title: The Sweet and Sour Animal Book (The Iona and Peter Opie Library of Children's Literature)
author:  Langston Hughes 
description: <br>"From Ape to Zebra, the short poems reflect Hughes's childlike wonder as well as his sense of humor."--<em>The New York Times Book Review</em>
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  Title: Animal Children  
  The Friends of the Forest and the Plain  
    
  Author: Edith Brown Kirkwood  
    
  Illustrator: M. T. Ross  
    
  Release Date: February 17, 2006 [EBook #17782]  
    
  Language: English  
    
    
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  # Animal Children
  
  
  _The Friends of the Forest and the Plain._
  
  
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