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Based on a true family story, this inspiring picture book about the Armenian Genocide shares an often-overlooked history and honors the resilience of the Armenian people.
What is it like to walk away from your home? To leave behind everything and everyone you've ever known? Poetic, sensitive, and based on a true family history, Lost Words follows a young Armenian boy from the day he sets out to find refuge to the day he finally finds the courage...
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Simple, rhyming text celebrates all the amazing things fathers can do.
"Like Father, Like Son is a sweet celebration of everything dads and their sons do together: from sewing to cooking, bike riding to camping, and singing songs to growing gardens. Along the way, important life lessons are passed on from father to son, teaching what makes a good person. How to forgive, how to express one's feelings, and how to show love."--
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"This playful picture book introduces young readers to different units of measurement, then invites them to think of the many creative ways to quantify the meaningful moments in their lives. How do you measure the time it takes to read a good book? Sure, you can use units of time, like minutes or hours . . . but you can also use your very own measurements: how many times you laugh or cry, how many pages you turn, or how many times you ask to read...
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"Corita Kent (1918-1986) was a visual artist, art teacher, and Catholic nun whose work was revolutionary and is widely revered. In her classroom, she encouraged her students to see the ordinary as extraordinary and make art from the so-called commonplace around them. She embodied this in her own work-making screen prints and collage that celebrated the values and themes of hope, love, justice, and peace. This picture book biography approaches Corita's...
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A young girl and her father share an early morning horseback ride around their city in “My Daddy Is a Cowboy”, a picture book celebration of "just-us time," perfect for fans of “My Papi Has a Motocycle”.
Tall. High as the clouds.
Strong as a horse's back.
Like a cowboy.
In the early hours before dawn, a young girl and her father greet their horses and ride together through the waking city streets. As they trot along, Daddy tells cowboy...
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"In this book, you'll learn everything you've always wanted to know about your new aid - how eyesight works, how the doctor figured out you see poorly, who invented the very first glasses and what they looked like, what glasses of the future will be able to do (maybe - we'll see ... pun intended!), and much more" --
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"Else Bostelmann donned a red swimsuit and a copper diving helmet and, with paints and brushes in hand, descended into the choppy turquoise sea off the coast of Bermuda. It was 1930, and few had ventured deep into the sea before. She discovered a fairyland six fathoms below the surface-fantastic coral castles, glittering sunbeams, swaying sea plumes, and schools of fish. Deep under the water, Else painted these never-before-seen deep-sea creatures....
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