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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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Whale in a Fishbowl

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Whale in a Fishbowl by Troy Howell & Richard Jones Illustrator
Format: Book
Who it’s for: Children & To All Who Are Waiting… Unknowingly to be Free!

Wednesday is a Whale who lives in a gigantic fishbowl in the middle of the city. She always watches the people hurrying, pedaling, wheeling and worrying around her. Wednesday can’t see anything but the busy city until she jumps up, then catches a glimpse of blue. Blue made heart soar and she loved leaping up to see it. The people around her thought she was doing tricks. But, Wednesday just wanted one more glimpse. When she wasn’t leaping, she stayed at the bottom. One day a little girl tapped on the glass,”Hey.” They gazed at each other. Her eyes were blue too. “My name is Piper. You don’t belong in there.” As Piper was leaving she called, “You belong in the sea!”
The sea. What is the sea? Thought Wednesday.
Because whales don’t belong in fishbowls do they?
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The Sunhat

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The Sunhat by Jennifer Ward, illustrations by Stephanie Roth Sisson
Format: Book
Who it’s for: Kids

Rosa has a beautiful red sunhat that fits snug upon her head. On her way to school one morning, a hot dry wind whooshes the hat from Rosa’s head and carries it away. The wind drops things where it wishes and on this day sets the sunhat down way out in the desert, where animals come across it one by one. Each seeks shelter underneath it, from sun or from storm, until there is a crowd of desert animals inside, stretching the poor sunhat this way and that! When the storm ends, a wind blows by and whooshes the hat off and away, dropping it into the path of none other than Rosa on her way home from school. The Sunhat is a lovely semi-rhyming story about a beloved hat and its desert adventure.

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