Author: Amy Reichert
Illustrator: Alexandra Boiger
Publisher: Atheneum Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 9781416970958
Format: Hardcover
When Violet visits her moms office on Take Your Child to Work Day (or snow days, or school holidays, or babysitter-is-sick days), she is very helpful. She answers the phone (once she stops accidentally hanging up on people!), makes business cards (after adding a snazzy personal touch!), learns how to use the paper shredder (and discovers how to make her very own confetti!), and gives the boss pointers on his presentation. With a little mayhem and a lot of joy Violet makes her mark on the office!
Author: Rebecca Elliott
Illustrator: Rebecca Elliott
Publisher: Lion Children's Book
ISBN: 9780745963235
Format: Hardcover
A strikingly illustrated story with a heartwarming message about family, love, belonging, and home at its heart Zoo girl has no family. In the children's home, she feels lost and alone. On a trip to the zoo, she is accidentally left behind. But the animals love her--and when she's discovered snuggled in a cage with the tigers by the zoo keepers and brought back to the orphanage, she doesn't want to go. Thankfully, the keepers know when they first see her that they have found a daughter at last, and return shortly with adoption papers to take her home with them. Zoo girl has found her family at last! Written with just one or two words a page, this simple tale about finding one's place in life is sure to resonate with children everywhere.
Author: Helen Frost
Illustrator: Rick Lieder
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 9780763656010
Format: Hardcover
Be still, and watch a single blade of grass.
An ant climbs up to look around.
A honeybee flies past.
What would happen if you walked very, very quietly and looked ever so carefully at the natural world outside? You might see a cricket leap, a moth spread her wings, or a spider step across a silken web. In simple, evocative language, Helen Frost offers a hint at the many tiny creatures around us. And in astonishing close-up photographs, Rick Lieder captures the glint of a katydid's eye, the glow of a firefly, and many more living wonders just awaiting discovery. Fascinating facts about all the creatures pictured may be found at the end.
Stunning close-up photography and a lyrical text implore children to look more closely at the world around them.
Author: Lizzie K. Foley
Publisher: Dial Books PPETC
ISBN: 9780803737068
Format: Hardcover
In the mountain town of Remarkable, everyone is extraordinarily talented, extraordinarily gifted, or just plain extraordinary. Everyone, that is, except Jane Doe, the most average ten-year-old who ever lived. But everything changes when the mischievous, downright criminal Grimlet twins enroll in Jane's school and a strange pirate captain appears in town.
Thus begins a series of adventures that put some of Remarkable's most infamous inhabitants and their long-held secrets in danger. It's up to Jane, in her own modest style, to come to the rescue and prove that she is capable of some rather exceptional things
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