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A Small Dog's Big Life: Around the World with Owney
Irene Kelly - Holiday House
Format: Hardcover
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From 1889-1897 a small dog captured the public's imagination - Owney, a stray who wandered into an Albany, NY Post Office. Owney became a world traveller, at first accompanying mailbags around the United States and then setting sail around the globe. His travels were followed by newspapers... |
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Thank You, Earth: A Love Letter to Our Planet
APRIL PULLEY SAYRE - Greenwillow Books
Format: Hardcover
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Water, air, light.Patterns, curves, shapes, colors.Things that crawl, fly, float, run, bloom, ripen. Think of everything Earth gives us.What are you most thankful for? |
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Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth
Oliver Jeffers - Philomel Books
Format: Hardcover
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Oliver Jeffers, arguably the most influential creator of picture books today, offers a rare personal look inside his own hopes and wishes for his child--and in doing so gifts children and parents everywhere with a gently sweet and humorous missive about our world and those who call it home.... |
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If Kids Ran the World
Leo & Diane Dillon - The Blue Sky Press
Format: Hardcover
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Two-time Caldecott Medalists Leo and Diane Dillon show children playfully creating a more generous, peaceful world where everyone shares with others.All roads lead to kindness in this powerful final collaboration between Leo and Diane Dillon. In a colorful tree house, a rainbow of children... |
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Babar's World Tour
Laurent de Brunhoff - Harry N. Abrams; Rei/Pstr edition
Format: Hardcover
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Following the phenomenal success of Babar's Yoga for Elephants and Babar's Museum, Larent de Brunhoff's latest, all-new Babar adventure will take children on a world tour they'll never forget!As Babar said to his children, "We are taking you around the world."... |
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Paulie Pastrami Achieves World Peace
James Proimos - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Paulie Pastrami can't whistle, he has trouble matching his socks, and he is usually picked last in sports. But he plans to achieve world peace before he turns eight.Through simple acts of kindness--from reading to the trees and being nice to his little sister to cheering up the school... |
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When It's Six O'Clock in San Francisco: A Trip Through Time Zones
Cynthia Jaynes Omololu - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover
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A lyrical multicultural picture book that introduces the concept of time zones.As one little boy is eating breakfast in San Francisco, another kid in London is playing football with his mates, a girl in Harare is eating dinner with her family, and another child in Sydney is calling for a drink... |
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We Are All Dots: A Big Plan for a Better World
Giancarlo Macri - Universe
Format: Hardcover
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With gentle wisdom and visual originality, this deceptively simple book makes the case that compassion is the solution to humanitys challenges. The perfect book for any child curious about differences and diversity, this visually driven story bears a decidedly modern and inspiring message... |
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Imagine
JOHN LENNON - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover
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Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope some day you'll join us, and the world will be as one. Join one little pigeon as she sets out on a journey to spread a message of tolerance around the world. Featuring the lyrics... |
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This Is Me: A Story of Who We Are and Where We Came From
Jamie Lee Curtis - Workman Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling creative team of Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell comes a timely picture book about immigration. Raising important identity issues like "Where did we come from?" and "Who are we?" This Is Me is as delightful as it is important,... |
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Let There Be Peace on Earth: And Let It Begin with Me
Jill Jackson - Tricycle Press; Har/Com edition
Format: Hardcover
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Let There Be Peace on Earth and Let It Begin with Me These cherished words have sounded a call for peace the world over since 1955. The song of the same name has echoed through schools and churches, community centers and summer camps, the White House, and meetings of the United Nations.... |
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Hello World
Jonathan Litton - 360 Degrees
Format: Print book
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Learn to greet people around the globe in this interactive atlas of hellos. With more than 150 languages, flaps to guide you through pronunciations, and features on hieroglyphs, sign languages, and different writing systems, a world of exploration is at your fingertips. |
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City Cat
Kate Banks - Farrar
Format: Hardcover
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A plucky stray cat takes a Grand Tour in Kate Banks' story of a family on a European vacation. As the family travels from one city to the next, the cat finds its own means--by bus, boat, train, truck, and bike--to tag along on the trip, visiting historic landmarks like Buckingham Palace... |
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Toot & Puddle
Holly Hobbie - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Meet Toot and Puddle--two small, endearing pigs who are friends and as different as different can be. While Toot likes to travel to places unknown, Puddle prefers to stay home and revel in the joys of everyday life. Whimsical postcards capture the excitement of Toot's travels, while... |
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Poor Puppy (Bad Kitty)
Nick Bruel - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Print book
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PUPPY GETS HIS OWN BOOK. Kitty's best friend stars in this zany companion to the best selling BAD KITTY. |
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A Very Important Day
Maggie Rugg Herold - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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"Captures the excitement of immigrants who are becoming U.S. citizens. All across New York City, people are preparing for 'a very important day'...not the least bit daunted by a snowstorm....A tale told with vigor, exuberantly displayed in Stock's people-filled watercolor... |
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All Are Welcome
Alexandra Penfold - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A warm, welcoming picture book that celebrates diversity and gives encouragement and support to all kids.Follow a group of children through a day in their school, where everyone is welcomed with open arms. A school where kids in patkas, hijabs, and yamulkes play side-by-side with friends... |
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Earth Day, Birthday!
Maureen Wright - Two Lions
Format: Book
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It's April 22, and Lion and his friends want to plant trees, recycle bottles, and have fun on Earth Day. But not Monkey. He wants to celebrate his birthday. Can he convince the other animals that it really is his birthday? Violet Kim's humorous artwork, rendered in paper, photographs,... |
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The EARTH Book
Todd Parr - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; Rei/Pstr edition
Format: Hardcover
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"I take care of the earth because I know I can do little things every day to make a BIG difference..."With his signature blend of playfulness and sensitiviy, Todd Parr explores the important, timely subject of environmental protection and conservation in this eco-friendly picture... |
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A Planet Called Home:: Eco-Pig's Animal Protection
Barry Gott - Magic Wagon
Format: Book
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One afternoon, E.P. and his friends Lou and McGee discover some new arrivals in town. There is a family of polar bears, a black-footed ferret, a sea otter, and a gray wolf whose homes had all been destroyed by pollution and global warming! E.P. invites them to live in To-Be and tells us all how living... |
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The Trouble with Dragons
Debi Gliori - Walker Childrens
Format: Hardcover
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The trouble with dragons is . . . everything! From chopping down forests to wasting food, the dragons are making an absolute mess of the planet. Their careless ways could spell the end for Earth—unless they can find a way to turn things around. From the beloved author and illustrator... |
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The Boy and the Whale
Mordicai Gerstein - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Hardcover
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A boy and his father discover a whale tangled in their only fishing net. Is the whale dead? While the man worries about losing their net, the boy worries about the whale. He remembers the fear he felt when, caught in a net himself in childhood, he almost drowned before being rescued by his father.... |
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Busy Tree
Jennifer Ward - Two Lions
Format: Hardcover
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Spectacular illustrations rendered in oil paint, and a rhyming text that describes a tree's activities from its roots to its branches, introduce young readers to the amazing activities that go on in a tree. Acorns nibbled by chipmunks, ants scurrying across a trunk, a spider spinning a web,... |
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I Am Human: A Book of Empathy
Susan Verde - Abrams Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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I am human I am a work in progress Striving to be the best version of ME From the picture book dream team behind I Am Yoga and I Am Peace comes the third book in their wellness series: I Am Human. A hopeful meditation on all the great (and challenging) parts of being... |
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Bamboo
Paul Yee - Simply Read Books
Format: Hardcover
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Told by an author who has made a career out of exploring the world and experience of "overseas Chinese," Bamboo is a sensitive, revealing work. Telling a tale of change and acceptance, the book begins in rural turn-of-the-century China when Bamboo, a young farmer, finds himself... |
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Shoebox Sam
Mary Brigid Barrett - Zonderkidz
Format: Hardcover
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The pink slippers on the wall catch her eye. “Those are the most beautiful shoes I’ve seen in all my life.” Down at the corner of Magnolia and Vine, you’ll find the shop of Shoebox Sam--where old shoes become like new again and anyone in need finds a friend.... |
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Four Feet, Two Sandals
Karen Lynn Williams - Eerdmans; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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When relief workers bring used clothing to a refugee camp in Pakistan, ten-year-old Lina is thrilled when she finds a sandal that fits her foot perfectly - until she sees that another girl has the matching shoe. But soon Lina and Feroza meet and decide that it is better to share the sandals... |
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The Journey
Francesca Sanna - Flying Eye Books
Format: Print book
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With haunting echoes of the current refugee crisis this beautifully illustrated book explores the unimaginable decisions made as a family leave their home and everything they know to escape the turmoil and tragedy brought by war. This book will stay with you long after the last page is turned.From... |
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