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Monkey with a Tool Belt and the Craftiest Christmas Ever!
by Chris Monroe (Author / Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Chico Bon Bon’s epic Christmas party is three days away! Is our intrepid monkey ready? Of course not!

But thanks to his trusty tool belt and plenty of ingenuity, Chico helps his friends decorate, turns a pile of junk into a bundle of gifts, and finishes preparing for the party just in the nick of time. WHEW!

Snippet: “Check out this ice monster, it’s completely buried!” yelled Clark.

“Hey . . . wait a minute . . .
it’s a pile of JUNK!”

“That’s peculiar,” said Chico, brushing off more snow. “I wonder who would leave something like this in the woods!”

A Coyote Solstice
by Thomas King (Author) and Gary Clement (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Trickster Coyote is having his friends over for a festive solstice get-together in the woods when a little girl comes by unexpectedly. She leads the party-goers through the snowy woods to a shopping mall — a place they have never seen before.

Coyote gleefully shops with abandon, only to discover that filling your shopping cart with goodies is not quite the same thing as actually paying for them. The trickster is tricked and goes back to his cabin in the woods — somewhat subdued — though nothing can keep Coyote down for long.

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