characters in literature

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characters in literature

Humpty Dumpty

2003
Expands the famous nursery rhyme to describe some of Humpty Dumpty's other mishaps.

The top secret files of Mother Goose!

2003
When "Mother" Goose tracks down the thief who stole the queen's tarts, she runs into several nursery rhyme characters.

Once upon a time

1999
A bored boy's world is suddenly populated by three house-building pigs, a girl wearing a red hood, and other familiar nursery characters.

Beanstalk

the measure of a giant : a math adventure
2006
Jack climbs an enormous beanstalk and encounters a very lonely boy giant, and by using ratios and proportion he makes toys that are the right size for each of them.

Between two ends

2011
Trying to help his father deal with his long-standing depression, Yeats and his parents visit his grandmother's old and eerie house, where he discovers a pair of pirate bookends that unlock a thirty-year-old secret that Yeats must try to resolve by entering the exotic world of "The Arabian Nights.".

Little red ink drinker

2003
Two young ink-drinkers are sucked into a fairy tale and must be saved by Uncle Draculink.

The wizard, the witch, & two girls from Jersey

2006
Bookworm Veronica Lopez and high school royalty Heather Simms must find their way back home to New Jersey after being zapped into the pages of a fantasy novel.

Multiplying menace

the revenge of Rumpelstiltskin : a math adventure
2006
Ten years after being tricked, Rumpelstiltskin returns to the royal family to wreak vengeance using multiplication. Includes nonfiction math notes about multiplying by whole numbers and by fractions.

The lucky duck

2000
Lions in a library turn to various books for ideas to help the title character of "The Lucky, Lucky, Lucky Duck" overcome his irresistible cuteness.

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