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9761) Duck, duck, tiger
Author
Publisher
Beaming Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Lily feels different, as though she were a tiger and everyone else were a duck, but things run amock when she tries to hide who she is inside.
Author
Publisher
Clavis Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A philosophical conversation about death from the author of I Give You My Heart. "Are you going to die, Grandpa?" "Someday, sweetheart. But I hope not too soon." Their simple exchange covers a lot of philosophical ground. Grandpa allows that "no one really knows" what happens after death, but he tells Christopher that some people think of heaven ("a place without sadness or war"), others of rebirth ("each time, you get wiser"), and others of "nothing"...
Author
Publisher
Amie Lands
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Perfectly Imperfect Family beautifully demonstrates how a brother loves, honors, and includes his sister, who died before he was born, in the family's special days and every day. Often times referred to as a rainbow baby, children born after the death of a sibling often wonder about the one who came before them. Perfectly Imperfect Family acknowledges the stigma associated with pregnancy loss, infant death, sibling grief, and including a baby who...
9765) Billy loves birds
Author
Series
Publisher
Happy Yak, an imprint of Quarto Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Billy loves birds tells the fact-filled story of a day in the life of Billy, a budding young naturalist, who is wild about birds of all kinds!" --
9766) Disney Hercules
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Disney's Hercules is the timeless story of a hero trying to find where he belongs and going the distance to save the world in the process"--
Author
Publisher
Educate2Empower Publishing, an imprint of UpLoad Publishing Pty Ltd
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The crucial skills taught in this book will help children to protect their bodies from inappropriate touch. Children will be empowered to say in a strong and clear voice, "This is my body! What I say goes!" Through age-appropriate illustrations and engaging text this book, written by the author of 'No Means No!' and 'Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept', will teach children the following crucial and empowering skills in personal body safety: - identifying...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"According to the narrator of this book, a unicorn, a dinosaur, and a shark were riding a bicycle. But they say that's not true, and they just want to take a load off for once. They're tired of being told what to do by the bossy storyteller! And who is a reader supposed to believe, anyway--a book's narrator or its characters?"--Book jacket.
Author
Publisher
Tricycle Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a man brings to a remote village two burros, Alfa and Beto, loaded with books the children can borrow, Ana's excitement leads her to write a book of her own as she waits for the BibliBurro to return. Includes glossary of Spanish terms and a note on the true story of Columbia's BiblioBurro and mobile libraries in other countries.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Youngsters are invited to join Llama and his friends as they discover the seasons, in this push-and-pull board book that features interactive slides that reveal new pieces of the story.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Español
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
La piñata mágica hará recordar a chicos y grandes sus propias anécdotas, en las que las piñatas eran el centro de atención.
The magic piñata will remind children and adults of their own anecdotes, in which the piñatas were the center of attention.
9774) Feather's flight
Author
Series
Unicorn princesses volume 8
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Cressida visits the Rainbow Realm where Feather, a unicorn who can fly, is having a sleepover, complete with magic pajamas created by Ernest the wizard lizard that will allow the others to fly.
9776) Little Unicorn is scared
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Creative nonfiction picture book about a little unicorn who feels all kinds of emotions, including fear, and uses a breathing exercise to calm down. Teaches children to identify emotions and manage them effectively.
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Los ponis y los caballos saltan y compiten en carreras. ¿Te montarías en uno?
Ponies and Horses is a beautifully designed reader all about these favorite animal friends. The engaging text has been carefully leveled using Lexile so that children are set up to succeed. A motivating introduction to using essential nonfiction reading skills. Children will love to find out about all different kinds of ponies and horses; how to look after them; amazing...
9779) Pie-rats!
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A band of swashbuckling pie-rats has only one goal: to find dessert! Whether it's banana cream, lemon meringue, apple, or cherry, these ravenous rodents will battle storms and scallywags to find the best pie. But will their adventures reveal that there is more than one way to satisfy a sweet tooth? With rollicking rhyme and lively illustrations, Pie-Rats is a hunger-inducing read-aloud that will have readers begging for another helping."--
9780) Where's Waldo now?
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The reader follows Waldo as he travels through different time periods in history and must try to find him in the illustrations of some of the crowded events in which he participates.
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