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I Love Cake!: Starring Rabbit, Porcupine, and Moose
by Tammi Sauer (Author) and Angie Rozelaar (Illustrator)
Booktalk: Rabbit plans a fabulous birthday party with fun activities and a delicious cake. Porcupine and Moose come to enjoy Rabbit’s big day, but everything goes south when impulsive Moose loses control of his appetite!
Snippet: Rabbit and Porcupine looked everywhere for the missing cake and the missing Moose.
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Ollie’s Odyssey
by William Joyce (Author / Illustrator)
Booktalk: In the secret realm of toys, there are many mysteries. There is the Code of the Toys, which is as ancient as childhood. There’s also the magic of becoming a child’s favorite, the highest honor in the Toy World. Made by hand by Billy’s mother, Ollie is a special toy, “a toy who will matter.” He becomes Billy’s best friend, confidant, pal, and yes, Billy’s “favorite.”
But there are villains in the Toy World, and Zozo, the clown king, is the most feared. He and his toy henchman (the Creeps) have sworn to steal and imprison favorite toys until they forget their children and become forever lost.
When Ollie is toynapped, Billy must rescue his beloved favorite from Zozo’s subterranean lair in the old Carnival Place, past the park, through the woods, and into the night. Never has a journey of ten blocks been more epic.
Snippet: Back at the junkyard, things were getting tense.
Billy’s my favorite, even if I’m not his, thought Ollie. He’s in danger and I’ve got to help him. He felt this with the purity and strength that comes with having been a favorite toy. He threw me away! And that thought hurt him all the way past his stuffing and into whatever kind of soul a toy has.
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