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Beth Ferry, Sealed with a kiss
Seal has just arrived at the National Zoo from France and is eager to make new friends. But when no one visits her, she starts visiting the animals, smooching them, thus believing she is making friends.
But not everyone likes seal kisses ...
In time, Together, all the zoo inhabitants find their own ways of welcoming their new neighbor, and friendships finally begin on a good note.
Foca's wordplay, figurative language, and French accent make this a fun read and perfect for even for read alouds to talk about how to make friends, how words can hurt feelings, how to apologize, and a discussion about whether it's a good idea to grab and kiss a stranger.
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Lucy Ruth Cummins, Vampenguin
This book tells a charming and wryly humorous story of adventure, mistaken identity and a day at the zoo of a vampire family; a story that abounds with visual gags where the reader is in on the joke long before the characters themselves are.
Alert and adventurous young readers will love this story of the hoaxes that happen when parents turn their backs.
(Ages 3-6)
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Ann Stott, I’ll be there
Children love the idea of growing up and doing things on their own. It's fun to dress, read, and shower like a big kid--but it's also a little scary to take the first steps toward independence.
So the child asks his mother, "Will you still take care of me when I grow up?"
This book answers a child's question about when his mom will finish being his mom, now that he doesn't "need" her as much...but mom remains mom forever!
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Annalisa Rabitti, Martino has Wheels
Martino and Emma are two schoolmates. She is a storyteller and uses speech as an extraordinary gift not to be wasted. He, on the other hand, is a ‘quiet child’ - that is exactly how Emma defines him - a child who moves with the wheels, who does not express himself by speaking and who sometimes shows reactions that are difficult to understand. There is little contact between the two until Emma finds in Martin the ideal listener to her stories: a patient
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Dr Susan Nolen-Hoehìksema, Woman Who Think too Much
‘My brain never stops.’ How many times have we said or heard that? Many women are all too familiar with the feeling of feeling suffocated by thoughts, emotions, worries overlapping out of control. What am I doing with my life? What do others think of me? Why am I not satisfied? Will I be good enough? Is my partner still interested in me? Why does my son talk back to me? Why do I feel so frustrated and anxious? Thinking too much - rumination
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