Month: January 2021

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Cave Paintings
by Jairo Buitrago (Author), Rafael Yockteng (Illustrator), and Elisa Amado (Translator)

Booktalk: In this tribute to Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, our hero travels all alone on a spaceship, through the universe, past galaxies, comets and planets to go visit his grandmother on Earth for the summer holidays. She takes him to visit an ancient cave, where he discovers handprints and drawings of unknown animals made by human beings, just like him. To top off his wonderful holiday she gives him mysterious objects which once belonged to his grandfather — paper and crayons. On the way home he draws what he saw on his travels — to the amazement of his fellow passengers.

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Calvin Gets the Last Word
by Margo Sorenson (Author) and Mike Deas (Illustrator)

Booktalk: The dictionary is the narrator!

Calvin’s dictionary is proud to be carried everywhere Calvin goes–the breakfast table, school, baseball practice, and home again–because Calvin is determined to find the perfect word to attach to his annoying older brother. The word isn’t exactly revenge, mayhem, bewilderment, subterfuge, pulverize, or even retaliation, though all those words are so close and very tempting.

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