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The World Is Awake: A celebration of everyday blessings

This is the day the Lord has made.A butterfly floats through the sun and the shade,while dragonflies flit past the flowers and treesand grasshoppers hop in the soft morning breeze.The World Is Awake, A celebration of everyday blessings, written by Emmy Award winner and ABC News correspondent Linsey ...

Cathryn Falwell Diverse Books that Celebrate the Everyday Math Read-Alouds Diversity

Feast for 10

A counting book that features an African-American family shopping for food, preparing dinner, and sitting down to eat. Lively read-aloud text paired with bright collage illustrations.

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We Have a Baby

The whole family can participate in loving and caring for the new baby.

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When God Made You

YOU, you… God thinks about you.God was thinking of you long before your debut.From early on, children are looking to discover their place in the world and longing to understand how their personalities, traits, and talents fit in. The assurance that they are deeply loved and a unique creation in ou...

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Whose Knees are These?

Takes a loving look at knees from the vantage point of a mother's lap.

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Ten, Nine, Eight Board Book

It's time for bed, but not a moment before we absolutely have to go. A wonderful bedtime book.

Gaia Cornwall August Picture Books Diverse Books that Celebrate the Everyday August Picture Books Diversity

Jabari Jumps

Working up the courage to take a big, important leap is hard, but Jabari is almost absolutely ready to make a giant splash.Jabari is definitely ready to jump off the diving board. He’s finished his swimming lessons and passed his swim test, and he’s a great jumper, so he’s not scared at all. "...

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Over and Under the Pond

**Description from Amazon: In this gorgeous companion to the acclaimed Over and Under the Snow and Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt, Kate Messner and Christopher Silas Neal bring to life a secret underwater world. In this book, readers will discover the plants and animals that make up the rich, interconnected ecosystem o...

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Bee-Bim Bop!

A bouncing, rhyming book with a sing-song story about a small child and her mother making a traditional Korean rice dish. Delightful!

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Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters

The tale of Mufaro's two beautiful daughters, one is aggressive and selfish, the other kind and dignified. When the Great King decides to take on a wife, who will he choose? This Cinderella retelling is especially wonderful for older kids and teens.

Robert D. San Souci Diverse Books that Celebrate the Everyday Diversity

The Talking Eggs

The author of such delights as The Christmas Ark and The Enchanted Tapestry joins forces with illustrator Pinkney to resurrect a colorful folktale that captures the unique flavor of the American South. A 1989 Caldecott Honor Book.

Richard Jackson Diverse Books that Celebrate the Everyday Diversity

In Plain Sight: A Game

Sophie lives with Mama and Daddy and Grandpa, who spends his days by the window. Every day after school, it's Grandpa whom Sophie runs to."Here I am, Grandpa!""Ah, Sophie, how was your day?"As Sophie and her grandpa talk, he asks her to find items he's "lost" throughout the day, guiding Sophie on...

Patricia McKissack Diverse Books that Celebrate the Everyday Diversity

Flossie and the Fox

A wily fox, notorious for stealing eggs, meets his match when he encounters a bold little girl in the woods who insists upon proof that he is a fox before she will be frightened.

Andrea Davis Pinkney Diverse Books that Celebrate the Everyday Diversity

Pretty Brown Face Pretty Brown Face

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I Smell Honey: Family Celebration Board Books

Help boil the greens, flip the fish, and slice the pie for a mouth-watering family meal in I Smell Honey, then join the fun as a baby boy discovers the unique features that make his face so special in Pretty Brown Face. In Shake Shake Shake and Watch Me Dance, explore the joys of rhythm and movement...

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Last Stop on Market Street

Kate Hoefler Diverse Books that Celebrate the Everyday Diversity

Real Cowboys

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Storm in the Night

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The Favorite Daughter

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Charlie Parker Played Be Bop

It would seem a riddle worthy of the sphinx: how do you give children a sense of jazz music without playing a note? Chris Raschka answers loudly and clearly with the illustrated, syncopated Charlie Parker Played Be Bop. This sparse, rhythmic, repetitive text (inspired by a recording of Parker's "A N...

Anna McQuinn Diverse Books that Celebrate the Everyday Diversity

Lola at the Library

Patricia MacLachlan Diverse Books that Celebrate the Everyday Diversity

You Were the First

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Ling & Ting: Not Exactly the Same! (Passport to Reading Level 3)

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Papa, Do You Love Me?

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Mama, Do You Love Me?

Angela Johnson Diverse Books that Celebrate the Everyday Diversity

Do Like Kyla (Orchard Paperbacks)

Angela Johnson Diverse Books that Celebrate the Everyday Diversity

Joshua By The Sea

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Joshua’s Night Whispers

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AMAZING GRACE : CAROLINE BINCH ILLUSTRATIONS / 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

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Come On, Rain!

In this quietly affecting story, award-winning author Karen Hesse and artist Jon J. Muth deftly capture the magnificence of a sudden rainstorm on a swelteringly hot day. Much more than a simple tale of weather, Come On, Rain! also portrays the tenderness of mother-daughter relations, the rhythms of ...

Don Freeman Diverse Books that Celebrate the Everyday Diversity

A Pocket for Corduroy

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Full, Full, Full of Love

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Big Snow

**Description from Amazon: While "helping" his mother with holiday housecleaning, a boy keeps a watchful eye on the progress of a winter storm. He's hoping for a big snow. A really big snow. Inside, he is underfoot, turning sheet-changing and tub-scrubbing into imaginary whiteouts. Outside, flakes are flying. But over the cou...

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The Snowy Day

A 1963 Caldecott Medal winner, The Snowy Day is simple and beautiful. Explore the city as it is blanketed in snow. Perfect for winter, of course.

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Corduroy

Late one night, department store bear Corduroy sets out on an quest for his missing button. But will the store be his home forever? (One of School Library Journals Top Picture Books of All Time.)