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Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A retelling of the Caribbean folktale La cucaracha Martina where Martina, in an effort to escape her noisy tías, slips away to a warm familiar island where she can play in peace and quiet--but is she home at last?
Author
Publisher
Cameron Kids
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
By clapping their hands and twinkling their fingers, the reader decorates the Christmas tree in this interactive story.
"Hooray! It’s time to decorate the tree! Can you help? Clap to turn on the lights. Twinkle your fingers to add some ornaments. Shake to add some more. (But not too hard; you don’t want to break one!) This full-color interactive picture book allows little helpers to trim the tree again and again, all season long."--
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A lively, loving serenade full of animals and rhyme that celebrates the joy of playing together. Humans become chickens and roosters, frogs and dogs, snails, whales and many more animals under the sun as children explore their creativity and uniqueness and caregivers play alongside. With messages of inclusiveness and unconditional acceptance, the rollicking, rhyming couplets depicting a day filled with dress-up and make-believe are a humorous...
Author
Publisher
Balzer and Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Maggie Smith, bestselling author of the viral poem "Good Bones" and the memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, delivers a lyrical and reassuring picture book perfect for calming active minds at bedtime (or anytime). At bedtime, when lights go out…sometimes thoughts stay on. Scary things and worries flutter and flap around. It's so hard to sleep! But a little imagination (and a lot of love) can create a cozy nest for happy thoughts—and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A second entry in the interactive board book series that began with Little Big Nate Draws a Blank finds Little Big Nate resisting his nap before finally drifting off to sleep and discovering that his imagination can take him to fascinating places in his dreams.
"Big Nate doesn't want to take a nap. But once he does drift off to sleep, he's delighted to find his imagination can take him to some fascinating places. The second book in the Little Big...
6) Jump for Joy
Author
Publisher
Astra Young Readers, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
"Kid seeks dog. Dog seeks kid. In this charming and imaginative tale of friendship, picture book readers will delight in what it means to have a furry best friend. For as long as she can remember, Joy has wanted a dog. It doesn’t matter what kind: big, little, spotted, curly. She wants one so fiercely, she makes dogs out of snow, seashells, or whatever’s at hand! However, none of the dogs Joy makes are quite what she yearns for. The seashell...
7) Digger man
Author
Series
Digger man volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company, LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A young boy imagines how he will use his digger to make a park where he and his little brother can play.
"A picture book for the very young that celebrates a child's excitement for construction vehicles 'Honk the horn! Flash the lights! Scoop the rocks! Push the mud!' A little boy imagines driving a great big digger-scooping and pushing mud to make a playground for his baby brother. Children are fascinated with bulldozers, backhoes, payloaders-diggers...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"One day a WORRY comes to stay and simply will not go away! "Whenever he was worried or whenever there was drama, Alex Allen's brain produced . . . A living breathing Llama!" Alex Allen, like lots of children, sometimes worried about things - like dancing badly or getting an answer wrong in class. But unlike lots of children, every time he worries a real-life llama appears! And the more Alex worries, the bigger Llama grows... which starts getting...
Author
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Two houses stand side by side: one is home to a dog, the other to a young girl. Though a fence divides them, girl and dog build a sweet and sturdy friendship rooted in make-believe . . . and are lonely no more"--
"The heartwarming friendship between a girl and the dog next door tenderly evokes the power of stories to bring—and keep—us together. Two houses stand side by side: one is home to a dog, the other to a young girl. Though a fence divides...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Ellie Mae's mind swirls with ideas when her teacher asks, What do you want to be when you grow up?
""What do you want to be when you grow up?" At the teacher's all-important question, Ellie Mae's mind swirls with ideas. An astronaut or a chef? Better yet, why not an astronaut-chef? Since the moon is made of cheese, her galactic grilled-cheese sandwiches could be known throughout the universe! Or . . . she could be a 'ballerina-painter,' creating...
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishing Company Incorporated
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
As a little cat comes home from a day's adventuring, her little girl imagines all the things the cat may have seen and experienced during her outing.
"An adorable, inquisitive tale which encourages readers to explore their emotions and free their imaginations as they are invited into a little cat’s world As a little cat rushes in from a day’s adventuring, her owner asks her where she’s been and what she’s seen. Was she happy? Was she brave?...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Hans Christian Andersen Award winner David Almond conjures the imaginative bond between a father and son as they pool their resources to defeat gravity and realize a dream. Joe is starstruck, determinedto find his way up, up, up to the magical lights in the night sky. “In your dreams!” his pals say. But when Joe and his dad put their heads and hearts together, there’s no stopping them. Together they climb ladders, construct towers, and...
13) Monster-Scared
Author
Publisher
Transit Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"There's a monster living in the attic. Not a loud monster but a quiet one. It's probably making a kid trap. Each night, it grows in the dark. Everyone knows monsters feed on darkness"--
For anyone who’s ever been monster-scared comes a lighthearted book about the dark. About what lives in the attic. And about discovering that monsters are―perhaps―mostly scary in your imagination. There’s a monster living in the attic. Not a loud monster...
Author
Publisher
Clavis Publishing Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"It's bedtime already? But I don't feel like going to sleep. There's so much to think about. I have so many questions! What happened to my other sock? Why is dad losing his hair? What does the sun do at night? And most of all: why am I so sleepy? The everyday questions of a little girl are visualized in the pictures with a lot of imagination"--
"This is a classic “I don’t want to go to bed” quirky bedtime story about curiosity, imagination,...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Our fearless tiny hero conquers another common childhood fear—swim lessons!—in this epic follow-up to his origin story, Tiny Barbarian. After admiring the new movie poster for Bob the Barbarian Conquers The Kraken, Tiny wants to battle a kraken in the choppy seas, too! There’s just one problem: Tiny doesn’t know how to swim! Off to the community pool for Tiny’s first swim lesson! With a swim cap stretched over his signature barbarian...
Author
Series
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Andy and Terry live in a 169-story treehouse. (It used to be a 156-story treehouse, but they've added 13 more stories.) It now has a kangaroo-riding range, a whatever-weather-you-want dome and a hall of funhouse mirrors--the perfect place to hide from the truancy officer who is trying to catch them and make them go to school! Unfortunately, the hall of funhouse mirrors is also the place where their evil trouble-making twins, Anti-Andy, Terrible Terry...
Author
Series
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When Blue Dot runs late for dinner, his fellow colors overhear something that causes them to speculate wildly on what might have happened.
"When Blue Dot is running late, his whereabouts get caught up in a hilarious chain of miscommunication. “Okay! Blue Dot is on his way.” “What? Blue Dot has joined the ballet?” “Wait no—he said he’d be here soon.” “Why did Blue Dot go to the moon?” Blue Dot is late for dinner, and...
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From international rock star Kevin Jonas and his wife Danielle Jonas comes an imagination-focused picture book about how to overcome the rainy-day doldrums and find the fun in every situation. Bella loves the beach. She loves the flip and flop slap of her feet on the sand. She loves the crash, crash, crash of the ocean waves. And she loves the gentle shush, shush of the beach umbrella in the breeze. But a rainstorm hits and Bella’s perfect...
19) Cloud babies
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Eoin Colfer, New York Times best-selling author of the Artemis Fowl series, pens a warm, empathy-building story based on illustrator Chris Judge’s family’s experience with childhood illness. Six-year-old Erin’s favorite game is spotting animals in the clouds with her mom and dad—everything from fluffy foxes and polar bears to little rabbits. Even when Erin falls very ill and has to spend a long time in the hospital, she...
Author
Series
(Anna Lois).Pages and Co volume 3
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"The final magical bookwandering adventure in the USA Today bestselling Pages & Co. series featuring Milo and Tilly as they travel into Arthurian legend to find the first bookwanderer! Perfect for fans of Chris Colfer's A Tale of Magic, Mr. Lemoncello's Library, and Lockwood & Co.! When Milo, Tilly, Oskar, and Alessia venture into Arthurian legend to find the first bookwanderer--the wizard Merlin--they discover that the magic of bookwandering is...
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