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Snowy Owls

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Snowy Owls (Spot Arctic Animals)
by Anastasia Suen (Author)

Booktalk: Bundle up! It’s time to discover the unique animals that live at the top of the world. This search-and-find book invites young readers to look for new vocabulary words and pictures while giving simple facts about a snowy owl’s arctic habitat, body parts, and behaviors. Find out how their bodies are adapted to the frigid climate and what they do to survive.

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Auntie Luce’s Talking Paintings

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Auntie Luce’s Talking Paintings
by Francie Latour (Author) and Ken Daley (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Every winter, a young girl flies to Haiti to visit her Auntie Luce, a painter.

The moment she steps off the plane, she feels a wall of heat, and familiar sights soon follow — the boys selling water ice by the pink cathedral, the tap tap buses in the busy streets, the fog and steep winding road to her aunt’s home in the mountains.

The girl has always loved Auntie Luce’s paintings — the houses tucked into the hillside, colorful fishing boats by the water, heroes who fought for and won the country’s independence. Through Haiti’s colors, the girl comes to understand this place her family calls home. And when the moment finally comes to have her own portrait painted for the first time, she begins to see herself in a new way, tracing her own history and identity through her aunt’s brush.

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