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Oge Mora · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

In this warm and tender story by the Caldecott Honor-winning creator of Thank You, Omu!, join a mother and daughter on an up-and-down journey that reminds them of what's best about Saturdays: precious time together.

Today would be special. Today would be splendid. It was Saturday!...
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How Do You Go to Sleep?

Kate McMullan · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Discover how different animals go to sleep in this rhyming picture book from a veteran children's author! Follow along as three children learn about the bedtime routines of squirrels, parrots, dolphins, and many more. Meerkats sleep in a stack. Is that how these kids go to sleep? Or do they...
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The Shortest Day

Susan Cooper · Candlewick
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

In this seasonal treasure, Newbery Medalist Susan Cooper's beloved poem heralds the winter solstice, illuminated by Caldecott Honoree Carson Ellis's strikingly resonant illustrations.So the shortest day came,and the year died . . .As the sun set on the shortest day of the year,...
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Whose Footprint Is That?

Darrin Lunde · Charlesbridge
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

A nonfiction guessing game that explores the connections between an animal, its tracks, and its habitat.Written by a mammalogist at the Smithsonian, this clever preschool page-turner pairs seven tracks with information about the animals' locomotion, asking kids to guess which animal...
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The Reader

Luciana De Luca
Format: Hardcover

An enchanting picture book about the magic of books and reading.

While their parents are sleeping in, a young bookworm sneaks out of bed with one goal in mind: to spend the day reading.

The Reader is a whimsically illustrated love letter to books. This breathtaking...

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Gus and the Greatest Catch of All

Victoria Cossack · Page Street Kids
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

Gus was the best fisherman in all of town ... no contest (although he'd won many) .Gus is trying to break his own record of most fish ever caught. When he falls overboard, he must change his tactics. He follows a clever, shape-shifting school of fish and comes to realize that it's...
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Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story

Kevin Noble Maillard · Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover

Told in lively and powerful verse by debut author Kevin Noble Maillard, Fry Bread is an evocative depiction of a modern Native American family, vibrantly illustrated by Pura Belpre Award winner and Caldecott Honoree Juana Martinez-Neal.

Fry bread is food.
It...

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Kevin the Unicorn: It's Not All Rainbows

Jessika von Innerebner · Dial Books
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

A unicorn's bad day turns into a laugh-out-loud look at the pressure to be perfect and the importance of expressing your feelingsEveryone knows that unicorns are perfect. They are glamorous and glittery, and their smiles make rainbows appear! But Kevin is having a less-than-perfect...
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My Big Bear, My Little Bear and Me

Margarita del Mazo · NubeOcho
Pages: 36
Format: Hardcover

It's good to have a bear, but this little girl has two: the big one has the strength of a giant, the small one is as soft as cotton. Join our protagonist on her fun day out hand-in-hand with her two bears.
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The Finger and the Nose

Paula Merlan · NubeOcho
Pages: 44
Format: Hardcover

Sophie's nose has become huge! Her parents told her over and over not to pick her nose. She did it so much, that her finger has built a home inside Sophie's nose. It has a living room, a kitchen with a tasting menu ...
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