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The Bunny Band
by Bill Richardson (Author) and Roxanna Bikadoroff (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Lavinia the badger loves vegetables and tends her garden with care, but one morning she discovers that her lettuce has been nibbled and her potatoes and beans have disappeared! She decides to set a snare for the culprit, who turns out to be a frightened bunny. When Lavinia threatens to turn him into stew, the bunny pleads for his life, promising a rich reward if she lets him go.

The next night, when the moon rises, Lavinia is amazed to see dozens and dozens of bunnies in her garden, carrying banjos, bassoons, harps, ukuleles, trumpets, bagpipes, fifes and drums. Night after night, the bunnies play enchanting music, and Lavinia’s vegetables grow and grow and grow.

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Magic on the Map #1: Let’s Mooove!
by Courtney Sheinmel (Author) and Bianca Turetsky (Author)

Booktalk: Travel around the United States of America with twins Finn and Molly in this new chapter book series that highlights a different state in each book!

We must be dreaming! That’s what twins Finn and Molly Parker think when they discover a camper in their driveway–and it talks! When the RV transports them to a cattle ranch in Colorado, the twins know something magical has happened. Then the camper disappears, leaving Finn and Molly to wonder . . . how are we going to get home?

Snippet: “What should we do? Finn asked.

“I guess we go outside and figure out what our work is,” Molly said.

They walked down the camper steps and onto the dewey ground. Molly could feel her boots sinking into the wet earth.

Wait a second. Boots?!

When she’d left the house to check out the camper, she’d been wearing her fuzzy bunny slippers.