Ruddock, Nicholas
Summary: "Would you help a tiny fragile snake? Fifteen poems explore close encounters with animals ... and choosing to respond tenderly. Whether it's helping a hummingbird escape, respecting a bear's habitat, admiring a heron's beauty, or giving way to ants at a picnic, the human response in these poems is to do no harm, and to help whenever possible. The poems follow a seasonal progression, ending with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 RUDVanDerwater, Amy Ludwig
Summary: "Fascinating information about the animals (yes, sea otters have pockets!) tucked into short, lively poems and bright, bold artwork make this collection perfect for National Poetry Month--or any day of the year. In honor of Poem in Your Pocket Day, a child imagines the poems animals might carry in their pockets, if they had pockets. What would a hummingbird write? A fox? A sea otter? These...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wordsong, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 VANLevinson, Suzy
Summary: "What? You've never seen animals in pants? A dog in yoga pants, a goat in overalls, a yak in slacks? Animals in Pants presents a parade of impeccable poems about animals wearing perfectly pressed pants." -- inside front jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cameron Kids, Cameron + Company 2023
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Summary: "Twenty-seven poems look inside the dwellings of animals like elf owls, cathedral termites, Sumatran orangutans, and foam-nest tree frogs"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 841 SIMLanham, J. Drew (Joseph Drew)
Summary: "...J. Drew Lanham explores his obsession with birds and all things wild in a mixture of poetry and prose."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hub City Press 2021
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Summary: Part silly, part stinky, all special, this collection of 27 poems centered around human's best friend features lively and loveable artwork and is perfect for dog lovers, those who love a dog lover or those who are simply dog-curious.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Neal Porter Books/Holiday House 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 SALDean, Kim
Summary: Pete the cat loves to play hide-and-seek! When his friends hide, Pete covers his eyes and counts to 10. He opens them and just knows he will find them soon. But finding his friends may be harder than Pete thought. Are they behind a tree or on a bus? Or will Pete give up? Find out how Pete learns to chill out in this cool story full of surprises at every peek!
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2022
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Summary: "Ideal for independent readers, this full-color graphic novel introduces children to an inquisitive pig named Baloney and his friends Bizz the bee, Peanut the horse, and Krabbit the grouchy rabbit."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grupo Anaya 2020
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 741.5 PIZSmart, Jamie
Summary: "Monkey-opia is going to be brilliant!" When Monkey is sent into space by a team of scientists, he expects smooth sailing. But not all goes according to plan, and Monkey's spaceship crash-lands in a nearby forest. Convinced he has discovered a new planet the power-mad Monkey claims the peaceful Woods as his own Monkey-opia! He declares that all other animals must be banished, and he uses...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square Kids 2023
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Summary: Wanting to play, Arfy searches for the perfect ball.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2024
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Summary: With their friendship on the line after a huge fight, Pea and Bee search for new friends, while Jay takes matters into his own wings to bring them all back together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC SMISmith, Brian
Summary: "When Pea, Bee, & Jay hear stories of Gramp's youth, they find each yarn to be wilder than the last. He once had a pet dog, was a professional wrestling champ, and even led a jailbreak out of a can of peas...But when Gramps goes missing, it's up to the trio to bring him home."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC SMISummary: Two young children suddenly find themselves in charge of a gentle, aging circus lion. However, when the authorities threaten to split them up, the trio embarks on a perilous journey across the American Northwest. During their adventure-filled odyssey, they seek help from a sympathetic, free-spirited mountain man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney DVD] 2004
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY NAPWillems, Mo
Summary: Cerdita ha sido invitada a una fiesta pro primera vez. Pero ¿qué se pondrá? Geraldo, el experto en fiestas, sabe exactamente cómo ayudarla, ¿o no?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 2021
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JBR GREEN SPANISH WILPeters, Lisa Westberg
Summary: "If you're a curious child and you get a new dog, you discover all kinds of things. Gravity has new meaning, when you're racing down a slide toward your eager-beaver dog waiting at the bottom (uh-oh!). Friction has a new meaning, when your slippery dog escapes from the bath (soap+fingers=not enough friction). But love has a new meaning too, when you and your cosmic dog become the center of your...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wordsong, and imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 PETLatham, Irene
Summary: This beautiful poetry collection introduces readers to the art of found poetry as the poet writes a 37-line poem, "Nest," then finds 160 smaller poems within it. What can you find in a poem about a robin's nest? Irene Latham masterfully discovers "nestlings" or smaller poems about an astonishing variety of subjects--emotions, wild animals, natural landmarks on all seven continents, even planets...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wordsong, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 LATSummary: Sandy is distraught when, having saved Flipper's life by pulling out a spear, his father insists the dolphin be released.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2004
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family FlipperWillems, Mo
Summary: Geraldo está cansado y gruñón. ¿Soñará con Cerdita? ¿O ella no lo dejará soñar?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 2021
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Summary: Simple poems and glorious paintings offer a deeply moving portrait of migrant Chicano farmworker families at work and play.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2019
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Contents: Some rather lively lines (Papyrus Chester Beatty I)--Songs inscribed on an earthen vessel (Cairo ostracon 25218)--Songs of the garden (Papyrus Harris 500)--Songs of great heart's ease (Papyrus Chester Beatty I)--Songs from a faded papyrus (Papyrus Harris 500)--Stanzaic love song (Papyrus Chester Beatty I)--Songs of the orchard (Papyrus Turin 1966)--Songs of the birdcatcher's daughter (Papyrus...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1974
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 493.1 FOSEmezi, Akwaeke
Summary: "Collection of poems by Akwaeke Emezi"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821 EMEHood, Susan
Summary: "An inspirational nonfiction novel-in-verse about Zhanna Arshanskaya, a young Ukrainian Jewish girl using the alias Anna, whose phenomenal piano-playing skills saved her life and the life of her sister, Frina, during the Holocaust-from award-winning author Susan Hood, with Zhanna's son, Greg Dawson"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ARSBolte, Mari
Summary: Rossi is a yellow Labrador retriever in training to be a service dog like his great-grandma, Roselle, who was at the World Trade Center on 9/11--but sometimes he finds it difficult to focus on his job, and would rather be chasing tennis balls.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2024