Dan Bar-el

• Feb-2004
• / General Fiction
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All is not right in the land of Mother Goose. People and things keep falling down and it is not merely coincidental. There is trouble afoot. It is up to King Jack and his sister Princess Jill to get to the bottom of this mystery....

• Mar-2006
• / Fantasy
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Princess Jill excels at jousting, fencing, skating and long-distance spitting. Her brother, King Jack, loves baking and spending time with Little Bo Peep and her sheep. So what's a princess to do when she receives a mysterious letter from the lan...

• Sep-2006
• / General Fiction
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Did you ever try to use an egg in place of a football? Dress up a live quail in doll's clothes when you didn't have a doll? Or strap rag-dolls onto your feet in place of slippers?In Alphabetter, twenty-six boys and girls find themselves in twenty-six...

• Oct-2007
• / Fantasy
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An opinionated, love-starved princess. Her status-conscious parents. Two muscular, but rude, hunks. Their kind, thoughtful brother. Three not-so-perfect peaches. An impossible challenge. And a whole lot of rabbits!
Told from the point of view of ...

• Oct-2009
• / General Fiction
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The gods of Mount Olympus are bored. They want an adventure. They want a hero. They'll settle for Jack."For your information, I am not going on any epic journey. I am going home to my castle, where I wish to be left alone." (Jack)As usual, things don...

• May-2011
• / General Fiction
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In the classic nursery rhyme, "Pussycat, Pussycat," the Pussycat travels to London to visit the Queen. But Dan Bar-el's vivid, dreamy text tells the rest of the Pussycat's adventures, from France where he sails down the Seine, to far North where he s...

• Sep-2012
• / General Fiction
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There can only be one night a year when a broom will go in search of a witch, when mermaids might swim in a bathtub and when a house party can get a little too batty. Here are three strange stories about that one spooky night! ...

• Feb-2013
• / General Fiction
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Everybody knows your typical dragon breathes fire. But when Crispin tries to breathe fire on his seventh birthday, fire doesn't come out--only whipped cream Each time Crispin tries to breathe fire, he ends up with Band-Aids, marshmallows, ted...

• Sep-2013
• / General Fiction
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Where do children go when they close their eyes to sleep?

They step onto their dreamboats and sail toward adventure.

From Maiqui in the Andes floating through the constellations, to Aljuu paddling along the shores of Ha...

• Apr-2014
• / General Fiction
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In this lyrical story about friendship and the power of dreams, a small and ordinary fish named Glub asks himself the big questions in life as he observes life in the diner beyond his fishbowl. Who am I? Where do I belong? The lively characters aroun...

• Apr-2014
• / General Fiction
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Maximilian is a prince who loves to talk: No topic is too small, no story too boring. Max's brothers are the opposite--the less said the better. When the king and queen go on a trip and leave the brothers alone, the 3 princes put a spell on Max that ...

• Nov-2014
• / Action Adventure
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Audrey is a cow with poetry in her blood, who yearns for the greener pastures beyond Bittersweet Farms. But when Roy the horse tells this bovine dreamer that she is headed for Abbot's War, the slaughter house, Audrey knows that she must leave her hom...

• Apr-2017
• / General Fiction
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A celebration of the best kind of dad: the kind that's willing to join in the fun.A gang of mythical creatures is roaming around a magical land having a great time, until Bigfoot gets his foot stuck in a tree trunk and Unicorn gets her horn impaled o...

• Jul-2017
• / Graphic Novel
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It's Open Mic Night at the Story Zoo and the dogs are up to tell their tales in this hilarious graphic novel for young readers.At the Story Zoo, you get to tell any story you want in front of the live audience, as long as it's about you. And tonight ...

• Sep-2017
• / General Fiction
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Did you ever try to use an egg in place of a football? Dress up a live quail in doll's clothes when you didn't have a doll? Or strap rag-dolls onto your feet in place of slippers?In Alphabetter, twenty-six boys and girls find themselves in twenty-six...

• Sep-2019
• / General Fiction
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An inquisitive polar bear named Duane befriends an array of animals as he discovers where he belongs in this charming classic-in-the making that’s reminiscent of Winnie the Pooh. In the Very, Very Far North, past the Cold, Cold Ocean and just be...

• Oct-2020
• / General Fiction
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The adventures of Duane the polar bear and his arctic friends continue in this charming sequel to the modern-day classic The Very, Very Far North, which Booklist compared to Winnie the Pooh in a starred review.Past the place where icebergs shiver, yo...