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Zebra on the Go

JILL NOGALES · PEACHTREE PUBLISHERS
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages: the circus is beginning! Fierce Lion and speedy Zebra are stepping into the ring to perform their act but wait! Things aren't going quite according to plan...Zebra is on the go with Lion in hot pursuit!Jill Nogales's rollicking...
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On Bird Hill

Jane Yolen · Cornell Lab Pub Group
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

From iconic award-winning and NY Times bestselling children's author of more than 350 books, Jane Yolen, and award-winning illustrator, Bob Marstall, On Bird Hill is a wonderful new picture book created in collaboration with the esteemed Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the world authority on birds....
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The Giant of Jum

Elli Woollard · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

The Giant of Jum is feeling a bit munchy. "Fee!" he says, and "Fi!" he says, and "Fo!" he says and "Fum!" And off he goes, in search of that sweet snack of a boy named Jack. On his hunt, he'll meet children of all sorts. But before he can gobble...
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On Duck Pond

Jane Yolen · Cornell Lab Publishing Group
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

From award-winning and NY Times bestselling children's author of more than 350 books, Jane Yolen, and award-winning illustrator, Bob Marstall, On Duck Pond is the first sequel to the acclaimed On Bird Hill, which launched the children's picture book series written for the esteemed...
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Magic Spell

Julie Paschkis · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

Award-winning author and illustrator Julie Paschkis casts a spell to transform word play into an entertaining and hilarious picture book that's perfect for reading aloud.With his trusty assistant, Zaza, by his side, magician the Great Aziz can turn a dish into a fish, a rose into a hose,...
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She Persisted

ANONYMOUS. · Philomel Books
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Chelsea Clinton introduces tiny feminists, mini activists and little kids who are ready to take on the world to thirteen inspirational women who never took no for an answer, and who always, inevitably and without fail, persisted. Throughout American history, there have always been women...
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Rodzilla

Rob Sanders · Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pages: 48
Format: Print book

This just in! There's a Rodzilla on the loose! Is he a monster ... or just your typical toddler? Tune in for the full report in this riotous picture book from Rob Sanders and Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat.Rodzilla is the mightiest toddler to ever roam the streets of the city. Marvel at the sight...
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Reach for the Moon, Little Lion

HILDEGARD MULLER · HOLIDAY House
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

Size is just a matter of perspective in this charming story about a little lion who is much, much smaller than the rest. The other animals laugh at him and tell him that real lions are so very big, they can touch the moon with a paw. When a friendly raven discovers the little lion atop...
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A New Friend for Sparkle

Amy Young · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

In A Unicorn Named Sparkle, Lucy found out that the unicorn she thought she didn't want was the exact right unicorn for her. In this new story, Lucy makes a new friend and Sparkle is worried that means she doesn't care about him anymore. What happens when two's company but three's a crowd?
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Dance Is for Everyone

ANDREA ZUILL · Sterling Children's Books
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Dancing is for EVERYONE. Even a 450-pound alligator! An alligator dancing ballet? When the reptile takes her place at the barre, Mrs. Iraina and her dancers are very surprised. But since they can't communicate with the alligator - and she is able to follow along - they just decide to name...
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Danny McGee Drinks the Sea

Andy Stanton · Schwartz & Wade Books
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

An utterly hilarious Seussian picture book - with a surprise ending - about a mischievous little boy who gobbles up everything in the whole entire world, except for one very important thing. . . . When Danny McGee, much to his big sister Frannie's surprise, drinks up the sea with...
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Mingo the Flamingo

Pete Oswald · HarperCollins
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

Is it a golf club? Is it a garden gnome? No. It's Mingo the flamingo! From author-illustrator team Pete Oswald and Justin K. Thompson comes a hilarious picture book about a flamingo named Mingo who is ready to fly but gets lost from the rest of the flock during a terrible storm. To make...
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Blue Ethel

Jennifer Black Reinhardt · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

Ethel is old, she is fat, she is black, and she is white. She is also a cat who is very set in her ways...until the day she turns blue! BLUE ETHEL is an adorable story written and illustrated by Jennifer Black Reinhardt, showing readers that being different can be a good thing.A Margaret...
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Mama's Kisses

Kate McMullan · Dial Books for Young Readers
Pages: 40
Format: Print book

From bestselling author Kate McMullan, a sweet rhyming bedtime story celebrating mothers' love It's bedtime in the jungle, but baby panda, elephant, orangutan, and leopard are nowhere to be found. Their mamas set out to look for their wayward little ones, calling them to bed with a soft...
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