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New Picture Books August 2025 |
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Five Little Friends : A Collection of Finger Rhymes
by Sean Taylor
What better way to get little ones excited about poems than to make them part of the delivery? In the hallowed tradition of nursery rhymes and songs like “Itsy Bitsy Spider,” this imaginative collection entices children to use their fingers, hands, and sometimes whole bodies to bring a variety of verses to life.
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Forts
by Katie Venit
Children explore the world around them and discover different ways to create forts--magical spaces for play, imagination, and belonging.
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Home, Home
by Sibu T. P.
Ajesh feels at home drinking chaiya with his parents in his bedroom, but when they travel to Kerala, India, he struggles to connect with the unfamiliar place until the comforting ritual of chaiya helps him embrace his heritage.
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Everyday Bean
by Stephanie Graegin
In ten tiny stories we follow Bean and her grandmother through adventures of the everyday. Bean loses her bad mood in a meadow and Grandma thinks she sees a ghost (don’t worry it’s just Bean!) — and there’s even a story with giant strawberries.
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Island storm
by Brian Floca
Before taking shelter, two siblings experience the excitement and beauty of an island storm from its calm beginning to its powerful peak and gentle end.
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Sundust
by Zeke Pena
With spare, lyrical text, Pura Belpré Honor and Ezra Jack Keats Honor recipient Zeke Peña has created a fantastical tale that suspends moments in time with his radiant art and celebrates the bonds between the sun, the desert, and its people.
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Elmhurst Public Library 125 S Prospect Ave. Elmhurst, Illinois 60126 (630) 279-8696
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