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I am Jazz

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"This enlightening autobiographical picture book tells the story of a transgender child who knew from the time she was two that despite her physical body she wasn't really a boy. Young Jazz was passionate about her love of mermaids, dancing,…

Julian is a Mermaid

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"Told with minimal text, the joyous illustrations do the bulk of the work as we meet beautiful Julian, a young boy who loves mermaids. He loves them so much he feels he is one. When he reveals his true self to his Nana there is a perfect…

Madeline

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Looking at this book's impressionistic watercolor illustrations, it is not surprising that Bemelmans considered himself more of an artist than a writer. However, the text's rhymed verse is equally appealing and makes the book unique. The heroine,…

Night Cars

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"...Night Cars is an intriguing book, simple though it may seem. The illustrations, portraits of street life from a bedroom window, chronicle a night in the city. From taxi cabs and garbage trucks, snow plows and fire engines, a young baby and his…

Night Cars

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"...Night Cars is an intriguing book, simple though it may seem. The illustrations, portraits of street life from a bedroom window, chronicle a night in the city. From taxi cabs and garbage trucks, snow plows and fire engines, a young baby and his…

Olivia

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"Olivia, a delightful little pig, is Everychild. She's good at lots of things, especially wearing people out--including herself. When she gets dressed, she tries on everything; at night she's ready to go to sleep, but only after four stories. She's a…

Pat the Bunny

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"In the nursery canon, Dorothy Kunhardt's touch-and-feel book ""Pat the Bunny"" holds a place of special affection. Since 1940, tiny children have delighted in sniffing the scented drawings of flowers and stroking the rough material on ""Daddy's…

Piggies

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"PreS-K--In an imaginative play on the fingers-and-toes game, a child's hands introduce two fat, two smart, two tall, two silly, and two wee piggies who cavort on fingertips. Personalities are established early, and children will have fun following a…

Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest

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"Shape-changing Raven steals the sun from the Sky Chief to light the dark world in this handsome rendering from the fund of lore shared by the Native groups of the northwest coast. "Raven changed himself into a pine needle. He fell down from the tree…

Saint George and the Dragon

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"This Caldecott Medal-winning book retells the story from Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene of the Red Cross knight and his quest to save an English kingdom from the wrath of a fire-breathing dragon. Hyman's stunning illustrations are perfect for…