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A Loud Winter's Nap

KATY HUDSON · Capstone Young Readers
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

For Tortoise, winter is good for one thing: a nice long nap. Can friends open his eyes to a season full of surprises? Every year, Tortoise hibernates through winter. He assumes he isn't missing much. However, his friends are determined to prove otherwise! Will Tortoise sleep through another...
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Hungry Bird

Jeremy Tankard · Scholastic Press
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

Bird is hiking with his friends when his tummy rumbles. But no one packed him a snack that he likes! With every step, his hunger mounts until he collapses on the ground.How will Bird survive if he doesn't eat the perfect something this instant?! The hilarious blue-feathered anti-hero who first...
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Thank You, God

J. Bradley Wigger · Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

This bright, lyrical book offers readers of all ages and backgrounds the perfect chance to reflect on all the things that they have to be grateful for. Thank You, God is a celebration of family and friends, of homes and food to share, and of the wonder of creation from the first light of day to the calm,...
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No, No, Kitten!

Shelley Moore Thomas · Boyds Mills Press
Format: Hardcover

Meet Kittenshe wants catnip and milk and a basket. She also wants a helmet and lasers and a puppy !. And she wants to go to Jupiter, with that helmet, those lasers, and said puppydont underestimate her. This witty picture book, about longing for whats just out of reach, will appeal to both...
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Doggy Dog

Chris Raschka · Abrams Appleseed
Format: Hardcover

Theme Labeling and classifying. Doggy Dog is a dog, for sure. But is he a potato? A piece of cheese? This seemingly nonsensical line of questioning is actually an exercise in categorization and identification . . . and a funny one, at that! Chris Raschkas award-winning brushstrokes add just...
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Birdie's First Day of School

Sujean Rim · Little
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

Tomorrow is Birdie's first day of school and she is just SO nervous. What will her teacher be like? What should she bring? What should she WEAR? When Birdie walks into her brand-new classroom . . . oh my A whole new world opens up as she discovers all the fun and adventure that school has to offer....
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Betty Bunny Loves Easter

Michael B Kaplan · Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

Nobunny does an Easter egg hunt quite like Betty Bunny! For fans of Ladybug Girl and Fancy Nancy, check out the loveable handful from the creator of Disney's T.V. series Dog with a Blog.Yes, Betty Bunny loves Easter. She loves it so much that she just knows when she grows up, she will...
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Look and Be Grateful

Tomie dePaola · Holiday House
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

In this meditative and joyful book, a young boy awakens with the dawn, opens his eyes and looks closely at his world. He admires all that surrounds him, large and small, from the radiant sun to a tiny, but exquisite, lady bug. "Today is today, and it is a gift," writes Tomie dePaola....
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Play

JEZ ALBOROUGH · Candlewick
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

For the perfect bedtime story, the inimitable Bobo the chimp returns in another book of very few words - and very big heart.It's bedtime for Bobo, but the little chimp isn't ready to stop playing for the day. So he hitches a ride on an obliging giraffe, only to be carried back to his mother...
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Open Up, Please!: A Minibombo Book

Silvia Borando · Candlewick Press
Pages: 24
Format: Print book

Lift the flaps to set the animals free! But whatever you do, stay away from the brown box, please.Look at that little hamster in a cage, and the other animals, too - a bunny, a squirrel, a bird, a frog, and even a porcupine. All of these little animals want to play outside! Luckily, you,...
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Little Penguin Gets the Hiccups

Tadgh Bentley · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 40
Format: Print book

From debut author-illustrator Tadgh Bentley, Little Penguin Gets the Hiccups is a sweetly hilarious tale of icebergs, chili, and playful surprises that puts its reader at the very center of the story! Perfect for fans of Dragons Love Tacos, Not a Box, and The Monster at the End of This...
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Benjamin is an Unusual Duckling

YANN WALCKER · Auzou
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Benjamin is one unusual duck: he doesn't quack, he barks! His parents know it's not his fault - he was born this way! But school is a different story, his schoolmates find him weird and refuse to swim with him ... Enough is enough: the duckling decides to go on an adventure! Yann...
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Have You Seen My Monster?

Steven Light · Candlewick Press (MA)
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover

In a follow-up to Steve Light's highly praised Have You Seen My Dragon?, the county fair is filled with shapes - and somewhere among them a monster is waiting to be found. A little girl gallivants through a county fair, searching for her furry friend. Readers will surely spot the friendly...
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The Animals' Santa

Jan Brett · G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

When Big Snowshoe tells Little Snow that the animals' Santa is coming with presents for everyone, Little Snow wants to know who he is. The animals say they have never seen him. Maybe he's a badger, a moose, a polar bear, or a wolf, they tell him. But this spunky little rabbit...
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Sleep, My Bunny

ROSEMARY WELLS · Candlewick
Pages: 24
Format: Hardcover

From the treasured creator of Max and Ruby comes a soothing, quintessential lullaby of a book for the very young.The owls and the crickets are singing together.Outside the window, night falls in a vivid, expressionistic ode to Van Gogh. But inside the cozy house, in rooms lit with soft...
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