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This simple, profound, Caldecott Honor story is now available as a Classic Board Book.
All the world is here. It is there. It is everywhere. All the world is right where you are. Now.
One of NPR's Top 100 Book for Young Readers
“Reading it is almost like reading Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, but for two-year olds—full of pictures and rhymes and a little cat to find on every page that will delight the curious toddler and parents alike.”—Occupy Wall Street
Counting on Community is Innosanto Nagara's follow-up to his hit ABC book, A is for Activist. Counting up from one stuffed piñata to ten hefty hens--and always counting on each other--children are encouraged to recognize the value of their community, the joys inherent in healthy eco-friendly activities, and the agency they posses to make change.
Everyone has kisses for Baby, from Mami and Papi to perro and gato. Using simple Spanish words, this charming read-aloud proves that love is the same in every language! Parents won't be able to resist giving baby muchos besos as they share this bilingual read aloud, filled with bold, graphic illustrations, with their little bébé!
Up and down, to and fro, coo and crow baby, there you go. Up to the ceiling, down to the ground, backward and forward, round and round ... All babies love to be lifted, twirled and held in loving arms. Now a rhythmic poem by nineteenth century poet Anne Taylor makes a delightful board book perfect for baby and parent to share.
First 100 Words Bilingual es un must-have para el aprendizaje de los lectores más pequeños, y es una herramienta ideal para ensenar nuevas palabras en dos idiomas: inglés y español. Entre las páginas, hay más de 100 fotografías sobresalientes de alimentos, animales, juguetes, y más que los niños reconocerán en sus propias vidas.
Inside, outside, upside down: Young readers will discover the many ways to celebrate the joy of loving who you are!$17.99ISBN: 9780316519007Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - September 10th, 2019THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!A powerful, vibrantly illustrated story about the first day of school--and two sisters on one's first day of hijab--by Olympic medalist and social justice activist Ibtihaj Muhammad.Email or call for price.ISBN: 9780998958033Availability: Special Order - Subject to AvailabilityPublished: Skinned Knee Publishing - October 14th, 2017Kindness matters Especially to ourselves.
We talk to kids a lot about how to be friends to others. Not much about how to be friends to themselves.
Yet, positive self-talk and self-acceptance help build emotional resilience, happiness and well-being.
$16.99ISBN: 9781452106977Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Chronicle Books - September 12th, 2012Bob Marley's songs are known the world over for their powerful message of love, peace, and harmony. Now a whole new generation can discover one of his most joyous songs in this reassuring picture book adaptation written by his daughter Cedella and exuberantly illustrated by Vanessa Brantley-Newton.
$17.99ISBN: 9781635921380Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Boyds Mills Press - February 4th, 2020When a little girl has doubts about the color of her skin, her mother shows her all the wonderful, beautiful things brown can be! This message of self-love and acceptance uses rich, dreamy illustrations to celebrate the color using all the senses: sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing.
$18.99ISBN: 9780062667120Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Balzer + Bray - March 6th, 2018A #1 New York Times bestseller and Goodreads Choice Awards picture book winner! This is the perfect gift for mothers and daughters, baby showers, and graduation.
$17.99ISBN: 9780973410440Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Dunhill Clare Publishing - August 28th, 2019Literary Titan Gold Award-Winning Book
$18.99ISBN: 9780399246531Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Nancy Paulsen Books - August 28th, 2018A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
Featured in its own episode in the Netflix original show Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices!$16.99ISBN: 9780439287197Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Orchard Books - September 1st, 2001.$17.99ISBN: 9780525579649Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Knopf Books for Young Readers - July 10th, 2018Join the call for a better world with this New York Times bestselling picture book about a school where diversity and inclusion are celebrated. Perfect for back to school—no matter what that looks like!
Discover a school where—no matter what—young children have a place, have a space, and are loved and appreciated.$18.99ISBN: 9780399257742Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers - January 8th, 2015#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
USA Today Bestseller
Winner of the 2016 Newbery Medal
A 2016 Caldecott Honor Book
A 2016 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book
A New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of 2015
A Wall Street Journal Best Children's Book of 2015$17.99ISBN: 9781534425361Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers - October 15th, 2019A New York Times bestseller!
Featured in its own episode in the Netflix original show Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices!
Recipient of a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Award
Recipient of an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Children’s Literary Work
From Academy Award–winning actress Lupita Nyong’o comes a pow$9.99ISBN: 9781484726365Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Hyperion Books for Children - September 20th, 2016Four friends. Three cookies. One problem.Hippo, Croc, and the Squirrels are determined to have equal cookies for all! But how? There are only three cookies . . . and four of them! They need to act fast before nervous Hippo breaks all the cookies into crumbs!$17.99ISBN: 9780316475143Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - November 19th, 2019Author-illustrator Vashti Harrison shines a bold, joyous light on black men through history in this #1 New York Times bestseller.$17.99ISBN: 9780786818709Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Hyperion Books for Children - September 1st, 2004Trixie, Daddy, and Knuffle Bunny take a trip to the neighborhood Laundromat.
$16.99ISBN: 9780316475112Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - December 5th, 2017This beautifully illustrated board book edition of instant bestseller Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History showcases women who changed the world and is the perfect goodnight book to inspire big dreams.
$9.99ISBN: 9781423199571Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Hyperion Books for Children - November 4th, 2014Gerald is careful. Piggie is not.
Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can.
Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to.
Gerald and Piggie are best friends.
In Waiting Is Not Easy!, Piggie has a surprise for Gerald, but he is going to have to wait for it. And Wait. And wait some more...$17.99ISBN: 9781368003551Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Disney-Hyperion - June 19th, 2018It's the first day of school for Penelope Rex, and she can't wait to meet her classmates. But it's hard to make human friends when they're so darn delicious! That is, until Penelope gets a taste of her own medicine and finds she may not be at the top of the food chain after all. . .$16.99ISBN: 9780553539905Availability: BackorderedPublished: Random House Books for Young Readers - January 12th, 2016This oversized bilingual edition of the classic Are You My Mother? is perfect to share with young readers any day of the year!
$9.99ISBN: 9781989733554Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Dunhill Clare Publishing - July 7th, 2020
$8.99ISBN: 9781442495012Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books - April 7th, 2020Eleven-year-old Isabella’s blended family is more divided than ever in this “timely but genuine” (Publishers Weekly) story about divorce and racial identity from the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Out of My Mind, Sharon M.
$17.99ISBN: 9781368039932Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Rick Riordan Presents - October 15th, 2019Winner of a Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents Kwame Mbalia's epic fantasy, a middle grade American Gods set in a richly-imagined world populated with African American folk heroes and West African gods.$8.99ISBN: 9780547577098Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: HMH Books for Young Readers - May 2nd, 2011As the German troops begin their campaign to "relocate" all the Jews of Denmark, Annemarie Johansen’s family takes in Annemarie’s best friend, Ellen Rosen, and conceals her as part of the family.
Through the eyes of ten-year-old Annemarie, we watch as the Danish Resistance smuggles almost the entire Jewish population of Denmark, nearly seven thousand people, acr
Email or call for price.ISBN: 9780312384487Availability: Hard to Find - Unlikely to be AvailablePublished: Square Fish - December 23rd, 2008A tour-de-force by New York Times bestselling graphic novelist Gene Yang, American Born Chinese tells the story of three apparently unrelated characters: Jin Wang, who moves to a new neighborhood with his family only to discover that he's the only Chinese-American student at his new school; the powerful Monkey King, subject of one of the oldest and greatest Chinese fables; and Chi
$10.99ISBN: 9780147515827Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Puffin Books - October 11th, 2016Jacqueline Woodson's National Book Award and Newbery Honor winner, now available in paperback with 7 all-new poems.
Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature
A President Obama "O" Book Club pick$7.99ISBN: 9780060760908Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Quill Tree Books - December 27th, 2011In this Newbery Honor novel, New York Times bestselling author Rita Williams-Garcia tells the story of three sisters who travel to Oakland, California, in 1968 to meet the mother who abandoned them. A strong option for summer reading—take this book along on a family road trip or enjoy it at home.
$12.99ISBN: 9781338535624Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Graphix - September 1st, 2020The next great Dog Man adventure from the worldwide bestselling author and artist Dav Pilkey. You'll howl with laughter!
The Supa Buddies bamboozled the baddies, but all's not right in the world. Dog Man has a new problem to pound, and he's going to need his entire pack to help him. Will he go barking up the wrong tree?
$8.99ISBN: 9780061992278Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: HarperCollins - January 6th, 2015The #1 New York Times bestselling and Newbery Award-winning novel The One and Only Ivan is now a major motion picture streaming on Disney+
$19.99ISBN: 9780440406945Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Delacorte Books for Young Readers - March 1st, 1992"I doubt I would have grown up to be the writer and artist I became had I not fallen in love with D’Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths at the age of seven."—R. J. Palacio, author of Wonder.
$7.99ISBN: 9780439120425Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Scholastic Press - May 1st, 2002Esperanza Rising joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!
$8.99ISBN: 9780689710681Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Aladdin - March 1st, 1986Some extraordinary rats come to the aid of a mouse family in this Newbery Medal Award–winning classic by notable children’s author Robert C. O’Brien.
Mrs. Frisby, a widowed mouse with four small children, is faced with a terrible problem. She must move her family to their summer quarters immediately, or face almost certain death.$6.99ISBN: 9780553296983Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Bantam - June 1st, 1993Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank’s remarkable diary has become a world classic—a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit.
$14.99ISBN: 9780375842207Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Knopf Books for Young Readers - September 11th, 2007The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller about the ability of books to feed the soul even in the darkest of times.
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.
When Death has a story to tell, you listen.$8.99ISBN: 9781416936473Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers - December 26th, 2006This award-winning contemporary classic is the survival story with which all others are compared—and a page-turning, heart-stopping adventure, recipient of the Newbery Honor.
$15.00ISBN: 9781400032716Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Vintage - May 18th, 2004A bestselling modern classic—both poignant and funny—about a boy with autism who sets out to solve the murder of a neighbor's dog and discovers unexpected truths about himself and the world.
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read$10.99ISBN: 9780064407311Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Amistad - March 5th, 2019This New York Times bestselling novel from acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers tells the story of Steve Harmon, a teenage boy in juvenile detention and on trial. Presented as a screenplay of Steve's own imagination, and peppered with journal entries, the book shows how one single decision can change our whole lives.
