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1) Show me a story: writing your own picture book

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Loewen, Nancy

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Learn how to write a picture book which will have a beginning, middle, and ending.

2) How to be an elephant: growing up in the African wild

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Roy, Katherine

3) All the world

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Scanlon, Liz Garton

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Follows a group of family members and friends through the course of a day as they learn the importance of all things great and small.

4) Lesser spotted animals: the coolest creatures you've never heard of

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Brown, Martin

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Find out all about the amazing animals you need to know but never get to see, from the numbat to the zorilla, and everything in between.

5) An eye for color: the story of Josef Albers

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Wing, Natasha

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The painter Joseph Albers saw art in simple things. Late in his career, he began painting squares of solid, unmixed color, one within another to study the colors and their interactions.

6) Dogku

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Clements, Andrew

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A haiku poem about a loveable dog.

7) Best in snow

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Sayre, April Pulley

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"A photographic non-fiction picture book about the wonder of snowfall and the winter water cycle"--Provided by publisher.

8) The goodbye book

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Parr, Todd

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CR - Death and Dying - Picture Books

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Illustrations and brief text relate how a person might feel when they lose someone they love.

9) Eat like a bear

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Sayre, April Pulley

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Follows a bear from the time she emerges from her den in April after four months without food, through months of eating fish, ants, and huckleberries, to midwinter when the arrival of two cubs interrupts her long winter's rest. Includes facts about brown (grizzly) bears of the Yellowstone National Park/Glacier National Park region.

10) Warbler wave

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Sayre, April Pulley

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"Discover the magic--and the science--behind the migration of warblers with this stunning photographic picture book from the award-winning author and photographer of Raindrops Roll, Best in Snow, and Full of Fall. The migrating warblers have arrived, to feed and preen, to refuel and rest before continuing on their amazing journey of thousands of miles. This photographic picture book captures in lush detail the story of these tiny, colorful, and diverse...

11) From shore to ocean floor: the human journey to the deep

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Arbuthnott, Gill

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From sandy beaches to mysterious, inky depths, and seen from space. Earth is a swirl of blue and white. The blue is Earth's oceans, which cover 70 percent of its surface. Yet the ocean is the most unexplored region of our planet. From Shore to Ocean Floor is the story of how humans went from building the first boats to discovering the secrets of the deep. Marvel at incredible scientific discoveries, be dazzled by some of the most exciting new species,...

12) Hidden creature features

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Park, Jane

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"A penguin's sharp beak hides a textured tongue that helps it grip fish. A red-eyed tree frog has a holden eyelid that covers its eyes so it can see predators while it sleeps. Rhyming text and eye-catching photos offer an up-close look at lots of fascinating hidden creature features!"--

13) Dark emperor and other poems of the night

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Sidman, Joyce

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Book, eBook

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A collection of poems that celebrate the wonder, mystery, and danger of the night and describes the many things that hide in the dark.

14) The world's greatest lion

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Helfer, Ralph

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Chronicles the life of Zamba, a lion rescued from the Zambezi River in Zambia and brought to the U.S. and worked in motion pictures.

15) Hope is an arrow: the story of Lebanese-American poet Khalil Gibran

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McCarthy, Cory

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Before Kahlil Gibran became the world's third-best-selling poet of all time, he was Gibran Khalil Gibran, an immigrant child from Lebanon with a secret hope to bring people together despite their many differences. Kahlil's life highlights the turn of the twentieth century, from the religious conflicts that tore apart his homeland and sent a hundred thousand Arab people to America, to settling in Boston, where the wealthy clashed headlong with the...

16) Some secrets should never be kept

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Sanders, Jayneen

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"Sir Alfred has a terrible secret. A secret that should never ever be kept. But who will poor little sir Alfred tell? Who can he trust? This book was written to provide children with essential skills in self-protection, and to encourage them to always speak up"--Page 4 of cover.

17) Jazz day: the making of a famous photograph

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Orgill, Roxane

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When Esquire magazine planned an issue to salute the American jazz scene in 1958, graphic designer Art Kane pitched a crazy idea: how about gathering a group of beloved jazz musicians and photographing them? He didn't own a good camera, didn't know if any musicians would show up, and insisted on setting up the shoot in front of a Harlem brownstone. Could he pull it off? In a captivating collection of poems, Roxane Orgill steps into the frame of Harlem...