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Finding Treasure

Finding Treasure: A Collection of Collections
by Michelle Schaub (Author) and Carmen Saldana (Illustrator)

Booktalk: While everyone else is excited about presenting their treasures, one creative elementary schooler is stressed about her class’s show-and-tell assignment. How is she supposed to share her collection if she doesn’t collect anything? Polling her parents, visiting with Granny and Grandpa, and searching for the secret behind her siblings’ obsession with baseball cards, she discovers she does, in fact, have something to share: a collection of stories and poems!

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The Forest in the Trees

The Forest in the Trees
by Connie McLennan (Author / Illustrator)

Booktalk: It’s common knowledge that coast redwoods are tall, tall trees. In fact, they are the tallest trees in the world. What most people don’t know is that there is a whole other forest growing high in the canopy of a redwood forest. This adaptation of The House That Jack Built climbs into this secret, hidden habitat full of all kinds of plants and animals that call this forest home.

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These are the sprouts,
new little trees;
shooting from trunks,
massive and tall;
that lead to the forest
in the trees.

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