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Finding Grateful any place, any time

Finding Grateful, by Dianne White/Illustrated by Faith Pray, (Apr. 2024, Chronicle Books), $17.99, ISBN: 9781797211237 Ages 5-7 A child and her mother embrace mindfulness and find gratitude in everything around them in this lyrical picture book that encourages readers to take time to enjoy the small moments: waving at neighbors, running barefoot in the grass and listening to a plane fly overhead,…

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#Chronicle Books #Dianne White #Faith Pray #Finding Grateful #gratitude #mindfulness #small moments

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More Earth Day Reading!

There’s more Earth Day reading to be discovered! Water : Discovering the Precious Resource All Around Us, by Olga Fadeeva, Translated by Lena Traer, (April 2024, Eerdmans Books for Young Readers), $18.99, ISBN: 9780802856227 Ages 8-13 Never let it be said that beautiful picture books are only for younger readers. This informative book about water has beautiful illustrations and is loaded with…

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#Earth Day #Eerdmans Books for Young Readers #home #Isabelle Simler #Lena Traer #natural world #Olga Fadeeva #Vineet Lal #water #Water : Discovering the Precious Resource All Around Us

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New Earth Day Reads!

Earth Day is right around the corner! There are some great new books to have ready for a great readaloud. Let’s take a look. Miss MacDonald Has a Farm, by Kalee Gwarjanski/Illustrated by Elizabet Vuković, (March 2024, Doubleday Books for Young Readers), $18.99, ISBN: 9780593568163 Ages 3-7 It’s a new spin on an old favorite! Miss MacDonald has a farm, and she loves to grow her own food in this…

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#Charlesbridge #Chicken Soup for the Soul #Chicken Soup for the Soul KIDS #Doubleday Books for Young Readers #Earth Day #Elizabet Vukovic #farming #food #gardening #Jamie Michalak #Jenna Nahyun Chung #Jieun Kiaer #Kalee Gwarjanski #kindness #Miss MacDonald Has a Farm #nature #plants #rhyming #seeds #songs #Sook-Hee Choi #Sunshine Squad #teamwork #The Sunshine Garden: Being a Team Player #You Are a Little Seed

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Table Titans Club - read it!

Table Titans Club, by Scott Kurtz, (March 2024, Holiday House), $22.99, ISBN: 9780823453160 Ages 8-12 Eisner Award Winner Scott Kurtz crafts a hands-down fantastic story about the power of a good role-playing group in this middle grade graphic novel. Val – short for Valeria – is the new kid in school, and she’s got a bit of a temper. Luckily, a schoolmate named Andrew decides she’s just what the…

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#Dungeons & Dragons #friendship #Holiday House #roleplaying #Scott Kurtz #social emotional learning #Table Titans Club

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Elise Gravel turns her microscope to Club Microbe

Club Microbe, by Elise Gravel, (Apr 2024, Drawn & Quarterly), $17.95, ISBN: 9781770467026 Ages 5+ Elise Gravel makes some of the most fun science series: Club Microbe joins the ranks of Mushroom Fan Club and The Bug Club, making adorable cartoons out of subjects kids would normally scrunch their noses up at. Club Microbe is all about microorganisms: viruses, algae, bacteria, you name it, Gravel…

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#Club Microbe #Drawn & Quarterly #Elise Gravel #germs #microbes #science

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Happy Book Birthday to VP Anderson & Tatiana Hill's Blood City Rollers!

Blood City Rollers, by V.P. Anderson/Illustrated by Tatiana Hill, (Apr. 2024, Labyrinth Road/Random House Graphic), $13.99, ISBN: 9780593485712 Ages 8-12 What do you get when you a human ice skater joins a vampire roller derby team? A fun story about found family and discovering not only who we are, but what we really want from life. Mina Murray is a 13-year-old figure skater whose mom has big…

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#Blood City Rollers #crushes #found family #friendship #Labyrinth Road #LGBTQ #paranormal #Random House Graphic #roller derby #Tatiana Hill #VP Anderson

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Solar Eclipse resources

Yes, the solar eclipse is upon us… again. We thought we’d get a break after the 2017 Eclipse Glasses Madness, but it’s back and libraries everywhere are  besieged with phone calls and visitors asking the eternal question, “Do you have any of those eclipse glasses?” We’re out, but we’re getting more on Monday, just in time for the event itself. For those of you still in the heat of handing out…

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#2024 #astronomy #Solar Eclipse #STEM/STEAM

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Blog Tour: I Am Gravity, by Henry Herz

In 2021, Henry Herz and Tilbury House published I Am Smoke, a lyrical meditation into our world as seen through the eyes of Smoke: its presence in history, science, and culture. Now, we can look forward to its companion, releasing on April 16th: I Am Gravity. I Am Gravity, by Henry Herz/Illustrated by Mercè López, (Apr. 2024, Tilbury House), $18.95, ISBN: 9781668936849 Ages 4-8 Narrated by…

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#gravity #Henry Herz #I Am Gravity #Mercè López #natural world #nature #science #STEM/STEAM #Tilbury House

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Where Do Ocean Creatures Sleep at Night? Fun for bedtime and storytime

Where Do Ocean Creatures Sleep at Night?, by Steven J. Simmons & Clifford R. Simmons/Illustrated by Ruth E. Harper, (Apr. 2024, Charlesbridge Publishing), $17.99, ISBN: 9781623542979 Ages 3-7 Ocean animals sleep just like land animals do – and like kids do, too! This rhyming story is nonfiction that reads like a bedtime story and will appeal to younger learners. Beginning and closing with human…

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#animals #Charlesbridge #Cllifford R Simmons #marine life #natural world #ocean life #rhyming #Ruth E Harper #sea life #Steven J Simmons #underwater life #Where Do Ocean Creatures Sleep at Night?

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A British Girl's Guide to Hurricanes and Heartbreak coming to paperback in August!

A British Girl’s Guide to Hurricanes and Heartbreak, by Laura Taylor-Namey, (Sept. 2023, Atheneum Books for Young Readers), $19.99, ISBN: 9781665915335 Ages 12+ I am a latecomer to this one – my 2023 was a case study in “my spirit was willing but my reading ability was weak” – but you don’t need to be! Flora is grieving. Her mother has died after a long illness, and her grief is mixed with the…

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#A British Girls Guide to Hurricanes and Heartbreak #Atheneum Books for Young Readers #bakeries #grief and loss #Laura Taylor Namey #love triangle #Romance

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Batter Up: Books for Baseball Season!

The baseball season just started earlier this week, and the kids in my library are loving it (we’re stops from CitiField, so we’ve got a lot of Mets fans here – and we even have a Mets library card). What else happens during baseball season? Baseball books! Let’s take a look at a few recently out. Closet of Dreams, by Mark Ukra and Tara Mesalik MacMahon/Illustrated by Donna Dyer, (March 2024,…

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#baseball #Closet of Dreams #Donna Dyer #Extra Innings #Fred Bowen #grandparents #historical fiction #Holiday House #intergenerational relationship #Mark Ukra #parent-child relationships #Peachtree Publishers #racism #Sandra W Heaton #social commentary #sports #Tara Mesalik MacMahon #Warrior on the Mound

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Minecrafters! Get ready for tasty treats with The Crafter's Kitchen!

The Crafter’s Kitchen: An Official Minecraft Cookbook for Young Chefs and Their Families : An Official Minecraft Cookbook for Young Chefs and Their Families, by The Official Minecraft Team, (March 2024, Random House Worlds), $24.99, ISBN: 9780593579923 Ages 8+ Who doesn’t love a tasty treat, especially when it’s related to a video game that you love? Last year, I was all about Gather, Cook, Eat!,…

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#baking #cookbooks #Crafter&039;s Kitchen #environmental education #minecraft #Official Minecraft Team #Random House Worlds #recipes #The Crafter&039;s Kitchen: An Official Minecraft Cookbook for Young Chefs and Their Families : An Official Minecraft Cookbook for Young Che #The Gourmand

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Season's Readings: Pick a Perfect Easter Egg

Pick a Perfect Egg, by Patricia Toht/Illustrated by Jarvis, (Feb. 2023, Candlewick Press), $17.99, ISBN: 9781536228472 Ages 3-5 I really enjoy a good holiday story from Toht and Jarvis, who’ve created holiday stories like Pick a Pine Tree and Pick a Pumpkin. Pick a Perfect Easter Egg celebrates a child and mother getting ready for Easter, from their trip to a farm to choose eggs, going home to…

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#Candlewick Press #Easter #holidays #Jarvis #Patricia Toht #Pick a Perfect Egg #Spring

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Not-so Happily Ever After? The Princess Protection Program is here for you

The Princess Protection Program, by Alex London, (Feb. 2024, Greenwillow Books), $18.99, ISBN: 9780063303874 Ages 8-12 Did you ever think about whether or not Sleeping Beauty really wanted to be kissed by some guy she never knew after being asleep for 100 years? Or if The Little Mermaid would have made a different choice if she’d know she was going to turn into foam at the end of her story?…

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#Alex London #fairy tales #flipped fairy tales #Greenwillow Books #princesses #The Princess Protection Program

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Happy World Storytelling Day! The Storyteller, by Lindsay Bonilla & Noar Lee Naggan

It’s World Storytelling Day! Time to bring people (and animals!) together and weave a world of stories. Let’s start with Lindsay Bonilla and Noar Lee Naggan’s beautiful fable, The Storyteller. The Storyteller, by Lindsay Bonilla/Illustrated by Noar Lee Naggan, (March 2024, Nancy Paulsen Books), $18.99, ISBN: 9780593109588 Ages 4-7 Griffin’s grandmother is The Storyteller: she spins incredible…

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#death #grandparents #grief and loss #intergenerational relationship #Lindsay Bonilla #Nancy Paulsen Books #Noar Lee Naggan #The Storyteller

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Continental Drifter seeks belonging

Continental Drifter, by Kathy MacLeod, (Apr. 2024, First Second), $14.99, ISBN: 9781250813749 Ages 8-12 Eleven-year-old Kathy lives in Bangkok with her Thai mother, American father, and her sister. The family doesn’t seem to interact much, so Kathy’s looking forward to the family trip to her father’s family in Maine: – with a summer camp trip-within-a-trip included! Feeling like she doesn’t quite…

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#:01FirstSecond #AAPI #Asian #Bangkok Thailand #Continental Drifter #families #intergenerational relationship #Kathy MacLeod #Macmillan #memoir

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There's No Such Thing as Vegetables? Fantastic, can't wait to tell my kids!

There’s No Such Thing as Vegetables, by Kyle Lukoff/Illustrated by Andrea Tsurumi, (Feb. 2024, Henry Holt & Company), $18.99, ISBN: 9781250867841 Ages 4-8 Chester is a kid who just wants to get some vegetables from the community garden so his mom can make him a salad. He gets schooled by the garden’s inhabitants on the many groups that fall under the “vegetable umbrella”. Broccoli? That’s a…

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#Andrea Tsurumi #concepts #Henry Holt & Co. #Kyle Lukoff #semantics #social construct #There&039;s No Such Thing as Vegetables #vegetables #words