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New & Coming Soon Picture Books February 2019
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Click on the title to check availability. Log-in to our online catalog to place holds. To place holds by phone, please call us at 708-366-5205. During open hours, you can also chat with us at www.riverforestlibrary.org. It's easy!
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Car, Car, Truck, Jeep
by Katrina Charman
Celebrates all sorts of motor vehicles through illustrations and rhyming text that can be sung to the tune of "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep."
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Peekaboo Sophie!
by Dawn Sirett
Features baby-appropriate touch-and-feel elements and large, appealing flaps for little hands, positioning Sophie the Giraffe and her friends in engaging peek-a-boo scenarios that invite the smallest children to develop imagination, thinking and memory skills.
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Baby Says
by John Steptoe
A board book rendering of an endearing classic by the Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King Award-winning creator of Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters finds a curious baby throwing his teddy bear to get his beloved brother's attention.
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Good Night, Mr. Panda
by Steve Antony
It is bedtime and Mr. Panda carefully reminds his friends of the things that they need to do like brushing their teeth, and taking a bath before settling down for the night--but sometimes Mr. Panda can be absentminded, and Lemur has to remind him which bed is his.
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The Littlest Valentine
by Brandi Dougherty
A littlest member of the Valentine family diligently helps out to prepare her parents' business for the holiday and worries that she is too little to get things right.
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The Field
by Baptiste Paul
Children form teams, build a pitch, and play a joyous game of soccer, in a book with English and Haitian Creole vocabulary words.
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Twinkle
by Katherine Holabird
Struggling through spells that other fairies-in-training perform naturally, fairy-school student Twinkle becomes frustrated with her spells going sideways before learning helpful and relatable lessons in persistence.
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Horse Meets Dog
by Elliott Kalan
In this uproarious new collaboration from a writer for The Daily Show With Jon Stewart and the acclaimed illustrator of Moo Moo in a Tutu, hilarity ensues when Horse and Dog meet--and mistake each other for the wrong animal!
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Julián is a Mermaid
by Jessica Love
Glimpsing a trio of women dressed up in fabulous mermaid costumes while riding the subway home with his abuela, little Julián resolves to make a fancy mermaid costume and headdress for himself and wonders what his abuela will think of the mess he makes, and more importantly, how his costume will reflect how he sees himself.
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The Bell Rang
by James Ransome
A young slave girl witnesses the heartbreak and hopefulness of her family and their plantation community when her brother escapes for freedom. By the Coretta Scott King Award-winning illustrator of Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt.
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There Are No Bears In This Bakery
by Julia Sarcone-Roach
The award-winning author of The Bear Ate Your Sandwich finds a hard-boiled gumshoe cat, Muffin, investigating a suspicious noise at the Little Bear Bakery, where a cub with a growling tummy has consumed all the yummy doughnuts.
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Who Has Wiggle-waggle Toes?
by Vicky Shiefman
The girls and boys in this book have kissable noses, out-there elbows, big bold bottoms, and hokey pokey heads--which they crinkle, flap, shimmy, and shake. This joyful celebration of our amazing body parts encourages fun, high-energy learning about science, language, self-regulation and focus, and more!
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Love, Z
by Jessie Sima
Resolving to discover what love is after finding a mysterious note in a bottle, a little robot is unable to get answers from the bigger robots and embarks on a search for the note's writer. By the creator of Not Quite Narwhal.
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Gorilla Loves Vanilla
by Chae Strathie
When Sam's ice cream shop is visited by five hungry animals he creates a series of amazing treats, including a blue-cheese sundae for mouse and a wormy squirmy cone for hen.
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Llama Llama, Be My Valentine!
by Anna Dewdney
Llama Llama and his classmates exchange tokens of affection in the form of unique handmade gifts, in a leveled reader based on a popular episode of the Netflix television series.
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Bunny Will Not Smile!
by Jason Tharp
Developing readers are invited to help Big the bear get his grumpy friend, Bunny, to smile, in a giggle-inducing story that features interactive storytelling prompts and comics-inspired speech bubbles.
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