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Cover: Everybelly by Thao Lam. Maddie, a child with medium skin tone, a floral long-sleeve swim top, blue swim cap and goggles, swims underwater. Air bubbles float up from her mouth to the surface. The arms and legs of a smaller child with dark skin tone in an inflatable tubeare visible on the top right edge of the page. Swimming next to the small child is the torso of a woman with dark skin tone and a yellow floral one piece swimsuit is visible.

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From acclaimed picture-book artist Thao Lam comes a joyful celebration of an oft-maligned body part — the belly!

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Cover: The Sunshine Project written by Uma Krishnaswami. A boy with short black hair and medium skin tone is planting a tall skinny plant with three leaves at the top in sandy ground. Beside him on the ground are two more seedlings, ready to plant. Two girls are on either side of him, one picking up trash and the other planting. In the background a river empties into the ocean, with lush forest on one side, and a small village with thatched roofs on the other.

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Cover: Rock. Written by Laurel Croza and illustrated by Matt James. The illustrations were created with acrylic paint. A round gray rock sits in the foreground on a sandy beach. The perspective of the illustration makes the rock look large. In the background a young child with light skin tone stands in the sand. A white seagull is flying in the distance. The blue water can be seen on the horizon. The rock is casting a shadow to the left and the sky is a peachy orange.

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A rock remains true to itself when faced with a bullying seagull in this picture book from award-winning creators Laurel Croza and Matt James.

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Cover: Maggie Lou Meets Her Match. By Arnolda Dufour Bowes. Two young girls stand back-to-back. One of them has medium skin tone and dark, curly hair pulled into a messy bun at the back of her head. Her T-shirt says BANNOCK SLAPPERS on the front. She has one eyebrow raised and is smirking while her arms are crossed in front of her chest. There's a band-aid on her arm. The other girl has light skin tone and her curly orange hair flows down her back. She waves while she smiles and looks over her shoulder.

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All That Grows. Words and pictures by Jack Wong. A close-up shows a boy’s face as he stares wide-eyed at four tiny green plants that have sprouted in a bed of soil. The boy has medium skin tone and brown eyes. The title is hand-lettered in green, and the author’s name is in pink.

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