characters and characteristics in literature

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characters and characteristics in literature

A book

2009
A young girl living in a book tries to find a story of her own while figuring out what a reader is and thinking about the stories of her family members.

Yours truly, Goldilocks

2001
Presents the correspondence of Goldilocks, the three pigs, Baby Bear, Peter Rabbit, and Little Red Riding Hood as they plan to attend a housewarming party for the pigs and avoid the evil wolves in the forest.

She sells seashells

a tongue twister story
1995
Peter Piper and Silly Sally visit Betty Botter, reciting well-known tongue twisters along the way.

Rub a dub dub

2000
This expanded version of the traditional rhyme shows what happens to the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker when they go fishing in their tub. Includes music on the last page.

The mystery of the several sevens

1994
Mr. Merlin, a wizard disguised as a substitute teacher, magically transports two fifth graders to a fairyland where they must solve a riddle to find out who has stolen the seven dwarfs' bag of diamonds.

The missing tarts

1989
When the Queen of Hearts discovers that her strawberry tarts have been stolen, she enlists the help of many popular nursery rhyme characters in order to find them.

Dear Peter Rabbit

1994
Presents letters between such fairy tale characters as Goldilocks, Baby Bear, Peter Rabbit, and the Three Pigs.

And the dish ran away with the spoon

2001
When Dish and Spoon run away, their nursery rhyme friends Cat, Cow, and Dog set out to rescue them in time for the next evening's reading of their rhyme.

The unusual suspects

2007
Although filled with anger over her parents' disappearance, eleven-year-old Sabrina Grimm--along with her grandmother, sister, and several fairy-tale characters--tries to discover who has killed her teacher.

If the shoe fits

2001
The old woman who lives in a shoe sets out to find a larger home for her many children, and gets mixed up in other nursery rhymes along the way.

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