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Shaun Tan
Current price: $19.99
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Arrival Never be late for a parade.Never forget the password.Never ruin a perfect plan.It's all about the rules. But what if the rules feel completely arbitrary? What if your older brother is the only one who gets to make them up all summer long? An ... Read More about
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Melissa Stewart
Current price: $16.95
A colorful look at the amazing ways animals behave and interact with their environments on a rainy day. We go inside when the rain comes down, but where do animals go? This engaging book for young readers offers a first glimpse at how different animals in different habitats behave during a thunderst ... Read More about
Kathryn O. Galbraith
Current price: $16.99
Eloquent text and stunning illustrations combine to explore the many ways seeds are distributed, including animals, weather and wind, human action, and even the plants themselves. A farmer and her son carefully plant seeds in their garden. In the wild garden, many seeds are planted too, but not by f ... Read More about
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Leslye Walton
Current price: $17.99
A 2015 William C. Morris YA Debut Award FinalistMagical realism, lyrical prose, and the pain and passion of human love haunt this hypnotic generational saga. Foolish love appears to be the Roux family birthright, an ominous forecast for its most recent progeny, Ava Lavender. Ava — in all other ways ... Read More about
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Rosemary Wells
Current price: $16.99
Though she is teased about her silver trailer home, a little girl never loses sight of life’s true gifts in Rosemary Wells’s sensitive, ultimately uplifting story. Stella lives in a sparkling home on wheels that’s as silver as a comet in the sky. Inside are lots of cupboards and hiding places, and e ... Read More about
Mary Oliver
Current price: $17.00
The New York Times-bestselling collection of poems from celebrated poet Mary Oliver In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work, transporting us to the marshland and coastline of her beloved home, Provincetown, Massachusetts. Whether studying t ... Read More about
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Jennifer Ward
Current price: $18.99
A delightful exploration of the incredibly variety of nests birds build for their babies, illustrated by a Caldecott Honoree. Mama built a little nestinside a sturdy trunk.She used her beak to tap-tap-tapthe perfect place to bunk. There are so many different kinds of birds—and those birds build so m ... Read More about
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 The Book That Launched an International Movement  “An absolute must-read for parents.” —The Boston Globe  “It rivals Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring.” —The Cincinnati Enquirer   “I like to play indoors better ’cause that’s where all the electrical outlets are,” reports a fourth grader. But it’s not o ... Read More about
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Pema Chodron
Current price: $14.95
The best-selling author and spiritual teacher shares practices for living with wisdom and integrity even in confusing and uncertain situations.     Is it possible to live well when the very ground we stand on is shaky? Yes, says everyone's favorite Buddhist nun, it's even possible to live beautifu ... Read More about
Angela DiTerlizzi
Current price: $18.99
Get the buzz on bugs in this picture book from Angela DiTerlizzi! Grab your magnifying glass!Find your field guide!And come hop, hide, swim, and glidethrough this buggy backyard world! Featuring insects including butterflies and moths, crickets and cicadas, bumblebees and beetles, this zippy rhyming ... Read More about
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Charles de Lint
Current price: $18.00
This full-color, illustrated companion novel to The Cats of Tanglewood Forest includes "beautiful bookmaking, lovely storytelling, and wondrous illustrations....Readers will be enchanted" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). This captivating adventure from two masters of modern fantasy is a story of ma ... Read More about
Drew Daywalt
Current price: $17.99
The hilarious, colorful #1 New York Times bestselling phenomenon that every kid wants! Gift a copy to someone you love today. Poor Duncan just wants to color. But when he opens his box of crayons, he finds only letters, all saying the same thing: His crayons have had enough! They quit! Blue crayon n ... Read More about
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A haunting dream that will not relent pulls author Kent Nerburn back into the hidden world of Native America, where dreams have meaning, animals are teachers, and the "old ones" still have powers beyond our understanding. In this moving narrative, we travel through the lands of the Lakota and the Oj ... Read More about
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When Candace Savage and her partner buy a house near the Saskatchewan-Montana border, her naturalist's instinct propels her to explore the area. She takes pleasure in the Wild West setting, discovering hidden back roads, dinosaur skeletons at the discovery center, and fossils in the dust-dry hills. ... Read More about
Sun-mi Hwang
Current price: $17.00
The Korean Charlotte's Web More than 2 million copies sold This is the story of a hen named Sprout. No longer content to lay eggs on command, only to have them carted off to the market, she glimpses her future every morning through the barn doors, where the other animals roam free, and comes up wit ... Read More about
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Mary Oliver
Current price: $26.95
“The popularity of [Dog Songs] feels as inevitable and welcome as a wagging tail upon homecoming.” —The Boston Globe Mary Oliver’s Dog Songs is a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood through the poet’s relationships to the canines that have accompanied her daily walks ... Read More about
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The iconic masterpiece of India that introduced the world to “a glittering novelist—one with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling” (The New Yorker)WINNER OF THE BEST OF THE BOOKERS • SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES Selected by the Modern Library a ... Read More about
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