Month: May 2019

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Blooming Beneath the Sun

Blooming Beneath the Sun
by Christina Rossetti (Author) and Ashley Bryan (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Ashley Bryan hand-selected a collection of celebrated English poet Christina Rossetti’s classic nursery rhymes to illustrate. Here is the poem for the cover art:

Snippet:
The Peacock Has a Score of Eyes
The peacock has a score of eyes,
With which he cannot see;
The cod-fish has a silent sound
However that might be;

No dandelions tell the time,
Although they turn to clocks;
Cat’s-cradle does not hold the cat,
Nor foxglove fit the fox.

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Let’s Mooove!

Magic on the Map #1: Let’s Mooove!
by Courtney Sheinmel (Author) and Bianca Turetsky (Author)

Booktalk: Travel around the United States of America with twins Finn and Molly in this new chapter book series that highlights a different state in each book!

We must be dreaming! That’s what twins Finn and Molly Parker think when they discover a camper in their driveway–and it talks! When the RV transports them to a cattle ranch in Colorado, the twins know something magical has happened. Then the camper disappears, leaving Finn and Molly to wonder . . . how are we going to get home?

Snippet: “What should we do? Finn asked.

“I guess we go outside and figure out what our work is,” Molly said.

They walked down the camper steps and onto the dewey ground. Molly could feel her boots sinking into the wet earth.

Wait a second. Boots?!

When she’d left the house to check out the camper, she’d been wearing her fuzzy bunny slippers.

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