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Corduroy is a 1968 children's book written and illustrated by Don Freeman, and published by The Viking Press. Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association listed the book as one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children." [1] It was one of the "Top 100 Picture Books" of all time in a 2012 poll by School Library Journal. [2]
Captain Underpants is an illustrated children's novel series by American author and illustrator Dav Pilkey.The series revolves around two fourth graders, George Beard and Harold Hutchins, living in Piqua, Ohio, and Captain Underpants, an aptly named superhero from one of the boys' homemade comic books, who accidentally becomes real when George and Harold hypnotize their cruel, bossy, and ill ...
Five years ago, five-and-three-quarters-year-old George and his parents move in from Michigan, and George is forced by his mother to wear a tie as a good first impression. On his way to school, he notices six-year-old Harold being attacked by Kipper, Bugg, Loogie and Finkstein with the mean owner of the nearby gas station, Billy Bill, egging ...
The Sawhorse, spelled "saw-horse" in some of the books, is a character from L. Frank Baum's Oz books series. [26] He first appears in The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904). The Sawhorse is a wooden carpenter's sawhorse brought to life with the Powder of Life by Tip to carry Jack Pumpkinhead (whose wooden joints were wearing out from walking). He is a ...
List of The Hunger Games characters; List of The Jungle Book characters; List of The Karate Kid characters; List of The Librarian characters; List of The Mummy characters; List of The Phantom (film) characters; List of The Pink Panther characters; List of The Producers characters; List of The Stand characters; List of The Strangerhood ...
The following is a list of Little Miss characters from the children's book series by Roger Hargreaves, ... including track pants and sweaters.
"When we went to school [during the Blitz] you were not allowed to wear long trousers until you reached the age of 14, short trousers were the normal thing to wear, and when your backside became thread bare you would have the hole covered up with what we called 'our jimmy and his magic patch'."
The Wolf in Underpants Gets Some Pants (French: Le Loup en slip passe un froc), published in French in 2020 and in English in 2023. - The book is about the wolf keeping his sense of self; [ 12 ] he tries wearing pants (trousers) when underwear becomes popular, as a means of standing out.