Peter Schickele
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What little-known son of a famous genius has been called:
"A musical blight"
"A one-man plague"
"History's most justifiably neglected composer"
"The worst musician ever to trod organ pedals" "A pimple on the face of music"
In this long-awaited hoax, possibly the most unimportant piece of scholarship in over two thousand years, Professor Peter Schickele has finally succeeded in ripping...
"A musical blight"
"A one-man plague"
"History's most justifiably neglected composer"
"The worst musician ever to trod organ pedals" "A pimple on the face of music"
In this long-awaited hoax, possibly the most unimportant piece of scholarship in over two thousand years, Professor Peter Schickele has finally succeeded in ripping...
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Banned Books
Freedom To Read!
Frequently banned or challenged books from 1990-1999
Frequently banned or challenged books from 2000-2009
Freedom To Read!
Frequently banned or challenged books from 1990-1999
Frequently banned or challenged books from 2000-2009
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A little boy's dream-fantasy in which he helps three fat bakers get milk for their cake batter.
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When Max is sent to bed without supper, he sails off to a world inhabited by weird creatures. Mickey is awakened by noises in the night. Alligators dance and sing through the alphabet. Counting forwards and backwards has never been so much fun. Pierre doesn't care about anything until he meets a hungry lion. Chicken soup with rice can be enjoyed all year long while learning the months.
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Animated versions of six children's books. The nutshell kids: A group of alligators sing their way through the alphabet, Johnny playfully counts from 1 to 10 and then back again, Pierre flaunts an "I don't care" attitude until an encounter with a lion, and learning the months of the year is fun while eating chicken soup with rice. Where the wild things are: Max sails away to the land of the wild things. In the night kitchen: A little boy dreams of...
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Come to the Flyer's Club Roost where everyone on Sesame Street has gathered to celebrate the many sides of Grover. Whether its his gravity-defying antics as Super Grover, as a waiter testing his customer's patiences, or teaching Elmo how to deliver a singing telegram, everyone on Sesame Street has a great Grover story to tell. There are stories of hugs and kisses, and super adventures that end with hilarious crash landings, not to mention a few near...
16) Silent running
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A botanist has spent three years aboard the space freighter "Valley Forge" preserving the only botanical specimens left from Earth under huge geodesic domes. When he receives orders to destroy the project and return home, he rebels and hijacks the space craft, killing his fellow crewman and injuring himself. He plunges the ship into the gaseous Rings of Saturn, where he embarks on the loneliest adventure of all with only two drone robots to keep him...
17) Silent running
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A botanist rebels when given the order to destroy the only plants left from Earth and takes his space freighter to Saturn after killing his fellow crew members.