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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone,
first published in England as Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone,
continues to win major awards in England. So far it has won the National
Book Award, the Smarties Prize, the Children's Book Award, and is short-listed
for the Carnegie Medal, the U.K. version of the Newbery Medal. This magical,
gripping, brilliant book--a future classic to be sure--will leave kids
clamoring for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry
Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. (Ages 8 to 13) --Karin Snelson
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Dinotopia : A Land Apart from Time
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Welcome to James Gurney's fantastic lost world of Dinotopia, where humans and intelligent
dinosaurs have lived together in harmony for centuries, undiscovered by the rest of the world. Now
these New York Times bestselling books are available from HarperCollins. The Dinotopia books
are a celebration of the imagination for readers of all ages.In 1862, biologist Arthur Denison and his
young son Will are washed up on the shore of an uncharted island, where they discover humans and
an ancient race of dinosaurs sharing a civilization of wonder and adventure.
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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One of the true classics of American literature, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has stirred the
imagination of young and old alike for over four generations. Originally published in 1900, it was the
first truly American fairy tale, as Baum crafted a wonderful out of such familiar items as a cornfield
scarecrow, a mechanical woodman, and a humbug wizard who used old-fashioned hokum to
express that universal theme, "There's no place like home."
This lavishly produced facsimile of the rare first edition contains all 24 of W. W. Denslow's original
color plates, the colorful pictorial binding, and the 130 two-color illustrations that help make The
Wonderful Wizard of Oz so special and enduring.
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