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Haunted Halloween

Sue Fliess - Cartwheel Books
Format: Board book

Kids will love this rhyming, Halloween counting adventure with surprises on every page!Halloween comes to life in this rhyming romp with adorable trick-or-treaters and a spooky countdown, all leading up to one exciting holiday surprise -- a party! Haunted night, monsters, fright. Enter...
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I Want That Nut!

Madeline Valentine - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A nutty and clever buddy story that celebrates cooperation, perfect for fans of Duck and Goose. Meet Mouse and Chipmunk, two young rodents who want the same thing - a big, beautiful nut! But who deserves it more? After all, Chipmunk and the Nut read together and lie in the grass and stare...
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Ladybug Girl and the Best Ever Playdate

David Soman - Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Format: Print book

This latest hardcover picture book from the New York Times bestselling Ladybug Girl series proves that true friendship is better than any toy Lulu is excited about her playdate with Finny - and especially excited about Finny's Rolly-Roo. In fact, Lulu loves the toy so much that she . . . kind...
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Bad Apple's Perfect Day

Edward Hemingway - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

What can you do with...a dried-up watering hole,some mud,and a thunderstormJust ask Mac and Will! When these unlikely friends fun plans go awry, they show how a day of unexpected ups and downs can still be a perfect dayall it takes is a little imagination.The stars of Bad Apple, A Tale...
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Ten Pigs: An Epic Bath Adventure

Derek Anderson - Orchard Books
Format: Hardcover

Laugh out loud in this hysterical epic counting bath adventure with a squeaky clean twist! From Derek Anderson, the illustrator of the bestselling Little Quack series! One very happy pig -- one bubbly bathtub. Everything is perfect until nine more join in! And ten? Ten wiggles and squeezes...
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The Best Book in the World

Rilla Alexander - Flying Eye Books
Format: Hardcover

If you found the best book in the world, would you stop reading? Could you stop reading? If you had homework to do, or dinner to get through, could you put the book down? On a train to the zoo or on a flight to Kalamazoo, would that break the spell? If in a forest you walked, while scary...
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A Bean, a Stalk and a Boy Named Jack

William Joyce - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

When a king's pinky grows stinky, it is up to a smallish boy and a smallish pea to come up with a GIANT plan to save the kingdom - a fractured fairy tale from William Joyce and Moonbot Studios, the masterminds who brought you The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore.You might...
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The Everlasting Embrace

Gabrielle Emanuel - Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), 2014.
Format: Print book

Each morning as the sun brightens the West African sky, mother and child prepare to start their day. They spend it bound together, the child riding on the mother's back watching their world go past. Pounding millet, drawing water from the well, visiting friends, shopping at the outdoor...
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Red and Lulu

MATT TAVARES - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

Separation and miles cannot keep a determined cardinal from his loved one in an ode to serendipity and belief that is destined to be a new Christmas classic.Red and Lulu make their nest in a particularly beautiful evergreen tree. It shades them in the hot months and keeps them cozy in the cold...
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Everyone Counts

Judy Sierra - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling creators of Wild About Books comes a rhyming, counting, and teamwork-focused picture book about the beginnings of a new zoo! When Takoda the tiger cub happens upon a tumbledown mall, the lone cub imagines a zoo. All Takoda needs is a capable crew to lend a paw or two--or...
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