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TITLE: The Terrible Roar YEAR: 1970 ILLUSTRATOR: Daniel Pinkwater AVAILABILITY: Out of Print
SYNOPSIS: Coming soon!
TITLE: Bear's Picture YEAR: 1972 ILLUSTRATOR: n/a AVAILABILITY: Out of Print
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TITLE: Wizard Crystal YEAR: 1974 ILLUSTRATOR: n/a AVAILABILITY: Out of Print
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TITLE: Magic Camera YEAR: 1974 ILLUSTRATOR: Daniel Pinkwater AVAILABILITY: Out of Print
SYNOPSIS: Charles has the flu. He reads the World Wide Children's Encyclopedia. He reads about cameras. Charles wants a camera, one with knobs and switches and dials. His father finds an old camera in the cellar. It is just what Charles wanted! It looks magical. Charles plays with his new, old camera and it has much more magic in store for him.
TITLE: Fat Elliot and the Gorilla YEAR: 1974 ILLUSTRATOR: Daniel Pinkwater AVAILABILITY: Out of Print
SYNOPSIS: Elliot is fat. His whole family is fat, but Elliot is the fattest of them all. He has an interesting encounter with the scale at the candy store that tell's him, "You don't have to be what you don't want to be." Elliot buys a book for a dime about how to stop being fat. He visualizes a gorilla who won't let him eat and chases him around until Elliot is not fat anymore.
TITLE: Blue Moose YEAR: 1975 ILLUSTRATOR: Daniel Pinkwater AVAILABILITY: Out of Print
SYNOPSIS: Mr. Breton has a little restaraunt on the edge of the woods. In the winter it gets very cold there, and people come to warm up with clam chowder, coffee, and gingerbread. One day Breton's restaraunt is visited by a moose. But not just any moose, a blue moose! The blue moose doesn't like the cold much either and decides to stay and wait tables for Mr. Breton.
TITLE: Wingman YEAR: 1975 ILLUSTRATOR: Daniel Pinkwater AVAILABILITY: Out of Print
SYNOPSIS: It is hard for Donald Chen to be the only Chinese kid in school, especially because he's poor. Donald doesn't like school, and instead of going he fills his backpack with comic books and climbs the George Washington Bridge to read them. One day Donald is visited by a superhero in silver armor. The superhero is Chinese too, and he takes Donald someplace he will never forget.
TITLE: Three Big Hogs YEAR: 1975 ILLUSTRATOR: n/a AVAILABILITY: Out of Print
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TITLE: Around Fred's Bed YEAR: 1976 ILLUSTRATOR: Daniel Pinkwater AVAILABILITY: Out of Print
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TITLE: Lizard Music YEAR: 1976 AVAILABILITY: Out of Print
SYNOPSIS: Victor is left home alone when his parents go on vacation, and his sister abandons him for a hippy camping trip. That's just fine with Victor, who feels he's safer without his sister anyway. He spends alot of time in the city of Hogboro, where a mystery forms. Who is the Chicken Man? Who are the lizards on TV and why do they seem to know what he is thinking?
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