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1942) Some days are yellow
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Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Simple, rhyming text illustrates how life is an adventure with various experiences and emotions.
1943) Elmer and butterfly
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English
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"As Elmer the patchwork elephant is strolling through the jungle, he hears a cry for help. A butterfly is trapped. Elmer easily frees her. She promises to help Elmer. But how can a butterfly ever help an elephant?"--
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Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Everyone knows Beatrix Potter as the creator of the Peter Rabbit stories. But before that, she was a girl of science. As a child, Beatrix collected nature specimens; as a young adult, she was an amateur mycologist presenting her research on mushrooms and other fungi to England's foremost experts. Like many women of her time, she remained unacknowledged by the scientific community, but her keen eye for observation led her to an acclaimed career as...
1945) A nest is noisy
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English
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Introduces the world of nests, revealing the variety created by the world's birds, animals, and insects.
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Publisher
Red Comet Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Hop on board the train on a rollicking, rhyming adventure to meet some of Alaska's most beloved animals. Included at the back is a glossary of the parts of a train, plus more information about the famous Alaska Train and a map of its route.
1947) Yossel's journey
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English
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"Yossel, along with his family, flees anti-Jewish Russian pogroms in the late nineteenth century and settles in the American Southwest where he forges a friendship with Thomas, a Native American Navajo boy"--
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"With every step, the Tomb Guards pay homage to America's fallen. Discover their story, and that of the unknown soldiers they honor, through resonant words and illustrations. Keeping vigil at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, in Arlington National Cemetery, are the sentinel guards, whose every step, every turn, honors and remembers America's fallen. They protect fellow soldiers who have paid the ultimate sacrifice, making sure they are never alone....
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Sleeping Bear Press
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English
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Polly misses her father, a soldier fighting in France during World War I, and at home everything is rationed; Polly wants to do her part to help, so she and her friends organize a parade to collect peach pits which are used in the manufacture of gas masks.
1950) Little Bear's big house
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Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Tired of living in the forest, Little Bear sets out to have an adventure--but when he finds a big house inhabited by a "monster" he is very happy to flee to the safety of his bear family.
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Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Katharine Lee Bates first wrote the lines to "America the Beautiful" on a summer evening after a stirring visit to Pikes Peak in 1893. But the story behind the song begins with Katharine herself, who grew up with memories of the country divided by the Civil War and pushed beyond conventional expectations of women to become an acclaimed writer, scholar, suffragist, and reformer. Katharine believed in the power of words to make a difference, and in...
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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In this variation on the the classic song "Over in the Meadow," mother and father trucks show their youngsters how to build down at the construction site, from "mama bulldozer with her little dozer one" to "mama steamroller with her little rollers ten."
1955) Franklin is messy
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English
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Franklin's room is so messy he can't even find his favorite toys until his parents propose a solution.
1956) Splat the cat
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English
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A nervous Splat finds his first day at Cat School much better than he expected.
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English
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Knuffle Bunny is left behind at the laundromat.
Merging expressive cartoon network-esque illustrations with beautiful black and white photographs of Brooklyn, this funny story tells how Trixie and Knuffle Bunny's trip to the laundromat with Dad goes terribly wrong when Trixie realizes some bunny's been left behind...! Her attempts to alert Dad all the way home are unsuccessful, until Mom points out that Knuffle Bunny is missing and the family hotfoot...
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"As a boy, Chester Nez was taught his native language and culture were useless, but he was later called on to use his Navajo language to help create an unbreakable military code during WWII"--
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Showing the power and gift of a smile, this story follows one girl as she goes about her day, giving different smiles to those around her, including goofy smiles with her best friend and playful, supportive smiles with her sister when she's feeling down.
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