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Author
Language
English
Description
Klosterman "visualizes the contemporary world as it will appear to those who'll perceive it as the distant past, [asking] questions that are profound in their simplicity: How certain are we about our understanding of gravity? How certain are we about our understanding of time? What will be the defining memory of rock music, five hundred years from today? How seriously should we view the content of our dreams? How seriously should we view the content...
2) Inside Cat
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Told in rhyming text, Inside Cat views the world through many windows, watching the birds, squirrels, and people go by--but when the door opens it discovers a whole new view.
Author
Series
Cat Kid Comic Club volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Flippy, Molly, Li'l Petey, and twenty-one baby frogs each have something to say. Naomi and Melvin don't see eye to eye and Poppy perceives the world differently than her siblings. Will the baby frogs figure out how to work together and appreciate one another's point of view -- both inside and outside the classroom?"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In the quiet coastal town of Fairhope, Alabama, a mysterious old man named Jones has set up shop to do the one thing he knows best: "noticing" the little things that make a big difference in people's lives. This time, however, he's doing it in front of an audience--a parenting class.
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In this blend of fiction, allegory, and inspiration, Andrews tells the story of Jones--a mysterious man who shows up when things look the darkest for the people of Orange Beach, Alabama, and whose unique gift of noticing things that others miss helps us understand why things happen and what we can do about it.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
They told us "don't sweat the small stuff," but sometimes it's the little things that change everything. Andrews shows that sometimes it is in concentrating on the smaller things that we add value and margin. Whether in business, in life, or in our spiritual connection with God, he provides common-sense perspective for meeting small events that can multiply the success of an endeavor.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Time to play outside! It’s easy for a young boy to feel small in a world that is made up of big, big things. But when he takes a closer look, he discovers that he is big, too. His dog is smaller than he is, and his cat is smaller than his dog. And the teeny-tiny ant crawling through the grass? Even smaller!" --publisher's website
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
Hardcover.
Language
English
Description
"Two curious bunnies enjoy watching clouds go by. But when they look at the sky, they each see something completely different! While one bunny likes to use his imagination and sees cotton candy or whipped cream, the other bunny can only see the science behind them. Together they learn that cloud watching is much more fun when they can see it through each other’s eyes." --publisher's website
10) Rosie's glasses
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In this wordless story, Rosie awakens late, gets soaked with rain on her way to school, yet her gloomy mood changes when she finds a pair of glasses on her way home.
11) Blue & Bertie
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First US edition.
Language
English
Description
Bertie the giraffe oversleeps and becomes separated from her herd, but a new friend helps him get home and gives him a new perspective in the process.
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Relates how one boy--who had friends, enjoyed reading, playing saxophone in the band, and had never been in trouble before--became a monster capable of entering his high school with a loaded gun and firing on his classmates, as told from the viewpoints of several victims. Each perspective is written by a different writer of young adult fiction.
16) Upside-downers
Author
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
Figures from two sets of playing cards, each of which seems upside down to the other, pursue their queer and quacky quarreling, until one of the kings points out that it is all a matter of point of view.
19) Look up!
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When a girl in a wheelchair calls to people far below to look up and see her, one finds a way to brighten her day.
20) A weed is a seed
Author
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Pairs of rhyming verses show that such things in the natural world as weeds, a breeze, sand, and ice can be seen both positively and negatively.
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