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{"id":6816111722555,"title":"Outside In","handle":"outside-in","description":"\u003cp\u003eLynn’s life is full — choir practice, school, shopping for the perfect jeans, and dealing with her free-spirited mother. Then one day her life is saved by a mysterious girl named Blossom, who introduces Lynn to her own world and family — both more bizarre, yet somehow more sane, than Lynn’s own.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eBlossom’s family is a small band of outcasts and eccentrics who live secretly in an ingenious bunker beneath a city reservoir. The Underlanders forage and trade for the things they need (“Is it useful or lovely?”), living off the things “Citizens” throw away. Lynn is enchanted and amazed. 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Then one day her life is saved by a mysterious girl named Blossom, who introduces Lynn to her own world and family — both more bizarre, yet somehow more sane, than Lynn’s own.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eBlossom’s family is a small band of outcasts and eccentrics who live secretly in an ingenious bunker beneath a city reservoir. The Underlanders forage and trade for the things they need (“Is it useful or lovely?”), living off the things “Citizens” throw away. Lynn is enchanted and amazed. But when she inadvertently reveals their secret, she is forced to take measure of her own motives and lifestyle, as she figures out what it really means to be a family, and a friend.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClassic Sarah Ellis, this novel is smart, rich, engaging and insightful.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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ages 4
to 7
/ grades K
to 2
Norman, Speak!
From award-winning author Caroline Adderson — what happens when a boy and his dog just don’t speak the same language?
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ages 5
and up
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and up
Just So Stories, Volume II
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She is renowned for creating picture books, which, as noted in the citation from the ALMA jury, are created “from the eye level of the child.” She lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.\n\nVisit Isol's website:\nhttp:\/\/www.isol-isol.com.ar\/\n\nVisit Isol's blog:\nhttp:\/\/www.isol-isol.com.ar\/","ContributorBio_2":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSUSAN OURIOU\u003c\/strong\u003e is an award-winning fiction writer and literary translator with over sixty translations and co-translations of fiction, non-fiction, children’s and young-adult literature to her credit. She has won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation. \u003cem\u003eJane, the Fox and Me\u003c\/em\u003e, co-translated with Christelle Morelli, was named to IBBY’s Honour List. She has also published \u003cem\u003eNathan\u003c\/em\u003e, a novel for young readers. 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The book will encourage very young children (and older ones as well) to create their own meanings and make their own connections between the text and the art.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781554984442","Height":"9","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Groundwood Books","MetaKeywords":"Imagination \u0026amp; Play; Concepts; Counting; Counting; Numbers; Math; Inferencing; Making Connections","NumberOfPages":"32","OtherText_Review_0":"Luján reinvents numbers through a fanciful lens. . . . clever [and] child-friendly.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"School Library Journal","OtherText_Review_1":"It's an unexpected way of looking at written characters, but one that will make intuitive sense to children.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_Review_2":"Numeralia is the melding of artistic endeavor and creativity, conveying staid concepts with the right blend of quirkiness and originality.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"CM Magazine","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A witty and original counting book, with text by Jorge Luján and art by Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award winner Isol.","ProductFormDescription":"hardcover jacket","PublicationDate":"2014-03-01","Publisher":"Groundwood Books Ltd","ShortDescription":"A witty and original counting book, with text by Jorge Luján and art by Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award winner Isol.","Width":"11.25","WidthCode":"in"}
ages 3
and up
/ grades P
and up
Numeralia
A witty and original counting book, with text by Jorge Luján and art by Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award winner Isol.
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ages 4
to 7
/ grades P
to 2
From There to Here
The highly anticipated sequel to I Know Here — the classic, award-winning picture book from Laurel Croza and Matt James.
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The Amazing Travels of Ibn Battuta
The true story of a fourteenth-century traveler, whose journeys through the Islamic world and beyond were extraordinary for his time.
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ages 3
to 7
/ grades P
to 2
Why Are You Doing That?
A curious little boy learns all about food and where it comes from in this companion to Amado and Monroy’s first picture book, What Are You Doing?
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ages 8
to 11
/ grades 3
to 6
The Elevator Ghost
An eccentric babysitter has a knack for telling stories that are eerily well suited to her young charges.
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Shadow Mother
A beautifully reinvented tale, in the tradition of Scottish and Irish Selkie legends, from award-winning creators Seán Virgo and Javier Serrano Pérez.
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ages 4
to 7
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to 3
Mr. Frank
An elderly tailor sews the most wonderful outfit of his career — for a very special customer.
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to 8
Until the Day Arrives
Two Portuguese orphans, exiled in seventeenth-century Brazil, try to help the slaves they have befriended escape to freedom.
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His body of work, translated into eighteen languages, includes \u003cem\u003eStephen and the Beetle\u003c\/em\u003e, illustrated by Chiara Carrer; \u003cem\u003eDoggy Slippers\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eNumeralia\u003c\/em\u003e, illustrated by Isol; \u003cem\u003eColors! ¡Colores!\u003c\/em\u003e, illustrated by Piet Grobler; and \u003cem\u003eMoví la mano \/ I Moved My Hand\u003c\/em\u003e, illustrated by Mandana Sadat. He has won the Premio de Poesía para Niños de ALIJA, and has been nominated for the 2024 Hans Christian Andersen Award and nominated eight times for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. He lives in Mexico.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","ContributorBio_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMANDANA SADAT\u003c\/strong\u003e is an award-winning author and illustrator of children’s books who lives near Paris. She has a diploma in illustration from L’École supérieure des arts décoratifs de Strasbourg and has published many books in Europe, Asia, North America and South America, including \u003cem\u003eMon lion\u003c\/em\u003e (Prix France Télévisions) and \u003cem\u003eTarde de invierno\u003c\/em\u003e (Premio CANIEM). She has exhibited her art in New York and Italy, including three times at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","ContributorBio_2":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eELISA AMADO\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Guatemalan-born author and translator. She has written \u003cem\u003eMy Friend\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eMi amiga\u003c\/em\u003e), illustrated by Alfonso Ruano; \u003cem\u003eUn Barrilete para el Día de los Muertos\u003c\/em\u003e \/ \u003cem\u003eBarrilete: A Kite for the Day of the Dead\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eCousins\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003ePrimas\u003c\/em\u003e), illustrated by Luis Garay; and \u003cem\u003eTricycle\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eEl triciclo\u003c\/em\u003e), illustrated by Alfonso Ruano, which is on the Américas Award Commended List and is a USBBY Outstanding International Book. 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Mandana Sadat’s imaginative illustrations deepen and enrich the text. \u003cem\u003eMovi la mano \/ I Moved My Hand\u003c\/em\u003e is a special contribution to the world of children’s books for the very young (and the not so young).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCorrelates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.4\u003cbr\u003e\nDescribe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781554984855","Height":"9.5","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Groundwood Books","MetaKeywords":"poetry; South America; Latina protagonists; imagination and play; magical realism; countries; cultures and national identity; imagination; Spanish language; poetry for children; second language; bilingual elements; Spanish language; figurative language; poetic language; summarizing; inferring; visualizing; imagining; Common core aligned; CC Literature Craft and Structure; grade 2; picture book; fiction","NumberOfPages":"32","OtherText_Review_0":"The girl's creativity and imagination aren’t merely flights of fancy, but forces with legitimate power.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_Review_1":"A tutu-clad child encounters existentialism through movement in this poem by award-winning Argentine poet Lujan.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_Review_2":"A simple but profound picture book about the power a child has to create her own special world through movement, imagination, and magic.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"CM Magazine","OtherText_Review_3":"The girl’s giddy logic rings true; the marvelous use of color and expert pacing propel the dance. Sure to inspire fresh flights of fancy!","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"School Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_4":"A dreamy paean to creative expression.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A simple but empowering poem about creating a world, told from a young child's perspective.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"03","PrizeName_0":"Tejas Star Reading List","PrizeYear_0":"2015","ProductFormDescription":"hardcover jacket","PublicationDate":"2014-09-24","Publisher":"Groundwood Books Ltd","ShortDescription":"A simple but empowering poem about creating a world, told from a young child's perspective.","Width":"9.5","WidthCode":"in"}
ages 3
and up
/ grades P
and up
Moví la mano / I Moved My Hand
A simple but empowering poem about creating a world, told from a young child's perspective.
