Miss Lily's Fabulous Pink Feather Boa

Miss Lily's Fabulous Pink Feather Boa PDF Author: Margaret Wild
Publisher: Picture Puffin
ISBN: 9780143501657
Category : Endangered species
Languages : en
Pages : 31

Book Description
Miss Lily's fabulous pink feather boa is the most wonderful thing the Last Potoroo has ever seen. & & When Miss Lily dances the tango, the Last Potoroo can't take her eyes off it. & And when she wraps it around herself, she feels, for the first time in her life, that she can do anything - and everything! & & Something so fabulous just has to be magic . . .

Magrit

Magrit PDF Author: Lee Battersby
Publisher: Walker Books Australia
ISBN: 1922077127
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 97

Book Description
A wonderfully strange yet poignant tale of accepting the truth about oneself. Magrit lives in an abandoned cemetery. She is as forgotten as the tiny graveyard that surrounds her. One night a passing stork drops a strange bundle into the graveyard. Master Puppet, her friend and advisor, tells her it is an awful, ugly, terrible thing and that she should get rid of it. But Magrit has other ideas.

Miss Lily's Fabulous Pink Feather Boa

Miss Lily's Fabulous Pink Feather Boa PDF Author: Margaret Wild
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780992270032
Category : Endangered species
Languages : en
Pages : 30

Book Description
Picture book. Children's Talking Books has been producing audio and book sets of well known Australian picture books, recorded with Australian voices, for more than 25 years. Designed to be both entertaining and educational at the time when language skills and expanding vocabulary form an important part of a child's development. Sound signals appropriate to the story are used to indicate when to turn the page, to assist beginner readers. Miss Lily's fabulous pink feather boa is the most wonderful thing the Last Potoroo has ever seen. When Miss Lily dances the tango, the Last Potoroo can't take here eyes off it. And when she wraps it around herself, she feels for the first time in her life, that she can do anything-and everything.

There's a Sea in My Bedroom

There's a Sea in My Bedroom PDF Author: Margaret Wild
Publisher: Picture Puffin
ISBN: 9780143501671
Category : Fear
Languages : en
Pages : 30

Book Description
David is frightened of the sea. He does not like it at all, not one bit. One day he finds a conch shell at the beach and takes it home. He can hear the sea trapped inside. 'Come out, sea, come out,' he says softly. 'I won't hurt you.' This beautifully illustrated story takes the reader into a child's fantasy world.

Let the Celebrations Begin!

Let the Celebrations Begin! PDF Author: Margaret Wild
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
ISBN: 0763670138
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38

Book Description
Amid rumors of liberation, inmates at Germany’s Belsen camp create toys for a celebration in a moving story of hope, based on a true account. Miriam lives in hut 18, bed 22. She has little to eat and nothing to play with, but she can remember what it was like before, when she had her own food, her own bed, and her very own toys. As World War II nears an end, everyone says the soldiers are coming, so Miriam joins the women in planning a celebration. Every night, while the guards sleep, they busy themselves crafting toys out of scraps of their clothing to surprise the younger children. Based on a reference to a small collection of stuffed toys made by women in Belsen for the first party held after the liberation of the camp, this new edition of Let the Celebrations Begin!, originally published in 1996, is an affecting story of human survival.

The Secret Lives of Dresses

The Secret Lives of Dresses PDF Author: Erin McKean
Publisher: 5 Spot
ISBN: 0446575151
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188

Book Description
When her grandmother has a stroke, Dora returns to the small town where she grew up to take over her family's vintage clothing store -- and meets a handsome contractor. Is he interested in Dora? Or is he working from a different blueprint? Dora has always taken the path of least resistance. She went to the college that offered her a scholarship, majoring in "vagueness studies," and wears whatever shows the least dirt. She falls into a job at the college coffee shop and has a crush on her flirty boss, Gary. But just when she's about to test Gary's feelings, Mimi, the grandmother who raised her, suffers a stroke. Dora rushes back to Forsyth, NC, and finds herself running her grandmother's vintage clothing store while her grandmother recovers -- andmeets Mimi's adorable contractor, Conrad. The store has always been a fixture in Dora's life; though she grew up more of a jeans-and-sweatshirt kind of girl, before she even knew how to write, Mimi taught her that a vintage 1920s dress could lift a woman's spirit. But why has Mimi started writing down -- and giving away -- stories of the dresses in her shop? Amidst personal and professional turmoil, can Dora can trade her boring clothes for vintage glamour and her boring life for one she actually wants?
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