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From Story Time: Summer Reading Week 5

Read at Monday Cuentos

Cómo esconder un león a la abuela
De Helen Stephens
Beascoa, 2018.  Spanish Picture Book.

Cuando la abuela viene a quedarse, Iris tiene que esconder su león, debido a que las abuelas se llenan de ansiedad si encuentran un león en casa. Pero la abuela está actuando sospechosamente, asegurándole a Iris que también tiene su propio secreto. Para gran sorpresa de Iris, resulta que la abuela esconde un oso en su dormitorio! Este cálido y divertido relato es la continuación al ilustrado libro premiado por sus superventas, Como esconder un león, que seguro, será otro ganador con los niños en todas partes.  --Publisher




Read at Stories in the Park

Ready, Set, Sail!
Written by Meg Fleming
Illustrated by Luke Flowers
Little Bee Books, 2018.  Picture Book.

Shout your orders loud and fast. "Hoist the mainsail up the mast!"  Grab your life vest, hold on to your compass, and get ready for a day full of sailing fun with a playful tiger and turtle! Follow these salty sailors as they raise their anchor, cast off, and explore the sea in their little sloop. And after a long day of sailing, they gather and tell tales of all the things they've seen!  --Publisher




Read at Stories in the Park

By Frank Viva
Little Brown and Company, 2013.  Picture Book.

In the first reading experience of its kind, blast off on a journey through twenty-six feet of continuous vertical art, which reads beautifully no matter which cover you start from. Begin at one end, and you're on the ocean floor; follow a creature along a bright yellow trail up into deep space to his alien family's embrace. Or, start from the other end and follow an alien floating down into the depths of the ocean to rest. Whether journeying home or heading to bed, enjoy a satisfying and surprising trip from rising star Frank Viva.  --Publisher




Read at Canopy Capers

Written by Aaron Reynolds
Illustrated by David Barneda
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2013.  Picture Book.

It is a sad and sorry day when Burnt Beard the Pirate and his scurvy crew swagger into Old Cheyenne looking to bury their treasure. Black Bob McKraw—terror of the Wild West—and his posse don't take too kindly to pirates invading their town. And to add insult to injury, the pirates and cowboys can't understand a lick of what the others are saying. None of them cowboys speak Pirate, and none of them pirates speak Cowboy. Who will save the day before these sorry—and stinky!—bilge rats and yellow-bellied varmints draw their cutlasses and six-shooters?

From the creator of the hilarious Creepy Carrots, comes the story of a simple misunderstanding that almost meant the end of Old Cheyenne.  --Publisher




Read at Canopy Capers

By Gilad Soffer
Feiwel & Friends, 2015.  Picture Book.

Duck is finally going on vacation. He has a beach chair, a book, and peace and quiet. Well, almost.
When you - yes, YOU - turn the pages of this book, Duck's vacation gets really interesting! 
--Publisher




Read at Book Babies

Written by Don and Audrey Wood
Illustrated by Don Wood
Child's Play (International) Ltd., 1984.  Picture Book.

The little mouse will do anything to save his strawberry from the big, hungry bear.  The bear holds all the cards, but who is playing the fox's role?  --Publisher




Read in Friday Cuentos

Donde viven los monstruos
De Maruice Sendak
Traducción de Teresa Mlawer
Rayo, 1996.  Spanish Picture Book.

Cuando Max hace unas travesuras y su mamá le manda castigado a la cama, hay una extraña transformación en su cuarto y empieza a aparecer un bosque y luego un océano que navega hasta llegar a la Tierra de los Monstruos.  --Publisher

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