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  2. Picture book - Wikipedia

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    Easy reader books are for children who are beginning to learn how to read and include simple text and descriptive illustrations. [1] Non-fiction children's books are used to teach children in a simple and accessible way. [1] Wordless picture books tell a story only through images. They encourage creativity and can be appreciated by children who ...

  3. Illustrated fiction - Wikipedia

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    Illustrated fiction is a hybrid narrative medium in which images and text work together to tell a story. It can take various forms, including fiction written for adults or children, magazine fiction, comic strips, and picture books. [1]

  4. The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Wikipedia

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    The format of The Very Hungry Caterpillar allows for expansion into a classroom activities, [26] where children can engage in creative practice and storytelling by inserting their own foods and drawings into each day of the week. [26] Using the book's format, children can incorporate their own interests; thus, telling their own stories. [26]

  5. Miss Rumphius - Wikipedia

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    Miss Rumphius is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Barbara Cooney and originally published by the Viking Press in 1982. It features the life story of fictional Miss Alice Rumphius, a woman who sought a way to make the world more beautiful and found it in planting lupines in the wild. Miss Rumphius was inspired by the real ...

  6. The Sneetches and Other Stories - Wikipedia

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    The first two stories in the book ("The Sneetches" and "The Zax") were later adapted, along with Green Eggs and Ham, into 1973's animated TV musical special Dr. Seuss on the Loose: The Sneetches, The Zax, Green Eggs and Ham with Hans Conried voicing the narrator and both Zax, and Paul Winchell and Bob Holt voicing the Sneetches and Sylvester ...

  7. Jumanji (picture book) - Wikipedia

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    Unlike the original story, the animals wreak havoc on the town, and Peter turns into a monkey for cheating in the game. In the film the snake is absent and crocodiles appear in the scene where Sarah summons the monsoon. The Jumanji animated TV series, roughly based on the book and the film, ran from 1996 to 1999. Unlike in the book and film ...

  8. The Polar Express - Wikipedia

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    Van Allsburg based the story on a mental image of a child wandering into the woods on a foggy night and wondering where a train was headed. [4]At the premiere of the film, Van Allsburg stated that Pere Marquette 1225, a 2-8-4 Berkshire N-1 class steam locomotive, formerly owned by the Michigan State University and now owned by the Steam Railroading Institute in Owosso, was the inspiration for ...

  9. The Giving Tree - Wikipedia

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    A short animated film of the book, produced in 1973, featured Silverstein's narration. [30] [31] Silverstein also wrote a song of the same name, which was performed by Bobby Bare and his family on his album Singin' in the Kitchen (1974). [32] Silverstein created an adult version of the story in a cartoon entitled "I Accept the Challenge". [33]