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There Are No Bears In This Bakery

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There Are No Bears in This Bakery by Julia Sarcone-Roach

Publication Date: January 8, 2019
Format: Book
Who it’s for: Kids

Muffin the Cat takes her job providing security for her human owner’s bakery very seriously. Each night, while the baker sleeps, Muffin listens for sounds to alert her to trouble, like the rustle and squeak of mice, or the rattle and clang of raccoons. But one night, she hears a new sound. Is it rumbling? Is it growling? What could it be? Certainly not a BEAR in the bakery?! Read on to see what Muffin finds, what she does about it, and what becomes of the bakery’s stock of treats and sweets in this sweet and funny sequel to A Bear Ate Your Sandwich.

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Quiet Please, Owen McPhee!

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Quiet Please, Owen McPhee! by Trudy Ludwig
Format: Book
Who it’s For: Kids

“We have two ears and one mouth so we can listen twice as much as we speak” Epictetus.
Owen McPhee talks too much. WAY too much, according to his friends, his teachers and his hound dog Hannah! He talks so much that it gets in the way of his listening, with pretty serious consequences for his friends and their science projects… But the next day Owen wakes up with LARYNGITIS! No voice? No TALKING?? What’s a super-chatty kid to do? Read on and see how Owen deals with his laryngitis and learns something about listening and friendship in the process. Make sure to check out Owen’s calendar on the very last page! There are even questions in the back for further discussion with your own chatty ones.

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The Amazing Collection of Joey Cornell

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The Amazing Collection of Joey Cornell by Candace Fleming
Format: Book
Who’s It For: Kids

Is your little a collector of things?  Do you love colors, shapes, textures? Then The Amazing Collection of Joey Cornell is your book, and Joseph Cornell will be your inspiration! Before he was an artist and a filmmaker, Joseph Cornell was first a collector. From a young age he added any object to his collection that intrigued him-and everything intrigued him! His parents brought little bits and trinkets home to him as well, and as his collection grew he would give shows of his “Relic Museum” in the barn to his family. When he grew up, he began using his collection of found objects to make amazing collages and shadowboxes. Joseph never trained as an artist, but his work eventually made its way to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York! A fascinating story of an unusual boy and his unusual art, with biographical information and a short bibliography at the very end.

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Dump Truck’s Colors & Cement Mixer’s ABC

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Coming Soon! Dump Truck’s Colors & Cement Mixer’s ABC  by Sherri Rinker & Ethan Long
October 2, 2018
Format: Board Book
Who’s it For: Babies & Toddlers

Dump Truck and Cement Mixer from the beloved bedtime book Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site are back, this time in a pair of board books for the littlest truck-lovers! Dump truck loves to haul and dump heavy, colorful loads all day, under the blue sky in the morning and the white moon at night, discovering every color of the rainbow along the way. Meanwhile, Cement Mixer is happiest when he’s spinning up a fresh load of cement and pouring it out on the job site, learning A-Z construction vocabulary as he works.
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Millie Fierce

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Millie Fierce by Jane Manning
Format: Book
Who it’s for: Kids

Millie is such a quiet, ordinary girl that no one listens to her or notices her, or gives her more than a tiny piece of cake at parties. She feels almost invisible, like the smudge left by the mean girls who walk through her chalk drawing on the sidewalk. One day Millie has had enough of being invisible. She gets mad- no, she gets Fierce! Now Millie Fierce stomps about and howls, throws food and leaves muddy handprints on the wall. She even pulls the buds off the neighbor’s peony bush! She is noisy and pushy –and now everyone notices her. But not in a good way. When her wild behavior hurts a friend, Millie begins to rethink her particular brand of fierceness, and finds there is room inside her for both Kind and Fierce.

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Edgar Gets Ready for Bed

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Edgar Gets Ready for Bed by Jennifer Adams, Illustrated by Ron Stucki, Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”
Format:  Book
Who it’s for: Kids

Little Raven Edgar doesn’t want to get ready for bed.  When mommy asks him to eat his dinner, be nice to his sister, clean up his mess and take his bath, his answer to her is always, “Nevermore!”  Mommy is getting tired and very frustrated but finally takes time to read him a story.  She read “The Raven” by E. A. Poe.

This is a charming bedtime story to read to your little ones.  It has simple illustrations and very real conversations between Mommy and Edgar.  I loved the sweet ending that reassures baby bird that his mother will love him “Evermore”.

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