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Brains! Not Just a Zombie Snack

Stacy McAnulty
Format: Hardcover

Brains. 78% water, 100% delicious. A zombie chef who has sworn off eating brains salivates over this super powerful organ in this funny and fact-filled picture book. From learning about how the brain processes messages from our five senses, to learning why wrinkly human brains are so much...
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Chez Bob

Bob Shea - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Welcome to Chez Bob, which seems like a real restaurant...until you realize...it's on an alligator's NOSE! Bob's got a hidden plan for his customers: "Birds will come to eat, but I will eat the birds!" As they fly in from all over the world to dine on Bob's face,...
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Dakota Crumb: Tiny Treasure Hunter

Jamie Michalak - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

Dakota Crumb: Tiny Treasure Hunter is both a rollicking story with a dash of danger and, in its final eye-popping spreads, a seek-and-find challenge. As the clock in the great museum tick-toocks pas midnight, a little mouse with a sack and a treasure map scurries past the guards. Plucky...
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Eyes That Kiss in the Corners

Joanna Ho

This lyrical and stunning picture book tells a story about learning to love and celebrate your Asian-shaped eyes, in the of spirit of Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry A young Asian girl notices that her eyes look different from her peers'. They have big, round eyes and long lashes. She realizes...
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Hornswoggled!: A Wacky Words Whodunit

Josh Crute - Page Street Kids
Format: Hardcover

Deer wakes up to find one of his antlers is missing ... and there's a tennis racket in its place? One by one his friends also uncover that their important items from glasses to lucky boots have been swapped with silly, useless replacements like donuts and swim flippers. They've...
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Invasion of the Unicorns

David Biedrzycki - Charlesbridge
Format: Hardcover

Special Agent Bubble07 is undercover on planet Earth. His mission: to decide whether his team of alien unicorns should invade Earth. Posing as a stuffed animal, he infiltrates the home of Earthling Daughter, where he puts up with dog slobber, tea parties, and show and tell. Will the unicorn...
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Kick Push

Frank Morrison - Bloomsbury Children's Books
Format: Hardcover

Epic has tricks you won't believe. He's the kick flipping, big rail king. When his family moves to a new neighborhood, he can't wait to hit the street with his skateboard. But his old moves don't feel fresh without a crew to see 'em. Epic thinks about giving up his board...
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The Leaf Thief

Alice Hemming - Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Format: Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Fletcher and the Falling Leaves, The Leaf Thief is a funny picture book that teaches kids about autumn, adapting to change, and the seasons.Squirrel loves counting the leaves on his treered leaves, gold leaves, orange, and more. But hold on! One of his leaves is missing!...
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The Midnight Fair

Gideon Sterer - Candlewick; Illustrated edition
Format: Hardcover

Far from the city, but not quite the countryside, lies a fairground. When night comes and the fair is empty, something unexpected happens. Wild animals emerge from the forest, a brave raccoon pulls a lever, and the roller coasters and rides explode back into bright, neon life. It's...
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The Mysterious Sea Bunny

Peter Raymundo
Format: Hardcover

Shh, we are about to observe the one-inch-long sea bunny as it journeys sloooooowly across the ocean floor! Along the way, we'll learn some interesting facts: how it crawls upside-down using slime, how it breathes through its . . . um . . . fluffy-looking backside, and why predators...
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Norman Didn't Do It!:

Ryan T. Higgins - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

Norman is a porcupine. Mildred is a tree. Norman and Mildred are best friends. Just the two of them. And only the two of them. But when a surprise pops up, life will never be the same again.
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Princesses Versus Dinosaurs

Linda Bailey - Tundra Books
Format: Hardcover

Two popular storybook titans, princesses and dinosaurs, battle to determine who should star in this laugh-out-loud picture book for fans of Shark vs Train and The Book With No Pictures.This is a princess book!No, it's a dinosaur book!No, it's . . . a T. rex book? A dragon book?...
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See the Cat: Three Stories About a Dog

David LaRochelle - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

Move over, Spot. . . . Spoofing classic primers, Max the Dog talks back to the book in a twist that will have fans of funny early readers howling.See Max. Max is not a cat - Max is a dog. But much to Max's dismay, the book keeps instructing readers to "see the cat." How can Max get through...
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A Sky-Blue Bench

Bahram Rahman - Pajama Press
Format: Hardcover

Just as Aria feared, sitting on the floor is so uncomfortable that she can't think about learning at all. She knows that before the war changed many things in Afghanistan, schools like hers had benches for students to sit at. If she had a bench, her leg would not hurt so much. The answer...
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Something's Wrong!: A Bear, a Hare, and Some Underwear

Jory John
Format: Hardcover

Jeff the bear has definitely forgotten something. He ate his breakfast, he watered his plant, he combed his fur ... what could it be? Why does he feel so oddly off? So he asks his friend Anders the rabbit what could possibly be wrong. It couldn't have anything to do with the fact that...
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There's a Ghost In This House

Oliver Jeffers - Philomel Books
Format: Hardcover

A young girl lives in a haunted house, but she has never seen a ghost. Are they white with holes for eyes? Are they hard to see? Step inside and help the girl as she searches under the stairs, behind the sofa, and in the attic for the ghost. From New York Times bestselling author-illustrator...
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Tiny Tales: Shell Quest

Steph Waldo - HarperAlley
Format: Hardcover

Introducing I Can Read Comics, a brand-new early reader line that familiarizes children with the world of graphic novel storytelling and encourages visual literacy in emerging readers. When a little slug finds new friends in the backyard, she notices they look a lot like her...except they...
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The Very True Legend of the Mongolian Death Worms

Sandra Fay
Format: Hardcover

Like the ongoing search for Big Foot and the Loch Ness Monster, scientists have searched the Gobi Desert for these giant worms. Reported sightings claim that their skin is blood red; their fangs razor sharp. The worms are supposedly poisonous and electrifying . . . or are they? In this...
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The Witchling's Wish

Lu Fraser - Bloomsbury Children's Books
Format: Hardcover

From the illustrator of The Girl and The Dinosaur comes a heartwarming, magical picture book about what it means to be a friend.Little Witchling lives alone on her mountain top, and more than anything else, she wishes for a friend. When her spell book tells her that the secret ingredient...
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