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The Book About Nothing

Mike Bender · Crown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover(Library Binding)

Fans of The Book with No Pictures and A Perfectly Messed-Up Story will enjoy this innovative and wildly funny read-aloud from the adult humor bestselling authors of Awkward Family Photos and T-Rex Trying. This book has nothing to do with rainbows, rocket ships, meatballs, or wizards. Instead,...
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Alma and the Beast

Esme Shapiro · Tundra Books
Pages: 44
Format: Hardcover

Alma's beautiful, hairy world is turned upside down by the arrival of a stranger. From the utterly original imagination of the author-illustrator of Ooko comes a story about celebrating differences and making new friends. For fans of Where the Wild Things Are and Wild.Alma lives happily...
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How Do Dinosaurs Choose Their Pets?

Jane Yolen · The Blue Sky Press
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

"Can I keep it? It's so cute!" Brimming with laugh-aloud humor, enormous dinosaur children surprise their parents by bringing home a wild menagerie of highly unusual pets! What would happen if your child walked in the door with a pet tiger? Or an elephant, boa constrictor, zebra,...
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You Are My Sunshine

Sandra Magsamen · Cartwheel Books
Pages: 6
Format: Hardcover

You'll never know dear,
how much I love you.
I'll give you lots of hugs...
and kisses every day!


This playful new shaped board book from Sandra Magsamen features a plush sun-shaped finger puppet embedded through the center of the book! This puppet then becomes a character...
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The Boy and the Bear

Peter Stein · Holiday House
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

Where is Bear? Not here. Or there. Or anywhere! With wacky Seuss-ian art and rhyming text, a boy runs the gamut of emotion--love, sadness, fear, anger, resolve, and joy--when he loses his beloved Teddy bear, then finds it again.The boy and the bear were always a pair . . . . until the boy found...
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That Fruit Is Mine!

Anuska Allepuz · Albert Whitman & Company
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

When five fruit-loving elephants spot a scrumptious hard-to-reach fruit high up in a tree, it's a race to see who can claim it first! But after one too many fumbles, the elephants begin to lose their cool, and the highly coveted fruit is whisked away by the teeny-tiniest of all jungle...
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Snuggle Up with Mother Goose

Iona Opie · Candlewick Press (MA)
Pages: 26
Format: Hardcover

Lap reading with babies means sharing sweet verses like these beloved Mother Goose rhymes.

Books and vibrant language are vitally important early learning tools. With that in mind, selected poems from Iona Opie's classic Mother Goose nursery-rhyme compilations are gathered here in a sturdy,...
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When the World Is Full of Friends

Gillian Shields · Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

When the world is full of friends,the fun and laughternever ends.Albert, Tom, Flossie, and Pipkin love to play. And while they have fun inventing games together, their biggest wish is to have friends to share them with. One day, something magical happens. A family of squirrels moves in across...
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Even Superheroes Have to Sleep

Sara Crow · Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

Toddlers will feel better about bedtime when they learn that superheroes, cowboys, princesses, and astronauts ALL have to sleep too! It's bedtime for superheroes, cowboys, princesses, astronauts, and KIDS! Young ones will enjoy this sweet, short rhyming story that lulls them into...
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Skip to the loo, my darling! : a potty book.

Sally Lloyd-Jones · Candlewick Press
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

Sally Lloyd-Jones's riotous narration and Anita Jeram's endearing illustrations make this a charming and energetic invitation to potty trainees everywhere.

Bunny wants his potty. What will Bunny do? Only one thing for it . . . skip to the loo! Bunny's not the only one skipping...
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Mokomaki: Let's Count

Satu Kontinen · POW!
Pages: 24
Format: Hardcover

Meet the Mokomaki, a group of adorable little birds who cavort playfully through the pages of this picture book while teaching the basics of numeracy to preschoolers.A mommy fox is searching for her lost baby, and asks the Mokomaki for help as she looks--the little birds cheerfully mount...
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From Head to Toe Board Book

Eric Carle · HarperFestival
Pages: 26
Format: Hardcover

What does an elephant do? It stomps its foot. Can you? From the creator of such beloved classics as The Grouchy Ladybug and The Mixed-Up Chameleon comes this interactive story that invites kids to imitate animal movements. Watching giraffes bend their necks or monkeys wave their arms...

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A Tower of Giraffes: Animals in Groups

Anna Wright · Charlesbridge Publishing
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

A drove of pigs, a romp of otters, an ostentation of peacocks, and a tower of giraffes. . . . This clever book introduces young readers to some of the words we use to refer to animals in a group. The ink, watercolor, and fabric collage art is brightly colored and uniquely sets this fun book...
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Bear Counts

Karma Wilson · Little Simon
Pages: 26
Format: Board book

Count along with Bear in this lovely Classic Board Book from the internationally bestselling Bear series.Numbers, numbers everywhere. Can you count along with Bear? Karma Wilson's spirited text and Jane Chapman's inviting illustrations make for a delightful introduction to numbers,...
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Bunny in the Middle

Anika A. Denise · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

This joyful picture book celebrates middle children and sibling love.

When you're in the middle . . . you're not the oldest, and you're not the youngest. You are right in between. There's someone bigger who helps you and someone smaller who needs you. From the middle, you can see both...

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