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Kindergarrrten Bus
by Mike Ornstein (Author) and Kevin M. Barry (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Yo ho ho! It’s the first day of kindergarten. And who better than a pirate captain to drive the bus to school? He’s ready to share all the rules one needs to know to ride the bus and to get along with mates at school. But with the first day of school there also comes a bit of anxiety — and it turns out that being a big, blustery pirate captain is no guarantee against insecure and frightened feelings either. Who can help a rough and tough pirate captain get over his fears and back to driving the school bus?

Snippet: Arrrgh!
Pipe down, ye little landlubbers!
There’ll be no blubberin’ on my bus!
Pirates don’t get scared! We eat bones for supperrr!
And we don’t miss nobody neither!
’Cause we’re rrrough! And we’re tough!
And we ain’t got time for that fluffy stuff!

Pippa and Percival, Pancake and Poppy: Four Peppy Puppies
by Deborah Diesen (Author) and Grace Zong (Illustrator)

Booktalk: A puppy named Poppy hears a rustling behind her fence and does what any curious puppy would–digs a hole under! There she finds another puppy! The puppies find two more floppy puppy friends and go on a galloping, gamboling adventure…until they catch a fright and go racing back to their loving homes.

Snippet:
A puppy named Poppy
Went out for a run,
Tumbling, rumbling,
Looking for fun.

She came to a fence.
She heard a big sound.
She dug a hole under,
And that’s when she found . . .

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Another puppy!