Biscuit’s Christmas Storybook Collection
by Alyssa Satin Capucilli (Author) and Pat Schories (Illustrator)
Booktalk: Merry Christmas, Biscuit! This storybook collection has nine Biscuit beginning reader books inside! Here is a snippet from Biscuit’s Christmas:
Snippet:
“Come along, Biscuit,” called the little girl.
“Christmas is almost here.
It’s time to choose our tree.”
Woof, woof!
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Santa!: A Scanimation Picture Book
by Rufus Butler Seder (Author, Illustrator)
Booktalk: Santa Claus is going to town! With the magic of Scanimation, you can see Santa move as you turn the pages.
Snippet:
Santa loves to hula-hoop.
Swish-swish-sway!
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A Girl Called Problem
by Katie Quirk (Author)
Booktalk: Thirteen-year-old Shida, whose name means “problem” in Swahili, certainly has a lot of problems in her life — her father is dead, her depressed mother is rumored to be a witch, her family bears the weight of a curse, and everyone in her rural Tanzanian village expects her to marry rather than pursue her dream of becoming a healer.
Snippet: Shida hiccupped, as she often did when she was excited, and covered her mouth.
Several heads down below turned to look up at her. One of them was the scowling face of her mother, Mama Shida. Mama Shida was slumped against their mud hut, her matted hair sticking out in wild tufts and her skin a sooty gray from months of being unoiled. Her two rectangles of faded kitenge cloth, which she wrapped around her waist and torso, were tattered and dirty. Like all Sukuma mothers, Mama was named after her first child, and right now she looked just like her name: Mama Shida, Mother of Problems.
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Flippy Floppy Jungle Animals (board book)
by Anton Poitier (Author) and Sophia Touliatou (Illustrator)
Booktalk: A book filled with surprises! Some of the animals are hiding, and there’s only one way to find them–lift the flaps (from left to right to build the entire animal)!
Snippet: Can you find me? I’m hiding somewhere!
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Volcano Rising
by Elizabeth Rusch (Author) and Susan Swan (Illustrator)
Booktalk: Thought you knew all about volcanoes? Think again!
Snippet: KA-BOOM! Most people think volcanoes are either sound asleep and blowing their tops off in fiery ash-spewing catastrophes.
It’s Nonfiction Monday!
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Maya Makes a Mess
by Rutu Modan (Author, Illustrator)
Booktalk: In the midst of a family dinner with her scolding parents, Maya receives a very unexpected invitation to dine with the queen. Her messy manners are put to the ultimate test in this easy-to-read comic.
Snippet: See inside the book!
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Seek and Peek: On the Farm
by Editors of Kingfisher (Author)
Booktalk: In this circular board book children lift a flap to peek inside each animal’s world.
Snippet:
A baby pig like me
is called a piglet.
oink!
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Maker Faire
by Samantha Roslund (Author) and Kristin Fontichiaro (Author)
Booktalk: Around the world, makers come together to share their ideas and inventions at Maker Faires.
Snippet: Maker Faires aren’t just for seeing what people have already made. There are many free or inexpensive hands-on activities that you can do. Some of these activities may involve working with power tools, making a craft, turning a power crank, or participating in a demonstration.
STEM Friday
It’s STEM Friday! (STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)
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Planet Earth (The World in Infographics)
by Jon Richards (Author) and Ed Simkins (Illustrator)
Booktalk: From tectonic plates and meteorites to erupting volcanoes, the atmosphere, and the world’s longest rivers, this book explores planet Earth using a wide variety of icons, graphics, and pictograms.
Snippet: Welcome to the world of infographics. Using icons, graphics, and pictograms, infographics visualize data and information in a whole new way!
It’s Nonfiction Monday!
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Cuddle
by Elizabeth Verdick and Marjorie Lisovskis (Authors)
Booktalk: This rhyming board book show photos of babies cuddling.
Snippet:
Rock, baby, rock.
Tender as can be.
Snuggle, baby, snuggle.
Rest your head on me.
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