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• Curriculum Index (186k)   
  
• Abiyoyo
  
• The Adventures of Taxi Dog
  
• Alejandro's Gift (85k)    
  
• Alistair in Outer Space
  
• Alistair's Time Machine
  
• Always My Dad (57k)    
  
• Amazing Grace
  
• And Still the Turtle Watched
  
• Animal Cafe
  
• Applemando's Dreams
  
• Archibald Frisby (85k)    
  
• Arthur's Eyes
  
• Badger's Parting Gifts    
  
• Barn Dance!
  
• Bea and Mr. Jones
  
• Berlioz the Bear
  
• Best Friends
  
• The Bicycle Man
  
• The Bionic Bunny Show
  
• Bored—Nothing to Do!
  
• Borreguita and the Coyote
  
• Bread Is For Eating (66k)    
  
• Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain
  
• Brush
  
• Bugs
  
• The Carousel (69k)    
  
• A Chair for My Mother
  
• Chickens Aren't the Only Ones
  
• Come a Tide
  
• The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash
  
• Desert Giant: The World of the Saguaro Cactus
  
• Digging Up Dinosaurs
  
• Dinosaur Bob and his Adventures with the Family Lazardo
  
• Dive to the Coral Reefs
  
• Duncan and Dolores
  
• Feeling
  
• Florence and Eric Take the Cake
  
• Fly Away Home (76k)    
  
• Follow the Drinking Gourd
  
• Fox on the Job
  
• The Furry News: How to Make a Newspaper
  
• Galimoto
  
• Germs Make Me Sick!
  
• The Gift of the Sacred Dog
  
• Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport
  
• Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning (70k)    
  
• Gregory, The Terrible Eater
  
• Hail to Mail
  
• Hill of Fire
  
• Hip Cat (73k)    
  
• Hot-Air Henry
  
• Hotel Animal (72k)    
  
• How Much Is A Million? (77k)    
  
• How To Make An Apple Pie And See The World (60k)    
  
• Humphrey the Lost Whale: A True Story
  
• If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
  
• Imogene's Antlers
  
• Is this a House for Hermit Crab?
  
• Jack, the Seal and the Sea
  
• June 29, 1999
  
• Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express
  
• Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie
  
• Knots on a Counting Rope
  
• The Lady with a Ship on Her Head
  
• The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush
  
• Lemonade for Sale    
  
• Liang and the Paintbrush
  
• The Life Cycle of the Honeybee
  
• Little Nino's Pizzeria
  
• The Lotus Seed
  
• Louis the Fish
  
• Ludlow Laughs
  
• The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth
  
• Mama Don't Allow
  
• Martha Speaks (83k)    
  
• Math Cure    
  
• Meanwhile Back at the Ranch
  
• The Milk Makers
  
• Miss Nelson is Back
  
• Mrs. Katz and Tush
  
• Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters
  
• Mummies Made in Egypt
  
• My America: A Poetry Atlas of the United States    
  
• My Life with the Wave    
  
• My Little Island
  
• My Shadow
  
• Mystery on the Docks
  
• Nosey Mrs. Rat
  
• On The Day You Were Born (73k)    
  
• Once There Was A Tree
  
• Opt -- An Illusionary Tale
  
• Owen (66k)    
  
• Ox-Cart Man
  
• The Paper Crane
  
• The Patchwork Quilt
  
• Paul Bunyan
  
• Perfect the Pig
  
• Pet Stories You Don't Have to Walk    
  
• The Piggy in the Puddle
  
• The Purple Coat
  
• Racoons and Ripe Corn
  
• Rechenka's Eggs
  
• Regina's Big Mistake (68k)    
  
• The Robbery at the Diamond Dog Diner
  
• Rumplestiltskin
  
• The Runaway Duck
  
• Ruth Law Thrills a Nation
  
• The Salamander Room
  
• Sam the Sea Cow
  
• Saturday Sancocho    
  
• Seashore Surprises
  
• Secret Short Cut    
  
• The Shaman's Apprentice: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest    
  
• The Sign Painter's Dream (86k)    
  
• Silent Lotus
  
• Simon's Book
  
• Snowy Day: Stories and Poems
  
• Someplace Else (85k)    
  
• Sophie and Lou
  
• Space Case
  
• Sports Pages
  
• Stay Away from the Junkyard!
  
• Stellaluna    
  
• Summer
  
• Sunken Treasure
  
• Tar Beach
  
• Three By the Sea
  
• Three Days On A River in a Red Canoe
  
• A Three Hat Day
  
• Through Moon and Stars
  
• Tight Times
  
• Tooth-Gnasher Superflash
  
• The Tortoise and the Hare
  
• Ty's One Man Band
  
• Uncle Jed's Barbershop (77k)    
  
• The Wall
  
• Watch the Stars Come Out
• When Aunt Lena Did The Rhumba    
  
• Worksong    
  
• Wonderful Towers Of Watts (86k)    
  
• Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin (73k)