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I Am Someone Else: Poems About Pretending
by Lee Bennett Hopkins (Editor) and Chris Hsu (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Kids can imagine pretending and dressing up in this poetry collection as fifteen poets write about who they might like to be, musing what life would be like as a wizard, a firefighter, a video-game inventor, and more.

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Cool Creations
by Darren Sardelli

Wearing a hard hat,
boots on my feet,
I’ll smooth out each sidewalk,
pave every street!

Driving a dump truck,
bulldozer, too.
Laying down train tracks.
I’ll love what I’ll do.

A 2019 Cybils Poetry nominee

Otto Blotter, Bird Spotter
by Graham Carter (Author / Illustrator)

Booktalk: The Blotter family are famous bird spotters, who stay in their hideout all day. All except for Otto–he’d rather go out and have big adventures. When he follows the BIGGEST footprints he’s ever seen, he finds an extraordinary baby bird all on its own. Otto’s new friend soon reveals a very special ability: camouflage! But the bird keeps growing and growing, and Otto begins to suspect it may have a family after all . . . perhaps the time has come to take him home?

Keen-eyed readers may spot the bird’s giant family hidden on the pages, if they’re good enough bird spotters!

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