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The Mixed-Up Truck

Stephen Savage · Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

It's Cement Mixer's first day on the job and he doesn't want to make any mistakes. How can he help the other trucks on the construction site? By mixing some powdery white cement, of course He mixes it up, adds a little water, and presto . . . a cake? He must have mixed flour instead of cement....
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Bear & Hare -- Share!

Emily Gravett · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2016.
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

Two friends learn to share in this fourth picture book in a charming and clever series from Emily Gravett.Friends Bear and Hare go for a walk to look for things to do. But Hare is finding it hard to share anything they come across. Will Hare ever learn that playing together is more fun than...
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Painting Pepette

Linda Lodding · Little Bee Books Inc
Pages: 40
Format: Print book

Join one little girl named Josette as she searches 1920s Paris to find the best artist to paint a portrait of her stuffed-animal rabbit, Pepette.After seeing all the fine portraits of her family in her house in Paris, Josette decides that her stuffed-animal rabbit Pepette needs a portrait...
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Diana's White House Garden

Elisa Carbone · Viking Children'S Books
Pages: 44
Format: Print book

Diana Hopkins lived in a white house. THE White House.World War II is in full force across the seas. It's 1943, President Roosevelt is in office, and Diana's father, Harry Hopkins, is his chief advisor. And Diana wants to be part of the war effort. After some well-intentioned missteps...
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Ten Little Fingers, Two Small Hands

Kristy Dempsey · Little Bee Books Inc
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

Count each little finger one by one in this sweet picture book.Ten little fingers, one hand . . . two. Two small hands belong to you! Join a group of toddlers as they enjoy delicious treats, and count one by one as one little finger points to cake, two little fingers tap a plate, three...
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Lily and Bear

Lisa Stubbs · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

A little girl imagines her best friend who comes to life one magical afternoon in this heartwarming, debut picture book from popular Etsy artist Lisa Stubbs.Lily likes nothing better than to imagine and draw the things she loves. She draws cats and birds and boats and houses, and one day she makes...
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Whose Shoe?

Eve Bunting , · Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover

There's something in that tall bamboo.
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Books for Me!

Sue Fliess · Two Lions
Format: Hardcover

Books are awesome! Readings free...Lets go to the library!Hippo is looking for a new book. There are so many to choose from. There are books about pirates, bears, superheroes, and more! And as Hippo looks around the library, she imagines the stories inside each book. How can Hippo choose...
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Rules of the House

Mac Barnett · Disney * Hyperion Books
Pages: 48
Format: Book

Ian always follows the rules. His sister, Jenny, breaks them all the time-especially "Don't pinch. " So Ian is thrilled when the house where his family is vacationing posts a tidy list of rules. But when Jenny breaks them all, the house itself decides it's time for payback. The rug,...
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If I Had a Gryphon

Vikki VanSickle · Tundra Books (NY)
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Sam just got a hamster for a pet. But the hamster is kind of boring ... he just eats and sleeps and gets his shavings wet. Inspired by her book of mythological creatures, Sam longs for a more exciting pet. But she soon realizes that taking care of these magical beasts might not be as wonderful...
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The Wonderful Things You Will Be

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

The New York Times bestseller that celebrates the dreams, acceptance, and love that parents have for their children . . . now and forever! From brave and bold to creative and clever, Emily Winfield Martin's rhythmic rhyme expresses all the loving things that parents think of when they...
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Finding Wild

Megan Wagner Lloyd · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

"Lloyd's sparkling debut celebrates nature through a whimsical meditation on the idea of wildness. Halpin's lush and delicately detailed mixed-media pictures...dominated by muted greens and blues pull readers into the diverse landscapes the children traverse. A spirit of adventure...
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Side By Side

Rachel Bright · Scholastic Press
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

A little mouse finds a best friend to stay by her side!Deep in the heart of Wintermouse Wood,Down in the grass where the autumn trees stood,Lived all kinds of creatures -- some big and some small --Some spiky, some furry, some short, and some tall.Follow one little mouseling and her search...
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Joey and the Giant Box

Deborah Lakritz · Kar-Ben Publishing

When Joey decides to keep the giant box in which the new dishwasher arrives, he comes up with a very special use for it -- and does a mitzvah along the way.
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Poor Little Guy

Elanna Allen · Dial Books for Young Readers
Pages: 40
Format: Print book

With the cheeky twist of Jon Klassen's This Is Not My Hat and the graphic appeal of Mo Willems, Poor Little Guy will leave kids giggling ... and begging for rereads! What do you do when you're so tiny that the bigger ocean creatures think you might even taste adorable? An itsy-bitsy,...
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Blanche Hates the Night

Sibylle Delacroix · Owlkids Books Inc., 2016.
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

Every day ends the same. Night always falls. Blanche's mom turns off the light and closes Blanche's bedroom door. It's time to go to sleep.There's just one problem: Blanche hates the night. She does not want to go to sleep! She would much rather play. So she puts on a concert to chase away...
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A Unicorn Named Sparkle

Amy Young · Farrar Straus Giroux
Pages: 40
Format: Print book

When Lucy sees an ad in the newspaper for a unicorn, she sends in her twenty-five cents and waits four to six long weeks for her very own unicorn to arrive. She imagines the flowers that she'll braid into his beautiful pink mane, and she even picks the perfect name for him: Sparkle....
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Lionheart

Richard Collingridge · David Fickling Books/Scholastic Inc., 2016.
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

Richard hears something in his room before bedtime. Is it a monster? He doesn't wait to find out and sets off running through the streets, over the hills, through the forest, and into the fields until he finds himself in a magical jungle. With the help of his stuffed lion Lionheart,...
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Work and More Work

Linda Little , · Groundwood Books
Format: Hardcover

Tom lives in the countryside in the mid 1800s, and he's curious - what is it like in the town, the city, and the world beyond? It's all "work and more work," everyone tells him. Determined to find out for himself, Tom sets off with a bit of bread and cheese in a bundle...
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I Wish You More

Amy Krouse Rosenthal · Chronicle Books
Pages: 40
Format: Print book

A New York Times bestseller!Some books are about a single wish. Some books are about three wishes. The infallible team of Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld have combined their extraordinary talents to create this exuberant book of endless good wishes. Wishes for curiosity and wonder,...
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