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2021.
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English
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Rich imagery, gentle rhythm and soothing repetition will lull your little one to sleep as the tulips close for the night, one by one. In this bedtime story written as an Italian villanelle, poet Gillian Sze makes use of the poetic forms of cyclic pattern and rhyme scheme to create a melodious lullaby. A young child comes in from picking flowers as the creatures around their home all settle down for the evening. Songbirds curl against their mothers'...
45) Goodnight soccer
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English
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"The perfect bedtime book for young soccer fans. From the opening kickoff to the final goal, a young girl says goodnight to her most beloved sport: soccer. With delightful, rhyming text and energetic art, acclaimed author Michael Dahl (Goodnight Baseball, Goodnight Football, Goodnight Hockey), along with illustrator Christina E. Forshay, captures the thrill and excitement of the world's most popular sport. This Sports Illustrated Kids picture book...
46) Humpty Dumpty
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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An adaptation of the traditional nursery rhyme, with Humpty Dumpty as a crab, and all the characters are marine animals.
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
This upbeat picture book-a companion to Ride, Roll, Run: Time for Fun!-follows the nine children from the first book as they help plan a big, musical block party. Author and educator Valerie Bolling's rhyming text makes for a rollicking read-aloud and features instruments from all around the world including the agogô, banjo, daegeum, djembe drums, double bass, erhu, maracas, piano, steel drums, and trumpet. Sabrena Khadija's stunning illustrations...
49) Starfish
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English
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Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies.
51) Before morning
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Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
Description
Let snow fall overnight and change the world before morning, making it "slow and delightful and white."
56) Sold
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi, though poor, enjoys her life until the Himalayan monsoons wash away her family's crops and she is sold to a brothel in India by her stepfather. She remembers her mother's wisdom, "Simply to endure is to triumph," until the day comes that she can reclaim her life.
58) Turn the tide
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
Description
Twelve-year-old Mimi Laskaris is inspired by the Wijsen sisters of Bali to turn her focus from classical piano to a new obsession: forming a grassroots, kid-led movement to ban plastic bags in her new island home in Florida. Written in accessible verse, this timely story of environmental activism has extensive back matter for aspiring activists.
59) Space mice
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
Description
Illustrations and rhyming text follow two mice on their quest to consume the giant wheel of Swiss cheese in the night sky.
60) Chicken little
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Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When an acorn hits her on the head, Chicken Little believes the sky is falling down and runs to tell the king and everyone she meets along the way.
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