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Read in Monday Book Babies

By Morag Hood
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.  Picture Book.

Colin is tall.  He's orange.  He's nothing like Lee.  He can't do any of the things Lee and his pals can do.  How can they ever be friends?  A charming celebration of embracing differences and standing out in a crowd.  --Publisher




Read in Monday Book Babies

By Juana Medina
Viking, 2016.  Picture Book.

1 Avocado Deer.  2 Radish Mice.  3 Pepper Monkeys.  Are you hungry yet??  Counting from one to ten, 1 Big Salad fills a bowl with the most delicious and delightful vegetables.  Here is a truly scrumptious way to learn numbers...and eat them, too!  --Publisher




Read in Monday Cuentos

By Paloma Valdivia
Kalandraka, 2014.  Spanish Picture Book.

En el mundo existen dos tipos de habitantes: los de arriba y los de abajo. Los de arriba viven igual que los de abajo. Y los de abajo viven igual que los de arriba, pero al revés.  --Publisher




Read in Toddler Time

By Heidi McKinnon
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2017.  Picture Book.

I just ate my friend.  He was a good friend.  But now he is gone.  Would you be my friend?  A hilarious story about the search for friendship and belonging--and maybe a little bit about the importance of impulse control--from a new talent.  --Publisher




Read in Preschool Time

Written By Ann Marie Stephens
Illustrated by Tracy Subisak
Boyds Mills Press, 2017.  Picture Book.

Cy the Cyclops can make just about anything, except a friend. Even practicing skills such a making eye contact and winking doesn’t seem to help. Then Cy remembers that it’s nice to share, so he turns his talent for making things to creating a special something just right for two.

This charming tale about finding a friend celebrates kindness, generosity, and being true to yourself, and features fresh, colorful artwork. An author’s note with information about Cyclopes and many other mythological creates in the book is included.  --Publisher




Read in Preschool Time

By Suzanne Bloom
Boyds Mills Press, 2005.  Picture Book.

Bear wants to read and write and think.  Goose wants to talk and talk and talk.  Can Bear and Goose be friends?  Suzanne Bloom's picture book says volumes about friendship with a few select words and charming illustrations in this Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book.  --Publisher




Read in Friday Book Babies

By Lane Smith
Roaring Brook Press, 2011.  Picture Book.

He was a boy on a farm and a kid with chickenpox.  He was a soldier, and a husband, and a gardener, and most of all, an artist.  Follow Grandpa Green's great-grandson through a garden where memories are handed down in the fanciful shapes of topiary trees and imagination recreates things forgotten.  In his most enigmatic and beautiful work to date, noted picture book creator Lane Smith explores aging, memory, and the bonds of family history and love.  By turns touching and whimsical, Grandpa Green opens the door to a garden of wonder for parents, grandparents, and children alike.  --Publisher




Read in Friday Cuentos

Pedro Preocupadáctilo
Texto de Brian Moses
Illustraciones de Mike Gordon
Anaya, 2016.  Spanish Picture Book.

Pedro Preocupadáctilo es pequeño pero tiene grandes preocupaciones. Todo le inquieta: desde que no amanezca cada mañana hasta no poder hacer las cosas tan bien como sus amigos. ¿Conseguirá alguna vez dejar de preocuparse tanto? Una forma divertida y desenfadada de analizar distintos sentimientos y actitudes que los niños y las niñas deben aprender a superar. 
--Publisher

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