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You’re Safe With Me
by Chitra Soundar (Author) and Poonam Mistry (Illustrator)
Booktalk: When the moon rises high and the stars twinkle, it is bedtime for the baby animals of the Indian forest. But tonight, when the skies turn dark and the night grows stormy, the little ones can’t sleep. SWISH-SWISH! CRACK-TRACK! FLASH-SNAP! goes the storm. Only Mama Elephant with her words of wisdom can reassure them, “You’re safe with me.”
Snippet:
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Sakura’s Cherry Blossoms
by Robert Paul Weston (Author) and Misa Saburi (Illustrator)
Booktalk: Sakura’s dad gets a new job in America, so she and her parents make the move from their home in Japan. When she arrives in the States, most of all she misses her grandmother and the cherry blossom trees, under which she and her grandmother used to play and picnic. She wonders how she’ll ever feel at home in this new place, with its unfamiliar language and landscape.
This story is written as a series of five line tanka poems.
Snippet:
Sakura’s father
would soon begin a new job
in America.
They would fly across the sea
where a new life waited.
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