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A Caribou Alphabet
Award Winners, Education & Teaching, Middle Grade, Pre-k to Kindergarten, Children's Books, Baby to 2, Ages 3 to 5, Ages 6 to 8, Science, Nature and EnvironmentOnce common in the northern United States, caribou are more closely identified with the Canadian arctic - and with Lapland, where their domesticated relatives, reindeer, are essential to the lives of the indigenous people. Through art and rhyme, this book celebrates the strength and beauty of one of nature's great survivors. -
A Season of Flowers
Middle Grade, New Releases, Pre-k to Kindergarten, Ages 6 to 8, Ages 9 to 12, Science, Nature and EnvironmentMichael Garland displays his impressive illustration range with the stylized, country-quilt, digital collage illustrations of A Season of Flowers. -
Always Mom, Forever Dad
Education & Teaching, Middle Grade, Pre-k to Kindergarten, Children's Books, Ages 3 to 5, Ages 6 to 8, Modern FamilyALWAYS MOM, FOREVER DAD explores today's world where more and more children have parents who live separately. As these children move between homes, they can't help but wonder: will mom still love me? Will Dad? In this reassuring picture book, young readers see children who have two households whether because of divorce, separation, or other circumstances experiencing life's ups and downs with both parents secure in the knowledge that Mom will always be Mom, and Dad is forever Dad. -
Before We Eat
Award Winners, Education & Teaching, Middle Grade, Pre-k to Kindergarten, Children's Books, Baby to 2, Ages 3 to 5, Ages 6 to 8, Science, Nature and EnvironmentBefore we eat, many people must work very hard planting grain, catching fish, tending animals, and filling crates. In this book, vibrantly illustrated by Caldecott Medalist Mary Azarian, readers find out what must happen before food can get to our table to nourish our bodies and spirits. -
Boat of Dreams
Award Winners, Education & Teaching, High School & YA, Middle Grade, New Releases, Pre-k to Kindergarten, Ages 3 to 5, Ages 6 to 8, Ages 9 to 12, Global Empathy, Modern FamilyHow does a fastidious old man with bowler, umbrella, suspenders, and a Salvador Dali mustache come to live on a deserted island? -
Charlotte’s Bones: The Beluga Whale in a Farmer’s Field
Middle Grade, New Releases, Pre-k to Kindergarten, Ages 6 to 8, Ages 9 to 12, Science, Nature and EnvironmentIn 1849, a crew building a railroad through Charlotte, Vermont, dug up strange and beautiful bones in a farmer’s field. A local naturalist asked Louis Agassiz to help identify them, and the famous scientist concluded that the bones belonged to a beluga whale. But how could a whale’s skeleton have been buried so far from the ocean? -
Henry Is Kind: A Story of Mindfulness
Middle Grade, New Releases, Pre-k to Kindergarten, Children's Books, Ages 3 to 5, Ages 6 to 8Ms. Snowden and her class practice sending kind thoughts to the people they love, and they launch a class Kindness Project. There is only one problem: Henry can’t think of one kind thing he has done. -
If da Vinci Painted A Dinosaur
Middle Grade, New Releases, Pre-k to Kindergarten, Children's Books, Ages 6 to 8, Ages 9 to 12As in If Picasso Painted a Snowman, our guide for this tour is an engaging hamster who is joined in the final pages by a tiny, beret-topped Tyrannosaurus. -
If Picasso Painted a Snowman
Middle Grade, New Releases, Pre-k to Kindergarten, Children's Books, Ages 3 to 5, Ages 6 to 8, Nonfiction“If someone asked you to paint a snowman, you would probably start with three white circles stacked one upon another. Then you would add black dots for eyes, an orange triangle for a nose, and a black dotted smile. But if Picasso painted a snowman….” -
Melena’s Jubilee
Middle Grade, New Releases, Pre-k to Kindergarten, Children's Books, Ages 3 to 5, Ages 6 to 8, Modern Family, Multicultural, Tolerance & Resolving ConflictAfter being sent to bed early the previous night, Melena wakes up to a new day with a song in her heart. -
Mother Earth’s Lullaby
Middle Grade, New Releases, Pre-k to Kindergarten, Teaching by Grade, Teaching by Subject, Children's Books, Ages 3 to 5, Ages 6 to 8, Science, Nature and EnvironmentThe bedtime book about endangered species. -
My Busy Green Garden
New Releases, Pre-k to Kindergarten, Teaching by Grade, Teaching by Subject, Ages 3 to 5, Ages 6 to 8, Science, Nature and EnvironmentA lyrical tribute to the bugs, bees, and birds that make the garden such a busy place. -
NO! I Won’t Go To School
New Releases, Pre-k to Kindergarten, Ages 3 to 5, Ages 6 to 8, Modern Family, Tolerance & Resolving ConflictZombies, monsters, and dragons stalk this book’s pages. Cries of despair echo through them. Prisons and dungeons lie in wait. Is this a nightmare? Is it an apocalypse? Well, yes—because it’s the day before our narrator’s first day of school, and all entreaties to his mother are falling on deaf ears. -
Pass The Pandowdy, Please
Middle Grade, New Releases, Pre-k to Kindergarten, Children's Books, Ages 6 to 8, Ages 9 to 12, MulticulturalJust like us, the great movers and shakers of history had to eat, and their favorite foods turn out to be a highly entertaining thread to follow through the history of our small planet. -
Real Sisters Pretend
Pre-k to Kindergarten, Ages 6 to 8, Ages 9 to 12, Modern FamilyMia and Tayja confirm that there’s one thing they don’t have to pretend: They know in their hearts that they’re real sisters, even though others don’t always recognize this since they’re adopted and don’t look alike. Safe in the knowledge that adoption has made them “forever family,” the sisters end their make-believe journey with a joyful homecoming to a real home with their two moms.