Jan Brett
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Jan Brett's beloved character the Gingerbread Baby returns in a fun-filled Christmas caper! Gingerbread Baby and his friend, Matti, take his gingerbread band to the Christmas Festival where they are a hit until the aroma of gingerbread reaches the children, signaling that it is time to run away. Clever Matti uses snow to disguise the gingerbread instruments while Gingerbread Baby leads the audience on a merry chase to the smartest hiding place ever--a...
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In this adaptation of the traditional folktale, three little dassies (also called rock hyraxes) build their houses in the Namib Desert of Southern Africa, hoping for protection from the eagle that lives atop a nearby mountain.
46) Mossy
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Scoot has never seen a turtle as beautiful as Mossy. But as Mossy walks toward him, her amazing garden swaying back and forth on her shell, someone picks her up and puts her in a basket. Dr. Carolina has found the perfect exhibit hor her museum. She and her niece, Tory, take Mossy there, and a large glass-enclosed case becomes Mossy's new home. How she misses sitting on her rock by the waterfall at Lilypad Pond. But most of all, she misses Scoot....
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Jan Brett's fans count her "snowy" books set in irresistible winter landscapes among their favorites. Now four of her bestselling titles: Gingerbread Baby, The Mitten, The Hat and The Three Snow Bears, set in Switzerland, the Ukraine, Denmark and the Arctic, respectively, are in one book. Memorable characters, such as the mischievous Gingerbread Baby, the woodland animals in Nicki's white mitten, Hedgie and the farm animals, and the three polar bears...