Summary: Children will learn the different sounds that each letter makes. With 29 easy reader books, children can practice the different letter sounds using short,fun to read stories containing 3 and 4 letter words. Meet the Letter Sounds also introduces basic phonics rules, such as "r-controlled vowels" and "silent e."
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: An orphaned baby elephant goes to live in the city with an old lady who gives him everything he wants, but eventually returns to the forest where he is crowned king of the elephants.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1960
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BRUSummary: Bugs! Bugs! Bugs! Some bugs fly, some bugs crawl, and some just curl up in a ball! Come grab your magnifying glass, and let these stories introduce your child to the fascinating world of bugs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Folkmanis and others 0000
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1 available in Storytime Kits, Call number: JPT STORYTIME BUGSummary: Teaching opposites is an ideal way to help improve your child’s ability to communicate. Day/Night, Up/Down, Young/Old are basic concepts. Help your child learn about opposites and check out the Opposites Storytime Kit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House and others 0000
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1 available in Storytime Kits, Call number: JE STORYTIME OPPOSITESSummary: Jungle animals include some of the worlds largest and most unusual creatures, but just what is a jungle? Come find out and have a blast with your child and Go On A Safari!
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons and others 0000
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1 available in Storytime Kits, Call number: JE STORYTIME JUNGLESummary: Singing, talking, reading, and playing with environmental sounds can help children begin to hear the smaller sounds in words. This skill will later help your children sound out words when they learn to read. Pointing out the sounds of the world around you and encouraging your children to make those sounds is a great way to start developing this skill. When you are playing or reading together,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and others 0000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The Mallards look for the perfect spot to raise their young, and find it in the most unlikely place. Their friend Michael, a policeman, helps them to "Make Way for Ducklings" as they march their eight little ones home. A little girl and her mother go out to get "Blueberries for Sal." But Sal and a little bear get mixed up with each other's mothers. Two sisters spending a summer in Maine...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV MAKBrooks, Kimberly
Summary: "A guide to the materials and safe practices that will take your oil painting practice to new heights--whether you are just starting out, or have been painting for years"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2021
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 702.8 BROSummary: All the jokes from A Prairie Home Companion's first four joke shows (1996-1999). An entertaining mix of knock-knocks, one-liners, North Dakota, religious, animal, bar, and light bulb jokes, those famous 'yo mama' insults and much more. Read by a full cast.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge Company 2000
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 817.54 PRASantos, Sophie
Summary: "From the self-proclaimed Queen of the Stunted Late Bloomers and one of the most exciting emerging voices in comedy comes an honestly funny memoir about the awkward, cringeworthy, hilarious, and longest possible journey of coming of age and into her own. The only child of a perpetually transferring Filipino-Spanish US Army officer and a spitfire nurse, Sophie Santos spent her early years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Topple Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SANTOS, SOPHIE SANThompson, Richard
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Pub., LLC 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 THOVan Ness, Jonathan
Summary: In Jonathan Van Ness' New York Times bestselling memoir Over the Top, he showed readers how the incredibly difficult moments from his life (surviving sexual abuse and addiction, being diagnosed with HIV) have existed alongside great joy and positivity (landing a breakout role on Netflix's Queer Eye, becoming an amateur figure skater and professional stand-up comedian, doting on his cats). If...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VAN NESS, JONATHAN VANJaverbaum, David
Summary: "3,000 years ago, King David wrote The Book of Psalms-150 hymns in praise of God that became famous the world over. Now, with humanity on the verge of a self-generated catastrophe, God (with the help of another David) has decided to return, and reverse, the favor. He has written a cornucopia of insults of the human race in the form of prose, poetry, and parody. Their topics are as diverse as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 JAVPeirce, Lincoln
Summary: "What's middle school without a crisis? Sixth-grader Nate Wright would love to find out, but the emergencies are piling up fast. A gang of eighth-graders steals Nate's favorite lunch spot. Alan Chen chooses a new name (hint: it begins with N) in a brazen attack on Nate's uniqueness. And when a post-hypnotic suggestion works a little TOO well, the lovable Chad becomes P.S. 38's unlikeliest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 PEISummary: Over 2,200 jokes from America's favorite live radio show. A treasury of hilarity from Garrison Keillor and the cast of public radio's "A Prairie Home Companion."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Highbridge, a division of Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 817.54 PRABoozan, Glenn
Summary: A rhyming illustrated humor book for moms who feel they're not doing a good job (and that's <i>all</i> moms, right?). Packed with scientifically true examples of terrible parents in the animal kingdom, to remind and reassure any mother that there are way worse moms out there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 817 BOODavis, Jim
Summary: A collection of Sunday comics about the antics of Garfield the cat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1985
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Humor DavisFallon, Jimmy.
Summary: The late-night show host and former cast member of "Saturday Night Live" addresses more than subjects in need of his undying "gratitude," including the Taco Bell chihuahua, Pez dispensers, and fake drawers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.5402 FALGrothe, Mardy.
Summary: A collection of some of history's most celebrated wisecracks and humorous remarks includes contributions by such names as Mark Twain, Mae West, and Groucho Marx.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collins 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 082.02 GROKrieger, Emily
Summary: "Can you spot the truth from a lie? Kids can test their sleuth skills in this gut-bustingly funny follow-up title in the exciting Real or Fake series. Can you detect a hoax from the real deal? See right through photo trickery? Spot the phony logic in a story in seconds? Put your sleuthing skills to work in this riotously fun book! See if you can find the truth behind bizarre stories, faulty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2018
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Summary: Henry Ward Beecher said "the common sense of one century is the common sense of the next." That said, these pocket-sized humor books pack quite a bit of punch--lines that is. With more than 1.5 million copies in print, their all-new look will leave a whole new generation in stitches!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gibbs-Smith 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 817.54 MONSummary: Presents the first-ever Prairie Home cinecast, shown in movie theaters across the United States and Canada. Guests include Elvis Costello, Jearlyn and Jevetta Steele, Heather Masse, Robin and Linda Williams, Sue Scott, Tim Russell, Erica Rhodes, Tom Keith, Fred Newman, plus the Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, episodes of "Guy Noir" and "Lives of the Cowboys," and the News from Lake Wobegon.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Highbridge Co. 2010
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS PRADroyd, Ann.
Summary: A bedtime story for bidding electronic gadgets goodnight, from the Blackberry and the Nooks to the iPad and the MP3s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction DroydMartin, Steve
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 1998