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Brilliant Bea 

Shaina Rudolph & Mary Vukadinovich

 

 

If You Come to Earth        

Sophie Blackall

 

 

Lovely Beasts: The Surprising Truth      

Kate Gardner

 

 

My Footprints         

Bao Phi

 

 

The Hiking Viking   

Laura Gehl

 

 

A Friend for Henry  

Jenn Bailey

 

 

A Gift for Amma: Market Day in India     

Meera Sriram

 

 

A Perfectly Messed-Up Story      

Patrick McDonnell

 

 

A Place for Pluto    

Stef Wade

 

 

Bear Island  

Matthew Cordell

 

 

Biblioburro: A True Story from Colombia

Jeanette Winter

 

 

Daddy, Me, and the Magic Hour  

Laura Krauss Melmed

 

 

Eee-Moo      

Annika Dunklee

 

 

Home For a Penguin, Home for a Whale

Brenda Williams

 

 

I Love You Too, I Love You Three         

Wendy Tugwood

 

 

It Fell from the Sky 

Terry and Eric Fan

 

 

Jet the Cat (Is Not a Cat)  

Phaea Crede

 

 

Leilong the Library Bus     

Julia Liu

 

 

Looking for Smile   

Ellen Tarlow

 

 

Max & Ruby and Twin Trouble    

Rosemary Wells

 

 

Mindful Mr. Sloth    

Katie Hudson

 

 

Miss Turie's Magic Creatures      

Joy Keller

 

 

My Name is Bana   

Bana Alabed

 

 

On the Other Side of the Forest  

Nadine Robert

 

 

One Mean Ant        

Arthur Yorinks

 

 

Remarkably You     

Pat Zietlow Miller

 

 

Seahorses Are Sold Out   

Constanze Spengler

 

 

Sophia and Alex Make Friends at School English/Ukrainian  

Denise Bourgeois-Vance

 

 

That's NOT a Hippopotamus!      

Juliette MacIver

 

 

The Story of a Story

Deborah Hopkinson

 

 

The Thingity-Jig      

Kathleen Doherty

 

 

The Tiny Baker       

Hayley Barrett

 

 

Too Many Carrots  

Katy Hudson

 

 

Under My Hijab      

Hena Khan

 

 

What the Dinosaurs Did Last Night:  A Very Messy Adventure         

Refe & Susan Tuma

 

 

Where Is the Dragon?       

Leo Timmers

 

A Tiger Without Stripes     

Jaimie Whitbread

 

Cloud Chaser         

Anne-Fleur Drillon

 

Luli and the Language of Tea      

Andrea Wang

 

The Loch Ness Monster (Unexplained Mysteries)       

Ray McClellan

 

 

Gravity (Science Starters) 

Rebecca Pettiford

 

 

Glaciers (Our Planet Earth)         

Rebecca Sabelko

 

 

Fossils (Rocks & Minerals)

Patrick Perish

 

 

Butterflies (Insects Up Close)      

Christina Leaf

 

 

Giraffes (Animals of the Grasslands)      

Kaitlyn Durling

 

 

Gray Wolves (Animals of the Forest)     

Al Albertson

 

 

Polar Bears (Animals at Risk)      

Rachel Grack

 

 

Orangutans (Animals at Risk)      

Rachel Grack

 

 

Diggers - Blastoff! Readers: Mighty Machines  

Derek Zobel

 

 

Earth Movers - Blastoff! Readers: Mighty Machines    

M. T. Martin

 

 

Greta Thunberg: Climate Activist (Women Leading the Way)

Elizabeth Neuenfeldt