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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"When Santa arrives at a child's house on Christmas Eve, does he go down the chimney feetfirst or headfirst? What if he gets stuck? What if there's no chimney? Maybe he slides under the door, as thin as a piece of paper? Or is it possible he pours himself through the faucet? What happens once he's inside? Whether it's shape-shifting or impromptu laundry use, Mac Barnett's iconic talent for earnest deadpan humor and Jon Klassen's irresistibly funny...
Author
Series
Pigeon (Picture books) volume 2
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"Pigeon learns about sharing when a curious duckling keeps asking questions about the hot dog Pigeon has found"--
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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When Zimdalamashkermishkada starts a new school, he decides to shrink his name to the shorter, simpler Zim, but when his new friend Elly sees him for who he truly is, Zimdalamashkermishkada finds the confidence to step proudly into his long name.
5) We could fly
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shares the incantatory dialogue between a mother and daughter that celebrates love, resilience and the spiritual power of tradition and shared cultural memory to sustain and uplift.
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Once, in a tiny village in India, there was a young boy who loved to paint. He lived with his grandfather, who taught him to paint with his fingers, to make paints from marigolds and brushes made from jasmine flowers. Sometimes, the village children would watch them painting together, and the boy's grandfather would invite them to join in. They didn't have much, but they had each other. After his grandfather dies, the boy notices a little box wrapped...
7) Big
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
Praised for acting like a big girl when she is small, as a young girl grows, "big" becomes a word of criticism, until the girl realizes that she is fine just the way she is.
Author
Series
Pigeon (Picture books) volume 5
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Pigeon is very angry when the duckling gets a cookie just by asking politely.
10) Dino-Hanukkah
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Hanukkah is coming, and the dinos are all busy getting ready! They make brisket and latkes, and the dino-kids play with a dreidel, act out the Hanukkah story, open gifts, and eagerly await their turn to light the menorah"--
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"In an alternate past--or possible future--a mighty tree stands on the banks of a winding river, bearing silent witness to the flow of time and change. A family farms the fertile valley. Soon, a village sprouts, and not long after, a town. Residents learnto harness the water, the wind, and the animals in order to survive and thrive. The growing population becomes ever more industrious and clever, bending nature itself to their will and their ambition:...
12) Rainbow boy
Author
Publisher
Beaming Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Unable to choose one favorite color, a young boy enjoys wearing a pink tutu on Sundays, playing with an orange basketball on Tuesdays, and trying to change things with a purple wand on Saturdays.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The sky may be dark over icy waters, but Mommy Penguin is off to catch some fish for dinner. As Daddy and Little Penguin watch in suspense, Mommy swims, jumps, and climbs up a slippery slope, barely avoiding a plunge back into the sea. Well done! There's just one more hurdle to overcome, past some grumpy, just-awakened seals, before she returns to her anxiously waiting family. With a nod to the fascinating nature of penguin parenting, this boldly...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When her little sister, Akeer, becomes sick when they are returning home from the water hole, Nya must carry her and the water back to their village, one step at a time.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
As Lola helps her mother at the family's hotel, she learns about compassion, social injustice, and how one voice can lead to change. Includes author's note on Dolores Huerta, a labor organizer who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association.
19) Hot dog
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A summery picture book about mindfulness, featuring an overheated--and overwhelmed-- canine in need of sea, sand, and fresh air"--
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