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Cat’s Egg
by Aparna Karthikeyan (Author) and Christine Kastl (Illustrator)

Booktalk: How long does it take to hatch a kitten? Cat isn’t sure, but she would rather be snacking or napping. Join her as she looks around for a babysitter for her mysterious golden egg. She seeks help from her baffled friend Dog, a crow, a cuckoo, and a turtle, for as we all know, it takes a village to raise an egg.

Snippet: “Care to watch my egg for me?” asks Cat.

Cuckoo whispers, “I wouldn’t know how. I lay mine in Crow’s nest. Two over there,” she points to Crow’s nest, “are mine.”

“Won’t she find out?” Cat asks?

Cuckoo shrugs and coos, “All of us were raised by crows.”

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Along Came Coco: A Story about Coco Chanel
by Eva Byrne (Author / Illustrator)

Booktalk: In a time when children were meant to be seen and not heard, along came Coco, a small French orphan with an eye for style, a talent for sewing, and a big imagination. Coco grew up in an orphanage run by very strict nuns, but she wasn’t very good at following rules. At a time when girls were told to brush their hair 100 times until their arms were sore, Coco promised herself that one day she would snip away her locks so that she wouldn’t have to be so fussy–girls needed time for other things, and they needed some of the comforts that boys enjoyed. Why shouldn’t girls have pockets? And why did they have to wear corsets all the time?

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