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Asim, Jabari
A vibrant, playful verse that celebrates a beautiful brown baby's adorable little toes, for fans of Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes. Who do you suppose has such fine toes?So brown and sweet. Who could have such darling feet? Snuggle with a child on your...
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Toni Buzzeo
This nonfiction ode to building a house from the ground up features six kinds of craftsmen and the 24 tools they use, accurately labeled. The answer to each inquiring refrain is revealed under a gatefold, seven in all, engaging the reader in an informative guessing game. With lyrical (and...
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Ørbeck-Nilssen, Constance
A remarkable book for encouraging self-reflection In this empathetic book, a young girl wonders what life would be like if she lived somewhere else. What if she lived in a city with millions of people? What would it be like to be a refugee from a war-torn country? Is she meant to be in...
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Britt, Paige
This loving ode to our shared humanity is the perfect introduction to conversations about identity and Anti-Racism.* Will invite the book's audience to grapple with themes of individuality, diversity, universality, and what it means to be human. -- The Horn Book, starred reviewLoved it. --...
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Pintadera, Fran
This thoughtful, poetic book uses metaphors and beautiful imagery to explore the reasons for our tears.
In a soft voice, Mario asks, “Mother, why do we cry?” And his mother begins to tell him about the many reasons for our tears. We cry because our sadness is so huge it must escape... This sensitive, poetic picture book uses metaphors and beautiful imagery to explain the reasons for our tears, making it clear that everyone is allowed to cry, and that everyone does. In a soft voice, Mario asks, "Mother, why do we cry?" His mother thinks for a moment, and then begins to tell...
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Hyman, Trina Schart
This lively biography, by Newbery Honor-winning author Jean Fritz, is a nice, personal look at a leader and his times. In early America, when all the men wore ruffled shirts and rode grandly on horseback, one man refused to follow suit. He was the rebel leader Sam Adams, a plainspoken gent who...
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Lester, Julius
In this playful sequel to the acclaimed What a Truly Cool World, a serious dilemma is faced by a down-to-earth God, his wife Irene, his secretary Bruce, and the angel Shaniqua. Illustrations.
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Aardema, Verna
In this astonishingly beautiful and imaginatively illustrated picture book, Mosquito tells Iguana a tall tale that sets off a chain reaction that ends in jungle disaster. Iguana is so upset at being told such nonsense that he plugs his ears. So, of course, when Python says good morning, Iguana...
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Aardema, Verna
In this astonishingly beautiful and imaginatively illustrated picture book, Mosquito tells Iguana a tall tale that sets off a chain reaction that ends in jungle disaster. Iguana is so upset at being told such nonsense that he plugs his ears. So, of course, when Python says good morning, Iguana...
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Aardema, Verna
A mosquito annoyed the iguana, who frightened the python, who scared the rabbit
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Isaac Bashevis Singer and Eric Carle
Damals, als die Tiere davon hörten, dass Noah seine Arche baute und nur die besten von ihnen aufnehmen würde, fingen sie miteinander einen Wettstreit an. »Ich bin der Stärkste«, brüllte der Löwe. »Ich dufte von allen am besten. Mein Geruch ist berühmt«, stänkerte das Stinktier. Und so ging es in...
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Macaulay, David
Last chance! This book is out-of-print and we don't have many copies left. Get it while you can! A rollicking investigation of cause and effect by the Caldecott medalist. "This, undoubtedly, will delight kids with its eloquent plot. [Macaulay's] art . . . is this time flushed with color and zaniness, demonstrating a vaudevillian's canny timing with a sensational round of rapid-fire action...
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A hilarious guessing game of facial reactions created by the author of bestselling This Is Not A Book Jean Jullien tickles the funnybone once again with a book of facial overreactions. Faces are presented first, allowing the reader to wager predictions of what may have...
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Handler, Daniel
I'm telling you why we broke up, Ed. I'm writing it in this letter, the whole truth of why it happened. Min Green and Ed Slaterton are breaking up, so Min is writing Ed a letter and giving him a box. Inside the box is why they broke up. Two bottle caps, a movie ticket, a folded note, a...
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Diggs, Taye
A piercing picture book about racial injustice from a child's perspective from Taye Diggs and Shane Evans. Daddy? Yes, my sweet boy. Why are those people shouting? Our people are shouting because we need to be heard. We need to be heard....
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Hughes, Emily
You cannot tame something so happily wild. In this beautiful picture book by Emily Hughes, we meet a little girl who has known nothing but nature from birth--she was taught to talk by birds, to eat by bears, and to play by foxes. She is unashamedly, irrefutably, irrepressibly wild. That is,...
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Sierra, Judy
OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD! Winner of the E.B. White Read Aloud Award It started the summer of 2002, when the Springfield librarian, Molly McGrew, by mistake drove her bookmobile into the zoo. In this rollicking rhymed story, Molly introduces birds and...
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McLemore, Anna-Marie
In Wild Beauty, acclaimed YA author Anna-Marie McLemore introduces a spellbinding setting and two characters who are drawn together by fate--and pulled apart by reality. Love grows such strange things. For nearly a century, the Nomeolvides women have tended...
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Slater, Dashka
In a charming take on a milestone moment, a young girl summons a cowpoke's courage to tame her intimidating new bicycle. Kayla loves riding her pink pony, a three-wheeled bike, up and down the street, day after day. But then Daddy announces that it's time for a big-...
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Milgrim, David
Do you ever feel as stubborn as a mule? Or as chicken as a chicken? Of course you do. Everyone does. In this lighthearted look at feelings, David Milgrim tenderly and humorously sketches the emotional range--from awkward to unnoticed, to really, rrrreally mad. Ultimately...
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Knight, Xanthe Gresham
Young Eliza and her eleven brothers' lives are transformed when a plague ravages the Kingdom of the North and kills their mother, the Queen. When their father remarries, their brilliant and "unusual" new stepmother becomes obsessed with finding a cure for the plague and protecting her new family -...
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Morris, Jackie
A girl loses her beloved brothers when they are turned into swans by her wicked stepmother. She embarks on a vital quest with one purpose: to find them and turn them back into boys again. But the task is complicated. She must pick nettles with her bare hands and turn them to yarn, to spin and...
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Wild Things 64-piece jigsaw puzzle is an above-ground and underground illustration featuring garden animals, feathered friends, flowers, and other organisms living in a wild, natural habitat. With large pieces this puzzle is perfect for children ages 5 and up. A vibrant and striking illustration...
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Sieruta, Peter D
Secret lives, scandalous turns, and some very funny surprises -- these essays by leading kids' lit bloggers take us behind the scenes of many much-loved children's books. Told in lively and affectionate prose, this treasure trove of information for a student, librarian, parent, or...
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