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Meet Doug, an ordinary kid who doesn't like hugs, in this fun and exuberant story which aims to spark discussions about bodily autonomy and consent. Doug doesn't like hugs. He thinks hugs are too squeezy, too squashy, too squooshy, too smooshy. He doesn't like hello hugs or goodbye hugs, game-winning home run hugs or dropped ice cream cone hugs, and he definitely doesn't like birthday hugs. He'd much rather give a high five--or a low five, a side...
2) I need a hug
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Batavia Public Library Wonderbooks - YOUTH
K - Valentine's Day Books
Summer Reading Challenge 2023 (Toddlers)
Wonderbooks!
K - Valentine's Day Books
Summer Reading Challenge 2023 (Toddlers)
Wonderbooks!
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A little porcupine just wants a hug, but all the other animals shy away from his prickly spikes--except for a snake.
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"From bear hugs to koala cuddles, hippo huddles to walrus wiggles, penguin pecks to porcupine prickles, there are a LOT of hugs to choose from. But the perfect hug may not be far-in fact, it might be right where you are! The ones at home, who love you the best, give the best hugs of all!"--
5) Bear hugs
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Baby Bear decides that of all the hugs from Mama and Papa Bear, a group hug is best.
6) Big bear hug
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"A huge bear is wandering through the forest - but wait a minute! Who's that he's hugging? A beaver? And a moose? And a bird? And a tree? Welcome to the world of Big Bear Hug, a contemporary fable about a bear who has an appetite for hugging everything in sight - even creatures that bears have been known to eat. One day, the benevolent bear meets up with a human. This human proceeds to do something the bear cannot understand: he raises his axe and...
7) Hug?
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"A little girl finds herself giving hug after hug until, all of a sudden, she's had enough!"--
9) Hug it out!
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Tired of hearing her son and daughter fight, Mom devises an unusual punishment.
11) The hug book
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Animals and their families describe the many types of hugs families and friends share with each other.
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SuperJoe is convinced he doesn't need cuddles from his mom. He flies around the neighborhood rescuing people from escaped tigers, runaway trains and raging rivers, all while battling his nemesis the Gray Shadow. Naturally, he refuses all cuddles. Until, one night, when he can't sleep...
13) Ollie's hug
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"Ollie is feeling down, and his friends try to cheer him up with different acts of kindness. But what does the little gosling really need to feel better?"--
14) Hugga Loula
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Hugga Loula helps her family defuse and rechannel their feelings when faced with obstacles. When you're unhappy, the first thing you really need is a hug . . . and this book, of course.
16) Slug needs a hug
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Slug worries that the reason his mother never hugs him is that he is ugly, so he follows his friends' advice to be furry, with a beak, horns, and more, until his mother can no longer recognize him, but then he learns that she loves him, no matter what.
17) I am scary
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"This board book features a girl who hugs a monster she's not afraid of"--
18) I am caring
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"What is a way we show the people in our family that we care? One way is simple and quick-giving them a hug. Pairs with the fiction title Caring for Sister"--
19) The runaway hug
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Lucy borrows her mother's very last hug and shares it with each member of her family, getting it back each time until her dog, Annie, runs away with it.
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