cast of thousands--it takes a long time to narrate it to the kids' satisfaction.  A toddler pig falls off a cliff!"

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	"A lonely boy opens a trunk in his sumptuous living room to discover a ladder leading down & toward great things.  Another book without words."

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	"A wonderful chain of mishaps begun by a boy who doesn't believe anything is wonderful."

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	""Do you like my hat?" asked Octopus.  "That hat looks like something my horse dropped behind it," said Cowboy."

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	"A lovely story, vigorously illustrated.  The week we had this out I must have read/said the word "Huckabuck" a thousand times."

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	"Eerily benign tale of a boy washed out to sea while retrieving his toy sailboat.  The kids ought to have been terrified."

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	"Plutocratic circus owner gets what he deserves when his charming and helpful animals wash up on an island off the coast of Maine.  No, he doesn't get killed, if that's what you're thinking."

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	"Simple and moving Depression-era story.  Taciturn Uncle Jim is a character for the ages, and David Small's artwork never fails."

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	"A Traction Man action figure (alongside his sidekick Scrubbing Brush) is forced to wear a green knitted all-in-one romper suit over his beloved dazzle-painted Battle Pants.  The heartache!"

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	"Somber, macabre, but expertly done.  If this is a Scandanavian kids' book, their adult literature must bring on immediate weeping."

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	"Fantastic.  Trees mysteriously disappear from a forest, and the residents suspect one another.  The pig claims he coudn't have done it as he was home cooking bacon."

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	"During the Napoleonic Wars, three sisters leave home on off-kilter quests.  A new old-fashioned story, superbly done."