Best of
Juvenile

1980

The Roald Dahl Audio Collection


Roald Dahl - 1980
    Fox, The Enormous Crocodile, and The Magic Finger. Abridged. 3 CDs.

Giant Treasury of Peter Rabbit


Beatrix Potter - 1980
    Since the first publication of her stories, her whimsical animal friends have made their way into children's hearts and taught them simple lessons about life through their trials and triumphs. Here you will find such favorites as Peter Rabbit, Benjamin Bunny, Squirrel Nutkin, and Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, among others. Their lively adventures are accompanied by Beatrix Potter's original illustrations, creating a fun and enchanting world that will entertain both young and old.

The Amazing Adventures of Chilly Billy


Peter Mayle - 1980
    Once you’ve met Chilly Billy and heard of his adventures inside the refrigerator, you’ll never open the fridge door in quite the same way again. Chilly Billy is a fun and lovable character with adventures like the Fridge Olympics and the Frozen sports contest against his arch rival The Mad Jumper. Seven short chapters geared to children under ten.This is a re-issue of a formerly out-of-print book that Peter Mayle wrote for his own children in 1980.

Arabel and Mortimer


Joan Aiken - 1980
    Will Arabel ever be able to control her trouble-making pet raven?Contents include: Mortimer's Tie / The Spiral Stair / Mortimer and the Sword Excalibur.

The Original Adventures of Hank the Cowdog


John R. Erickson - 1980
    In this first book, Hank and his little buddy, Drover, set out to solve a series of baffling murders on the ranch. Is Hank a suspect? An Outlaw? Can he clear his good name?

The War Between the Pitiful Teachers and the Splendid Kids


Stanley Kiesel - 1980
    Eating Mrs. Jerome didn't work. Even stealing Mr. Snockadocka's beloved Grammar Charts didn't work. There was only one choice left. And that was war!And what a war it was! The kids had Skinny Malinky, the worst kid of them all--but the teachers had Mr. Foreclosure. The kids had Big Alice, but the teachers had the Rococo Knight. The kids had Honor, Truth, Justice, and Freedom on their side. The teachers had...The Status Quo Solidifier!The Staus Quo Solidifier, the insidious plan of scheming Mr. Foreclosure, would turn the kids into Perfect Young People before they knew it. But Skinny Malinky knew it, and he vowed revenge!But first things first: It all started at a school called Scratchland, where there was a rule for every exception--and an exception to every rule!

A Dog Called Kitty


Bill Wallace - 1980
    So when a stray puppy comes sniffling around the farm, Ricky tells it to get lost. But the puppy keeps trying to play with Ricky. And every time Ricky's Mom feeds the cats, the little dog comes running. The cats aren't sharing their food, however, and the poor pup is slowly starving. If Ricky doesn't overcome his fear, the little puppy may die -- but if he lets himself get close enough to feed it, he may find the best friend he's ever had! Winner of the Texas Bluebonnet, the Oklahoma Sequoyah and the Nebraska Golden Sower Awards.

Squiggly Wiggly's Surprise


Arnold Shapiro - 1980
    Each page features a hole in the page that the finger puppet comes through to allow Squiggly Wiggly to experience something different on each page. From leaves to flowers, Squiggly Wiggly travels through the seasons and ends up making himself a cocoon in which he becomes a beautiful butterfly. This book teaches colors so that the child will be able to learn them by Squiggly Wiggly sitting on and eating green leaves, sitting on and smelling a red rose, yellow daisy, purple pansy, talking to a blue bird, and admiring the orange orange. The child becomes entranced by the finger puppet and, at the same time, learns what colors to associate with certain things by Squiggly Wiggly's contact with these flowers, fruits, leaves, and animals. The book also teaches a child about the life cycle of a caterpillar through the pictures and the finger puppet's involvement in these pictures. When Squiggly appears in the snow, he becomes very cold, and because it is winter the cold signals hibernation. In the next picture, Squiggly spins a brown sack around himself, after which he is shown inside the black sack, and he grows tired and falls asleep. The next picture shows Squiggly waking up as a butterfly. Using color and these particular pictures enables a child to learn about the stages that a caterpillar goes through before he becomes a beautiful butterfly. I feel that both techniques used to teach color and pictures showing a caterpillar's development process, are both highly effective in teaching child readers. The interactive portion of this book also appeals to children because they can participate in the book as they read it

Hero


Walt Morey - 1980
    When former Coast Guardsman Chris George and his drug-sniffing dog Mike stumble upon a package of heroin, they draw the attention of some sinister characters.

Stone Fox


John Reynolds Gardiner - 1980
    When Grandfather falls ill, he is no longer able to work the farm, which is in danger of foreclosure. Little Willy is determined to win the National Dogsled Race—the prize money would save the farm and his grandfather. But he isn't the only one who desperately wants to win. Willy and his brave dog Searchlight must face off against experienced racers, including a Native American man named Stone Fox, who has never lost a race.Exciting and heartwarming, this novel has sold millions of copies and was named a New York Times Outstanding Children's Book.

King Beetle-Tamer and Other Lighthearted Wonder Tales


Isabel Wyatt - 1980
    Beetles, mice and birds all help Orfeo to free the princess from the Rose Tower.

The Lemon Meringue Dog


Walt Morey - 1980
    When Chris and his search dog, Mike, are demoted from the Coast Guard's drug-bust program, Chris takes a second job where Mike's training to sniff out drugs brings them an even bigger problem.

There's an Ant in Anthony


Bernard Most - 1980
    Can you find an ant in the name Anthony? A black ant? A red ant? A fire ant? How about a carpenter ant? Or is the ant in Anthony not an insect at all?

The Brave Little Toaster


Thomas M. Disch - 1980
    Feeling abandoned by their beloved master, a vacuum cleaner, tensor lamp, electric blanket, clock radio, and toaster undertake a long and arduous journey to find him in a faraway city.

Il libro dei perché


Gianni Rodari - 1980
    The words of Gianni Rodari explain clearly the meaning of the "whys" of this book and bring us into the literary workshop where rationality and imagination, science and poetry live.

Salted Lemons


Doris Buchanan Smith - 1980
    Ten-year-old Darby Bannister has difficulty adjusting to a new environment when she moves with her family from Washington, D.C., to Atlanta in the middle of World War II.

Queen of Shaba: The Story of an African Leopard


Joy Adamson - 1980
    

Song of the Wild


Allan W. Eckert - 1980
    A young boy's remarkable ability to transfer his consciousness at will into any living organism and to share what it experiences proves to be an exhilarating but bittersweet gift.

Henry in Shadowland


Laszlo Varvasovszky - 1980
    When Henry makes a shadow box with cutouts of a dragon and other characters, he becomes part of the action.

The courtship of the YONGHY-BONGHY-BO & The New Vestments


Edward Lear - 1980
    The first nonsense poem tells the tale of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo's unsuccessful courtship; the second describes the devouring, by a managerie of animals, of an old man's unusual costume made of food.

Three is Company


Friedrich Karl Waechter - 1980
    A pig, a bird, and a fish make friends, although their parents think it is strange.

The Tickleoctopus


Audrey Wood - 1980
    They were very good at hunting for food, pinching, shouting, and making grim faces, but they didn’t know how to have fun. Then a wondrous creature with wiggly arms appeared and changed their dreary lives and the course of human history forever. This unique book features a die-cut cover, die-cut pages, foldouts, and cave talk that will tickle the funny bones of even the grumpiest readers.

Mr. Wizard's Supermarket Science


Don Herbert - 1980
    Wizard (a.k.a. Don Herbert) presents more than 100 super-simple, simply sensational science experiments and tricks using everyday items available in the supermarket. Kids learn how to turn water into wine, use their finger to boil water, plunge a straw through a raw potato, slice the inside of a banana without slicing the outside, and much, much more!

The Great Ringtail Garbage Caper


Timothy Foote - 1980
    A group of desperate and daring raccoons organize a bold hijacking scheme when their lush food supply is threatened by a pair of efficient young garbage collectors.

Mad Monsters Mix and Match


Caryl Koelling - 1980
    

Two Pairs of Shoes


P.L. Travers - 1980
    Retellings of two middle Eastern folktales reveal how two pairs of shoes unwittingly reflect the true character of the men who own them.

Cornstalks and Cannonballs (On My Own Books)


Barbara Mitchell - 1980
    The year is 1812, and the U.S. is at war with England. When the big and powerful English Navy comes to the small town of Lewes, Delaware, the clever townspeople come up with a plan to outsmart their well-armed English opponents. Two-color illustrations throughout.

Follow the River


Lydia Dabcovich - 1980
    Follows a stream from its home in the mountains through the countryside where it becomes a river and eventually flows into the ocean.

Eddie, Incorporated


Phyllis Reynolds Naylor - 1980
    Twelve-year-old Eddie decides to go into business for himself with two friends and soon discovers that a business is not a simple thing.

Scooby Doo in the Haunted House


Horace J. Elias - 1980
    A mystery.