Ernest V Troost
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Explore the Classics - YOUTH
Find Your Voice! Babies & Pre-K
OBD Caldecott Medal Winners - YOUTH
RLG Caldecott Medal List
Find Your Voice! Babies & Pre-K
OBD Caldecott Medal Winners - YOUTH
RLG Caldecott Medal List
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The children at Napville Elementary School always ignore Officer Buckle's safety tips, until a police dog named Gloria accompanies him when he gives his safety speeches.
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AANHPI Authors: Board & Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (Youth)
Celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month!
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Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (Youth)
Celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month!
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A Japanese American man recounts his grandfather's journey to America which he later also undertakes, and the feelings of being torn by a love for two different countries.
4) My garden
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After helping her mother weed, water, and chase the rabbits from their garden, a young girl imagines her dream garden complete with jellybean bushes, chocolate rabbits, and tomatoes the size of beach balls.
8) Sky color
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"Marisol loves to paint. So when her teacher asks her to help make a mural for the school library, she can't wait to begin! But wait-how can Marisol ever make a sky without blue paint? After gazing out the bus window and watching from her porch as day turns into night, she closes her eyes and starts to dream"--
10) Red Riding Hood
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A little girl meets a hungry wolf in the forest on her way to visit her grandmother.
11) Doctor De Soto
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Doctor De Soto, a mouse dentist, copes with the toothaches of various animals except those who have a taste for mice, until the day a fox comes to him in great pain.
12) Extra yarn
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Arts and Crafts Month For Kids
Children's Authors and Illustrators Week
OBD Books Make Good Friends (March - May 2024) - YOUTH
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Children's Authors and Illustrators Week
OBD Books Make Good Friends (March - May 2024) - YOUTH
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With a supply of yarn that never runs out, Annabelle knits for everyone and everything in town until an evil archduke decides he wants the yarn for himself.
13) The tiny seed
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Flower Power! - ROD Children's
National Picture Book Month - November 2022
OBD Gardening - YOUTH
Youth - EPPL Seed Library
National Picture Book Month - November 2022
OBD Gardening - YOUTH
Youth - EPPL Seed Library
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A simple description of a flowering plant's life cycle through the seasons. Dazzlingly colorful collage illustrations and a simple but dramatic text tell the fascinating story of the life cycle of a flower in terms of the adventures of a tiny seed. Carried aloft by the autumn wind, the tiny seed, along with other bigger seeds, travels far over the world. the journey is perilous: one of the bigger seeds is burned by the sun another falls into the ocean...
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A young llama asks his friends if their mamas are llamas and finds out, in rhyme, that their mothers are other types of animals. She grazes on grass, and she likes to say, 'Moo!' I don't think that is what a llama would do." In this favorite, whimsical rhyming riddles help Lloyd the baby llama guess what kind of animal everyone's mama really is. But it's his friend Lyn the llama that finally leads Lloyd to the answer he most longs to hear. Is your...
17) Amazing Grace
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Although a classmate says that she cannot play Peter Pan in the school play because she is black, Grace discovers that she can do anything she sets her mind to do.
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OBD Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (May) - Youth
OBD Caldecott Medal Winners - YOUTH
RLG Caldecott Medal List
WCD Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage
OBD Caldecott Medal Winners - YOUTH
RLG Caldecott Medal List
WCD Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage
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Three sisters staying home alone are endangered by a hungry wolf who is disguised as their grandmother.
19) Nelson Mandela
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Presents a biography of the former South African president best known for his political activism and fight to end apartheid.