June 2020 - Anastasia Suen

Animals in the Sky
by Sara Gillingham(Author / Illustrator)

Booktalk: With a guessing game, this board book helps younger children identify six of the most recognizable animal constellations from The Great Bear to the The Southern Fish. Each constellation is introduced as a cluster of stars with its connected-line shape; readers then guess the animal through a series of read-aloud clues. A full animal illustration gatefold reveals the answer, accompanied by extra information about the constellation and its important stars.

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It’s STEM Friday! (STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)

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Our World is Whole
by Gail Bush (Author) and Jennie Poh (Illustrator)

Booktalk: One little girl knows that our world is whole because the connections between us all makes it so–from the family cat to the chatty neighbor to Mom and Dad and cousin Jerry. Celebrate interconnectedness and the ways we support one another and keep our world whole and spinning with this meditation on mindfulness.

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Yes, the sun shines, the moon orbits, and stars
twinkle but
because

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families spin together
the world is whole,
to the sun and the moon and the stars

and
back again.