How Old is a Whale?: Animal Life Spans from the Mayfly to the Immortal Jellyfish
by Lily Murray (Goodreads Author), Jesse Hodgson
In this book we learn about the lifespans of different animals. Their habitats, their diet, and their life cycle all play a part in how they live a short or long time. We start with the mayfly, which only lives for a few minutes, and go all the way to the immortal jellyfish, which appears to be able to regenerate itself over and over.
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World’s Worst Time Machine (Volume 1)
by Dustin Brady, Dave Bardin (Illustrator)
At the garage sale of a famous scientist, Liam finds a box labeled, “World’s Worst Time Machine”, and decides to try it out. He slaps together a few wires, sticks an old-fashioned telephone onto it, hooks up half an ink-jet printer, fastens it all together with duct tape, and plugs it in. His friend Elsa warns him not to mess with time travel, but Liam is too excited to listen. And of course, disaster strikes! He gets mixed up with the wrong Thomas Edison, a dastardly gang of gangsters, and a mysteriously dangerous bronze dog statue. But through all his adventures with time, it becomes apparent that Elsa is hiding some secret knowledge of her own.
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Mole’s Quiet Place
by Jane Chapman
Mole and Beaver light a lantern in their window each night, and the light welcomes their friends to come visit. At first they have a fairly quiet evening with a small group, but each night more and more animal friends show up for cake and music and talking. It ends up being a lot of noise! Too much for Mole, who longs for some quiet time alone. Mole confides in Beaver, who hatches a plan to make sure Mole can have the alone time she needs to rest and recharge.
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When Little Owl Met Little Rabbit
by Przemysław Wechterowicz, Emilia Dziubak (Illustrator)
Little Owl is only awake during the night, and Little Rabbit is only awake during the day, so the two have never met. But they long to become friends, and one moonlit night they meet at last. Little Rabbit stays up late, and Little Owl gets up early, and they have a lovely time playing together. But they aren’t able to meet very often, and they wish on a shooting star that they could spend more time together.
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Our Incredible Library Book [and the wonderful journeys it took]
by Caroline Crowe, John Joseph (Illustrated by)
A library book takes a journey from reader to reader as different children check it out from the library. Some children read it when they are sick in bed. Some children spill their hot chocolate on it a little. The book gets wet from being splashed in the rain or in the bathtub. Children read it with their grandparents, parents, friends, and siblings. They even read it out loud to their pets. One child reads the book backwards! Through all of the different children who borrow the book, they share their love of reading.
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Too Many Rabbits
by Davide Calì, Emanuele Benetti (Illustrator), Angus Yuen-Killick (Translator)
What happens when you bring home a pet rabbit? It hops around and poops and chews on your furniture. What happens when you bring home TWO pet rabbits? They make a lot of little baby rabbits, until your house is overrun with hundreds of rabbits who hop around and poop everywhere!
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Emma and the Blue Genie
by Cornelia Funke (Goodreads Author)
Emma finds a bottle washed up on the seashore, and inside is a genie! But the genie has lost his magic because another genie stole his nose ring. Emma and the genie travel by magic carpet to the land of Barakash where they hope to retrieve the stolen nose ring. However, the entire land is being terrorized and Emma will have to think quickly if she wants to get her three wishes.
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The Story of Fred Rogers: A Biography Book for New Readers
by Susan B. Katz (Goodreads Author)
I loved Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood tv show as a kid, and it is lovely to read more about Mr. Roger’s life and how he started his tv show for kids. He was a wonderful Christian, and it’s incredible to see how his faith in God inspired him to help children and teach them that God loves them.
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My First Pop-Up Endangered Animals
by Owen Davey
We learn amazing facts about endangered animals in this colorful pop-up book. Each page features an animal that is in danger, and gives us a little bit of information about their habits. The blue whale is the largest mammal in the world! A tiger’s stripes are as special as a fingerprint. An okapi has a long tongue to grab leaves off tall trees. The kakapo parrot cannot fly. Galapagos penguins mate for life. The whale shark is the biggest fish in the sea!
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Where Kids Go to School Around the World (Kids Around the World)
by Štěpánka Sekaninová
In this book we learn about education all around the world. Children in different countries tell us about their school, their teachers, and what they learn each day. There is a floating school on a boat in Bangladesh, a school in a refugee camp, and English boarding school, and even a school in a hospital.
There are also religious schools for Buddhist monks and for Muslim girls.
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