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Picture Books for the Young Child<br />
PuddIng and ChIPs<br />
Penny Matthews,<br />
Illustrated by Janine<br />
Dawson<br />
iSBN: 9780863154966 HARDCOVER<br />
FlORiS BOOkS $17.95 40 PAGES<br />
Pudding is a cranky goose. Nobody<br />
tells Pudding what to do—<br />
not even Chips the sheepdog. But<br />
one warm, windy night, a big red<br />
fox comes creeping through the<br />
paddocks, dreaming of chicken<br />
dinners, and things start to<br />
change. (Age 5-8)<br />
floRIna and the wIld bIRd<br />
Selina Chönz, Illustrated by Alois<br />
Carigiet<br />
iSBN: 9780863156816 HARDCOVER FlORiS BOOkS<br />
$17.95 32 PAGES<br />
Florina lives in a valley in the Swiss Alps with her<br />
mother, father, and brother Ursli. One day, while<br />
walking in the mountains, she finds a tiny bird<br />
that has lost its mother, and she takes the bird<br />
home to care for it. Florina and the wild bird soon<br />
become best friends. She makes food for it using<br />
her doll’s tea set and gives it a special basket for a<br />
bed. But soon the bird wants to fly, and Florina<br />
must decide whether to keep the bird or release<br />
it to fly back to the mountains. (Ages 4-6)<br />
dRagon featheRs<br />
Illustrated by olga<br />
Dugina and Andrei Dugin<br />
Story retold by Arnica<br />
Esterl<br />
iSBN: 9780863157745 HARDCOVER<br />
FlORiS BOOkS $17.95 24 PAGES<br />
The classic story of the adventures<br />
of a poor woodcutter’s son who<br />
must go on a dangerous mission<br />
into the forest to pluck three feathers<br />
from the dragon’s back, so that<br />
he can marry the rich innkeeper’s<br />
beautiful daughter. (Ages 5-8)<br />
Olga Dugina also illustrated One<br />
Thousand and One Nights. (See p. 27)<br />
the aPPle Cake<br />
Nienke van Hichtum<br />
iSBN: 9780863152283 HARDCOVER<br />
FlORiS BOOkS $16.95 24 PAGES<br />
There was an old granny who<br />
took a fancy one day to bake an<br />
apple cake. She has everything she<br />
needs—except apples. So she sets off<br />
to the market to buy some apples,<br />
taking a basket of plums to trade<br />
along the way.<br />
Includes Granny’s delicious apple<br />
cake recipe. (Ages 5-8)<br />
floweR heaven<br />
Illustrated by<br />
Else Wenz-Viëtor<br />
iSBN: 9780863157271 HARDCOVER<br />
FlORiS BOOkS $16.95 24 PAGES<br />
What happens to the poor flowers<br />
when they get sick? They go to<br />
Flower Heaven.<br />
This delightfully illustrated book<br />
tells the story of one evening<br />
in Flower Heaven, as the flower<br />
angels welcome and tend to their<br />
<strong>new</strong> patients. (Ages 4-6)<br />
See more books by Else Wenz-Viëtor<br />
on p. 35.<br />
a bell foR uRslI<br />
Selina Chönz, Illustrated by Alois Carigiet<br />
iSBN: 9780863156144 HARDCOVER FlORiS BOOkS $17.95<br />
44 PAGES<br />
A little boy named Ursli lives in the Swiss Alps, and he<br />
must overcome his fears in order to find a big cowbell so<br />
that he can lead the spring procession through his village.<br />
Generations of Swiss children have grown up with this<br />
delightful story of Ursli and his bell. (Ages 5-8)<br />
Selina Chönz (1910–2000) was a poet from the Engadine valley<br />
in the Graubünden mountains of Switzerland.<br />
Alois Carigiet (1902–1985), also from the Graubünden mountains,<br />
became one of Switzerland’s most popular painters. He<br />
won numerous awards, including the New York Times Best Illustrated<br />
Children’s Book of the Year 1953 and the gold medal<br />
of the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1966.<br />
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