The Cake
by Dorothée De Monfreid (Author, Illustrator)
Booktalk: Tiger wants chocolate cake. Rabbit has a weakness for carrot. Monkey wants a banana cake. Dog, of course, wants a bone cake. Little Bear really wants a fish cake. Can everyone be satisfied?
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Friendship Over (The Top-Secret Diary of Celie Valentine)
by Julie Sternberg (Author) and Johanna Wright (Illustrator)
Booktalk: When ten-year-old Celie’s father gives her a journal and a punching bag for her birthday, he tells her they’ll help her work through her feelings, and wow—does she have feelings to work through. Her best friend Lula isn’t speaking to her, her sister Jo locks her out of their room to hang out with her new, cooler friend, and her Granny is suddenly behaving in the most perplexing manner.
Snippet: It was terrible.
I should have fake-fainted, so I wouldn’t have had to go.
It was so awkward, there in Miss Wilde’s dark office. Lulu sat as far from me as she possibly could on the leather couch. Plus I don’t think she looked at me once.
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The White House for Kids: A History of a Home, Office, and National Symbol, with 21 Activities
by Katherine L. House (Author)
Booktalk: Have you ever wondered what it’s like to live and work in the most important house in the country, or what it’s like to grow up there?
Kids can:
* Build a model White House
* Design an official china pattern
* Play key passages of “Hail to the Chief”
* Practice signing a bill the way presidents do
* Make White House fruit punch
* Play an aerobic game designed for President Hoover
* And much more
Snippet:
The White House itself has six levels if you count its two-story subbasement. It boasts 132 rooms, 35 bathrooms, and 12 chimneys. The president and his family live mainly on the top two floors. Only family members, invited guests, and employees have the privilege of seeing those floors.
It’s Nonfiction Monday!
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