Category: fiction

The Loud Librarian
by Jenna Beatrice (Author) and Erika Lynne Jones (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Penelope is perfect for the job of student-librarian. Friendly? Check. Helpful? Check. Book lover? Check. There’s just one snag. Penelope is…LOUD. Bookcases may topple and the ground may quake at the sound of her voice, but Penelope is determined to prove she’s perfect for the job and stay true to herself. Can a little librarian with a big voice find a place where she belongs?

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We Are Lions!
by Jens Mattsson (Author), Jenny Lucander (Illustrator), and B.J. Woodstein (Translator),
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Booktalk: The narrator and his big brother have the best game in the world together. They are dangerous lions on the savannah! One day, big brother doesn’t want to run around anymore. His stomach hurts. He has to see the doctor and take medicine, and even has to stay at the hospital.

Lions don’t want to be trapped by wires and tubes! The narrator instigates a hunt, and the brothers run around the hospital together, chasing gazelles and startling the wildebeest. But big brother is very sick and can’t keep up. Lions can’t cry, his little brother insists. But they can miss the rest of their pride. With Mom and Dad, the narrator tries to comfort his sibling. Soon, he knows, the two lions will go hunting again.

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I am a lion. My big brother is one too. ROOOOARR!
We are a pride. We hunt gazelles and wildebeest on the savanna.
When we catch them, we eat them. We are dangerous!

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