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Little girl smiling in her Carnival outfit.
Carnival Queen is a wonderful picture book about a little girl celebrating an ancestral family tradition: Carnival! She is distressed when she encounters an issue with her costume, but her community comes through and she ends up with a more beautiful dress than she expected!
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You may have heard a different version of this story before, but the moral remains the same: never judge a book by its cover!
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Three soldiers, deserters from a great battle, make a bargain with a dragon: they will have all the money they need for seven years, and then be prepared to serve the dragon – unless they can find the answer to his riddle ….
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A king passing by a charcoal burner’s hut hears the man and his wife lamenting their lives; he invites the pair to live in the castle as his guests. At dinner, he gives them only one rule: they must never lift the lid on the soup tureen on the dining table. Will the pair live happily ever after?