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Store Specials Never pay more than $3 shipping. More than 1000 children's book items to choose from, most at 40-80% off retail! (Pay $3 shipping for your first item, all others ship free.) Limitations: Media Mail shipping to US addresses only. Items must be paid together on a single invoice. Free Shipping on your entire order when you buy 10 or more fixed price listings or auctions (single books or lots) - For media mail shipping to US addresses only . Links to store are with seller information on this page These are 6 books by Tedd Arnold (one with text by Brod Bagert), funny picture books for ages 4-8 approx. Books are all new, 5 are softcovers from Puffin publishers, size 8 x 9" to 8 x11", 32p each, $5.99-6.99 cover prices, one a Scholastic softcover edition $3.99, publisher's remainder mark on all on book bottom edge by spine, not visible on covers or opened pages. Parts . From Booklist: The poetry doesn't quite scan, but that's more than balanced by Arnold's unusual topic and his hilarious illustrations. A pop-eyed youngster is having a hard time. He seems to be falling apart. After losing a few hairs, he thinks he's going bald; his belly button lint is his stuffing coming out; "a chunk of something gray and wet" from his nose is none other than a piece of his brain; and a loose tooth puts him into shock. "Quite soon I'll be in pieces in / A pile without a shape. / Thank goodness Dad keeps lots and lots / And lots of masking tape." The gross factor is a key ingredient , with Arnold exploiting it nicely in bold, comical illustrations that catch the full-blown anxieties of the imaginative narrator. When Mom and Dad intervene, little boy and audience alike breathe a sigh of relief. A zany, ultimately reassuring take on something that may indeed be a child's bugaboo. More Parts No Jumping on the Bed Hi Fly Guy , Scholastic edition, Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book, early reader Giant Children . Poems by Brod Bagert, illustrations by Tedd Arnold. From Publishers Weekly: This deliciously over-the-top poetry collection explores the nerve-wracking world of school-age children. The narrator of the opening titular poem is the classroom hamster: "Pages turn at giant speed/ As giant children learn to read." Bagert's (Chicken Socks: And Other Contagious Poems) uncomplicated style of verse addresses such diverse topics as sibling feuds and wild imaginations, monster trucks and the Tooth Fairy, as it humorously handles the more anxious side of growing up, including the mixed blessing of landing the lead in the school play. Arnold's signature style seems particularly well suited to the stage-frightened fellow waiting in the wings ("So I am on stage,/ And the play's about to start./ My life was so much simpler/ Before I got this part"). The squiggling lines seem to indicate the actor's nerves gone haywire. Bagert delivers the requisite gross-out with "Booger Love" (complete with warning label that the poem "not, under any circumstances, be recited to a grown-up!"). The characters' pop-eyes sitting atop oversize heads help express the ever-changing emotions of childhood. Arnold selects just the right moment in each poem to dramatize and his exaggerated portraits help readers focus on the hyperbole of the poetry. A funny peek at the pleasures and (growing) pains of childhood. Ages 4-8. Green Wilma. From Publishers Weekly: T's something decidedly odd about Wilma: at breakfast, her parents are startled by their offspring's request to "Pass the bugs"; later, she shocks her teacher by snagging a "tasty little fly" with her long pink tongue. Most noticeably, however, Wilma's skin has turned a deep, froggy green, a fact that her polka-dot T-shirt and beribboned blond hair cannot conceal. In this strange and gleeful story, it's surprisingly easy being green--the extraordinary heroine is the envy of her elementary-school class. Arnold's rhyming text is as buoyant as his leaf-colored, rubbery-limbed protagonist; his roly-poly, bug-eyed characters perfectly suit the story's quirky th... read more

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