Burlington Public Library

Buster sends postcards to his friends back home when he and his father go to San Antonio, Texas for the International Accordion Festival.

Death himself narrates the World War II-era story of Liesel Meminger from the time she is taken, at age nine, to live in Molching, Germany, with a foster family in a working-class neighborhood of tough kids, acid-tongued mothers, and loving fathers who earn their living by the work of their hands. The child arrives having just stolen her first bookalthough she has not yet learned how to readand her foster father uses it, The Gravediggers...

Rosa plays her accordion with her friends in the Oak Street Band and earns money to help her mother with expenses while her grandmother is sick.

"Stella felt joyful. She felt like something miraculous might happen. She wanted to sing.. When Stella gets the sudden idea to go caroling, she has a little trouble getting someone to join her. Her brother, Frank, is not good at spontaneity. The Watsons are very involved in a precarious fruitcake attempt (but happy to send their pig, Mercy, out for the occasion). Eugenia Lincoln declines, a bit rudely, to accompany on her accordion, and Horace Broom...

"There's a tiny little rocket that will take you to the stars. It only flies there once a year, but zips you out past Mars. Jump in for a journey that is out of this world"--Dust jacket flap.

"The froggies do not want to sleep and refuse to head to bed; they'd rather play their accordions, go for long drives in the country, or sing opera while shooting themselves out of cannons"--

For families who want their babies to reach for the stars, this accordion-shaped board book about outer space was created specifically for tummy time! This wordless accordion-shaped board book is filled with twenty different outer space images drawn in bold black-and-white art, perfect for a baby's developing mind. The book is meant to stand up on a baby's play mat so they can lift their heads to look at the pictures. And once they've looked at one...

Simsbury is sitting under his favorite tree when a red chair and an accordion pass by, prompting him to get up and take a look at the Mud Flats Yard Sale.

My Little Donkey / Mi Burrito is a bilingual (English & Spanish) holiday book based on one of the most popular Christmas carols in Spanish: "Mi Burrito Sabanero" (The Little Donkey from the Savannah). This tale follows the journey of a trotting donkey on his way to Bethlehem to meet baby Jesus.

"An alligator with an accordion! A bunny with a banjo! Strum, clap, and tap your way through the alphabet of instruments and the animals who play them!"--Back cover.