What to Bring

What to Bring
by Lorna Schultz Nicholson (Author) and Ellen Rooney (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Malia and her family are spending a day outside when they notice something strange. Huge white-and-gray clouds fill the sky, planes zoom overhead, and the air smells funny. A forest fire is sweeping the area, and they need to evacuate their home.

Daddy tells Malia that she needs to choose what to bring. “Pick small things. Things important to you,” he says. But there’s so much that Malia wants to take with her! Her pillows and blankets. Her family of teddy bears. LOTS of books. As the pile in her room grows, and chaos swirls around her, Malia comes to realize that what is most important to her won’t fit in a backpack: her little brother, her cat, and her dog.

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Yawn

Yawn
by Patricia Hegarty (Author) and Teresa Bellon (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: When one little boy starts yawning, it’s not long before his entire neighborhood starts, too! The yawn spreads around the world to other countries, and even to space! From polar bears and penguins to elephants and astronauts the yawn circles the world and then comes for the reader letting them know that it is now bedtime!

Snippet:
It started with a
YAWN
that came out of the blue.

You know you just can’t help it —
You’ll soon be yawning, too!

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