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From Story Time: Summer Week 3

Stories in the Park
Written by Mike Allegra
Illustrated by Jenn Harney
Salem, MA: Page Street Kids, 2023. Picture Book. 

What happens when a pirate, hoping for a parrot, stumbles upon a bird of a duller plumage? Pirate doesn't know that Penguin is a penguin. But any bird can sit on a shoulder and squawk 'shiver me timbers' ... right? Laugh along with Pirate and Penguin in this high seas tale of mistaken identity and find out whether they'll find friendship before somebody walks the plank. --Publisher

Stories in the Park
Written by Timothy Knapman
Illustrated by Nikki Dyson
Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2016. Picture Book.

A little boy tries to persuade his mother that dinosaurs don't have bedtimes. --Editor

Canopy Capers and Summer Story Time
By David Shannon
New York: The Blue Sky Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2020. Picture Book.

Roy is a West Highland terrier who loves to dig in the dirt and mud; sometimes he buries things, and sometimes he finds things, but mostly he just likes to dig--even though he does not like the bath that may follow the digging. --Editor

Canopy Capers and Summer Story Time
By Yuval Zommer
Somerville, MA: Templar Books, an imprint of Candlewick Press, 2016. Picture Book.

Scruff the dog is a stray who just loves to dig. It doesn't make him the most popular dog in town. But when he sniffs out a pile of old bones, he gets all the neighborhood dogs to help him. They uncover not one, not two, not three ... but 100 bones and make the most exciting dinosaur discovery of all time! Scruff's find wins him new friends and a new home. --Publisher

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