Alan Venable
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"Can a somewhat obsessive carpenter bear and a free-spirited tinker alligator actually play a third game of checkers despite their entirely complementary differences? QUOTE: In all of our years of teaching, we've found The Checker Players to be the perfect book for children of all ages. Alan Venable has created two comical characters, who, while competing in a simple game of checkers, find their very friendship at stake. How the carpenter and tinker...
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As a scientist and peanutrician, Dr. Peanut leads a rich and nutty life. But daily he and his young peanut patients face the dangers of being eaten. This chapter book introduces and follows the intrepid doctor as he employs science and common sense to befriend threatening giants, find companionship with a neighboring snail, ward off ferocious beasts, and mobilize the talking peanuts to make theirs a safer, more harmonious world. Excellent early elementary...