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  2. Ta-Na-E-Ka - Wikipedia

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    Ta-Na-E-Ka is a short story, first published in a 1972 Scholastic Voices textbook and commonly used in the United States elementary education. Ta-Na-E-Ka describes a fictional ritual underta ken by two children of the Kaw people, ten-year-old Mary and her ten-year-old cousin, Roger. In the story, at age eleven the Kaw go through ta-na-e-ka, a ...

  3. The Gruffalo - Wikipedia

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    The Gruffalo is a short children's story around 700 words long. [18] It is intended to be read aloud as it is written for a target audience of children who do not know or are learning how to read. [19] It is written in rhyming couplets in primarily dactylic tetrameter.

  4. Every Living Thing (short story collection) - Wikipedia

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    First edition. Every Living Thing is a collection of twelve short stories for children by Cynthia Rylant, published by Bradbury Press in 1985 with decorations by S. D. Schindler. [1] The stories all feature redemptive relationships between humans and other animals, most often showing how a stray animal comes into the life of a person just when ...

  5. A Bad Case of Stripes - Wikipedia

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    A Bad Case of Stripes is a children's book written and illustrated by David Shannon published in 1998 by Blue Sky Press, a division of Scholastic Press. A Bad Case of Stripes highlights the theme of being true to oneself, and is commonly used by educators to teach young students important values. Amongst some negative responses, this children ...

  6. A Good Man Is Hard to Find (short story) - Wikipedia

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    Publication date. 1953. " A Good Man Is Hard to Find " is a Southern gothic short story first published in 1953 by author Flannery O'Connor who, in her own words, described it as "the story of a family of six which, on its way driving to Florida [from Georgia], is slaughtered by an escaped convict who calls himself the Misfit".

  7. The Little Bookroom - Wikipedia

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    The Little Bookroom is a collection of twenty-seven stories for children by Eleanor Farjeon, published by Oxford University Press in 1955 with illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. They were selected by the author from stories published earlier in her career. [3] Most were in the fairy tale style. Next year Farjeon won the inaugural Hans Christian ...

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