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Everyone at the office thought Lenore was a nerd.
Everyone in Mr. Scatter's class liked Mr. Scatter, even though lessons were confusing at times.
Everyone wants a big green kangaroo.
Everyone was talking about the pet show.
Everyone who is anyone...which means of course everyone in Pleasant Valley...goes to the old field.
Everything is quiet. Everyone is sleeping.
Ezra lived alone in a small house, high on a windy hilltop.
Fangs and Flapper were twins. Everything they did, they did together.
Far away beyond the stars lies a strange galaxy.
Father came home feeling tired and weary.
Find Nat. He is a gnat. Is that Nat? No. That is a bat in a hat.
First there was an egg. One day it cracked open.
Fish hugs are very cold and seldom returned.
Five trained poodles are going to the theater to be in a show.
Flip wanted to play baseball.
Folks in the town still talk of the night when the moon on the graveyard shone so bright that the spirits there made the tombstones knock and the beat began for the Rattlebone Rock.
Follow a sidewalk until you find an empty lot.
Foolish Goose went for a walk.
For his birthday, Pedro gets a perro and a sombrero.
For hundreds of years, most people thought the earth was the center of the universe, and the sun and the moon and all the other planets revolved around it.
For some weeks now, gloom had blanketed the Horace B. Smedley School.
Franklin the turtle could zip zippers and button buttons.
Gail is a horse trainer.
Gas Hog is a hot rod.
Geoff was late again.
George was in the house.
George Washington grew up in a big family.
Gerald lived in a cottage in the countryside. He would make a cup of tea in the evening and look in his animal book. It was very cozy, yet Gerald sometimes felt lonely. "If only I had a dog," he would think.
Gladys and Jerome were cottontail rabbits.
Gloria was going to take a trip by ship.
Go do something. I was never bored at your age!
Good night, red sun. Hello, stars.
Gramma and Grampa Hodgepodge had a shop in Coolidge Corners.
Grandmother had always wanted an elephant for a pet.
Gregory dug and dug in his backyard, until he had a good deep hole and a huge pile of dirt.
Gritch the Witch woke up grouchy, grumpy, and very hungry.
Gumdrop stands in the grass.
Gus is a bug.
Gus the ghost lived in the Historical Museum with Cora the cat, Mouse the mouse, Baby Ghost, and Mr. Frizzle.
Gustaf Hakansson was sixty-six years old.
Halloween mice tiptoe, tiptoe.
Hap had eggs in his hand.
Harriet and Winnie were as different as two chickens could possibly be.
Harriet, Harriet, Born a slave, Work for your master From your cradle To your grave.
Harriet was going visiting. She followed the sign that said TO TOWN.
Have you seen how, each day, the plain yellow sun paints the world in wonderful colors?
Have you seen my cat?
He was a cat.
He was my uncle--my mother's brother who had moved out west.
He was so small that his mother didn't know he was there.
Hector and his wife, Prudence, were enjoying a picnic lunch in the muddy field where they lived.
Hello Baby, little tiny baby.
Hello, friend. My name is Little Bill.
Hello, Mary Ann! Greetings, Louie! How was your first day at school?
Hello, my name is Nico.
Hello. I'm Emily Elizabeth. This is my dog, Clifford
Hello! Did you see any birds on your way through the woods?
HELP!/ Hello, Jungle Girl. My goodness, you look very unhappy. Is it because you have fallen into quicksand?
Help! Help!
Henry and Jessica had a puppy.
Henry was from South Jersey, Sal was born in Alaska and Margaret came from the Midwest. Although they lived in different parts of the country, they did have a few things in common.
Here are the cops of London town, hardworking, brave and true.
Here I am, an only child. I ask you, is it fair?
Here is a tale of long ago, in the days when vegetables could talk.
Herman saw Chester making something.
Hershel was the only blind boy in his village.
Hey, Tom! It's break of day! Hallo!
HI, ALL YOU RABBITS. WHAT DO YOU DO? We hop and stop. Hop and stop. Hop and stop. That's what all rabbits do. And we thump like this.
Hi, I'm Emily Elizabeth. This is a happy day for me.
High in the mountains of Panama lies the village of Sabana Grande.
Hocus and Pocus were witches.
How do you make mice cold?
Huff and Puff were happy, It was Thanksgiving Day.
Huff can puff.
Hundreds of years ago, there was a group of the meanest, nastiest dragons that ever lived.
I am at Nana's house, but Nana is not here.
I am at the dinner table and I am never leaving.
I am Beaver gliding, diving, rising with the bubbles to a long, slender shadow-shape passing overhead.
I am Elephant.
I am in my room and I am never coming out.
I am in the middle.
I am Mr. Hocky!
I am Muhamad, son of Arahid, son of Zeinebu, brother of two sisters and three brothers, all healthy.
I asked Mom if I could have a friend over, 'cause I just don't want to play alone.
I baked a cake.
I can get out of bed all by myself.
I can't fly but I know I'm a witch.
I dislike to tell you this, but some folks have no regard for the truth.
I dreamed I lived on the edge of the sea in a castle of sand with a window for me, to watch the sun climb the morning sky, and count the ships that go sailing by.
I follow you outside each day.
I gave Mom a present on her birthday, all wrapped up in pretty paper.
I get up in the morning. What do I say? Good morning!
I had such fun playing with my friend.
I had to have a herring in a hurry.
I hate English! Mei Mei said in her head in Chinese.
I HATE to go to bed!
I have a best friend.
I have a dog. His name is Fang.
I have a record player.
I have an aunt who is really my mother's cousin.
I hit my ball. I made it fly. I hit my ball as it went by.
I knew there was something terrible down in the cellar.
I know a game called "Big Bird Says" I'd like to play with you.
I like carrots.
I like my room messy.
I like to go walking and talking with my mom.
I like to take walks.
I live at 165 East 95th Street, New York City, and I'm going to stay here forever.
I make good music on the piano, Sounds like thunder when I play down low, Boom-a-looma-looma Boom-a-looma-loom!
I, Nate the Great, am a busy detective.
I, Nate the great detective, was weeding my garden.
I, Nate the Great, was drying off from the rain.
I said, "I'm Emily Elizabeth. This is my dog, Clifford. He's big too.
I snuggled between my parents in the frosty, dark car.
I stood close to my father as the anchor was pulled dripping from the sea.
I twirl a hoop.
I want to go walking in the rain, but it's always the same...My Mother says, "No!"
I wanted to keep some frogs in the bathtub but Mom wouldn't let me.
I was playing down by the brook one day, when I found a cave I had never seen before.
I was the saddest dog you could ever see.
I was walking down a road that led out of town.
I was walking down the street whistling a happy tune.
I went to live with Dad last summer.
I will never forget the day I first wanted to fly.
I wonder...I wonder.
I'm as quick as a cricket, I'm as slow as a snail, I'm as small as an ant, I'm as large as a whale, I'm as sad as a basset, I'm as happy as a lark, I'm as nice as a bunny, I'm as mean as a shark.
I'm awfully pleased that our vacation starts tomorrow.
I'm Emily Elizabeth, and I have a dog named Clifford.
I'm going to have a party.
I'm Sister Bear. I'm here to say that what I like to do is play.
I'm sitting here beneath a tree, Pen and paper on my knee.
I'm supposed to be doing my homework, but I stare into the lamplight instead.
I'm sure you know Jocasta Carr, the celebrated movie star, who from a very tender age enjoyed renown on screen and stage.
If Pookins did not get her own way she would make faces, throw apples, and yell very loudly.
If Rosie O'Grady ever smiled, no one but her chickens had ever seen it.
If you know a very old lady who likes to tell you stories, then she might have told you about a very old man who used to tell her stories when she was a little girl.
If you look closely you'll agree, there are some silly sights to see.
If you look underwater on any of the coral reefs of the world, you will see an incredibly beautiful place.
If you should be in the wild bush lands of the country of Kenya, on the continent of Africa, and you should hear a call--"Weet-err, weet-err!"--be joyous.
In a busy harbor, there lives a tugboat known as Little Toot.
In a city by the ocean was a brown house.
In a dark, dense forest the witches live, sleeping safely in the branches of tall trees.
In a deserted palace, in the throne room where mice nested in the tattered carpeting and owls lived in the chandeliers and the throne itself was festooned with ropes of ancient cobweb, black with dust, a family of spiders hatched out one day.
In a family of robots the youngest was called So-On.
In a land of dew drops and day dreams, near absolutely nothing at all, lived a whole bunch of mice.
in a long-ago time, when long-ago peoples were building cathedrals and raising up steeples, they crafted stone creatures and set them on perches to guard and protect and watch over the churches.
In a pine forest, cooler than the rest of the island, lives a young fisherman with eyes like the sea.
In a quiet green valley is a village.
In a quiet room a dreaming dog wagged his tail.
In a small house in a green meadow lived an old woman and her husband of many years.
In a small village very far up north, there lived a grandfather and his two grandchildren.
In a time not so long ago and in a land that was not very different from our own, there lived a people called the Djanigs.
In a village deep in Thessaly, where horses grow like wheat in the fields, a boy was born with wings.
In a weathered shack by a windswept shore, two poor girls lived with their father.
In an old house in a yardfull of poison ivy lived the worst person in the world.
In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines lived twelve little girls in two straight lines.
In case you move into my neighborhood, watch out for these weirdos.
In five days, God created the heavens and the earth.
In Miami, Florida, where the sun always shines, the police station was in an uproar.
In midsummer, the view from our farmhouse porch on Route 6 in Ohio changed in the few hours between sun-up and late morning.
In our house, some days we eat with chopsticks and some days we eat with knives and forks.
In the beautiful city of San Francisco, a city famous for its fogs and flowers, cable cars and towers, there once stood an electric-light sign on top of a tall building, and inside the letter B of this sign there lived a pigeon.
In the beginning there was no sun, moon or stars.
In the dark of night, a warbler finds her way by stars.
In the dark of winter, Floe leapt out of the sea.
In the days when buffalo still roamed in the West, Charles Marion Russell was born in the city of St. Louis, far, far away from those Western plains.
In the high and beautiful mountains of Ethiopia there once lived a dreamer named Alemayu.
In the high mountains of Ethiopia there once lived a girl named Almaz.
In the land of the drifting sands where the Bedouin move their tents to follow the fertile grasses, there lived a girl whose stubbornness and flashing temper caused her to be known throughout the desert as Nadia the Willful.
In the magical mists where all the oceans of the world came together was a mystical island of shaded jade.
In the middle of a dark and shadowy woods lived a little family of Brutes.
In the middle of a great city, on the top floor of a huge skyscraper, in a warm and well-lit office, in a large leather chair, sat the president of Pawprints Incorporated.
In the middle of the town square one morning a cat, a frog, and a raccoon found themselves locked side by side in the pillory.
In the old country, Massimino lived in a tiny cottage at the edge of the landlord's village.
In the old days, when people were different than they are now, a young Eskimo woman named Sedna lived beside the Arctic Ocean.
In the summer, Henry and his big dog Mudge liked to go on picnics.
In the summer when I go to bed the sun still streaming overhead my bed becomes so small and hot with sheets and pillows in a knot, and then I lie and try to see the things I'd really like to be.
In the whole of Crumm County, past Piggott's Peak and Slocum's Bluff, no one loved his birthday better than Lowell.
In the winter, the Wasatch Mountains above Salt Lake City are made of snow.
Inside the pickle jar my grasshopper sat on a stick.
It all started when Trupp began to wonder how big the world was.
It happened at Broadway and Forty-second Street.
It is a rainy day. Amy sits in her car seat.
It is always easy to find me in school pictures because of my dragon T-shirt.
It is autumn. Leaves from trees near the edge of a farm sail over the cornfield.
It is dawn.
It is fun to go to the beach on a summer morning.
It is raining outside. I can hear it.
It is spring again, and the lilac bush is fat and green and ready to bloom once more.
It is time to get up.
It was a bright and cheerful morning in the busy harbor.
It was a dark and stormy night, the rain came down in torrents, there were brigands on the mountains, and wolves, and the chief of the brigands said to Antonio, 'I'm bored--tell us a story!'
It was a good morning to fly, even if it had come late and slow and so cold that a penguin feared his nose might freeze and drop off like one of the icicles hanging over the porch.
It was a rainy afternoon.
It was a rainy gray morning, and Mr. James forgot to kiss Mrs. James good-bye when he left for the office.
It was a time of hardship in the land, a time of struggle and labor.
It was almost Christmas
It was Author's Day at Melvinville Elementary School.
It was Brum's day for exploring the big town.
It was Christmas Eve at the Monroes' house.
It was cool in the early morning.
It was early morning. Jenny Hen was sitting on her nest.
It was early summer in the forest.
It was five days before allowance day and Jerome was broke.
It was getting toward Christmas in the valley of Pine Grove.
It was Joshua's birthday.
It was just before dawn when Dmitri the astronaut touched down in the Atlantic Ocean.
It was Mommy's turn to give the baby his bath and Daddy's time for me.
It was night, and some fireflies danced around the moon.
It was not a good day at school for Kimi Kimoto.
It was recess at Teeny Tiny School.
It was Saturday. Baking day. One of Grandma's special days.
It was Sophie who found the recipe for Monster Cookies.
It was spring. In the dark of the morning Jen and Dad packed their reels, rods and flybox.
It was summer in Seaside.
It was summertime in the city of Mousopolis, and mice from all corners of the community had come together to compete in the First Annual Barbecue Cook-Off.
It was Sunday evening, and Joe was going to bed.
It was Sunday evening at the zoo.
It was Thanksgiving morning.
It was the day of Sesame Street's big pet show.
It was the day of the big balloon race.
It was the end of summer.
It was the first night of Hanukkah.
It was the middle of the night.
It was the night after Christmas.
It was the third week of school.
It was time to go fishing, again.
It was very early on Easter morning.
It was very late, very dark, and very quiet...when George heard a funny noise.
It was warm and sunny the day Jenny said to her dog Mose, "Let's go to the Park."
It's midnight now, and everyone is sleeping.
It's time for a pet I told Mom last night. She raised up one eyebrow, then said, "Well, all right."
It's time for a pet, I told Mom last night.
It's time for bed, little mouse, little mouse, Darkness is falling all over the house.
Jace looks just like Mace.
Jack got a new job.
Jason is moving--all the way across town and uptown a bunch of blocks.
Jason's friends rushed over to see the new baby, just home from the hospital.
Jeffrey lived with his strict Aunt Julia.
Jenny is my big sister.
Jim is not big.
Jim was a chipmunk with magic wings.
Jimmy and Janet were twins.
Jo Jo, Jip and Nicolette were a troupe of traveling players.
Joe could not remember a time when he hadn't known Maggie.
Jonathan got the jeep during the summer, for his sixth birthday.
Jonathan lived next door to the biggest, meanest, ugliest dog in the whole wide world.
Jose and George live in a tall building.
Juanito was miserable.
Justin beat wildly across the harbor.
Katharine Lee Bates loved words.
Ken is in bed.
Kim has a big dish
Kouka has a problem.
Kristina and I go fishing at dawn in summer.
La bella Magellona--that means "beautiful Magellona"--lived in an old Carinthian castle (rumors said it was haunted) with her faithful dog, Kuno.
Last night, it snowed.
Last summer Mr. Keller and Wilima went to the park.
Late one afternoon, around suppertime, a man was raking leaves in his front yard.
Late one autumn afternoon Tilly Ipswitch, Queen of Halloween, came flying home on her broomstick, carrying a book called "What Every Space Traveler Ought to Know".
Late one evening, a young boy began to draw a story about Simon and the scary monster.
Let's go the quiet way home.
Let's play! Ten dancing bears only nine chairs--Walt! DUM-dee-dee DUM-dee-dee DUM-dee-dee DUM--
Lewis didn't like peas.
Lewis knew how to turn himself into a troll whenever he wanted to.
Liberty B. Mouse was so happy he was whistling.
Like many cats, Maynard spends a lot of time hunting birds, chasing mice, and, in general, being a little pest.
Listen! Listen! Listen to the rain rushing snapping hushing...stopping.
Little Cat said, "Mother where are you?" Upstairs. Downstairs. She was not in the house.
Little d had a box.
Little frog lived in a muddy little pond underneath the branches of a pine tree.