Dinnertime for Chickies
by Janee Trasler (Author, Illustrator)
Booktalk: Eat dinner with the Chickies in this rhyming padded board book!
Snippet:
Dinnertime, Chickies.
Let’s all eat.
Wash your wings
and take a seat.
Hear the book sung in this 2:35 Dinnertime for Chickies book trailer.
**Janee is one of my former students!**
This week’s Poetry Friday Round-up will be hosted by Check it Out.
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Splash, Anna Hibiscus!
by Atinuke (Author) and Lauren Tobia (Illustrator)
Booktalk: Anna Hibiscus is at the beach and all she wants to do is SPLASH! But everyone, including Grandmother and Grandfather, Chocolate, Benz, Wonderful, Joy, Clarity and Common Sense, is much too busy to wave-jump!
Snippet:
Anna Hibiscus looks around.
There is nobody left to ask.
See and hear the book!
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A Little Bit of Oomph!
by Barney Saltzberg (Author, Illustrator)
Booktalk: An inspiring and playful lift-the-flap book about creativity for children and adults.
Snippet:
Help little seeds GROW
[lift the flap]
into beautiful flowers.
See the book trailer!
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The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend
by Dan Santat (Author, Illustrator)
Booktalk: On an island far away, an imaginary friend is born. He patiently waits his turn to be chosen by a real child, but when he is overlooked time and again, he sets off on an incredible journey…
Snippet:
He sailed though unknown waters
and faced many scary things.
Preview the book in the 2:36 The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend book trailer.
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Secrets of the Apple Tree
by Carron Brown (Author) and Alyssa Nassner (Illustrator)
Booktalk: Explore a tree up close and you will find a world filled with great surprises! When you shine a light behind the page, you will see hidden wonders!
Snippet:
A fly whirs up
the tree trunk.
Something is
hiding on the
bark. Can you
see what is it?
See how to shine a light on the book in the 1:00 Secrets of the Apple Tree book trailer.
It’s Nonfiction Monday!
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Nat the Cat’s Sunny Smile
by Jez Alborough (Author, Illustrator)
Booktalk: Nat the Cat shares her smile with her friends, but then her own smile is gone. Luckily, she’s passed it on to her friends and they soon come along to cheer her right back up again! (Sheet music for Nat the Cat’s Picnic Song is in the book, and you can download the sheet music and the song, too!)
Snippet:
Nat the Cat jumped out of bed
with a smile spread halfway round her head.
She packed a picnic snack to share
with her friends, Billy Goat and Hugo Hare.
Listen to the author read the book.
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Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker
by Patricia Hruby Powell (Author) and Christian Robinson (Illustrator)
Booktalk: To close Women’s History Month and begin Poetry Month, a free-verse biographical poem about performer and civil rights advocate Josephine Baker. (Notice the use of primary source quotations in the second image below.)
Snippet:
Mama called her TUMPY, the round baby girl, after Humpty Dumpty.
With her first breath, she made faces.
As soon as she walked, she DANCED.
Sample the book with this 1:01 Josephine book trailer.
**Patricia is one of my former students!**
It’s Nonfiction Monday!
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Flora and the Flamingo
by Molly Idle (Author)
Booktalk: In this innovative wordless picture book with interactive flaps, Flora and her graceful flamingo friend explore the trials and joys of friendship through an elaborate synchronized dance. A 2014 Caldecott Honor Book
Snippet: See the pages turn and the flaps lift in this Flora and the Flamingo book trailer
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Pinkalicious Cupcake Cookbook
by Victoria Kann (Author, Illustrator)
Booktalk: Cupcakes galore!
Now you can make all your cupcakes Pinkalicious cupcakes. The Pinkalicious Cupcake Cookbook features more than twenty cupcakes straight from the pinkatastic world of Pinkalicious.
Snippet:
All of the cupcakes in this book need a flat top to facilitate the frosting and decorating and sometimes for balancing one cupcake on top of another. When using a cupcakes baked from a cake mix, slice off the rounded top of the cupcake with a paring knife.
See how to follow these directions in this 40 second Pinkalicious book trailer
It’s Nonfiction Monday!
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Tempest: A Novel
by Julie Cross (Author)
352 pages
Booktalk: The year is 2009. Nineteen-year-old Jackson Meyer is a normal guy… he’s in college, has a girlfriend… and he can travel back through time. But it’s not like the movies – nothing changes in the present after his jumps– it’s just harmless fun.
That is… until the day strangers burst in on Jackson and his girlfriend, Holly, and during a struggle with Jackson, Holly is fatally shot. In his panic, Jackson jumps back two years to 2007, but this is not like his previous time jumps. Now he’s stuck in 2007 and can’t get back to the future. Desperate to somehow return to 2009 to save Holly but unable to return to his rightful year, Jackson settles into 2007 and learns what he can about his abilities.
But it’s not long before the people who shot Holly in 2009 come looking for Jackson in the past, and these “Enemies of Time” will stop at nothing to recruit this powerful young time-traveler. Recruit… or kill him.
Snippet:
The first time I jumped was about eight months ago, during my first semester of college. I was sitting in the middle of a French poetry class. I nodded off for a few minutes and woke up to a cold breeze and a door slamming me in the face. I was standing in front of my dorm. Before I even had a chance to panic, I was right back in class again.
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