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"Initially bewildered children learn how to navigate big concepts like democracy, pandemic, and understand things like solidarity"--

A retelling of the Caribbean folktale La Cucaracha Martina, in which Martina, in an effort to escape her noisy tâias, slips away to a warm familiar island where she can play in peace and quiet--but is she home at last?

"A mama bird tries to convince a baby bird to leave the nest"--

Bob the bird keeps trying to fly, but is beginning to worry that he will never succeed when Crow comes by with a suggestion to "just breathe."

After learning about the millions of birds dying for their feathers, Harriet starts the Massachusetts Audubon Society, dedicated to the conservation and protection of birds. Includes instructions on birdwatching and how to make pretend binoculars.

Africa enters a double Dutch contest without knowing how to double Dutch, and on her journey to learn her friends show her how to jive, step, clap Miss Mary Mack, and do cartwheels.

Lala, Babyboy, and their parents struggle to cope with the loss of their home to Hurricane Katrina, but find joy again in the celebration of Mardi Gras. Includes facts about Hurricane Katrina and glossary.

"It's Christmas Eve and Bulldozer doesn't know what to get his friends for Christmas. With a little creativity, he will turn trash into treasure"--

"Musa and his sister travel to a Zanzibar beach in a shared minibus which, despite Musa's protests, gets loaded with everything from a man and his bicycle to ten swimmers."--]cProvided by publisher.

Takes a look at change, from the innocent and everyday to the gigantic and irreversible, as well as how some things remain the same.

Send little spies to sleep with this hilarious, tongue-in-cheek lullaby set to the tune of Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.Dear Fellow Agents: Your mission—should you choose to accept it—is to join Secret, Secret Agent Guy on his bedtime assignment, code name: Operation Lollipop. Equipped with night-vision goggles, a jetpack, and grappling hook, he is prepared for every eventuality...or is he? Will this 007-year-old complete his covert quest, or will he be outsmarted by an adversary he never saw coming?

"Gabo, shy with other children and having no sled or winter clothing, yearns to go sledding and his neighbor's granddaughter, Isa, helps him find a way."--Provided by publisher.

Beloved author-illustrator Lita Judge reminds readers that even the biggest and bravest were once small...and even the smallest can become anything they choose to be.There is strength in even the smallest things. Just as a bird grows within her egg, and a cub becomes a brave big bear, you too will grow. Patience, little one. And remember… even the smallest will grow. This beautiful and comforting book reassures children that the world is not too big but rather a place where there is room for everyone?and time enough to grow.

"An ode to the essential workers keeping the country operating during the Covid-19 pandemic"--

What do a whatchful fly and a weight-bearing whale have in common? A grateful saint -- a saint whose life of work and devotion to God wouldn't have been the same without the loyalty. the friendship of a lion or a blackbird, an eagle or a deer. Other saints in these stories -- two of the liveliest are women -- deal cleverly with animals who act up: snakes in one instance, greedy geese in another. But in each of these stories, the commonality of all living things is luminously celebrated. The ten saints, whose biographies are given in the last pages, are named on the back of this jacket.

Twelve-year-old Lou Montgomery's life has been centered on her mother's terrifying plan to make her a singing star, but a crisis reveals Lou's sensory processing disorder and people determined to help her address it.