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Turn On the Night

Geraldo Valerio · Groundwood Books
Pages: 40
Format: Print book

A little girl falls asleep and in her dream becomes a huge gray wolf, like the one in her bedtime story. Out the window she leaps, and a marvelous nighttime adventure unfolds. She visits the rooster in his coop, and invites him to hop upon her back and together they run through the night....
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Old Dog Baby Baby

Julie Fogliano · Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

old doglazy lazylying on the kitchen floorhere comes babybabycrawling through the kitchen doorFollow the antics of a curious baby and his silly old dog in this funny, rhythmic, and joyful picture book illustrated by Caldecott Medalist Chris Raschka.
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Friend or Foe?

John Sobol · Groundwood Books
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

"A lonely mouse lived in a small house beside a great palace. In the great palace lived a cat."Each night the mouse gazes up at the cat in the palace tower. Is the cat my friend? he wonders. Determined to find out, he bravely makes his way into the palace through a tiny hole and climbs...
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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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Cricket Song

Anne Hunter · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

A poignant and beautiful bedtime book, Cricket Song connects two children on different continents through the evocation of sound and smell. Readers will love identifying various creatures portrayed in the book and watching what they are doing as the two children begin to fall to sleep in their...
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Lotus and Feather

Ji-li Jiang · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 40
Format: Print book

A winter illness left Lotus, a little girl, without a voice and without friends. A hunter's bullet left Feather, a crane, injured and unable to fly. As Lotus nurses Feather back to health, their bond grows. Soon Feather is following Lotus everywhere, even to school The bird dances to the girl's...
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Play with Me!

Michelle Lee · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

Playtime means very different things to these two spirited friendsPip is full of ideas for what to play: Dress up! Magicians! Dolls! Only, Nico doesn't want to play any of them, and Pip gets mad. REALLY mad. But don't worry - Nico finds the perfect way for them to play together....
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Chicken Story Time

Sandy Asher · Dial Books for Young Readers
Pages: 40
Format: Print book

A wonderfully silly take on library story time that's perfect for children, chickens, and everyone in between Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to story time at the library, of course! The children like the chicken, the chicken likes the children, and everyone loves story time....
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