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| Harriet Gets Carried Away by Jessie SimaWhat it's about: When Harriet, a spirited girl with a penchant for costumes, wears her penguin costume on an errand with her dads, she meets a group of real penguins who sweep her away on an epic journey.
Why kids might like it: Young readers will delight in Harriet's sweetness, skill, and sense of adventure as she navigates her way back home. |
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| Hello Hello by Brendan WenzelWhat it is: a dazzling, contemporary bestiary featuring a variety of animal greetings and groupings, all vibrantly illustrated by artist Brendan Wenzel.
Who it's for: Bursting with creatures both common and endangered, Hello Hello is a treasure trove for young animal-fact collectors.
Don't miss: the handy animal-identification key, which will help to answer kids' questions about less-familiar species such as echidnas and mudpuppies. |
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My family four floors up
by Caroline Stutson
What it's about: A child and her father share a day marked by a their routines in and around their fourth-floor walk-up in the city, where the bustling streets and a sunny park become the sites of tender exchanges before the pair returns home, reads a story together and settles down for the night.
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My pillow keeps moving!
by Laura Gehl
What it's about: Adopted into a cozy home that she will do anything to keep, a clever pup impersonates everything her lonely human needs, including a pillow, a footstool and a jacket, before discovering that being herself works best, in a whimsical story illustrated by a Theodor Seuss Geisel Award-winning New Yorker cartoonist.
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| I Got It! by David WiesnerWhat it's about: A young outfielder prepares to snag a high-flying baseball, declaring "I got it!" But does he? Several possible scenarios for failure -- some realistic, some surreal -- play out before the exuberant conclusion.
Read if for: an underdog athlete who triumphs (even if it's only in his imagination).
About the creator: A three-time Caldecott Medalist, David Wiesner heightens the drama in this nearly wordless tale with distinctive, hyperrealistic illustrations. |
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| Magritte's Marvelous Hat by D.B. JohnsonWhat it is: a visual homage to famous surrealist painter René Magritte, a fable about inspiration, and a story about a mischievous hat.
Starring: a suit-wearing dog in the role of Magritte, a painter who's learning to look at things differently.
Look for: clever, interactive artwork, including transparent pages that kids can turn to transform the images on the pages they cover. |
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| We Found a Hat by Jon KlassenWhat it's about: Two desert-dwelling turtles discover -- and immediately covet -- a single cowboy hat.
Why kids might like it: From the comically oversized hat to the turtles' shifty eyes, the spare illustrations speak volumes, ramping up the tension over hat ownership only to resolve it with a surprisingly gentle twist.
For fans of: the hat-based moral dilemmas in Jon Klassen's earlier books, I Want My Hat Back and This is Not My Hat. |
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| The Red Hat by David Teague; illustrated by Antoinette PortisStarring: Lonely Billy Hightower, who lives "atop the world's tallest building" with a lively breeze as his only companion -- a breeze that interferes every time Billy tries to get the attention of the red-hatted girl in the neighboring skyscraper.
Look for: the vivid pops of red that stand out against the book's black-white-and-blue illustrations, creating striking visuals for this story about overcoming obstacles to find friendship. |
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| Hooray for Hat! by Brian WonWhat it's about: After Elephant wakes up feeling grumpy, he discovers that donning a stack of colorful hats banishes his bad mood.
Why kids might like it: Children will want to cheer along as Elephant distributes funky headgear to his grouchy friends, transforming each grumbled "go away!" into a gleeful refrain of "hooray for hat!"
Try this next: Hooray for Today! and Hooray for Books!, also by Brian Won. |
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Contact your librarian for more great books for ages 0-8!
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Central Mississippi Regional Library System
100 Tamberline Street
Brandon, Mississippi 39042
601-825-0100
http://www.cmrls.lib.ms.us
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