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Good Night, Baby Animals You've Had a Busy Day: A Treasury of Six Original Stories
Good Night, Baby Animals You've Had a Busy Day: A Treasury of Six Original Stories

Karen B Winnick · Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 64
Format: Print book

Whether they're dashing, splashing, munching, or crunching, baby animals are ever-exploring! At home in their natural habitats, baby animals learn about the world that surrounds them. When the fun is done, it's time for baby animals to go to sleep. After all, every baby animal has to rest.Full...
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The Unexpected Love Story of Alfred Fiddleduckling
The Unexpected Love Story of Alfred Fiddleduckling

Timothy Basil Ering · Candlewick Press
Pages: 48
Format: Print book

Expect something unexpected when a duckling lost at sea adopts a musical new friend in a whimsical, heart-lifting story from Timothy Basil Ering.Captain Alfred is sailing home with new ducks for his farm when his little boat is caught in an unexpected and mighty storm. Everything aboard...
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: A BabyLit® Colors Primer
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: A BabyLit® Colors Primer

Jennifer Adams · Gibbs Smith Inc Pub
Pages: 22
Format: Hardcover

BabyLit® is a fashionable way to introduce your toddler to the world of classic literature. With clever, simple text by Jennifer Adams, paired with stylish design and illustrations by Sugar's Alison Oliver, these books are a must for every savvy parent's nursery library'. "Will...
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Green Is a Chile Pepper: A Book of Colors
Green Is a Chile Pepper: A Book of Colors

John Parra · Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover

Pura Belpré Award, Illustrator HonorLatino Book Award, WinnerGreen is a chile pepper, spicy and hot.Green is cilantro inside our pot.In this lively picture book, children discover a world of colors all around them red is spices and swirling skirts, yellow is masa, tortillas, and sweet...
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Bunny's Book Club
Bunny's Book Club

Annie Silvestro · Doubleday
Pages: 40
Format: Print book

Join Bunny for a top-secret trip to the library in a story that celebrates the love of reading. Bunny loves to sit outside the library with the kids and listen to summer story time. But when the weather gets cold and everyone moves inside, his daily dose of joy is gone. Desperate, Bunny...
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On the Wing
On the Wing

David Elliott · Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

David Elliotts witty verse takes flight with gorgeous illustrations in an enchanting look at fifteen avian species for birders of all ages.Take to the sky to explore a glorious array of all things avian, from the tiny, restless hummingbird to the inscrutable horned owl to the majestic bald...
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Turtle Island
Turtle Island

Kevin Sherry · Dial Books
Format: Hardcover

From the award-winning creator of I'M THE BIGGEST THING IN THE OCEAN comes an inspiring tale of friendship and belonging that's perfect for fans of THE SNAIL AND THE WHALE, OWEN AND MZEE, and Oliver Jeffers's LOST AND FOUND.Turtle is big. But the ocean is bigger. And Turtle...
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Alphonse, That Is Not OK to Do!
Alphonse, That Is Not OK to Do!

Daisy Hirst · Candlewick Press
Pages: 40
Format: Print book

Two siblings have a falling-out and make up again in spectacular style in a warm, witty story with sure appeal for little monsters everywhere.Once there was just Natalie. And then there was Alphonse, too. Natalie mostly doesn't mind Alphonse being there - they both like naming pigeons ("Banana!"...
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A Greyhound, a Groundhog
A Greyhound, a Groundhog

Emily Jenkins · Schwartz & Wade
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

From a heavyweight author-and-illustrator duo comes a delicious tongue twister of a picture book that features a little round greyhound and a little round groundhog. With very spare, incredibly lively language, this is an entertaining read-aloud, with two amazing - and oh-so-adorable - characters...
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Bear and Bee Too Busy
Bear and Bee Too Busy

Sergio Ruzzier · Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

When Bear asks Bee to roll down the hill with him, Bee is too busy. Bee is too busy to lie in the sun and splash in the water, too. And by the time Bee asks Bear to watch the moon with her, he is too sleepy! Poor Bear. Poor Bee. Nothing is fun without your best friend beside you, but luckily...
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Apple Pigs
Apple Pigs

Ruth Orbach · National Trust
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

A beloved tale of a family finding a very enjoyable way to dispose of surplus apples, reissued to be enjoyed by today's children This beautifully illustrated tale of an apple tree that grows too many apples is delightfully told in rhyme. A little girl finds a withered apple tree surrounded...
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The Bear Who Wasn't There
The Bear Who Wasn't There

LeUyen Pham · Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 40
Format: Print book

This book is about Bear... so what happens when he doesn't show up on his page? Who will find him? Will it be Giraffe, who himself seems to always be in the wrong place at the wrong time, or Cow, or perhaps even the author herself? One thing's for sure--it probably won't be Duck. Duck...
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Bad Kitty's Tasty Treats: A Slide and Find ABC
Bad Kitty's Tasty Treats: A Slide and Find ABC

Nick Bruel · Roaring Brook Press; Brdbk edition
Format: Board book

Bad Kitty doesnt mean to be bad. Whether shes trying to be a good little kitty and eat her vegetables, or a quiet little kitty and behave, trouble just always find its way to herx Nick Bruels loveable Bad Kitty gets up to her hilarious antics in this classic Priddy Slide and Find board...
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Dinosaur Kisses
Dinosaur Kisses

David Ezra Stein · Candlewick; Brdbk edition
Format: Board book

WHOMP! An energetic young dinosaur figures out her own way to give a kiss in the latest from the creator of the Caldecott Honor-winning Interrupting Chicken.For newly hatched dinosaur Dinah, the world is an exciting place. There is so much to see and do. She tries this - STOMP! And she tries...
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