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Picture Book Month: Reading and Writing
What better book to explore when taking about reading and writing than a picture book biography about the man who created the thesaurus that we know and love today. Roget liked words and he liked writing lists, so he combined these two loves and published his first book of word…
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Picture Book Month: Turtles
Mossy is the fictional story of a Eastern Box Turtle with a living garden on it’s shell. She is captured by a woman and forced to live in a viewing pavilion at a museum, when all poor Mossy wants is to go back to her pond and find her friend…
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Picture Book Month: Cities
A little boy goes to visit his Nana in the city – but he finds it too crowded, too loud and no place his Nana should live. But, with Nana’s help and a new cape that makes him feel brave, the little boy comes to love the city with his…
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Picture Book Month: Lions
It’s important to follow the rules, especially in the library. One day, when a lion comes to visit the library, the librarian, circulation assistant and patrons are all a little nervous, but soon the lion becomes a valuable member of the library team, helping dust the encyclopedias, lick envelopes and…
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Picture Book Month: Grandparents
This is the sweet story of Mei Mei and her beloved Gong Gong (or grandfather). Gong Gong is practicing tai chi in the garden one day when Mei Mei asks to join in, but Mei Mei’s high energy isn’t exactly suited for clam and quiet Tai Chi. But, them Mei…
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Picture Book Month: Creativity
Vashti knows she’s no artist, but with a little encouragement and faith from her art teacher, Vashti soon realizes that art is in the eye of the beholder. If Vasthi’s art teacher thinks her dot is good enough to be signed and hung in a frame, what else could Vashti…
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Middle Grade Review: The First Rule of Punk
Synopsis: It’s the first day in a new school a thousand miles away from her dad, best friend and everything she knows and loves and Malu is nervous. After a tough day (violating the school dress code, upsetting the school’s queen bee and so much more), Malu has disappointed her…
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Picture Book Month: Imagination
A young girl is creative and imaginative, so when she decides to build a magnificent thing, she doesn’t give it another thought, that is, until her first try doesn’t work, her second try doesn’t work either and soon she’s become frustrated and upset that she can’t build the most magnificent…
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Picture Book Month: Courage
An inspirational story about never giving up and working hard to reach your goal. Emmanuel was born with a fully developed leg and in an area of Ghana where having a disability was seen as a curse and bad luck. But his mother never gave up on him, teaching him…
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Picture Book Month: Artists & Painters
I loved this inspirational story of an artist that I wasn’t familiar with – plus it’s written as a picture book biography making it extremely accessible to young readers. Horace Pippin was born in the late 1800s in West Chester, PA (right down the road from me!) and loved to…