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WALES
For Kids
Wales
• Mary Colson
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2011 •
PAPER
• 48 PAGES
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
One in the illustrated and informative Countries Around the World series, geared for ages 8-11.
(GRB27, $8.99) |
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A String in the Harp
• Nancy Bond
LITERATURE •
2006 •
PAPER
• 370 PAGES
• YOUNG ADULTS
With the aid of a magic harp key, three American teens in Wales are transported to the 6th-century, where they encounter the great Welsh bard Taliesin and become absorbed in the world of Celtic mythology. Readers will be absorbed, too. A Newbery Honor Book first published in 1976.
(GBR592, $7.99) |
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A Child's Christmas in Wales
• Dylan Thomas
LITERATURE •
2007 •
HARD COVER
• 51 PAGES
• FAMILY
Ardizzone's witty watercolors invoke the warmth, jollity and excitement of a Welsh seaside village in the 1930s in this edition of Thomas's mellifluous tale.
(GBR526, $17.99) |
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Boy, Tales of Childhood
• Roald Dahl
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
2009 •
PAPER
• 176 PAGES
• FAMILY
With his usual gift for storytelling, Dahl recalls growing up in a Norwegian-English family, spending his mischievous boyhood scheming in a boys' boarding school, working as a chocolate tester for Cadbury's and summering in Wales and the Norwegian islands.
(GBR183, $6.99) |
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