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Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears: A West African Tale
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Verna Aardema, Leo Dillon (Illustrator), Diane Dillon (Illustrator)
African folk tale which begins with a mosquito teasing an iguana whose panic becomes contagious.
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Honey, I Love and Other Love Poems
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Eloise Greenfield, Leo Dillon (Illustrator), Diane Dillon (Illustrator)
Titles include "I Look Pretty", "Fun", "Riding on the Train", "Harriet Tubman", and "By Myself".
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Rap a Tap Tap: Here's Bojangles, Think of That
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Leo Dillon (Illustrator), Diane Dillon
A picture book tribute to Bill Robinson, the tap dancer better known as Bojangles. Watercolor illustrations accompany the text. A Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honors book.
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Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions
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Margaret W Musgrove, Leo Dillon (Illustrator), Diane Dillon (Illustrator)
This lushly illustrated alphabet book describes life in 26 African tribes. Selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the Best Illustrated Children's Books of 1976 and winner of the 1977 Caldecott Medal.
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To Every Thing There is a Season: Verses from Ecclesiastes
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Leo Dillon (Illustrator), Diane Dillon (Illustrator)
An illustrated version of the verses of Ecclesiastes, from the King James edition of the Bible. The illustrations (gouache, acrylic, watercolor, and ink paintings) show the influence of many styles of art--from Japanese uikyo-e to kiva painting to medieval woodcuts.
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Mother Goose Numbers on the Loose
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Leo Dillon, Diane Dillon (Illustrator)
Caldecott Medal-winning artists Leo and Diane Dillon help Mother Goose gather up all the mischievous numbers that have escaped their nursery rhymes, in this stunning celebration of counting, rhymes, and imagination. Full color.
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Tales from Shakespeare
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Tina Packer (Retold by), Gail De Marcken (Illustrator), Leo Dillon (Illustrator)
This collection of prose versions of 10 Shakespeare plays includes retellings of KING LEAR, MACBETH, and THE TEMPEST. Color illustrations by such artists as Leo and Diane Dillon, Kadir Nelson, and Mark Teague accompany the text.
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Pish, Posh, Said Hieronymus Bosch
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Nancy Willard, Leo Dillon (Illustrator), Diane Dillon (Illustrator)
A picture-book story featuring 15th-century Flemish painter Hieronymus Bosch. Color illustrations accompany the text.
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Jazz on a Saturday Night
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Leo Dillon, Diane Dillon
The authors use bright colors and musical patterns that make music skip off the page, in this toe-tapping homage to many jazz greats. Learn about this popular music form and read a biography of each player pictured--and then hear each instrument play on a specially produced CD.
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Mansa Musa: The Lion of Mali
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Khephra Burns, Leo Dillon (Illustrator), Diane Dillon (Illustrator)
A fictionalized picture book biography of African King Mansa Musa, who ruled Mali from 1312 to 1337. Much of this book concentrates on Mansa Musa's childhood, a time during which he converted to Islam--a religion he merged with aspects of his own African heritage. Gouache paintings accompany the text.
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The Girl Who Dreamed Only Geese: And Other Tales of the Far North
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Howard Norman, Leo Dillon (Illustrator), Diane Dillon (Illustrator)
A collection of 10 Inuit tales including hunting stories, shaman stories, origin tales, stories about village and community life, and a recast Bible story. Color and b&w illustrations accompany the text. Selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the Best Illustrated Children's Books of 1997.
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The Girl Who Spun Gold
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Virginia Hamilton, Leo Dillon (Illustrator), Diane Dillon (Illustrator)
In this African American retelling of "Rumpelstiltskin", Lit'mahn spins thread into gold cloth for the king's new bride.
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Wind Child
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Shirley Rousseau Murphy, Diane Dillon (Illustrator), Leo Dillon (Illustrator)
In this original fairy tale, Resshie is the daughter of a human mother and the East Wind. A dreamer like her father, Resshie wants to know the secrets of the wind, but because she is half human, she cannot. Inspired by her heritage, Resshie attempts to capture the spirit of the wind in her artistic weavings, which win her much fame. But since ...
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The Porcelain Cat
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Michael Patrick Hearn, Leo Dillon (Illustrator), Diane Dillon (Illustrator)
Rats are gnawing at the sorcerer's books. What to do? Get a cat--but not just any cat. The sorcerer sends his apprentice Nickon to fetch a missing ingredient for a spell that will bring his porcelain cat to life. Full color.
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One Winter's Night
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John Herman, Leo Dillon (Illustrator), Diane Dillon (Illustrator)
On a cold winter's night a pregnant cow named Martha searches for a warm barn where she can give birth. Meanwhile, Mary and Joseph seek shelter so that she may give birth to their child. Watercolor illustrations accompany the text.
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Slave's Tale
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Erik Christian Haugaard
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The Sorcerer's Apprentice
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Nancy Willard, Leo D. Dillon (Editor), Diane Dillon (Illustrator)
A retelling of the popular tale, featuring a spirited female apprentice who creates the kind of chaos only a great magician can subdue.
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Claymore and kilt : tales of Scottish kings and castles
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Sorche Nic Leodhas
Eleven tales from Scottish history. Introductory notes provide background information on the long and fierce struggle for Scottish independence.
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Moses' Ark
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Alice Bach, Diane Dillon (Illustrator), Leo Dillon (Illustrator)
Thirteen lively tales based on new translations from the Hebrew brilliantly reveal the people of the Bible's great stories. Full-color illustrations.
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The Color Wizard
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Barbara Brenner, Leo Dillon (Illustrator), Diane Dillon (Illustrator)
The story of how the Gray Wizard paints his house is used to explain how colors can be mixed to create new hues. A rhyming text accompanies the bright illustrations.
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Norther Lullaby
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Nancy Carlstrom, Leo Dillon (Illustrator), Diane Dillon (Illustrator)
A young boy bids the natural world goodnight as he prepares for sleep. The poetic text invokes such anthropomorphized objects as Grandma River, Great Moose Uncle and Auntie Birch. Iridescent paintings accompany the free verse text.
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Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom: ALA Notable Children's Book
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Virginia Hamilton, Leo Dillon (Illustrator), Diane Dillon (Illustrator)
This account of slavery in the United States from 1619 through the Civil War is divided into three sections: "Slavery in America," "Running-Aways," and "Exodus to Freedom." The 34 selections in this collection are based on historical records, personal narratives, and biographies and are illustrated with black-and-white drawings. Readers will meet ...
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The Cuckoo Child
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Suzanne Freeman, Diane Dillon, Leo Dillon
Due to her father's work, American Mia Veery and her parents are living in Beirut, Lebanon in 1962. When her parents disappear in a sailing accident, Mia is sent back to the United States to stay with an aunt she's never met. Living in Tennessee is difficult for Mia as she tries to cope with the loss of her parents and adjust to her new ...
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Ashanti to Zulu: 2african Traditions
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Margaret W Musgrove, Leo Dillon (Illustrator), Diane Dillon (Illustrator)
This lushly illustrated alphabet book describes life in 26 African tribes. Selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the Best Illustrated Children's Books of 1976 and winner of the 1977 Caldecott Medal.
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The traveler in black
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John Brunner, Leo Dillon, Diane Dillon
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