Toy Library (including unadapted toys)

Author: Pepper Springfield

...the Bobs, who are messy, and the Tweets, who are neat. How can these two strange families get along in the same neighborhood? And are all the Tweets really neat and all the Bobs slobs? This is the first book in a brand-new series of full-color, illustrated high-interest rhyming stories that's just right for reluctant readers. It's Dr. Seuss meets Captain… Read More

• Skills learned: 1) Recall 2) Animal Identification With all the cards laid face down in a pattern, each player turns over two cards per turn looking for a match. By using animal cards, kids also learn their names.

• HAS NOT BEEN ADAPTED

• Players race to get all 4 of their game pieces around the board. But be careful! A player's peg could get bumped and sent back to the beginning, if another player lands on the same space. Be the first to get all 4 pegs into the Finish zone to win. 
• Includes gameboard, plastic game unit with pop die roller, 16 pegs, and instructions.
• HAS NOT BEEN ADAPTED  

• Players race to get all 4 of their game pieces around the board. But be careful! A player's peg could get bumped and sent back to the beginning, if another player lands on the same space. Be the first to get all 4 pegs into the Finish zone to win. 
• Includes gameboard, plastic game unit with pop die roller, 16 pegs, and instructions.
• HAS NOT BEEN ADAPTED

• Jay Kelly and his sister Leesa send a shoebox full of toys and supplies, and one small miracle, to the Vacek family in war-torn Bosnia. 

• Recommended for ages 8-10 

• 30 pages 

• Hardcover 

• Adapted with colored and numbered popsicle stick page extenders 

• Some of the page… Read More

Author: Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

Blurp: Most dolls lead a comfortable but unadventurous life. This was true of Miss Hickory until the fateful day that her owner, Ann, moves from her New Hampshire home to attend school in Boston—leaving Miss Hickory behind. For a small doll whose body is an apple-wood twig and whose head is a hickory nut, the prospect of spending a New Hampshire winter… Read More

As Molly watches the seasons come and go in Maine--autumn with leaves falling, winter with snow blowing, spring with grass growing, and summer with sun streaming--she wonders if the seasons are the same all over the world.

Has been adapted with bumpers between pages

• Educational toy teaches how sounds combine to create 8 Mozart masterpieces
• Includes harp, flute, French horn, piano, and violin instrument sounds
• Lights flash to the tempo of the instruments
• Recommended for budding young composers of all ages

HAS NOT BEEN ADAPTED YET

• Wood puzzle features a bright and colorful graphic design of a related theme.
• Early hand-eye coordination and association skills.
• Play a realistic sound that is corresponding to a puzzle piece when it is placed on board.

Author: James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier

Blurp: All his life, Tim Meeker has looked up to his brother Sam. Sam's smart and brave—and is now a part of the American Revolution. Not everyone in town wants to be a part of the rebellion. Most are supporters of the British—including Tim and Sam's father. War is raging and Tim knows he'll have to make a choice—between the… Read More