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81) Sidewalk circus
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
A young girl watches as the activities across the street from her bus stop become a circus.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A fairground in the evening is a glowing beacon of treats and delights. Bright lights paint the midway in cotton-candy pink, lemon yellow, and candy-apple red. Alluring prizes invite folks to try a game of skill or chance. The aromas of spun sugar, warm popcorn, and baking pretzels fill the air. It is any wonder, then, that after the lights go out and the people go home, the creatures in the nearby forest want to take their turn in this color-soaked...
Author
Series
Farmer books volume 3
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A wordless picture book in which the farmer visits the little clown and the monkey, and meets the rest of the circus family.
84) Imagine!
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"When a boy visits an art museum and one of the paintings comes to life, he has an afternoon of adventure and discovery [that] changes how he sees the world ever after"--
86) Inside outside
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
In this story without words, a boy and his dog play inside and outside of their home.
87) Red again
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When a young boy finds an abandoned book, he discovers another world just as real as his own.
88) Snow doves
Author
Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A wordless picture book about overcoming fears and finding friendship. Sami has just arrived in a new country. The snow piled up outside his window is a mysterious and, frankly, chilly surprise! Joy, his new neighbor, does not speak his language, but that does not stop them from communicating as Joy helps Sami overcome his fears. The two new friends get bundled up against the cold, and Sami discovers the magic of playing outside on a snowy day. Keywords:...
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In this playful, interactive introduction to ideas of perspective, you're invited to guess the seven animals that hide in the book's pages. It may sound easy but, at first, you can only see the animals right up close...and things look so different from up close and faraway! What looks like an elephant's trunk might actually be a little birdie's tail ...and those two googly eyes? Well, when we zoom out, they don't really look like eyes at all!
92) Explorers
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"When a family goes to a local museum, a boy notices a homeless man sitting outside, making brightly colored origami birds. He convinces his dad to buy a bird the man makes just for him. Once inside the museum, his little sister takes the bird and launches it into the air. Is it lost? Soon another boy helps him look, and the paper bird brings two families--and two new friends--together" --
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books / House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When a fish hears the singing of a violin, it is drawn out of the water and into the world of a young musician sitting on a shady bench. Soon fish and boy are flying over the rooftops together, past lively street musicians, a flock of birds, then from planet to planet, before landing back on earth for an idyllic afternoon in the park. In a forest of giant dandelions they discover a little house where a band plays cheerily, then, swept up by the wind,...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In an alternate past--or possible future--a mighty tree stands on the banks of a winding river, bearing silent witness to the flow of time and change. A family farms the fertile valley. Soon, a village sprouts, and not long after, a town. Residents learn to harness the water, the wind, and the animals in order to survive and thrive. The growing population becomes ever more industrious and clever, bending nature itself to their will and their ambition:...
Author
Series
Flora books (Molly Idle) volume 2
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In this wordless, lift-the-flap picture book, Flora and her new friend, the penguin, dance on the ice together and learn to treat each other with respect and kindness.
96) Migrants
Author
Publisher
Gecko Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The migrants must leave the forest. Borders are crossed, sacrifices made, loved ones are lost. It takes such courage to reach the end. At last the journey is over and the migrants arrive. This is the new place. With forceful simplicity, Migrants narrates the journey of a group of animals leaving a leafless forest.
98) Another
Author
Publisher
Atheneum, Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A young girl and her cat take an imaginative journey into another world"--
99) Bunny & Tree
Author
Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Bunny and Tree first meet when the tree observes a ferocious wolf threatening the bunny and comes to its protection. From that moment on, there is a bond of trust between the two, which flowers not only into friendship, but amazingly, into a road trip adventure, when Bunny, who's looking for his rabbit friends, convinces Tree that it's time to uproot and see the world. Compelled by sympathy and a shared purpose, Bunny and Tree hit the road, becoming...
Author
Series
Farmer books volume 2
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A nearly wordless picture book in which the farmer who returned the baby clown to the circus train is followed home by a playful circus monkey, leading to a wonderful new friendship.
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