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Fall Roundup
The Stone Center's Fall Roundup features books tthat make great Fall reading. Check out some back-to-school favorites and books for the Fall holidays.
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Other Books Featured at the Stone Center
Bestsellers
In addition to the Stone Center's latest acquistions, the New York Times Book Review's weekly listings of bestselling fiction, picture books, and series are on display on the front porch making it easy to locate these hot titles.
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Great First Line, Great Book
"The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don't got nothing much to say."
The Knife of Never Letting Go
by Patrick Ness
(Candlewick Press, 2008)
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Book of the Month
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The Cow That Laid an Egg Written by Andy Cutbill & illustrated by Russell Ayto
HarperCollins, 2008.
The chickens hatch a plan to make Marjorie, a cow who's depressed because she's so ordinary, feel special. They paint black spots on an egg and put it under her while she sleeps. Marjorie awakes and discovers she's laid an egg! As Marjorie's fame grows, the other cows are jealous. They suspect the crafty chickens' involvement and demand that Marjorie prove the egg is her. She does. When the egg cracks open, out hops a chick that looks up at Marjorie and loudly Moooooooos!. The cartoonlike illustrations, done in collage, pen-and-ink and wtercolor, steal the show in this story of wacky barnyard fun.
In the sequel, The Cow That Was the Best Moo-ther" (2009), proud mom Marjorie enters her baby, Daisy, in a farmyard beauty contest. ca
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