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Sweetest Kulu
This beautiful bedtime poem, written by acclaimed Inuit throat singer Celina Kalluk, describes the gifts given to a newborn baby by all the animals of the Arctic. Lyrically and tenderly told by a mother speaking to her own little “Kulu,” an Inuktitut…
Tags: Animals, Arctic, Children's Books, Indigenous, Inuit, Picture Book, poetry, Relationships
I am Jazz
"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,…
Curious George
"This has a primer value too, as the vocabulary is, on the whole, a simple one for beginners, and there is enough repetition, association of action pictures with text, to carry the first year reader over the more difficult words. But five year olds…
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Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest
"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…
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Alfie: Alfie Gets in First
"A small boy reaches home just before his mother (and baby sister) and slams the door shut. The key is inside the house with Alfie, however, and a small excitement ensues. With elements of the cumulative tale - as neighbors and milkmen offer…
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Piggies
"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…
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Ten Little FINGERS and Ten Little TOES
"...Using rhyme and repetition, she has created a multicultural book about something all different babies have in common: ten little fingers and ten little toes. The same reassuring refrain follows after each pair of babies is introduced, like this…
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The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs
"Everybody knows the story of the three little pigs, right? Wrong. Only now has Alexander T. Wolf (known also as Al) chosen to tell his side of the story: and as it turns out, it's really about a sneeze and a cup of sugar. It seems that when…
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The Three Pigs
"David Wiesner's Caldecott award-winning book begins like countless other versions of this familiar tale, but readers soon encounter a strange twistwhen the wolf buffs and puffs, the pigs are blown right out of the book! They escape from the wolf, as…
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Zoom Away
"Ages 5-8. The second book in a series that has twice won the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award (the Canadian Caldecott) finds white catzoomtravelingtothenorthpole in search of his seafaring uncle. Journeying with his human friend…
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textures of your pandemic experience
A collaborative zine made about the FIMS community experience with the COVID19 pandemic.