Children's
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Daffodeelia - Janaki Sooriyarachchi - Daffodeelia was a pretty little fairy. She was as pretty as the prettiest wildflower. Her hair was golden color, and her eyes were the deepest blue. She was always very happy and lively, and her smile was like a beautiful rainbow. Wherever she went, her merry laugh could be heard. Daffodeelia’s... |
4 | 4.7 |
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The Ugly Princess - Janaki Sooriyarachchi - A king and his queen have everything they could want in life except children. A magician grants them their wish of a child but on the condition that they only do good deeds. However, an unkind act to a poor urchin leads the magician to place a curse on the couple causing their daughter... |
4.6 | |
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Candleena - Janaki Sooriyarachchi - Far above the clouds, stars, moon and sun, was fairyland. It was a magnificent place filled with exotic flowers of rainbow colors, snow-dusted mountains, sapphire lakes, and trees greener than green itself. Of course, there were many fairies too, dazzling the exquisite land as far, and farther... |
5 | 4.5 |
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Buhuki - Janaki Sooriyarachchi - Buhuki was a baby monkey. He was the only baby in the family. His mother and father loved him very much. When he was very young, he clung to his mother’s belly, as they traveled. When his mother jumped from tree to tree, he held on tight. Sometimes, he fell asleep along the way. As he grew older... |
4 | 4.5 |
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Whirl of the Wheel - Catherine Condie - Three children whirl back in time through an enchanted potter’s wheel into the reality of evacuation in 1940s Britain. Whirl of the Wheel pulls feisty Connie, her brother Charlie-Mouse, and school pest Malcolm into dangers on the homefront and towards a military operations secret... |
4 | 4.5 |
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Adventures of Tain Bb, Hello? And Dumb - Andrey Nuzhdin - In this book we meet a certain rabbit (the curiously named Tain Bb), and set off with him on a wonderful adventure in search of a magical feather which has gone missing. Along the way he meets Hello? and Dumb who accompany him on this quest. This is a light, lovely story about kindness,... |
4.5 | |
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The Witch's Daughter - Janaki Sooriyarachchi - Once upon a time, there lived a witch who was very mean and ugly. She was as ugly as a burnt plum pudding. She had only one daughter named Broccolina, who was no better than her mother. The witch wanted to train her daughter in witchcraft, to take after her. However much the mother tried,... |
4 | 4.3 |
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The Little White Cloud - Ron Aaron - This is a story about a Little White Cloud perched on a mountain summit. At the base of the mountain is a small farming village. The village is protected and nourished by the cloud. |
3 | 4.3 |
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Pirate - the barking Kookaburra - Adrian Plitzco - Pirate, the baby kookaburra, has landed in a garden where three dogs and a cat find him. He is unable to remember where he came from and has not yet learnt to laugh. The dogs, Stelza, Hoover and Ajax, and Buddha the cat, decide to help him find his memory, and to teach him to laugh. They set off... |
4 | 4.3 |
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Gecko on the Wall - Danielle Bruckert - 'Gecko on the Wall' is a short children's story about geckos. Written in rhyme using the magic of children's imagination. Suitable for toddlers (2-3 year old children) and a fun book for use as an early reader (4-5 year old children). Also available as an i-tunes App at... |
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