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  Out of the Shadows - How Lotte...

  Fiona Robinson

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  Lotte Reiniger (1899–1981) was a German film director and animator best known for The Adventures of Prince Achmed, which was released in 1926 and is the oldest surviving animated movie. (It came out a full eleven years before Disney’s Snow White!) As a little kid, Reiniger loved reading fairytales and fell in love with puppetry. At school, she learned about paperschnitte, or papercuts, which helped her create her signature style of silhouettes. She grew up to make more than forty films throughout her long career, most of which were fairytales that used her stop-film animation technique of hand-cut silhouettes. Reiniger is now seen as the foremost pioneer of silhouette animation and the inventor of an early form of the multiplane camera.

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  The Book of Dragons

  E. Nesbit

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  Eight fun and fantastical children’s tales featuring marvelous dragons, from the author of The Railway Children and The Story of the Treasure Seekers.Embark on an amazing journey through a world of dragons with these eight tales from the acclaimed imagination of E. Nesbit. In “The Book of the Beasts,” a boy becomes king and is not prepared for the powerful magic inside a book he finds in the palace library. In “Uncle James, or The Purple Stranger,” visit a land where children can ride a guinea pig and a purple dragon wants a princess for a birthday present. Unseasonably warm weather awakens a hoard of dragons in “The Deliverers of Their Country,” and only two children can stop them from destroying Great Britain. Two children make a shocking discovery in “The Ice Dragon, or Do as Your Told” after they follow the colorful northern lights all the way to the North Pole. Other stories included are “The Island of the Nine Whirlpools,” “The Dragon Tamers,” “The Fiery Dragon, or The Heart of Stone and the Heart of Gold,” and “Kind Little Edmund, or The Caves and the Cockatrice.”Some of the dragons in this book are friendly, while others are frightening. But all of these tales are sure to delight readers of all ages . . .

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  Karma's Revenge

  Jwyan C. Johnson

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  Experience a crime mystery, on memory lane, with Dedra Kare. Amnesia blends with family drama and a dilemma to Remember to Forget. Discover the Clue Queen's style to keep villains of dysfunction at the mercy of her detective skill, clever nature, and counter-manipulation. 
  Book 1 
  After a celebrity suffers a big crime in a small town, Hollywood demands answers. As clues disappear, a surveillance tape reveals a eye-witness. But teenager Dedra has just one problem: retrograde amnesia. With a medical remedy, detectives suffer the extra mystery as to why her parents are refusing to give consent. 
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  When a twin girl goes missing, an anonymous request for Clue Queen herself is granted. It's a game of Hide-and-Seek but on a legal field of child custody. But, with every hidden motive playing too, 'who’s IT?' 
  Book 3 
  It’s a very different shotgun wedding as a future in-law is murdered the night before the wedding. And son-in-law is arrested before flying to his honeymoon destination. Was his bachelor party, which he never attended, a planned alibi? Gun smoke fills the air with a runaway bride, a clever psychologist, shenanigans, and another in-law… in law. 
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  After a mysterious death, Hollywood’s Oscars event is held for ransom by its very own movie star, for a behind-the-scenes battle for the whodunit truth. It’s a tug-of-war both for and against a show that ‘might not go on’ this time. 
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  It’s a final battle, on memory lane, as Clue Queen pursues clever serial killer: Karma. With his pranks, and courtroom twisters, this ‘righteous psychopath’ has criminals escaping to jail by choice! 7 years since her last detective case, with a sidekick of doubt, can Dedra outsmart the pattern of what-goes-around and come-around to her own path of redemption?

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  The Cats of Silver Crescent

  Kaela Noel

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  In this stand-alone novel with themes of friendship and family, twelve-year-old Elsby discovers a family of talking cats living in the house next door and must help them harness the magic that made them that way. From the author of the acclaimed Coo, The Cats of Silver Crescent is for fans of Kathi Appelt and Katherine Applegate. 
  With her mother busy traveling for work, Elsby isn’t thrilled to be spending a few weeks with her great-aunt Verity. Luckily, she has her notebook and a lush garden to sketch to help pass the time. But a visitor takes Elsby by surprise: a cat standing on its two hind legs and dressed like a sailor dashes across the garden and into the neighboring woods! 
  Elsby can’t believe her eyes, and she can't imagine that Aunt Verity would believe her, either. But that night, the cat and three of his cat companions approach Elsby. They need Elsby’s help. While the cats can talk, think, and behave like humans, the magical spell that made them that way will revert if it’s not renewed soon. Elsby might be the only one who can save them—but every enchantment comes at a price. 
  A contemporary fantasy about family, friends, trust, and the magic that’s inside everyone, The Cats of Silver Crescent will captivate animal lovers and fans of Jenn Reese’s A Game of Fox & Squirrels. 

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  Hush! & Fib!

  Clare Helen Welsh

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  The family makes noise as they go throughout their day. When do they need to be quiet? Then Chuck keeps telling fibs about others. Who will tell a fib about him? Engaging decodable text.

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  Sleep Well Little Lamb (Pixi...

  Katja Reider, Pixi Gute Nacht...

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  The story of Pompom, the little dike sheep who didn't want to go to sleep ...
  Pixi bedtime stories for children: listen and fall asleep.
  This is an auto-narrated audiobook.

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