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Caillou at the Sugar Shack

Carine Laforest · Caillou
Pages: 24
Format: Paperback

When Caillou's family makes a springtime visit to Jonas' ranch, he takes them on a sleigh ride to a maple forest where Caillou discovers how the maple sap is collected from maple trees. At the sugar shack, Caillou learns about the maple syrup transformation process. But the best...
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I Am So Brave!

Stephen Krensky · Abrams Appleseed, 2014.
Pages: 12
Format: Print book

This fourth book in the empowerment series celebrates the feats of growing out of toddlerhood with courage and success. Whether it's petting a dog or waving good-bye to a parent, Krensky and Gillingham address the "small wins" of growing just a little bit braver. Young children...
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Frederick

Leo Lionni · Pantheon
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

Leo Lionni's Caldecott Honor-winning story about a little mouse who gathers something unusual for the long winter is celebrating its fiftieth birthday!

Winter is coming, and all the mice are gathering food . . . except for Frederick. But when the days grow short and the snow begins...
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Look at the Animals

Peter Linenthal · Dutton Children's Books
Pages: 18
Format: Print book

Birds sing, zebras run, and whales spout in this delightful follow-up to Look Look!, which has sold nearly 50,000 copies. Bold, black-and-white illustrations offer the clean shapes and strong contrasts best suited to young babies' developing minds.The warm, simple text makes this a perfect...
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Swimmy 50th Anniversary Edition

Leo Lionni · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

The 50th anniversary of the gorgeous, Caldecott Honor-winning tale of a very clever fish by beloved picture book creator Leo Lionni.

Deep in the sea lives a happy school of fish. Their watery world is full of wonders, but there is also danger, and the little fish are afraid to come...
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Barbie in a Mermaid Tale: A Storybook

Mary Man-Kong · Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback

Barbie goes on a magical mermaid adventure in her latest direct-to-DVD movie: Barbie™ in A Mermaid Tale™! Young girls will love this beautiful fullcolor Pictureback storybook with stickers!
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Honeyky Hanukah

Woody Guthrie · Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Pages: 24
Format: Hardcover

A Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year, 2015
"Sure to become a tradition at Hanukkah parties everywhere." - Kirkus Reviews
"inspires a toe-tapping performance" - Publishers Weekly
"a happy tune for a festive time"...
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Ping and Pong the Penguins

Sylviane Gangloff · Abbeville Kids
Format: Hardcover

What happens when a storybook character encounters the illustrator who drew him - and talks back? In this imaginative series, four animals engage with the illustrator's hand in amusing - and sometimes infuriating! - ways. These interactive stories, featuring bold graphics that will...
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Llama Llama Easter Egg

Anna Dewdney · Viking, An Imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group
Pages: 14
Format: Print book

With short and simple rhyming text, the Llama Llama board books introduce Llama Llama to babies and toddlers before they're ready for longer full-length stories. And their small size and durable pages are perfect for little hands.

In Llama Llama Easter Egg, the Easter Bunny...
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Matilda in the Middle: A Bunny Ballet Story

Cori Doerrfeld · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Meet Matilda the bunny! She lives with her mother, her father, and...her many many brothers and sisters.Sometimes Matilda finds herself lost in the middle. But when her mother signs her up for bunny ballet, Matilda feels she has finally found a place to shine--if she can get her family...
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First Wheels: Colors

Susan Steggall · Frances Lincoln Children's Bks
Format: Hardcover

A fantastic first concept book about colours, featuring 22 vehicles from bulldozers and trucks to tippers and diggers, and showing ten different colours. Theres a wheel to turn on the final spread, where the child can match vehicles to colours, for extra interactive learning and fun. By the FL star...
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Poppy Pickle

Emma Yarlett · Candlewick Press
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

Poppy gets into a major pickle when her imagination comes alive!

Poppy has the most extraordinary imagination. When she is sent upstairs to clean her room, she just can't help imagining, and suddenly . . . her imagination literally comes alive. Soon her room is jam-packed...
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How Tall Was a T.rex?

ALISON LIMENTANI · Boxer Books
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Explore everyone's favorite dinosaur in this graphically striking and innovative picture book from an extraordinary new talent. Everyone's fascinated by T.rex and wants to know what this big, fearsome creature was really like. How tall was it? How much did it eat? Did it have...
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The Littlest Family's Big Day

Emily Winfield Martin · Random House
Pages: 36
Format: Print book

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wonderful Things You Will Be, meet Emily Winfield Martin's little forest family and the adventures they have on one very big day.

Who is only under 5 inches tall and has just moved to the woods? The cutest and littlest...
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Tommy Can't Stop!

Tim Federle · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Tommy bounces, and he leaps. Tommy clomps, and he bulldozes. Nothing tires Tommy out, and his family can't keep up! But then his sister has an idea: could tap class be just right for Tommy?This exuberant picture book, written by Broadway dancer Tim Federle, with illustrations by Mark...
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