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Over in Australia
By: Marianne Berkes
Travel to Australia and explore different animals and their babies in this counting and rhyming book.

By: Susan Lendroth
Travel to Japan with Natsumi as she participates in the Festival of Traditional Japanese Arts with her family.

By: Teresa Robeson
Travel to China as two bicycles built in the same factory race to find each other in Beijing.

By: David Stein
Travel across the globe, starting in New York, as one small act of kindness influences many others in sequence over the world. 

By: Dianne Hofmeyr
Travel to Italy as a glassmaker in Venice promises a glass palace to anyone who can make his sad daughter smile.

By: Linda Lodding
Travel to Austria with a boy in Vienna who is searching for the perfect gift for his mother, trading gifts along the way.

By: Niki Daly
Travel to Ghana with this re-telling of Little Red Riding Hood from Africa where a girl fails to listen to her grandmother's warnings not to talk to strangers.

By: Eric Kimmel
Travel to Spain with this Spanish Folktale about a chicken who ventures from his barnyard out to the city of Madrid.
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