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A Christmas Story: Flagpole Scene (4)

A Christmas Story: Shoot Your Eye Out Scene (5)

A Cookie for Santa (5)

A Fish Named Glub (12)

A Little Excitement (6)

ABC Animals (13)

Alvin Ho (7)

Amigo (11+)

America Poem (8)

Animal Trainer (3)

Angelica Ice Skates (8 or 16)

Ant and the Grasshopper (5)

Arthur’s Christmas (10)

Arthur the Brave (6)

Atherton: The House of Power (8)

Bad Case of Stripes (18)

Bears, Bears, Bears (6)

Best Friend Trouble (7)

Big Al (8)

Billy Goats Gruff (6)

Birbal’s Trip to Paradise (6)

Blow Your Nose! (8)

Breakfast at the Zoo (7)

Bob the Snowman (6 or 9)

Bok Chito: A Choctaw Tale of Friendship and Freedom (8)

Girls are Red and Boys are Blue (2+)

Brave Irene (4)

Bremen Town Musicians (8)

Bubba The Cowboy Prince A Fractured Texas Tale (8)

Caillou: Happy Thanksgiving!! (11)

Caylee’s Excuses (2)

Chicken Big (11)

Chicken Little (7)

Child and the Baker (2)

Chrysanthemum (10)

Christmas Carol (28)

Christmas Everywhere Poem (8)

Cinderella Bigfoot (15)

Cinderella (9)

Cinderella and the Beanstalk (8)

Clever Lucy (8)

Click Clack Moo (7)

Clown Statue (8)

Creepy Cafetorium (8)

Daisy Head Mayzie (16)

Dinorella (11)

Dinosaur Land (2)

Dish Ran Away With a Spoon (20)

Dog Breath (10)

Dom’s Hansel and Gretel (12)

Don’t Let Auntie Mabel Bless the Table (7)

Don’t Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late! (3)

Dooby Dooby Moo (6)

Double Trouble (7)

Duck for President (10)

East of the Sun and West of the Moon (18)

El Deafo (8)

Elephant’s Child (9)

Emily's Tiger (6)

Evil Lurks (6)

Fanny (5)

Fifty-Cent Piece (8)

First Day at Zoo School (5)

Fish Tank (9)

Food Fight (6)

Fourth Little Pig (7)

Fred and Marjorie: A Dog and The Discovery of Insulin (17)

Frog or Toad (3)

Frog Prince Continued (11)

Gabriel’s Horses (9)

Get Out of Bed (2)

Girls are Red and Boys are Blue (2++)

Go Exploring in Books Poem (4)

Goldilocks (10)

Goldilocks and The Three Bears (5)

Goodnight Goon (4)

Goodnight Moon (4)

Gotta Go (4)

Grandpa for Sale (5)

Great Apple Slice Escape (11)

Great Kapok Tree (14)

Greatest Show on Earth (12)

Green Kangaroo (One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo) (9)

Gretchen Groundhog (17)

Gullible’s Trouble (10)

Halloweiner (12)

Hanna Hippo’s Horrible Hiccups (5)

Hansel and Gretel (9)

Happy Birthday Big Bad Wolf (5)

Happy National Pig Day (4)

Hedgie’s Surprise (9)

Helen Keller (6)

Henry's Freedom Box (18)

Hey Little Ant (3)

Hey, That's My Monster (9)

Holdup Ambush Canyon (11)

Horrible Harry (12)

Hotel Room (11)

Hound of Rowan (8)

How to Steal a Dog (8)

Hula Hoop Champion (2)

Humpty Dumpty (16)

I AM the Most Important: A Script About the Human Body Systems (7)

I Before E Except After C (3)

I, Bruno (5)

I Know an Old Teacher (6)

If You Give a Pig a Pancake (4)

If You Take a Mouse to School (5)

Infantry? (4)

Invitations (8)

It Was My Fault (12)

Is Your Mama a Llama? (9)

I Like Myself (11)

I Like Myself (18)

I Need My Monster (8)

Jack and the Beanstalk (6)

Jack, the Cunning Thief (17)

Jack Was Nimble (3)

January is the First Month (6)

Jessica (9)

Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key (5)

Just Grace (6)

Keys to My Kingdom (6)

King’s Breakfast (5)

King’s Wish (7)

Lady Liberty: A Biography (8)

Lawn Boy (9)

Lily and the Paper Man (7)

Listen Buddy (10)

Little Boy Blue, Please Cover Your Nose (8)

Little Critter Learns About Shapes (6)

Little Old Lady (10)

Lonely Booger (5)

Luke and Lottie. It’s Halloween! (5)

Magic Carpet Ride (2)

Magic Flamingo (5)

Martina the Beautiful Cockroach (7)

Marvelous Mattie (14)

Mary Had a Little Pet (4)

Maybelle in the Soup (8)

Meanwhile Back at the Ranch (15)

Meet Big Cats (8)

Me First (8)

Miss Nelson is Missing (7)

Mo the Dog in Tropical Paradise (6)

Mrs. Toggle's Zipper (10)

My Dog Has Got No Manners (7)

My Friend is Sad (3)

My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother (15)

New Year's Resolutions (8)

Nia and the New Free Library (12)

Nia and the New Free Library (10)

Night of the Blizzard (10)

No Bath Tonight (4)

Nory Ryan’s Song (3)

No David - A Reader's Theater (2)

No Santa? (13)

One Handed Catch (7)

One Potato, Two Potato (7)

Our Snowman (3)

Owen (9)

Paper Bag Princess (5)

Paper Bag Princess V2 (5)

Pale Male (5)

Pass It On! (12)

Pee-Ew! Is That You, Bertie? (9)

Penderwicks on Gardam St. (9)

Penguin Pete (6)

Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes (3)

Pierre's Friends (10)

Piggie Pie (8)

Piper Reed A Navy Brat (7)

Polar Bears (4)

Porcupine Named Fluffy (10)

Principal’s New Clothes (12)

Pumpkin Deal (5+)

Puppies for Sale (6)

Rain Forest (6)

Red Balloon (6)

Red Hen Ball (7)

Red Riding Hood (9)

Redhead Robbie’s Christmas Story (10)

Rhymes Ruined (2)

Riddles in the Dark (Hobbit) (6)

Roger and the Three Knocks (6)

Rub-A-Dub-Dub (4)

Rumplestiltskin (8)

Rump and Ugla (6)

Runaway Snowman (3)

Sadakos and the Thousand Paper Cranes (6)

Sam Houston (6)

Sarah’s Day in Kindergarten (5)

School! Adventures at the Harvey N. Trouble Elementary School (25)

Scooby-Doo! and the Rock 'n' Roll Zombie (8)

Sheila Rae, the Brave (8)

Shoe Town (6)

Shoveling Snow (2)

SICK by Shel Silverstein (2)

Simile (11)

Skippyjon Jones (10)

Sleeping Beauty (10)

Sleeping Ugly (7)

Sloth at the Zoom (8)

Snow Flake Bentley (12)

Snowballs (9)

Snowed in at Polkweed Public School (6 or 7)

Snowy Day (8)

Someone Named Eva (14)

Star Light, Star Bright (4)

Stellaluna (20)

Stone Soup (5+)

Stonecutter (6)

Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening (2)

Stressbusters (7)

Swimming Ool (4)

Tacky the Penguin (15)

Take Me with You When You Go (18+)

Team Moon (5)

Thanksgiving (ABCs of Thanksgiving) (30)

The Aliens Have Landed (6)

The Berenstain Bears: First Time Do-It! Book (6)

The Boy Who Cried Wolf (5)

The Burp Champ (2)

The Crazy Critters (6)

The Dentist (2)

The Gas We Pass (8)

The Ghost Town Mystery (6)

The Ghost Town Mystery (9)

The Gingerbread Boy (9)

The Giving Tree (13)

The Bad News (6)

The Gollywhopper Games (12)

The Green Dog (9)

The Hat (10)

The Jellybeans and the Great Art Adventure (7)

The King of the Wild Frontier (5)

The Little Red Hen (5)

The Magic Porridge Pot (8)

The Meal Must Go On (17)

The Polar Express (8)

The Sound of Magic 1 (8)

The Squid and the Stickbug (2)

The Really Ugly Duckling (6)

The Universe Ate My Homework (5)

The Very Hungry Caterpillar (7)

The Water Cycle (19)

The Wolf Who Cried Boy (5)

There is a Bird on Your Head (3)

There Was a Little Girl, She Has a Little Curl (5)

Three Javelinas (10)

Three Little Pigs (14)

Three Little Wolves (15)

Three’s Company, Mallory (5)

Three Wishes (6)

Today I Will Fly! (5)

Too Tall Tina (12)

Toys Go Out (9)

Trial of Socrates (11)

True Story of the Three Little Pigs (9)

Turkey Trotten (7)

TV Repair Person (2)

'Twas the Night Before Christmas (7)

Very Hungry Caterpillar (5)

Vinder Viper (13)

Weekend With Wendell (8)

Wemberly Worried (10)

Werewolf in Town (18)

Whales (8)

What Do You Come For? (6)

What to Do About Alice (5)

What You Never Knew About Beds, Bedrooms and Pajamas (8)

When Turtle Grew Feathers (6)

Where the Wild Things Are (6)

Where Once There Was a Wood (3)

White Wolf (13)

Who Was King (5)

Wizard, the Fairy and the Magic Chicken (6)

(Hooway for)Wodney Wat (10)

Worry Warts (15)

Zach Apologizes (6)