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Chee-Lin

A Giraffe's Journey

by Rumford, James

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Dog-of-the-Sea-Waves

by Rumford, James

Manu, one of five brothers who are the first humans to set foot on Hawaii, is unhappy until he saves the life of a strange creature he calls Dog-of-the-Sea-Wav...

There's a monster in the alphabet

by Rumford, James

An alphabet book which relates the legend of Cadmus, the Phoenician hero who brought the alphabet to Greece and slew a dragon there.

Traveling Man

The Journey of Ibn Battuta, 1325–1354

by Rumford, James

Relates the adventures of Ibn Battuta, a fourteenth-century traveler who, like Marco Polo, set forth on a seventy-five-thousand-mile journey of discovery throu...

Seeker of knowledge

the man who deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphs

by Rumford, James

A biography of the French scholar whose decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphic language made the study of ancient Egypt possible.

The Island-below-the-Star

by Rumford, James

Five brothers, each with a special skill, sail across the vast Pacific Ocean to the islands now known as Hawaii.

The Cloudmakers

by Rumford, James

A Chinese grandfather and his grandson who are captured by the Arab army barter for their freedom by demonstrating the art of papermaking.