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Hello Hello
by Brendan Wenzel (Author / Illustrator)

Booktalk: Beginning with two cats, one black and one white, a chain of animals appears before the reader, linked together by at least one common trait. From simple colors and shapes to more complex and abstract associations, each unexpected encounter celebrates the magnificent diversity of our world–and ultimately paints a story of connection.

The third Friday in May is National Endangered Species Day.

Snippet:

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It’s STEM Friday! (STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)

Sakura’s Cherry Blossoms
by Robert Paul Weston (Author) and Misa Saburi (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Sakura’s dad gets a new job in America, so she and her parents make the move from their home in Japan. When she arrives in the States, most of all she misses her grandmother and the cherry blossom trees, under which she and her grandmother used to play and picnic. She wonders how she’ll ever feel at home in this new place, with its unfamiliar language and landscape.

This story is written as a series of five line tanka poems.

Snippet:
Sakura’s father
would soon begin a new job
in America.

They would fly across the sea
where a new life waited.