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New & Coming Soon Picture Books December 2017
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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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Featured Children's Program
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Stories with Santa Saturday, December 9, 10:00 AM - 3:00 PMSanta is visiting RFPL! Our annual holiday program for children features stories, crafts, and visits with Santa upstairs by the fireplace. Pictures taken with Santa will be posted to the RFPL website. Caregivers are encouraged to snap their own keepsake photos as well. This is a drop-in, free, fun family program. Ages 8 and under with a parent/caregiver.
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Mrs. Peanuckle's Vegetable Alphabet by PeanuckleMrs. Peanuckle's Vegetable Alphabet introduces babies and toddlers to a colorful variety of vegetables, from asparagus to zucchini. Perfect to read aloud, this vegetable buffet will delight children and parents alike with its yummy vegetable facts and vibrant illustrations. Learning the ABCs has never been so delicious!
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Mrs. Peanuckle's Fruit Alphabet by Mrs. PeanuckleMrs. Peanuckle's Fruit Alphabet introduces babies and toddlers to the colorful foods that will help them grow up to be healthy and strong. Children and parents alike will want to devour the fun facts and charming illustrations of fruits from the familiar banana to the not as familiar yumberry.
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Happy Hanukkah, Curious George by Emily Flaschner MeyerEveryone's favorite curious little monkey celebrates the Festival of Lights with neighbors and friends in this joyful tabbed board book that includes a tasty latke recipe, instructions for constructing a dreidel with rules for play and a festive foil-stamped cover.
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How to Find an Elephant by Kate BanksA boy provides instructions as he searches high and low for an elephant, which the reader can find in the illustrations.
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Why am I Me? by Paige BrittA celebration of humanity, diversity and empathy is presented as a poetic exchange between two characters, inviting children to imagine what it might feel like to be someone who is taller, another color or otherwise different.
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Read the Book, Lemmings! by Ame DyckmanA literate fox attempts to teach a trio of overzealous lemmings to read in order to save them from their habit of jumping off cliffs.
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Pizza Day by Melissa IwaiA father and son spend a hot summer day together gathering vegetables and herbs, making pizza dough and sauce, and playing while their pizza bakes in the oven. Includes a recipe for Garden Pizza.
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Little Red Ruthie : a Hanukkah tale by Gloria KosterA Jewish adaptation of the classic Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale follows the escapades of little Ruthie, who dresses in her favorite puffy red coat and journeys through the woods with a basket of sour cream and applesauce to visit her grandmother on Hanukkah, encouraging a hungry wolf to join them for yummy latkes along the way.
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The Nutcracker in Harlem by T. E. McMorrowSet in New York City at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, a reimagining of the classic Nutcracker story follows the efforts of a young girl who finds her voice as a musician during an enchanting adventure alongside a toy that comes to life.
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Tyrannosaurus Rex vs. Edna, the Very First Chicken by Douglas ReesThe planet's first prehistoric chicken, Edna, confronts a stomping, hungry Tyrannosaurus Rex who scares away the other dinosaurs but is startled by Edna's mighty beak and bravely flapping wings.
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The Antlered Ship by Dashka SlaterAn inquisitive fox embarks on a seafaring voyage with a crew of deer and pigeons to find the answers to such questions as how far the sun goes when it sinks into the sea and why birds have lizardy feet.
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Babies Can Sleep Anywhere by Lisa WheelerSoothing rhymes and gentle illustrations combine in a bedtime story that introduces the sleeping habits of animals and how they compare to those of human babies who snooze in backpacks, on knees, in cradles and elsewhere.
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It's Shoe Time! by Bryan CollierIf you choose to wear unmatched shoes, can they still be a pair? This lyrical beginning-reader by multi award-winning artist Bryan Collier turns the closet on its heel and redefines what it means to be a pair.
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Old Racers, New Racers by Mary TillworthFollow Lightning McQueen as he and young racing technician Cruz Ramirez work together to rehabilitate Lightning after a crash that prompts his newest rival, Jackson Storm, to urge Lightning to retire.
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Chicken in Mittens by Adam LehrhauptWith a warm pair of mittens, Zoey the chicken and Sam the pig head to the North Pole on a snowy day, thanks to their imaginations.
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Miguel's Music by Liz RiveraDespite his family's baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead following a mysterious chain of events.
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