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Flower Talk: How Plants Use Color to Communicate

Sara C. Levine · Millbrook Pr
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

This new book from Sara Levine features a cantankerous talking cactus as a narrator, revealing to readers the significance of different colors of flowers in terms of which pollinators (bees, bats, birds, etc.) different colors "talk" to. A fun nonfiction presentation of science...
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Turtle and Tortoise Are Not Friends

Reiss, Mike · HarperCollins
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Two sworn enemies learn that they have more in common than meets the eye, and it's never too late to make a new friend - even if it takes decades!Ever since they were little hatchlings, Turtle and Tortoise decided that they'd forever be separated due to their different shells.As...
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Chicken on a Broom

Lehrhaupt, Adam · HarperCollins
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

It's time for a Halloween costume party with Zoey the chicken!When everyone is getting ready for the Halloween costume party, Pip's mask goes missing. It's up to Zoey the brave chicken and her sidekick Sam to go looking for the missing mask in the spooky barn.From the author-illustrator...
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Riding a Donkey Backwards: Wise and Foolish Tales of Mulla Nasruddin

Sean Taylor · Candlewick
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover

Timeless wisdom is found in absurdity in these tales of an iconic Muslim character known as the sagest man in the village - and also its biggest fool.Would you like to know how a thief can turn into a donkey? Whether a cow can climb a pole? Or why you should spoon yogurt into a lake?...
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The Girl Who Named Pluto: The Story of Venetia Burney

Alice B. McGinty · Schwartz & Wade
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

An empowering, inspiring--and accessible!--nonfiction picture book about the eleven-year-old girl who actually named the newly discovered Pluto in 1930.When Venetia Burney's grandfather reads aloud from the newspaper about a new discovery--a "ninth major planet" that has yet to be named--her...
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I Am Kind

Suzy Capozzi · Rodale Kids
Pages: 32
Format: Paperback

I Am Kind follows a little girl who sees kindness all around her. Her mother is kind when she volunteers in the community, and her neighbor is kind when he gives her strawberries from his garden. Even her nature troop is kind when they take care of the earth! The little girl realizes that...
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Flubby Is Not a Good Pet!

J. E. Morris · Penguin Workshop
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Meet Flubby--the lovably lazy feline who prefers a purr-fectly laid-back lifestyle!Flubby is a large, sleepy cat who refuses to do the things that other pets do. He won't sing, catch, or even jump! But when a scary situation brings Flubby and his owner together, they realize they really...
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Kahlo's Koalas: 1, 2, 3, Count Art with Me

Grace Helmer · Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pages: 24
Format: Board book

From Henri Matisse's monkeys and Jackson Pollock's poodles to Roy Lichtenstein's llamas and Wassily Kandinsky's kangaroos, this beautiful 1-10 counting book provides an imaginative learning experience that will delight adults and children alike.Introduce your little one to some...
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Night Windows

Aart Jan Venema · Cicada Books
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

'Adjusting to life in a new city is tough. When a young boy moves from the countryside, everyone around him seems so unfriendly. Lonely and homesick, he sits on a bench outside his new apartment block and watches the busy urban lives going on behind the lit windows. Gradually he begins...
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Horse and Buggy Paint It Out!

Long, Ethan · Holiday House
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Geisel medalist Ethan Long's comical duo, Horse and his friend Buggy, get creative in a funny story about working together. Horse is all set to paint a mural his way, oblivious to Buggy's suggestions that a bit of planning might be a good idea. But as the Horse knocks over paint...
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