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One World: 24 Hours on Planet Earth
by Nicola Davies (Author) and Jenni Desmond (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Our planet is always turning. It may be midnight in London, but in different time zones other living things are waking up, ready to hunt or feed or fight. As the clock strikes twelve, two sisters are spirited away on a journey to glimpse, in the span of a moment, extraordinary biodiversity: a mother polar bear and her cubs hunting seals in Svalbard, tiny turtles in India following the moon toward the sea, and enormous whale sharks gulping plankton in the Philippines.

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Nonfiction Monday

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Our Roof Is Blue
by Sara E. Echenique (Author) and Ashley Vargas (Illustrator)
@ Amazon | Bookshop

Booktalk: Before Hurricane Maria destroys their home in Puerto Rico, Antonio told his sister vibrant stories each night. During the storm, they huddled with their parents in a closet and hear the storm blow the roof right off their home. After the storm, their family uses a temporary blue tarp for a roof, and Antonio stops speaking. Gradually the siblings imagine their blue roof playfully–as the ocean above them or a parachute helping them fall from the sky. As the narrator helps her little brother feel safe once more–and after the family and community build a new roof–the little boy begins to speak again.

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Also available in Spanish as Nuestro techo es azul @ Amazon | Bookshop