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Oliver Jeffers · Philomel Books
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

From the illustrator of the #1 smash The Day the Crayons Quit comes another bestseller--a giggle-inducing tale of everything tossed, thrown, and hurled in order to free a kite!When Floyd's kite gets stuck in a tree, he's determined to get it out. But how? Well, by knocking it down with...
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Imagine!

Rau?l Colo?n · Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling artist Raul Colón comes a wordless picture book about a visit to the museum and the power of art and imagination.After passing a city museum many times, a boy finally decides to go in. He passes wall after wall of artwork until he sees a painting that...
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Not Your Nest!

Gideon Sterer · Dial Books
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

A hilarious and oh-so-honest look at the art of sharing, from two rising picture-book stars.Bird is just about to put the finishing touches on her new home when she suddenly finds that her nest is already full--of someone else. So she reluctantly builds another nest. But Fox finds this...
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Wings

Cheryl B. Klein · Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

Debut picture book author Cheryl B. Klein and Caldecott Honor winner Tomie dePaola sweetly capture a baby bird's journey to first flight.Wings! Clings. Flings ... With a cleverly simple rhyme and playful, vibrant artwork, Cheryl B. Klein and Tomie dePaola lovingly paint the picture of a baby...
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Shark Nate-O

Becky Cattie · little bee books
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

Nate loves sharks. He reads shark books every day, watches sharks on TV, and talks about them nonstop. He even likes to pretend he's a shark wherever he goes! However, there is one small problem. . . .Nate can't swim. When his older brother points this out, Nate works hard to overcome...
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Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968

Alice Faye Duncan · Calkins Creek
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

This historical fiction picture book for children ages 9-12 presents the story of nine-year-old Lorraine Jackson, who in 1968 witnessed the Memphis sanitation strike--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final stand for justice before his assassination--when her father, a sanitation worker,...
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Lola Dutch When I Grow Up

Kenneth Wright · Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

Lola Dutch is always bursting with grand plans--so of course she has many ideas for what she wants to be when she grows up! She could be a magnificent performer . . . or a daring inventor . . . or a brilliant botanist . . . there are exciting ideas all around! But Lola is too excited--she...
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Another

Christian Robinson · Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pages: 56
Format: Hardcover

In his eagerly anticipated debut as author-illustrator, Caldecott and Coretta Scott King honoree Christian Robinson brings young readers on a playful, imaginative journey into another world.What if you ... encountered another perspective? Discovered another world? Met another you? What...
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Islandborn

Junot Di?az · Dial Books
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Díaz comes a debut picture book about the magic of memory and the infinite power of the imagination. Every kid in Lola's school was from somewhere else. Hers was a school of faraway places. So when Lola's teacher asks...
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Circle

Mac Barnett · Candlewick
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover

Multi-award-winning, New York Times best-selling duo Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen deliver the final wry and resonant tale about Triangle, Square, and Circle.This book is about Circle. This book is also about Circle's friends, Triangle and Square. Also it is about a rule that Circle makes,...
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Elmore

Holly Hobbie · Random House Books for Young Readers
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

The creator of the Toot & Puddle series brings us Elmore--the warmhearted porcupine sure to steal the hearts of a new generation of Holly Hobbie fans!Elmore is a porcupine desperate to make friends. But it is hard to seek closeness with others when you're covered with spikes that shoot...
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Hawk Rising

MARIA GIANFERRARI · Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

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My Heart

Corinna Luyken · Dial Books
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

From the author-illustrator of The Book of Mistakes comes a gorgeous picture book about caring for your own heart and living with kindness and empathy.My heart is a window. My heart is a slide. My heart can be closed...or opened up wide.Some days your heart is a puddle or a fence to keep...
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Because

Mo Willems · Hyperion Books for Children
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

Mo Willems, a number one New York Times best-selling author and illustrator, composes a powerful symphony of chance, discovery, persistence, and magic in this moving tale of a young girl's journey to center stage. Illustrator Amber Ren brings Willems' music to life, conducting a stunning...
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Making a Friend

Tammi Sauer · HarperCollins
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

A clever picture book about the fun of making new friends and building unlikely relationships - and playing in the snow! From the bestselling author of Nugget and Fang.Beaver is good at making just about everything...but not friends. One winter day, Beaver sees some snowflakes in the sky and gets...
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Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race

Margot Lee Shetterly · HarperCollins
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

Based on the New York Times bestselling book and the Academy Award-nominated movie, author Margot Lee Shetterly and illustrator Laura Freeman bring the incredibly inspiring true story of four black women who helped NASA launch men into space to picture book readers!Dorothy Vaughan, Mary...
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The First Men Who Went to the Moon

Rhonda Gowler Greene · Sleeping Bear Press
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy issued a challenge to the nation: land astronauts on the moon by the end of the decade. The Apollo program was designed by NASA to meet that challenge, and on July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 lifted off from Kennedy Space Center carrying astronauts Neil Armstrong,...
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Otto and Pio

Marianne Dubuc · Princeton Architectural Press
Format: Hardcover

Otto the squirrel is perfectly content living by himself in his treehouse in the forest, when a small creature, Pio, arrives on his doorstep, looking for his mother, and Otto invites him in. Pio eats all the hazelnuts, takes up the entire bed, and just gets bigger and bigger! Though Otto...
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The Proper Way to Meet a Hedgehog and Other How-To Poems

Paul B. Janeczko · Candlewick
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover

Toast a marshmallow, be a tree in winter, read braille - Paul B. Janeczko and Richard Jones invite you to enjoy an assortment of poems that inform and inspire.Today I walked outside and spied a hedgehog on the hill. When she and I met eye to eye, she raised up straight and still. Be they...
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Maybe Tomorrow?

Charlotte Agell · Scholastic Press
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

Elba has a big block. She's been dragging it around for a long time.Norris dances everywhere he goes, even uphill. He is always surrounded by a happy cloud of butterflies.Can Norris and his butterflies help ease Elba's sadness and convince her to join them on a trip to the ocean?This...
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The Remember Balloons

Jessica Oliveros · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover

What's Happening to Grandpa meets Up in this tender, sensitive picture book that gently explains the memory loss associated with aging and diseases such as Alzheimer's.James's Grandpa has the best balloons because he has the best memories. He has balloons showing Dad when he was young...
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