Maggie Smith
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Count your way through a baby’s busy day!
Count from 1 to 10 as this adorable baby takes a bath, gets dressed, and eats a snack. Through a day of splashing in puddles and playing with puppies, we count down from 10 to 1. By the end, baby is happy and tired—and dirty enough for another bath!
“You can’t miss with a wet baby fresh from the bath, making a gleeful escape covered only by a purple...
Count from 1 to 10 as this adorable baby takes a bath, gets dressed, and eats a snack. Through a day of splashing in puddles and playing with puppies, we count down from 10 to 1. By the end, baby is happy and tired—and dirty enough for another bath!
“You can’t miss with a wet baby fresh from the bath, making a gleeful escape covered only by a purple...
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WINNER, 2022 NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE JUROR'S GRAND PRIZE
WINNER, BEST DEBUT FICTION 2022 AMERICAN WRITING AWARDS
FIRST PLACE, WOMEN'S FICTION, 2022 PENCRAFT BOOKS AWARDS
2022 GREAT GROUP READS, WOMAN'S NATIONAL BOOK ASSOCIATION
The Devil Wears Prada meets All the President's Men
Megan Barnes' life is in free fall. After losing both
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"Life, like a poem, is a series of choices." In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of her marriage and her renewed commitment to herself in lyrical vignettes that shine, hard and clear as jewels. The book begins with one woman's personal, particular heartbreak, but its circles widen into a reckoning with contemporary womanhood, traditional gender roles, and the power dynamics that persist...
4) Good bones
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"Poems written out of the experience of motherhood, inspired by the poet watching her own children trying to read the world like a book they've just opened, knowing nothing of the characters or plot"--
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"With her breakout bestseller Keep Moving, Maggie Smith captured the nation with her “meditations on kindness and hope” (NPR). Now, with Goldenrod, the award-winning poet returns with a powerful collection of poems that look at parenthood, solitude, love, and memory. Pulling objects from everyday life-a hallway mirror, a rock found in her son's pocket, a field of goldenrods at the side of the road-she reveals the magic of the present moment. Only...
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When poet Smith started writing daily Twitter posts in the wake of her divorce, they unexpectedly caught fire. Here she writes about new beginnings as opportunities for transformation. Like kintsugi, the Japanese art of mending broken ceramics with gold, she celebrates the beauty and strength on the other side of loss. This is a book for anyone who has gone through a difficult time and is wondering: What comes next? -- adapted from Goodreads info
11) Beach day
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Rhyming text describes a perfect day at the beach, complete with sandy knees, deviled eggs, and a castle with a moat.
13) Paisley
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Tired of collecting dust in a toy store, a stuffed elephant named Paisley ventures out in search of his Special Someone.
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Harry's fourth year at Hogwarts is marked by the Quidditch World Cup and the Triwizard Tournament, in which student representatives from three different wizarding schools compete in a series of increasingly challenging contests. However, Voldemort's Death Eaters are gaining strength and create the Dark Mark - giving evidence that the Dark Lord is ready to rise again. In the unsuspecting lives of the students at Hogwarts, the competitors are selected...
19) Our library
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Celebrating Libraries and Reading
Picture Books about Books & Libraries
Prolific Children's Book Author Eve Bunting
Picture Books about Books & Libraries
Prolific Children's Book Author Eve Bunting
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A raccoon and his friends go to great lengths to make sure they will always have a library from which to borrow books.
20) One mitten
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One mitten can do many things, but when the second mitten is found, it is time to go outside and have fun.