Sara Gillingham
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
An introduction to maritime communication through nautical flags, along with morse code, the phonetic alphabet, and semaphore signaling. Today's system of international maritime signal flags was developed in the 19th century, and is still used for communication between ships, or between ship and shore. Each flag, boldly colored for visual distinction at sea, stands for a letter as well as a phrase relevant to seafaring. The resulting code is both...
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English
Description
Make baby feel better in this interactive novelty book, featuring removable pieces, flaps, and touch surfaces
All Better, Baby! is an interactive novelty board book that plays like a doll and reads like a gentle manual about how to soothe a baby. Gillingham has incorporated real tactics for newborn care, giving the text an authenticity and purpose. Interactivities include putting a bandage on a scraped knee, rubbing ointment on an itchy bug bite,...
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Series
Language
English
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Storytime @ Home: Celebrate Black Authors, Illustrators, Stories, and Experiences
Storytime @ Home: I Can Do It
Storytime @ Home: I Can Do It
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Celebrates a toddler's increasing knowledge of the world, such as that rocks are heavy and flowers are light.
4) Wildflower
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Language
English
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ALSC's Gardening & Flora - Recommended Reading for Children
Bee City USA, Pollinators & Wildflowers - Children
Plant Wildflowers Campaign: Fiction for Kids ages 0 - 8
Plant Wildflowers Grant Titles
Bee City USA, Pollinators & Wildflowers - Children
Plant Wildflowers Campaign: Fiction for Kids ages 0 - 8
Plant Wildflowers Grant Titles
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"When little Daisy finds herself blooming in a garden she is happy to stretch her petals to the sky. How lovely it feels to be a flower in bloom! Until, Rose tells her that she doesn't belong in the garden. Daisy is a weed, and just gets in the way. Other flowering plants and herbs in the garden agree with Rose, but some of the other garden inhabitants don't. They suggest that Daisy is actually a wildflower, that can grow within or outside of gardens...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Storytime @ Home: Celebrate Black Authors, Illustrators, Stories, and Experiences
Storytime @ Home: I Can Do It
Storytime @ Home: I Can Do It
Description
Celebrates a toddler's growing comfort with such things as hearing loud noises and being left with a babysitter.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
A comprehensive introduction explaining what elements are and the design and purpose of the periodic table. Each of the 118 elements is visually presented with its respective letter symbol and atomic number, as well as a map of where it's located in the periodic table. Additional details showing where each element is found in the universe (from food on our plates to the center of a star), its unique properties, atomic diagram, secret chemistry, and...
11) I like to share!
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English
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Celebrate the joys of learning to share in this exuberant board book from the Empowerment series!
12) I Am So Brave!
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Series
Language
English
Description
This fourth book in the empowerment series celebrates the feats of growing out of toddlerhood with courage and success. Whether it's petting a dog or waving good-bye to a parent, Krensky and Gillingham address the "small wins" of growing just a little bit braver. Young children and their parents will revel in the encouraging text and the vintage screen-print-style illustrations.
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English
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Prepare your little one for their first day of preschool or kindergarten with this uplifting board book from the Empowerment series!
I fit just right in every chair.
With toys and books for me to share.
Reassuring rhyming text introduces preschoolers to their first day of school where a welcoming teacher, a cheery classroom, and new friends await! The Empowerment series addresses the small victories of growing up and starting to embrace the...
14) Love Is a Ball
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Language
English
Description
From the creators of Love Is a Tutu and Love Is a Truck, an ode to toy balls of all kinds
A bouncy and bright ode to toy balls big and small-from beach balls and baseballs to gumballs-and to the kids who love them.
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Language
English
Description
• All-star team: Author Kallie George is a prolific and award-winning children's book author, and illustrator Sara Gillingham is an award-winning children's book illustrator, author, and designer.
• Unique angle for a kids mushroom book: Mushrooms Know stands out among other books about fungi for kids because it focuses on the special wisdom mushrooms have, and what we can learn from them.
• Fun & digestible fungi science: Mushrooms Know...