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Picture Book of the Day<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A Christmas Spider’s Miracle<\/a>
\nby Trinka Hakes Noble (Author) and Stephen Costanza (Illustrator)<\/p>\n

Booktalk:<\/strong> Long ago in a faraway place there lived two mothers. One, a humble peasant woman who struggled daily to provide for her children. And the other, a mother spider who also worked hard to care for her family. And although it would appear they were as different as night and day, these two mothers had more in common than would first seem.<\/p>\n

Snippet:<\/strong> Folks could barely wait until Christmas Eve, that long cold night when everyone would light candles to fill the darkness with hope.<\/em>
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Chapter Book of the Day<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Last Dragon<\/a>
\nby Jane Yolen (Author) and Rebecca Guay (Illustrator)
\n144 pages<\/p>\n

Booktalk:<\/strong> Two hundred years ago, humans drove the dragons from the islands of May. Now, the last of the dragons rises to wreak havoc anew \u2014 with only a healer\u2019s daughter and a kite-flying would-be hero standing in its way.<\/p>\n

Snippet:<\/strong> At first the dragon looked like any young lizard, for he had not shed his eggskin, which was lumpy and whitish, like clotted cream. But he grew fast, as dragons will.<\/em>
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December 2011 Carnival Of Children’s Literature<\/strong><\/p>\n

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