play

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play

The sign on Rosie's door

1960
A little girl and her friends put on a show, wait for a Magic Man and turn into firecrackers.

I'm a tiger, too!

2001
A boy tries to play imaginative games with a cat, a dog, and a fish, but he does not find a cooperative playmate until he meets another boy.

Crispin, the pig who had it all

2000
Crispin, the little pig who has everything, gets the one thing that he doesn't have on Christmas morning when he receives a mysterious box.

Clap your hands

1992
Rhyming text instructs the listener to find something yellow, roar like a lion, give a kiss, tell a secret, spin in a circle, and perform other playful activities along with the human and animal characters pictured.

M & M and the haunted house game

1990
Best friends Mimi and Mandy set up a haunted house as part of a game and end up scaring themselves.

A bully-free playground

2013
The students at Niceville Elementary School witness bullying on the playground and learn what to do to stop the bullying.

Library Lily

2011
From the day her mother introduces her to the library, Lily wants to spend all of her time reading until she meets Milly, who hates reading but loves adventure.

Susan laughs

2000
Rhyming couplets describe a wide range of common emotions and activities experienced by a little girl who uses a wheelchair.

Benjamin Brody's backyard bag

1991
Benjamin's playful experiment to find how many things he can do with an empty paper bag leads him to an informative encounter with a bag lady who has no home of her own.

The Berenstain Bears and the trouble with friends

1986
Lonely without friends her age to play with, Sister Bear is delighted when a new little girl cub moves into the house down the road.

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