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Old Mikamba Had a Farm | Rachel Isadora
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I purposely check out lots of picture books with people of color in them for Juliet. (I try with Eleanor too, but middle grade stuff is harder to find!). Rachel Isadora's books are some of our favorites - she retells fairy tales and classic stories (like Old McDonald's Farm) with African or Asian characters. And then "Let's Go Around the Neighborhood" is a book left from my childhood, about a little girl and her mom running errands. #bookednesday

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The Jellybeans and the Big Dance | Laura Numeroff, Nate Evans
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Today's #bookednesday - these books are favorites of both of my girls! ❤📚 #raisingreaders

BookofWords Good timing I'm off to the library now with my littles!!! 8y
howjessicareads Did you find one @BookofWords ? 🙂 8y
BookofWords Yes we did The Jelly Beans and the Book Bonanza! Thanks for the rec! 8y
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Dogku: with audio recording | Andrew Clements
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#bookednesday! A cute little story about a stray dog finding a home; told in a series of haiku.

There on the back steps,
The eyes of a hungry dog.
Will she shut the door?

#kidlit #haiku #dogsoflitsy

Daisey I ❤️ this book! 8y
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Grabbed this at the library on a whim, and it is ADORABLE. Read it to the girls before bed two nights running. Another pic to follow! #kidlit #bookednesday #raisingreaders

freyaheart I'm a childless adult and I want to read this. 8y
howjessicareads @freyaheart Do it! A lot of the humor is for adults anyway. (Like Ralfy reads "Hucklebunny Finn", ha!) 8y
Lmstraubie This is adorable! 8y
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#bookednesday!! (One day late, oops) Have I already shared this one...?? I can't remember. But it's incredibly sweet; about a little boy trying to build a cave to read books in. We check it out often. 🙂

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It's time for #bookednesday! We all love this math-y, cute book. (And all of the Charlie & Lola books!) But in this one my 6yo relates to Charlie and my 3yo relates to Lola, and we all liked counting along on their trip to the store. 🙂

The typography in these books is so fun too - but they don't make great bedtime reading, in my opinion, because the occasional twisty lines of text are so hard to read in dim light! #gettingold 😂

Lmstraubie I love the illustrations in the Charlie & Lola books. I love how Lauren Childs mixes photos with the drawings. (Cheater glasses help in dim light & no one can see you wearing them 😉) 8y
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The Princess and the Packet of Frozen Peas | Tony Wilson, Sue deGennaro
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#bookednesday - our picks for this week! Juliet loved "This Book is Not About Dragons", and the mouse who denies dragons, even as things go up in flames around him. Eleanor loved "The Princess and the Packet of Frozen Peas" about Prince Henrik, who wanted to find an outdoorsy princess, and finally found one who used a packet of frozen peas to ice her hockey injury, so they lived happily ever after. ? #raisingreaders

Sass84 We just read the frozen peas last week! It was a funny twist in the classic :) 8y
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The Gruffalo | Julia Donaldson
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At the #library, picking up all the books I requested based on last week's #bookednesday recommendations!! 🙂

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Don't Wake Up the Tiger | Britta Teckentrup
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Starting a weekly picture book recommendation with a group of FB friends, we're calling it #bookednesday! Figured I'd share this here too - it has super cute pictures, amazing typography, and a fun plot - where the other animals have to sneak past tiger. It's interactive, asking the reader to pet Tiger's belly when she starts to wake, blow on Mouse's balloon to help her soar over, etc. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Lmstraubie I love this idea! Picture books are such a beautiful combination of art & words. I get so lost in them. 8y
howjessicareads Yes @lmstraubie - good ones are mesmerizing! 8y
Desha Yes...I use picture books/children's books when working with adult ESL students...they are so much fun and so often use a writing form that pulls the reader in and demands different "voices" and inflection while reading!! The students seem to really get a lot out of it...eventually I have them prepare their own children's book to read to the class. ???❤️ 8y
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