Month: July 2022

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Bernard Makes a Splash

Bernard Makes a Splash
by Lisa Stickley (Author / Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Bernard has been the manager of the local swimming pool for a long time, and practices his diving at night when no one else is around. When his pool holds a contest for high-diving hounds from around the world, he hopes that he can work up enough courage to compete.

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I Went for Hajj

I Went for Hajj
by Na’ima B. Robert (Author) and Paula Pang (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: In this rhyming picture book, a boy tells his friends about his pilgrimage to Makkah and introduces the basic steps of Hajj.

Snippet:
Hajii, hajji,
what did you see?

I saw the great mosque
as bright as can be.

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