William Steig
1) Shrek!
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"Before Shrek made it big on the silver screen, there was William Steig's SHREK!, a book about an ogre who leaves his swampy home to go out and see the world ... and ends up marrying the most stunningly ugly princess on the planet!"--P. [4] of cover.
2) Brave Irene
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Plucky Irene, a dressmaker's daughter, braves a firece snowstorm to deliver a new gown to the duchess in time for the ball.
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Yorick Bede has always considered his younger brother, Charles, a first-rate pain in the pants, and Charles thinks the same of Yorick. One day Yorick plays with his alchemist father's potions, and he accidentally shrinks himself to the size of a cockroach. Now suddenly Charles is the big brother. Though it's tempting to leave Yorick as a shrunken version of himself to teach him a lesson, Charles and the rest of the Bede family protect Yorick...
6) Gorky rises
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Clutching the bottle of magic potion he has made, a young frog falls asleep and wakes to find himself floating in the sky.
7) Wizzil
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A bored witch causes trouble when she decides to take revenge on an old man, but her mischief leads to a happy ending.
8) Amos & Boris
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Befriended by a whale as he is drowning in the ocean, a mouse gets a chance to reciprocate years later in an equally unlikely situation.
9) Zeke Pippin
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[1994]
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First edition.
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English
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One day, as fate would have it, Zeke Pippin moseys outside, finds a harmonica in the street, and is soon regaling his family with the prelude to La Traviata. But when his mother, father, sister, and brother promptly fall asleep, Zeke wonders how he can "go on living with such nincompoops" -- and runs away from home. After several other would-be music lovers pass out when he starts to play, Zeke concludes that his harmonica has magical powers, and...
10) Shrek!
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"Shrek, a horrid little ogre, goes out into the world to find adventure and along the way encounters a witch, a knight in armor, a dragon, and, finally, a hideous princess, who's even uglier than he is!"--
11) Pete's a pizza
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[2000]
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English
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When Pete feels miserable because rain makes it impossible to play ball outdoors, his father finds a fun indoor game to play with his son.
12) The flying latke
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1999.
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First edition.
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English
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A family argument on the first night of Chanukah results in a food fight and a flying latke that is mistaken for a flying saucer.
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