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This is the farmer

Tafuri, Nancy

A farmer kisses his wife and sets off a sequence of happenings on the farm.

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animals, farm, marriage, sequence

The house that jack built

Galdone, Paul

Jack's house is a lot more than just his house. Many animals and people have a connection to this seemingly simple house.

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animals, assertiveness, birds, cat, community, conflict resolution, cooperation, cow, crow, dog, feelings, marriage, mouse, nonverbal communication, running away, sadness, scarecrows, self esteem, shelter, teamwork, worry

Mrs. Calamari moves into a new apartment and the landlord tells her No cats allowed! Mrs. Calamari is not about to put her cats out on the street, she'll have to think of something. Mrs. Calamari and her cats become friends to the landlord and he accepts them.

Sweet strawberries

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds

A man and his wife set off in their wagon to go to the market. On the way there the husband is very rude and impatient to everyone he comes across on the trip. During the trip, the man's wife tells her husband how much she would love to have some strawberries from the market but he tells her to stop complaining. At the market, the husband exchanges his fish for flour and his wife is very upset and doesn't talk to him on the way home. The next trip to market, the husband is friendly to everyone he meets and buys a big basket of strawberries for his wife. He thinks everyone else has changed, not himself.

Le couronnement de babar

Brunhoff, Jean de

The story is about the famous elephant Babar and his adventures in getting married. It illustrates how he introduces his bride to family and friends, the wedding ceremony, and the celebration afterwards. This book was entirely in French and the pictures tell the story.

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acceptance, adventures, animals, celebration, conflict resolution, decision making, friendship, language, love, marriage, multicultural, nonverbal communication, verbal communication, wedding

Daddy's wedding

Willhoite, Michael

Daniel's daddy marries a man. A commitment ceremony is viewed through the eyes of a child.

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acceptance, awareness, baseball, celebration, ceremony, companion, divorce, family, grandparents, homosexuality, love, marriage, parents, relationship, sexuality, sports, wedding

Shrek!

Steig, William

Shrek, an ugly beast, is sent out in the world by his parents to discover his future. He scares everyone who sees him. He marries an ugly prince and lives happily ever after.

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acceptance, body image, differences, family, fear, feelings, marriage, monsters, parents, rhyme, royalty, self esteem

The tiny visitor

de Mejo, Oscar

Gwen and her sister, Elizabeth, help find a tiny wife for their equally tiny friend, Sir Theodore.

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acceptance, critical thinking, decision making, differences, family, helping, marriage, self esteem, siblings, verbal communication

Fat chance, claude

Nixon, Joan Lowery

A girl named Shirley is independent and very active while growing up. She meets Claude on their way out West to pan for gold. The two become quick friends and at the end decide to get married.

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acceptance, assertiveness, decision making, differences, friendship, history, independence, marriage, peer resistance, pioneers, refusal skills, self esteem, verbal communication

Raising sweetness

Stanley, Diane

The town sheriff adopts eight orphans to save them from the mean Ms. Stump, but there are a few problems. Pa is not too good at cooking and his cleaning is quite shabby. The orphans one wish is for him to get married. One of the orphans, Sweetness, believes a letter that arrived in the mail is the answer.

The tale of Willie Monroe

Schroeder, Alan

Willie isn't a smart man, but he sure is strong. He decides to enter a contest to prove it. However, Delilah and her granny have to get him in shape first. Now Willie's reputation and Delilah's love depend on his winning the contest. Do you think he can do it?

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accomplishment, animals, appalachian, author's note, barn, celebration, ceremony, challenges, competition, confidence, cow, determination, encouragement, exercise, family, farm, feelings, folktale, food, friendship, grandparents, hard work, horse, love, marriage, multicultural, nutrition, preparation, pride, self esteem, travel, walking, wedding

Bearskin

Pyle, Howard

Bearskin, an infant son of a miller, is sent down the river by the king only to be found by a she-bear who raises him. As Bearskin gets older he goes out into the world to be with other people. He learns about a three-headed dragon who takes the princess. If anyone can kill the dragon, then they get to marry the princess. Will Bearskin be able to kill the dragon and win her heart?

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adoption, adventures, affection, animals, art, baby, bear, bravery, castle, ceremony, challenges, clothing, companion, conflict, courage, deception, dragons, fable, fear, folktale, food, heroism, honesty, marriage, multicultural, nature, nutrition, picnic, royalty, violence

Beginnings: How families come to be

Kroll, Virginia

Parents tell their children how they became a family. There are birth families, adoption families, single-parent families, two parent families, and different ethnic families.

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adoption, birth, differences, disability, family, foster care, love, marriage, multicultural, parents, siblings

Pianna

Ray, Mary Lyn

Take a trip with Anna through the happenings in her life. Look at Anna's experiences with piano lessons, picking blueberries with siblings, her marriage, and her children. After eighty years she is still playing the piano in the same house she grew up in.

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adventures, aging, baby, death, family, food, instruments, love, marriage, memories, music, nutrition, parents, siblings, train, transportation

The story of babar the little elephant

Brunhoff, Jean de

Babar is an elephant who has a wonderful adventure. After his mother died tragically from a hunter, Babar goes into the city, where he lives with a little old lady. Upon returning to the forest, Babar is elected king and is married to Celeste, another young elephant. The two set off for their honeymoon.

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adventures, animals, assertiveness, celebration, critical thinking, death, decision making, elephant, friendship, grief, love, marriage, nature, royalty, self esteem, stress management

Fanny's dream

Buehner, Carolyn

Fanny Agnes is a young farm girl who dreams of marrying a prince. When her fairy godmother does not arrive the day of the ball, Fanny decides to marry Hebert, a local farmer. As Fanny gets older, she realizes that Herbert really is her prince.

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adventures, animals, decision making, determination, dreams, fairy, family, fantasy, farm, feelings, godmother, happiness, love, marriage, mythical, nonverbal communication, pig, self esteem, sheep, verbal communication

The forty-niner

de Mejo, Oscar

Homer sets out from Scotland to find gold in California. He has all sorts of crazy adventures before he is successful. He experiences everything from meeting an outer space Captain to marrying the Captain's daughter.

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adventures, assertiveness, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, fantasy, marriage

A kiss for little bear

Minarik, Else Holmelund

Little Bear draws grandma a picture and sends it with Hen. Grandma is pleased with the picture and sends Little Bear a kiss in return through Hen, who passes it on to a friend. Eventually, the kiss reaches two skunks who decide to get married.

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affection, animals, art, bear, birds, chicken, community, critical thinking, family, friendship, grandparents, marriage, nonverbal communication, skunk

Molly bannaky

McGill, Alice

After spilling a bucket of milk and being brought before the court, Molly Walsh is sent from England to America as an indentured servant. After seven long years she gains her freedom, a farm of her own, and an African slave who becomes her husband.

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african, animals, author's note, boat, books, compromise, cow, crime, critical thinking, determination, family, farm, freedom, friendship, hard work, history, marriage, multicultural, ox, plants, reading, royalty, self esteem, settlers, slavery, tobacco, travel, verbal communication

Yucka drucka droni

Radunsky, Vladimir//Radunsky, Eugenia

Three brothers, Yuck, Yucka-Druck, and Yucka-Drucka-Droni, are very different but get along just fine. They meet three sisters, Zippa, Zippa Drippa, and Zippa-Drippa-Limpomponi who make the brothers very happy. The brothers each marry one of the sisters and they then each have one child. The families live together in a big house with a cat, a dog, a pig, and a frog.

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airplane, animals, boat, family, happiness, instruments, marriage, parents

Louie's search

Keats, Ezra Jack

Louie goes out to search for a father and sees all kinds of people. Finally, he finds a music box. A man thinks he stole it so he chases Louie and takes him home. Louie's mom and the man end up getting married.

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anger, conflict resolution, decision making, discovery, family, fear, feelings, marriage, music, nonverbal communication, parents, robbery, verbal communication

We're growing together

Ransom, Candice F.

Candice's mother marries Howard and they move to a new house. When Candice asks how long they will live there, Howard replies forever and she wonders how long that is. One day Candice realizes how long forever is.

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acceptance, animals, birthday, car, cat, change, christmas, conflict resolution, cow, exercise, family, farm, feelings, food, garden, grandparents, holidays, marriage, nonverbal communication, nutrition, parents, pig, plants, relationship, seasons, self esteem, spring, stars, stress management, summer, transportation, valentine's day, verbal communication, walking

Weekend girl

Hest, Amy

Sophie always spends a weekend with her grandparents when her parents take a trip to honeymoon cottage. Every year her grandparents have a special surprise, so she can hardly wait for this year's surprise.

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animals, beach, bodies of water, car, dancing, dog, exercise, family, feelings, five senses, food, grandparents, marriage, nonverbal communication, nutrition, parents, picnic, poetry, sadness, sea, seasons, self esteem, smell, summer, taste, transportation, travel, verbal communication, walking, weather

Princess kalina and the hedgehog

Marshall, F.

Kalina, a very untidy Princess, was ordered to clean up herself and her room. A hedgehog, who was actually a Prince, helped her clean up her room. When everything was cleaned up, he turned back into a Prince and the two were married.

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animals, cleanliness, conflict resolution, fable, hedgehog, helping, hygiene, love, marriage, mythical, nonverbal communication, responsibilities, royalty, shelter, witches

Judge rabbit and the tree spirit: A tale from cambodia

Spagnoli, Cathy

A newly married couple is separated when the husband is called to war. An evil tree spirit sees how sad the man is and decides to take his place. The spirit takes the form of the man and lives with his wife. The man returns from the war to find the spirit.

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animals, cambodian, critical thinking, feelings, loss, marriage, multicultural, rabbit, sadness, separation, war, wedding

The paper bag princess

Munsch, Robert

Prince Ronald and Princess Elizabeth's castle is burned down by a dragon, who then steals the prince. Elizabeth chases after the dragon to free her prince.

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appearance, assertiveness, caring, conflict resolution, critical thinking, deception, determination, dragons, marriage, relationship, rescue, royalty, self confidence, verbal communication

Emma's christmas

Trivas, Irene

A prince asks a farm girl to marry him. When she refuses, he presents her with the gifts of the 12 days of Christmas. He wins her over and moves to her farm.

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assertiveness, change, conflict resolution, decision making, farm, goal setting, marriage, moving, presents, refusal skills, royalty, verbal communication

Ouch!

Babbit, Natalie

A baby born with the destiny of marrying a princess is brought by the King and thrown into the river to prevent a possible marriage with his newborn daughter. Rescued by a loving couple, the boy grows up and meets the King once again. The Kings plan to kill the young man backfires again and the young man marries the princess. As a test, the King sends the new prince to steal the golden hairs off the devil's head. In a surprise ending, the prince prevails, but the King is not so lucky.

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anger, architecture, baby, boat, bodies of water, bridge, confidence, correspondence, dancing, death, devils, dreams, fable, family, feelings, food, forest, happiness, lost, magic, marriage, nonverbal communication, river, royalty, secrets, sleep, transportation, trick, wedding

The dark princess

Kennedy, Richard

The princess is so beautiful that others become blinded if they look directly at her; in fact, she is even blinded by her beauty. Many princes want to marry her, but only for her beauty, not for herself. Thus, the princess must look in a surprising place to find the meaning of true love.

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beauty, blindness, critical thinking, loneliness, love, marriage, royalty, self esteem

The tale of the mandarin ducks

Paterson, Katherine

A duck is captured and taken by a cruel lord, but one of the servants saves the duck. The servant falls in love with another servant who protects her from the lord, and they get married.

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birds, conflict resolution, decision making, duck, family, japanese, love, marriage, multicultural, rescue, royalty

Prince boghole

Haugaard, Erik Christian

Princes from all around want to marry the princess. The king promises his daughter to the prince that brings back the most wonderful bird.

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birds, celebration, conflict resolution, eagle, marriage, royalty, self esteem, song, stress management, verbal communication

The owl and the pussy cat

Lear, Edward

An owl and a pussy cat fall in love and sail to an island to get married.

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animals, birds, boat, cat, island, love, marriage, owl

Anancy and mr. dry-bone

French, Fiona

Anancy and Mr. Dry-Bone attempt to win the hand of the beautiful Miss Lause by making her laugh.

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assertiveness, competition, conflict resolution, creativity, decision making, goal setting, imagination, marriage, nonverbal communication, self esteem, verbal communication

The cowboy and the black-eyed pea

Johnston, Tony

After her father dies, Farethee Well, is left with a huge herd of longhorns on a big Texas farm to find a husband to help her run it. She must determine whether or not he is a real cowboy by his sensitivity while riding a horse with a blackeyed pea under the saddle.

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animals, cowboys, death, decision making, horse, loss, marriage, rain, weather

Tea with milk

Say, Allen

Masoko's life changes dramatically when her parents move from California back to their native country, Japan. Masako feels like she will never belong in this new country where her life is so completely different.

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change, clothing, culture, customs, differences, family, food, homesickness, independence, japanese, language, loss, love, market, marriage, multicultural, nutrition, parents, relationship, travel

Dinosaurs divorce

Brown, Laurene Krasny//Brown, Marc

Divorce can be a scary thing for children. Questions and concerns about divorce can be answered with help from the dinosaurs. Dinosaurs explain everything from why parents divorce to celebrating holidays with two families to satisfy the inquisitive young mind.

If I were a toad

Paterson, Diane

A duck is captured and taken by a cruel lord, but one of the servants saves the duck. The servant falls in love with another servant who protect her from the cruel lord. In the end, they get married.

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birds, conflict resolution, decision making, duck, family, love, marriage, rescue, royalty

Gone is gone

Gag, Wanda

A man wishes to trade a days work with his wife who does nothing all day. He soon learns he was wrong.

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family, farm, folktale, marriage, respect, understanding

The three wishes

Zemach, Margot

When a man and wife free an imp from under a tree, they are given three wishes that could greatly improve their love. However, without thinking, they foolishly waste the three wishes.

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conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, escape, family, love, magic, marriage, nonverbal communication

When jessie came across the sea

Hest, Amy

Jessie and her Grandmother are very close family to each other because there are no other relatives. Grandmother teachers Jessie to sew and Jessie teaches Grandmother to read. One day, Jessie is requested to travel to America by the rabbi. Her journey by ship is hard, but she meets a young man, Low, who she finds again in America and marries. Grandmother travels to America on the money that Jessie earned sewing lace for three years.

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american, challenges, communication, correspondence, decision making, english, family, friendship, illness, immigrants, Jewish, language, marriage, money, monuments, multicultural, religion, school, sewing, ship, spiritual, stress management, transportation, travel, work

How my parents learned to eat

Friedman, Ina R.

An American sailor meets a Japanese school girl. Neither of them know how to eat in the same manner as the other.

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american, conflict resolution, customs, decision making, family, food, goal setting, japanese, learning, marriage, multicultural, nonverbal communication, nutrition, parents, relationship

Lemon whip

Razvan

A cake and a lemon escape from a refrigerator to explore the world together. They see many things and decide to travel over land and sea together, forever.

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conflict resolution, cooperation, decision making, escape, excitement, food, freedom, friendship, goal setting, marriage, nutrition, travel, verbal communication, wedding

Yonder

Johnston, Tony

Vivid pictures depict the cycle of seasons while the story of a pioneer's life is told. The story begins with the pioneer's marriage then ends with the lives of the pioneer's children.

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adventures, aging, challenges, change, decision making, family, generations, goal setting, growing up, marriage, parents, pioneers, seasons, verbal communication

The tinderbox

Moser, Barry

Yoder is a lost soldier trying to find his way home. He runs into an old man who makes him rich, and he also gets the old man's magic tinderbox. Yoder, still lost, continues into a town. He stays in this town because he wants to marry the princess. The tinderbox ends up saving his life and helps him accomplish his goal.

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animals, community, critical thinking, dog, goal setting, lost, magic, marriage, royalty

Helga's dowry: A troll love story

dePaola, Tomie

Helga, a beautiful troll, sets out to earn her dowry to marry Lars. Her plan doesn't work out like she had hoped. Be ready for a funny ending.

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assertiveness, conflict resolution, decision making, greed, laziness, loyalty, marriage, self esteem, selfishness, stress management, trolls, verbal communication, wedding

Summer story

Barklem, Jill

Dusty and Poppy get married. They move to a cottage and live happily ever after.

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decision making, happiness, love, marriage, verbal communication

Tsugele's broom

Carey, Valerie Scho

A young girl is pressured by her parents to get married but she wants to find a man who is as reliable as her broom. Her broom turns into the man of her dreams and she marries him.

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decision making, hard work, helping, laziness, marriage, refusal skills, self esteem

I am the mummy, heb-nefert

Bunting, Eve

Hef-Nefert, an Egyptian mummy, tells her story as the wife of pharaoh's brother. She and her husband are very much in love and enjoy a wonderful life together. Eventually both die and become mummies that are viewed by disbelieving people in museums.

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animals, birds, cat, family, happiness, history, learning, love, marriage, money, museum, nonverbal communication, parents, royalty, self esteem, siblings, snake, wealth

Esio trot

Dahl, Roald

A man is in love with a woman who lives downstairs from him. The woman has a turtle that she wants to grow bigger, so the man helps change the size of the tortoise. The woman falls in love with the man and the two get married.

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assertiveness, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, goal setting, imagination, love, marriage, neighbors, reptiles, shelter, turtle

The story of edward

Dumas, Philippe

Once in the real world, a donkey tried to pretend he is not a donkey. When he is discovered, he dances the waltz to capture his bride.

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animals, assertiveness, conflict resolution, coping, dancing, death, determination, donkey, exercise, goal setting, love, marriage, recreation, self esteem, verbal communication

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