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What Are You? @MacKidsBooks

What Are You?
by Christian Trimmer (Author) and Mike Curato (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: When a puggle meets two new poodle friends, there is a question the poodles feel they must ask. “What are you?” So begins a conversation about family and identity, and about the things we’re good at… and why we’re good at them. This picture book for early readers includes prompts to facilitate important first conversations about stereotypes and bias between child and adult.

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Quest Kids and the Dragon Pants of Gold @UnionSquareKids

Quest Kids and the Dragon Pants of Gold
by Mark Leiknes (Author / Illustrator)
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Booktalk: The Quest Kids are ready for their first real quest. This time, they won’t oversleep, they won’t be put off by a little rain, and they won’t accidentally burn down the village that hired them. All they have to do is find the Golden-Fleeced Rage Beast, shave it, and make a really nice golden tracksuit to appease a furious dragon. Simple, right?

Meet the Quest Kids crew: Gil, a wizard (well, wizard in training . . . the beard isn’t his); Terra, a 700-year-old elf kid; Boulder, a rock troll who is more of a cook than a fighter; Ash, a flatulent pig-dog-maybe-lizard hybrid; and, Ned, the intrepid and overly optimistic leader with his own personal quest to find his missing parents.

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