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Girl & Gorilla: Out and About

Rick Walton · Harper
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

Meet Girl and Gorilla - a brand-new picture book duo from Rick Walton and Joe Berger!Girl and Gorilla are best friends. Girl and Gorilla want to play at the park. But how will they get there? They can . . . Hopscotch! Or jump rope! Maybe they can just close their eyes and wish they were...
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Splat the Cat: Up in the Air at the Fair

Rob Scotton · HarperTorch
Pages: 30
Format: Paperback

Splat the Cat is back in New York Times bestselling author-illustrator Rob Scotton's beginning reader Splat the Cat: Up in the Air at the Fair. In this My First I Can Read Book, Splat, Spike, and Plank can't wait to go to the fair. But when Kitten can't come, the friends are determined...
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My Dog's a Chicken

Susan McElroy Montanari · Schwartz & Wade Books
Pages: 40
Format: Print book

Lula Mae wants a puppy, but times are hard and she'll just have to make do. Her family has plenty of chickens, so she decides maybe a chicken can be a dog. Pookie, as Lula Mae names her, is an ordinary chicken, but Lula Mae thinks she is very doglike indeed. With a bow in Pookie's hair,...
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Mom, Pop, and Tot: Teaching Palindromes

Mary Lindeen · The Childs World Inc
Pages: 16
Format: Print book

Learn about palindromes through easy, engaging text andcolorful photographs. Additional features to aid comprehension include logical narratives, bolded key words, detailed photographs, an answer key, sources for furtherresearch, and an introduction to the author. This item is Non-Returnable.
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The Moon's Almost Here

Patricia MacLachlan · Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Newbery medalist Patricia MacLachlan and Caldecott Honor and Newbery Honor winner Tomie dePaola have joined forces to create a stunning and lyrical new bedtime picture book that's sure to become an instant classic.The moon's almost here. Robin sings in her nest. Babies fly back to her,...
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Dinotrux Go to School

Chris Gall · LB Kids
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

In this beginning reader, today is the first day of school. The Dinotrux are nervous! What will they eat for lunch? Will their teacher be nice? But the Dinotrux don't need to worry. They can help each other. And school isn't scary. It's fun, especially when you are part dinosaur and part...
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Shake a Leg, Egg!

Kurt Cyrus · Beach Lane Books
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

From celebrated author-illustrator Kurt Cyrus comes a playful and whimsical picture book that celebrates the excitement and anticipation of a soon-to-be-born baby.It's springtime, and the pond is bursting with new life. There are beaver pups, heron hatchlings, and lots and lots of ducklings....
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Someone Like Me

Patricia MacLachlan · Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

If you were a little girlwho listened to storiesover and over and over;and who read booksevery night,every day,even as her mother led her across the street,You might be me,a writer.Follow a little girl in acclaimed writer Patricia MacLachlan's semi-autobiographical picture book, Someone...
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Where Did the Caterpillar Go?

Beth Bence Reinke · The Child's World
Pages: 24
Format: Print book

Find out how caterpillars form a chrysalis or cocoon beforetransforming into a butterfly or a moth. Additional features to aid comprehension include colorful images, informational diagrams, hands-on activities, detailed captions and callouts, a table of contents, a phonetic glossary, sources...
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Making Maps

Todd Bluthenthal · Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pages: 24
Format: Library Binding

Is there such a thing as a fun way to develop spatial awareness? Yesand readers can do so by reading this book! Readers will engage in and expand their understanding of the world around them through a creative, rewarding map-making activity developed with learning and fun in mind! Step-by-step...
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Who Were the American Pioneers?: And Other Questions about Westward Expansion

Martin W. Sandler · Sterling Children's Books
Format: Hardcover

Westward ho, with the American pioneers! Why did pioneer families risk it all to move west? Who settled the frontier towns of the Wild West? Did pioneer children go to school? Kids will love learning about this important period in US history, including the dangerous journey, the Gold Rush,...
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Clap

Ian Aurora · Flowerpot Pr
Pages: 32
Format: Paperback

Clap is a book where we all clap along because sometimes a book has a beat like a song! This fun twist on a call and response picture book has kids clapping their way through the story. Nobody sits still while enjoying Ian Aurora's rowdy clapping rhymes, but the fun illustrations from...
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I want to grow

Ged Adamson · Boyds Mills Press
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

A dinosaur named Herb has noticed something about his friend Muriel: she's getting taller. Herb is not. Desperate to catch up to Muriel, Herb tries every method he can think of to grow. He plants himself in the dirt like a flower, but that just leaves him muddy. He has Muriel roll him out like...
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Florence Nightingale

Demi. · Holt & Company
Pages: 40
Format: Print book

Florence Nightingale revolutionized the world of medicine by emphasizing cleanliness, food that was hot and nutritious, and organization in hospitals. What began as an attempt to make army hospitals safer and more effective became a lifelong mission, and remains relevant today. This new picture...
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Pete the Cat: Sir Pete the Brave

James Dean · HarperCollins
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and artist James Dean brings readers a new story about the most gallant cat around - Pete! This time Pete is a knight on an adventure to save a pal in Pete the Cat: Sir Pete the Brave.When Lady Callie, the most awesome harpist in all the land, goes missing,...
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