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From an Idea to Disney: How Imagination Built a World of Magic

Lowey Bundy Sichol · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 112
Format: Hardcover

From an Idea to Disney is a behind-the-movie-screen look into the history, business, and brand of the world's largest entertainment empire. With humorous black & white illustrations throughout, learn about the company behind the world's favorite mouse, Mickey! "I only hope...
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Bloom Boom!

April Pulley Sayre · Beach Lane Books
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

Discover the magic - and the science - behind spring flower blooms with this companion to the celebrated Raindrops Roll, Best in Snow, and Full of Fall.

When spring arrives, flowers of all kinds sprout and grow buds and bloom. Sometimes, they bloom a few at a time....
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Crab Cake: Turning the Tide Together

Andrea Tsurumi · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover

Under the sea, a crab follows its heart and its calling, bringing everyone together in the wake of a disaster. Feed your craving for a hilarious, heart-warming story with Crab Cake, perfect for budding environmentalists, kids learning to cope with mishaps, and every young reader...
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Eric Carle's Book of Many Things

ERIC CARLE · Grosset & Dunlap
Pages: 80
Format: Hardcover

Learn over 200 words with The Very Hungry Caterpillar and other favorite friends from the World of Eric Carle.

Children will have hours of fun learning first words and first concepts in this beautiful book from the creator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. From things in the garden...
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Stephen Hawking

Isabel Sanchez Vegara · Lincoln Children's Books
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

New in the Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Stephen Hawking, the genius physicist and author. When Stephen Hawking was a little boy, he used to stare up at the stars and wonder about the universe. Although he was never top of the class, his curiosity took him to the best...
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Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow

Henry Louis Gates Jr. · Scholastic Nonfiction
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

This is a story about America during and after Reconstruction, one of history's most pivotal and misunderstood chapters. In a stirring account of emancipation, the struggle for citizenship and national reunion, and the advent of racial segregation, the renowned Harvard scholar delivers...
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The Goose Egg

Liz Wong · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

From the author of Jumpstart's Read for the Record pick Quackers comes the story of Henrietta the Elephant, whose life goes from calm to chaotic when a baby goose comes to stay.

Henrietta likes her quiet life. A morning swim, a cup of tea--all is serene.

But everything...
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Hands Up!

Breanna J. McDaniel · Dial Books
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

This triumphant picture book recasts a charged phrase as part of a black girl's everyday life--hands up for a hug, hands up in class, hands up for a high five--before culminating in a moment of resistance at a protest march.A young black girl lifts her baby hands up to greet the sun,...
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Hush, Little Bunny

DAVID EZRA STEIN · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

Hush, Little Bunny is a heartwarming, lyrical love letter from a papa bunny to his little one - from David Ezra Stein, Caldecott Honor-winning creator of Interrupting Chicken and Leaves. Fans of Kevin Henkes and Beatrix Potter will adore this gorgeous book.

Come, little bunny,...

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The Bell Rang

James Ransome · Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

A young slave girl witnesses the heartbreak and hopefulness of her family and their plantation community when her brother escapes for freedom in this brilliantly conceived picture book by Coretta Scott King Award winner James E. Ransome.

Every single morning, the overseer of the plantation...
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