November 2023 - Anastasia Suen

North Pole Village Board Book Set
by Sabrina Makhsimova (Author) and Dinara Mirtalipova (Artist)
@ Amazon | Bookshop

Booktalk: Warm up inside Mr. Klaus’s cozy cottage, share cocoa with a friendly polar bear, and take a peek inside the toymakers’ workshop to meet Mr. Klaus’s tiniest secret helpers on their busiest night of the year. This board book set includes three rhyming toddler books–Mr. Klaus’s House, Polar Bear’s Nook, and Toymakers’ Workshop–tucked into a trifold case with magnetic closure.

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Each morning Mr. Klaus rocks in his chair,
Sipping cocoa with buddies, Mouse and Polar Bear.

The Mexican Dreidel
by Linda Elovitz Marshall (Author), Ilan Stavans (Author), and Maria Mola (Illustrator)
@ Amazon* | Bookshop*

Booktalk: Danielito loves Janucá, especially playing dreidel. This year, he is old enough to visit Bobe by himself. Piñatas hang from the trees, and the kids in Bobe’s neighborhood play with Mexican tops called trompos. Danielito does not have a trompo, but he has a dreidel. “What is that?” “¿Qué es eso?” the other kids ask, as they invite him to join their game. The trompos follow the dreidel as it spins through the neighborhood. And Danielito invited his new friends, nuevos amigos, to Bobe’s house to celebrate Janucá.

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