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Kit's railway adventure

2002
A scrapbook-style story, set in 1934, about an eleven-year-old Cincinnati girl's train trip to Glacier National Park in Montana as the winner of an essay contest. Features pocket-style illustrations and removable props.

Anno's peekaboo

1988
By turning half pages, the reader is invited to play a game of peekaboo with a variety of animals and people.

La oruga muy hambrienta

2002
Follows the progress of a hungry little caterpillar as he eats his way through a varied and very large quantity of food until, full at last, he forms a cocoon around himself and goes to sleep. Die-cut pages illustrate what the caterpillar ate on successive days.

D?nde est? Spot?

1996
A mother dog finds eight other animals hiding around the house before finding her lost puppy. Flaps conceal the animals.

Hide and seek

1994
Frog is playing hide and seek with his friends and the reader can help by lifting the flaps.

Baska taayirradiisu way soo wareegaan oo wareegaan =

The wheels on the bus go round and round
2005
A boardbook edition of the well-known rhyme, featuring die-cut pages that let the reader see inside as a bus takes passengers to a party. Presented in Somali and English.

Duncan Cameron's shipwreck detective

2006
Presents a fictional journal of a diver's quest to find hidden treasure as the author examines a series of actual shipwrecks and their discovery.

My visit to the dinosaurs

1994
A visit to a museum of natural history provides a little boy with an introduction to the habits, characteristics, and habitats of fourteen kinds of dinosaurs.

Moja means one

Swahili counting book
1994
The numbers one through ten in Swahili accompany two-page illustrations of various aspects of East African life.

Goodnight moon

1975
As a little bunny says goodnight to many familiar objects, the illustrations are progressively darker.

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