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Miss Brooks loves books (and I don't)

Summary: A first-grade girl who does not like to read stubbornly resists her school librarian's efforts to convince her to love books until she finds one that might change her mind.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0375946829 (lib. bdg.)
  • ISBN: 9780375946820 (lib. bdg.)
  • ISBN: 0375846824 (trade)
  • ISBN: 9780375846823 (trade)
  • Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
    print
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2010.
Subject: Schools Fiction
Librarians Fiction
Books and reading Fiction

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Kenton County.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Erlanger Branch E BOTTN B (Text) 33126015963394 Easy Available -

  • Baker & Taylor
    Unable to experience her classmates' enthusiasm for reading favorite library books, Missy challenges her determined librarian to find just the right story among the ones that are otherwise too flowery, furry or otherwise unsatisfying.
  • Baker & Taylor
    A first-grade girl who does not like to read stubbornly resists her school librarian's efforts to convince her to love books until she finds one that might change her mind.
  • Random House, Inc.
    With the help of Miss Brooks, Missy's classmates all find books they love in the library'books about fairies and dogs and trains and cowboys. But Missy dismisses them all''too flowery, too furry, too clickety, too yippity."

    Still, Miss Brooks remains undaunted. Book Week is here and Missy will find a book to love if they have to empty the entire library. What story will finally win over this beastly, er, discriminating child? William Steig's Shrek!'the tale of a repulsive green ogre in search of a revolting bride'of course!

    Barbara Bottner and Michael Emberley pay playful homage to the diverse tastes of child readers and the valiant librarians who are determined to put just the right book in each child's hands.
  • Random House, Inc.
    With the help of Miss Brooks, Missy’s classmates all find books they love in the library—books about fairies and dogs and trains and cowboys. But Missy dismisses them all—“Too flowery, too furry, too clickety, too yippity.”

    Still, Miss Brooks remains undaunted. Book Week is here and Missy will find a book to love if they have to empty the entire library. What story will finally win over this beastly, er, discriminating child? William Steig’s Shrek!—the tale of a repulsive green ogre in search of a revolting bride—of course!

    Barbara Bottner and Michael Emberley pay playful homage to the diverse tastes of child readers and the valiant librarians who are determined to put just the right book in each child’s hands.

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