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From Story Time: Summer Week 5

Stories in the Park
By Breanna Carzoo
New York: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2022. Picture Book. 

Meet Lou. Lou has an important job... as the neighborhood toilet for dogs on their walks. Useful as he may be, he gets the feeling that deep down inside, there might be more to him than that. He just doesn't seem to know exactly what yet. When disaster strikes, will Lou find out what he's made of and save the day? --Publisher

Stories in the Park
By Nicola Kinnear
New York: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2020. Picture Book.

 Logan has always been a stay-at-home bunny, too scared to join his best friend Luna in her adventures; but one day after she has stormed out he works up the courage to follow her--and when he finds that she is in trouble he even has the courage to save her. --Editor

Canopy Capers and Summer Story Time
By Duncan Beedie
Somerville, MA: Templar Books, an imprint of Candlewick Press, 2020. Picture Book.

Molly the moth loves her home and her family but she yearns for adventure. So by day she helps her mother look after the larvae, and by night she prepares for her space mission to the moon! It's no easy feat for a little moth to fly all the way to the moon but Molly is not a moth to give up on her dreams. --Editor

Canopy Capers and Summer Story Time
Written by Bruce Handy
Illustrated by Ashleigh Corrin
New York : Enchanted Lion Books, 2023. Picture Book. 

Considers how our world would change and how we would feel if it lacked birds, water, plants, bugs or people--and wonders what makes our world what it is and if all we need is already here in front of us. --Editor

Book Babies
Written by Maryann Macdonald
Illustrated by Rahele Jomepour Bell

Children playing illustrate simple concepts such as old and new, fast and slow, and happy and sad. --Editor

Cuentos
By Ryan T. Higgins
Barcelona: RBA Libros : RBA Molino, 2019. Libro illustrado.

Penélope empieza el colegio. ¡Por fin va a conocer a sus compañeros! Pero le va a costar hacer amigos humanos si son tan deliciosos... --Publisher

Cuentitos
Written by Patty Rodriguez
Illustrated by Ariana Stein 
United States: Little Libros, LLC, 2016. Libro de cartón. 

Inspirado por el ͠ltimo emperador azteca de Tenochtitlan, este libro presentar̀ formas y sus primeras palabras en ingľs y en espąol a sus pequęos. --Publisher

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