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• The Midnight Fair

  Sterer, Gideon,

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  After the lights go out at the fairground and the people go home, the creatures in the nearby forest want to take a wild joyride through the magical, marvelous midnight fair!

• A Day So Gray

  Lamba, Marie,

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  A winter's day is transformed from bleak to beautiful by warm friendship and a new perspective in a gentle story that encourages the appreciation and celebration of cozy pleasures and quiet joys.

• Among a Thousand Fireflies

  Frost, Helen, 1949-

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  Exquisite photographs and poetic text evoke a sense of mystery and magic. On a summer evening, just as the stars blink on, a firefly lands on a flower. Lights start to flash all around her first one, then three, seven. Hundreds. Thousands.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Old Boat

  Pumphrey, Jarrett,

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  Off a small island, a boy and his grandfather set sail in their beloved fishing boat. They ride the waves, catching wants and wishes and seeing the wonders of the ocean. When a storm washes him ashore, he sees home in a new light and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Miss Maple's Seeds

  Wheeler, Eliza

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  After gathering lost seeds during the summer, a kind woman tends and instructs them throughout the fall and winter before sending them out in the spring to find roots of their own.

• My Friend Earth

  MacLachlan, Patricia,

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  Die-cut pages invite reader to explore how Earth is a friend to all creatures, watching over us as the year cycles through the seasons.

• Watercress

  Wang, Andrea,

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  Gathering watercress by the side of the road brings a girl closer to her family's Chinese Heritage.

• A New Green Day

  Portis, Antoinette,

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  Explore nature through riddles and imagery that take the reader from day to night and back again in this perfect read aloud. Children will solve riddles about animals, plants and the weather that one child encounters in one day.

• Outside, Inside

  Pham, LeUyen,

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  From Caldecott honoree LeUyen Pham, a moving picture book celebrating essential workers and the community coming together to face the challenges of the global COVID-19 pandemic.

• When You Breathe

  Farid, Diana,

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  What happens when you breathe? In this beautiful book, breath blossoms in the upside-down tree in your rising chest, animating and enlivening you. And when you breathe out, you send your song out into the world.

• Blue Floats Away

  Jonker, Travis,

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  A little iceberg strikes out on a big journey in this new picture book that explores the wonders of the water cycle

• We Wait for the Sun

  Roundtree, Dovey Johnson, 1914-2018,

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  The late Civil Rights attorney and activist shares a poignant moment from her childhood beside her wise grandmother, who taught Roundtree the values of self-worth, strength and justice that inspired the co-author's boundary-breaking career.

• Jazzy in the Jungle

  Cousins, Lucy,

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  The jungle animals help Mama JoJo find her baby lemur Jazzy.

• Zonia's Rain Forest

  Martinez-Neal, Juana,

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  A heartfelt, visually stunning picture book from Caldecott Honor and Robert F. Sibert Medal winner Juana Martinez-Neal illuminates a young girl's day of play and adventure in the lush rain forest of Peru.

• Saving American Beach

  the Biography of African American Environmentalist MaVynee Betsch

  King, Heidi Tyline, 1966-

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  Illustrated by the Caldecott Honoree Ekua Holmes, Saving American Beach tells the story of MaVynee Betsch, an African American opera singer turned environmentalist and the legacy she preserved.