Category: picture book

Truman by Jean Reidy (Author) and Lucy Ruth Cummins (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Truman the tortoise lives with his Sarah, high above the taxis and the trash trucks and the number eleven bus, which travels south. He never worries about the world below–until one day, when Sarah straps on a big backpack and does something Truman has never seen before. She boards the bus!

Truman waits for her to return.
He waits.
And waits.
And waits.
And when he can wait no longer, he knows what he must do.

Even if it seems . . . impossible!

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Born to Ride: A Story About Bicycle Face
by Larissa Theule (Author) and Kelsey Garrity-Riley (Illustrator)

Booktalk: During the women’s suffrage movement, one girl sets out to prove that she can do everything the boys can do. Louise Belinda Bellflower lives in Rochester, New York, in 1896. She spends her days playing with her brother, Joe. But Joe gets to ride a bicycle, and Louise Belinda doesn’t. In fact, Joe issues a solemn warning: If girls ride bikes, their faces will get so scrunched up, eyes bulging from the effort of balancing, that they’ll get stuck that way FOREVER! Louise Belinda is appalled by this nonsense, so she strikes out to discover the truth about this so-called “bicycle face.”

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