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From Story Time: The Letter "D"

 
Toddler Time
Written by Carrie Finison
Illustrated by Brianne Farley
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2020. Picture Book.

A generous but increasingly put-upon bear makes batch after batch of doughnuts for her woodland friends without saving any for herself. --Editor

Preschool Time
By Tom Tinn-Disbury
North Mankato, Minnesota: Capstone Editions, a Capstone imprint, 2022. Picture Book.

Brian the lion loves to dance, but since lions are supposed to be fierce he hides his talent from his lion friends--until they explain that they also have talents that are not particularly fierce. --Editor

Preschool Time
By Sujean Rim
New York: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2018. Picture Book.

What do the animals at the zoo do when the gates close at night? They boogie until dawn! --Publisher

Book Babies
Written by Larissa Juliano
Illustrated by Francesca De Luca
New York: Clever Publishing, 2020. Board Book.

Explore all of the delights and surprises to be found in Nana's Garden. Join our young gardener as she spends her Sundays picking juicy red tomatoes, catching beautiful black and orange butterflies, counting the daisies in her basket, scooping up caterpillars, and much more. Larissa Juliano's joyful word play begs to be read aloud again and again to toddlers sitting on laps ... and dreaming of sunny days in Nana's garden. --Editor

Monday Cuentos
By Alessandra Montagnana
Madrid: NubeOcho, 2022. Libro Illustrado. 

Un día, la foca Mila encontró una roca muy especial. Cuando conoció a Carlos, su roca se convirtió en la roca de Mila y Carlos. --Editor

Friday Cuentos 
Written by Shannon Hale
Illustrated by Leuyen Pham
Mexico City : Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, 2023. Libro Illustrado.

Gata cree que podría ser un unicornio. ¡Se siente tan unicórnica! --Editor

Cuentitos
By Eileen Christelow
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014. Libro de Cartón.

Cuando Mamá toma los cinco monitos al río para hacer un picnic, se enteraron de lo que sucede cuando se burlan de un cocodrilo. --Editor

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