The Tamarindo puppy and other poems

Literature & Fiction

Pomerantz, Charlotte

Poetry

Greenwillow Books

After fourteen-year-old Chad lost his dog to a car accident, he lost all interest in everything around him and had no tolerance at all in dealing with their new dog, Queenie, yet when an animal "shaper" and his beautiful daughter enter his life, Chad begins to finally allow his broken heart to heal.

Shaper

Children's Books

Haas, Jessie

Animals

Dashing Dog!

"Dashing dog! Dashing dog! Oh, what a sight to see!"
When a dashing dog gets into messy mischief, his family is exasperated. Then baby Betty falls off the jetty, and it's up to the brave dashing dog to save the day. Can this bedraggled puppy prove that looks aren't everything?
Award-winning author Margaret Mahy's canine caper will tickle young readers until they sit up and beg for more!

Mahy, Margaret

Busy in the Garden

Amazing Snakes! is the fifth title in an award–winning series of I Can Read Books that features photographs from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), one of the world's most esteemed wildlife conservation organizations. The exceptional writing and design of the I Can Read Books–paired with WCS's global research and conservation efforts, educational programs, and stunning color photographs–make this a standout series for children, caregivers, and teachers!

Shannon, George

Zucchini meenyminey moe.Plant a seedand watch it grow.How will you stay busy in the garden?Picking bouquets?Uprooting rutabagas?Looking for four-leaf clovers?Eating juicy berries?Here are twenty-four poems ripe for the picking.Delicious!

Inside Mouse, Outside Mouse

Once there was an inside mouse and an outside mouse. One day they both went on a trip. They traveled up, down, across, around, through, between, behind, over, and under, until they finally met in the middle. Hello! 
Are they old friends? Or new friends? Did they just meet today? Or do they visit every day? And what do you think might happen next to the inside mouse and the outside mouse?

George, Lindsay Barrett

After long journeys, an inside mouse and an outside mouse each arrive at opposite sides of a window and press their noses up against it to say "Hello!" Did they just meet today? Or do they visit every day?
 This fresh take on the the classic country mouse and city mouse tale is perfect for young nature lovers.

It's Christmas Eve.The presents are wrapped. The tree is decorated. The stockings are up. Santa's milk and cookies are set out. And Princess Dinosaur and her friends are fast asleep. Ssshh...All is quiet and peaceful at Princess Dinosaur's house.Only kidding!!!!!There is absolutely, positively, definitely, and completely nothing quiet and peaceful about Christmas with Princess Dinosaur! But a merry, merry Christmas it most certainly will be!

Merry Christmas, Princess Dinosaur!

Kastner, Jill

From School Library Journal\nGrade 4-8-Border collie Moss returns in his third book, which does not stand alone. Diane is baby-sitting for the summer for the Pragers, who have taken the dog in. When rabies is found in the area, they must kill their lambs, which might have been exposed. Upset, one of their sons runs away. When Diane and Moss locate him, they see that he is injured, and she goes for help. In the meantime, one of the neighbors finds him and severely hurts the dog because he defends the boy so aggressively. While the human characters and dialogue are realistic, Moss never comes to life. The fact that the searcher slams and nearly kills him with a pipe seems gratuitous and shocking. The incident appears to exist only so that Diane can then take responsibility for Moss, thus making him "her dog." If readers of the earlier titles can stand seeing him hurt again so that another child can learn to trust herself, they will read this one. Others can pass on it. 
Sally Bates Goodroe, formerly at Harris County Public Library, Houston, TX 
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.\nDuring the summer that Diane lives with a family as their babysitter, she works to establish rapport with the border collie Moss as everyone tries to cope with several crises.\nFrom Booklist\nGr. 4-6. Though the ominous opening portends calamity, readers follow Diane as she trudges to her weekend job at Prager farm. Waiting at the farm is Moss, the collie introduced in Levin's Away to Me, Moss (1994) and Look Back, Moss (1998). But here, the dog is subdued. Is he pining for his previous caregivers? Diane suspects he's bored and needs to get back to herding. She would like to work with him, but her job babysitting the Pragers' sons consumes most of her time, and her employers are busy farming and establishing their new business. Then rabies intrudes, threatening the Pragers' livestock and possibly their lives. An adept storyteller, Levin engages readers in the everyday activities on the farm as she tells a story about people drawn together by need, responsibility, love, and even fear, which shackles some of the characters and forces them to act without thinking. A wrenching, thoughtful read for more mature elementary schoolers. Ellen Mandel 
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That'll Do, Moss

Levin, Betty

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The Tamarindo puppy and other poems

Shaper

Dashing Dog!

Busy in the Garden

Busy in the Garden

Inside Mouse, Outside Mouse

Inside Mouse, Outside Mouse

Inside Mouse, Outside Mouse

Merry Christmas, Princess Dinosaur!

That'll Do, Moss