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1) Coyote tales
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IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Two tales, set in a time when animals and human beings still talked to each other, display Thomas King's cheeky humor and master storytelling skills. Freshly illustrated and re-issued as an early chapter book, these stories are perfect for newly independent readers.
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It's spring on the Pacific west coast and new life is stirring! Wild babies are being born - in the ocean, on the shore and deep inside the ancient rainforest. Wolf pups, cougar kittens, bear cubs and whale calves all begin their life in the pristine wilderness of this magnificent place. Readers will see an extraordinary community of animals thriving in an interconnected web of life. The text and art have been carefully checked for scientific accuracy....
3) Forest
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Invites young readers to consider what they see and experience in the forest through the seasons.
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"Hanging upside down in a tree, Sydney imagines he is a sleepy, sun-bathing sloth. And that's where Sami finds him. Sami thinks sloths are too slow, so she scampers up the tree and becomes a spider monkey...One after another, the neighborhood kids wanderby and slip into a shared imaginative world...until Edward the elephant fills up his trunk and--WHOOSH--sends the children galloping home"--
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"A charming tribute to the quirkiness of collective nouns ... puns and wordplay abound." - Foreword, starred review
A sloth of bears, a smack of jellyfish, a nuisance of cats - these are some of the surprising and idiosyncratic names we have for groups of animals. Inspired by the evocative possibilities of collective nouns, also called "terms of venery," author Kyle Lukoff and illustrator Natalie Nelson have created a picture book full of clever wordplay...
7) Loon
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The haunting call of a loon is quintessential summertime for many people. These majestically beautiful birds breed on northern lakes during the spring and summer, and when fall arrives, they migrate to open coastal waters. Young loons stay on the ocean for three or four years until they mature and their gray feathers molt, turning to the beautiful black-and-white patterned feathers by which they are known. At this point, they return to an inland lake...
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A ringed seal, known in Inuktitut as nattiq, has returned to his Arctic home after a long journey south. His friends - a polar bear, caribou, raven, walrus and narwhal - gather round to hear about his trip.
"What did you see beyond our land?" shouts the polar bear.
nattiq describes the amazing sights he has seen - from crystal clear waters full of giant icebergs to the tundra in full summertime bloom to strange, tall statues, far to the south. The...
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A cocky morning crowing and a day-break braying. For the brother and sister in this novel in verse, each day begins with a barnyard wakeup call. During a summer spent on their grandparents' farm, they collect eggs from the chicken coop, put on shows for city folks in passing trains, fill in for the farm dog by barking the cows home and dance around the perfectly ripening watermelon growing in Grandma's garden. All of these barnyard adventures happen...
11) Rooster / Gallo
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The song of the rooster draws forth the universe and gives way to the dance of beings and objects as day draws its first brilliant breath. This book is so supremely simple that a baby can delight in it, and yet so complex that an adult reader can find joy in the poem and beautiful images over and over again.
Jorge Lujan dreamed this myth and, when he wrote it, understood that the rooster is the poet of the day. Manuel Monroy dipped his pen in the...
14) Norman, Speak!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Norman, Speak! tells the comical yet thought-provoking story of a boy and his family who adopt a dog that just can't seem to learn the things other dogs do.
Overwhelmed by dogs in need at their local animal shelter, a young boy chooses Norman, the stray that's been there the longest. But, upon bringing him home, the family quickly learns that Norman won't respond to commands. He doesn't even know his own name.
During a chance encounter with another...
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Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories is one of the best-loved story collections ever written for children. Now Ian Wallace, one of Canada's most accomplished children's book illustrators, reinterprets the famous tales with his vibrant art, bringing Kipling to a whole new generation of young readers. Kipling wrote the stories for his young daughter, who would only sleep if they were told "just so." The first edition was published in Great Britain in 1902,...
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Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories is one of the best-loved story collections ever written for children. In this companion to Volume I, published in fall 2013, acclaimed children's book illustrator Ian Wallace once again reinterprets the famous tales with luminous art, bringing Kipling to a new generation of young readers. Many of the tales are origin stories, explaining, for example, how an animal came to be, or the how the alphabet and writing began....
18) Wounded Falcons
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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A story about the heart-opening effect that taking care of a wounded creature has on a wounded boy, from acclaimed picture-book creators Jairo Buitrago and Rafael Yockteng.
Adrián is always in trouble, at school and at home, while Santiago gets along quite well. But they are friends. When Adrián finds a wounded bird in an abandoned lot in the midst of the city, things begin to change. Taking care of the bird, learning all about it, discovering...
19) Don't
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This cleverly conceived board book appeals to a young child's sense of fun while providing facts about different animals. A series of impossible but delightful-to-imagine cautionary statements are followed by informative explanations: Don't take a bath with a pig. It loves wallowing in the mud. Don't start a food fight with an octopus. It has six more arms than you do. The simplicity and humor in the text and watercolor illustrations will make this...
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Grant Wood believed that to be a real artist, he had to live in Paris. But once he got there, he realized that to be a great painter he needed to return to the people and places-and even animals-that he knew and loved the best.Inspired by the life of artist Grant Wood, this is the sensitively imagined story of the great American painter and a cow named Tillie. Skillfully mixing fact with fiction, Monica Kulling's text explores the making of an artist,...
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