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Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
""The shape of the earth is a sphere." So begins The Shape of You, as a mother tells her toddler daughter about the shapes that make up their lives--and the reader is invited into their cosy world. There's the triangle hill their house is on, the square of their kitchen table, the cubes of ice in their drinks... There's also the shape of light (all the colours of the sunset) and the shape of the wind (a scarf flapping). As the shapes transmute from...
3) Mommy time
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Following a day in the life of two rambunctious children and their mom, this warm, revealing picture book builds a bridge of empathy between parent and child and celebrates the value of "Mommy Time."
4) We could fly
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At a sparrow's urging, a young girl feels a mysterious trembling in her arms, a lightness in her feet, a longing to be free. Her mother tells her that her Granny Liza experienced the same, as did many of their people before her. Perhaps it's time, Mama says, to slip the bonds of earth and join the journey started long ago. To hold each other tight and rise. Drawing on lyrics from the song "We Could Fly" by Rhiannon Giddens and Dirk Powell, which...
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Needing to express how much they love each other, parent and child play the old familiar counting game. The child says "I love you, " the parent replies "I love you too, " and the child, gleefully, replies "I love you three!" From there they continue counting until they reach "I love you ten."
Author
Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Phoenix loves to play with dolls and marvel at pretty fabrics. Most of all, he loves to dance-- ballet, Pow Wow dancing, or just swirling and twirling around his house. Sometimes Phoenix gets picked on and he struggles with feeling different, but his mom and brother are proud of him. With their help, Phoenix learns about Two Spirit/Niizh Manidoowag people in Anishinaabe culture and just how special he is.
"A powerful story about the importance of...
Author
Language
English
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AACPS Kindergarten
All Time Staff Favorites: Picture Books
Honor and Uplift Asian American Voices, Cultures and Experiences
Lunar New Year: Kids
All Time Staff Favorites: Picture Books
Honor and Uplift Asian American Voices, Cultures and Experiences
Lunar New Year: Kids
Description
A self-confident and strong young girl recounts how she shares her eyes--and so much more--with her mother, her amah and her little sister.
12) Flower garden
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Helped by her father, a young girl prepares a flower garden as a birthday surprise for her mother.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A new spin on the classic song 'Hush, Little Baby,' this truck-themed lullaby follows a mother and child as they discover different vehicles, from a bulldozer to a front-end loader. Kim Norman's gentle rhyming text, paired with Toshiki Nakamura's imaginative illustrations, makes this picture book a great option for bedtime read-alouds." -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Swimming, singing and blowing bubbles--baby whale calves and young human children share so many of the same activities! This lyrical picture book compares the relationship of a young child and mother with that of a whale calf and its mother, showing how the lives of the whales can be so touchingly like our own. Patterned in a call-and-response format, where the mother observes and the child responds, the text begs to be read aloud. Safe at night...
16) Moonflower
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Moon is convinced that they do not belong to this world: that most of the time they are invisible (unless they stay still too long), that they belong to the stars, and wants to go back to them--they live entirely in their imagination with an imaginary spirit guide who can appear in any shape and refuses to speak to anyone, lest their words tie them to a world they rejects.
17) Sitting shiva
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this gorgeously illustrated, deeply moving picture book, a young girl learns about the practice of sitting shiva after her mother dies."--
18) My footprints
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Upset after being bullied, Thuy, a Vietnamese American, pretends she is different creatures, including an especially strong, wonderful being made up of her two mothers and herself. Includes note about the phoenix and the Sarabha.
19) Brown sugar babe
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"When a little girl has doubts about the color of her skin, her mother shows her all the wonderful, beautiful things brown can be! This message of self-love and acceptance uses rich, dreamy illustrations to celebrate the color using all the senses: sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing" --
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Violet Crane is the only child in a broken home, with a mother who is increasing scared of leaving the house, so when a new family with five boisterous children (and a dog) moves in next door she is convinced that they must be the happiest family in the whole world; they cheerfully include Violet in their games but, as school starts, she becomes aware that even happy families have their problems, and that twelve-year-old Reggie (the...
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