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  Mother Goose Stories

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  All the favorite rhymes and riddles that have been passed down from generation to generation.

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  Holiday Joy

  Kim Mitzo Thompson

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  Wonderful new instrumental arrangements of your all-time favorite Christmas songs!

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  Anne Bradstreet and Phillis...

  Charles River Editors

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  Anne Bradstreet was born into an unusual family that, in the early years of the 17th century, believed in educating daughters as well as sons. She then moved to the American wilderness as a young bride and proceeded to produce children and poetry at nearly equal speed in the years that followed. Historian Theodore Stanton observed, “The most of her poems were produced between 1630 and 1642, that is, before she was thirty years old; and during these years she had neither leisure, nor elegant surroundings, nor freedom from anxious thoughts, nor even abounding health. Somehow, during her busy lifetime, she contrived to put upon record compositions numerous enough to fill a royal octavo volume of 400 pages, — compositions which entice and reward our reading of them, two hundred years after she lived.” 
  	Phillis Wheatley has always been a difficult figure for people to wrap their minds around, both during her life and centuries after it. Indeed, she fits no easy stereotypes that historians or contemporaries liked to use to classify their subjects. Even her name is complicated, with her first name being spelled at times “Phyllis,” and her surname being given without the extra “e” in the final syllable. Like so much of her life, her name was not the one given to her by her parents but instead by the people who first enslaved her. 
  	Then there was the matter of her “career,” which has always escaped definition. In the 18th century, enslaved people were not supposed to have been educated, certainly not to the level that Wheatley was, nor were they supposed to have creative abilities beyond those taught to them by their masters. In a time and place where slaves were rarely taught to read, they were obviously not expected to write better poetry than the vast majority of their peers. 

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  Lola In The Middle

  Cecily Anne Paterson

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  Lola is always in the middle on the netball court. She knows how to keep the team working together. 
  But netball is not the only situation Lola is always stuck in the middle of—what with her parents fighting all the time and not to mention her best friends hating each other. 
  When her netball team looks like they might be in the State Finals, Lola steps up as captain. But she’s got bigger problems of her own when the doctor says that she might have to stop playing netball all together. 
  Lola feels like she’s losing from all sides. Can she ever stand up for herself? Or will she always be stuck in the middle? 
  Wombat Books acknowledges the support of the Australian Council for the Arts in the recording and production of this audiobook.

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  Hermit Crabs and a Banana Moon

  Dagmar Kost

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  After Emma discovers that her seashells contain hermit crabs she tries to use other beach souvenirs to make a home for the hermit crabs. Later she realizes that she must return them to the beach and recognizes that the best souvenirs are good memories.

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  Short Bedtime Stories for Kids -...

  Anna Rachels

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  Short Meditation Stories to Help your Children Fall Asleep Fast and Have a Relaxing Night’s Sleep. 
  Does your child often struggle to fall asleep at night? 
  Are they too overactive or hyper to even relax enough for sleep? 
  In this audiobook, you will find a collection of stories to help children enter a place of dreams and eventually drift off into sleep. These stories are intended to stir their imagination in such a way that the transition from fantasy and adventure into dreamland will be a seamless one. Best of all, your children will be able to get a good night’s sleep and wake up feeling refreshed and happy. 
  Each story is crafted to not only be 100 percent kid-friendly but also to gradually deepen your child’s relaxation ability and allow them to fall asleep with ease. Studies constantly show how bedtime stories help develop children’s reading ability, improve their creativity, and reduce their stress, in addition to the sleeping benefits. 
  Are you excited? Do you want to hear more? 
  Grab your copy today!

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