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1. Alma and how she got her name

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Author:
Martinez-Neal, Juana
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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E MARTINEZNEAL
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E MARTINEZNEAL
Eva H. Perry Regional - Picture Books has 3
E MARTINEZNEAL
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How did Alma Sofia Esperanza José Pura Candela end up with such a long name? As Daddy tells the story of her many names, Alma can almost feel herself grow into them.

2. Bear came along

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Author:
Morris, Richard T., 1969-
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4.4 stars
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46 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Duraleigh Road - Picture Books
E MORRIS
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E MORRIS
Eva H. Perry Regional - Picture Books has 2
E MORRIS
Description:
An assortment of animals living separate lives discover they need each other when they have a chance encounter on a river.

3. Berry song

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Author:
Goade, Michaela
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5 stars
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E GOADE
Cary Regional - Picture Books
E GOADE
Duraleigh Road - Picture Books
E GOADE
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As a young Tlingit girl collects wild berries over the seasons, she sings with her Grandmother as she learns to speak to the land and listen when the land speaks back.

4. Big cat, little cat

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Author:
Cooper, Elisha
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4.7 stars
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E COOPER
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E COOPER
Green Road Community - Picture Books
E COOPER
Description:
A moving tale about friendship, new beginnings, and cats.

5. A big mooncake for Little Star

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Author:
Lin, Grace
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4.1 stars
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36 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Athens Drive Community - Picture Books
E LIN
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E LIN
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E LIN
Description:
Reimagines the cycles of the moon as a mother bakes a Big Moon Cookie and, despite Mama's request to wait, Little Star begins nibbling at it every night.

6. Crown: an ode to the fresh cut

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Author:
Barnes, Derrick
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3 stars
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Cary Regional - Picture Books has 2
E BARNES
East Regional - Picture Books has 5
E BARNES
Eva H. Perry Regional - Picture Books has 4
E BARNES
Description:
Celebrates the feeling that comes from walking out of a barber shop with newly-cut hair.

7. A different pond

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Author:
Phi, Bao, 1975-
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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E PHI
Cary Regional - Picture Books has 3
E PHI
East Regional - Picture Books has 7
E PHI
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"As a young boy, Bao Phi awoke early, hours before his father's long workday began, to fish on the shores of a small pond in Minneapolis. Unlike many other anglers, Bao and his father fished for food, not recreation. Between hope-filled casts, Bao's father told him about a different pond in their homeland of Vietnam"--

8. Don't let the pigeon drive the bus!

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Author:
Willems, Mo
Series:
Pigeon (Picture books) volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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Description:
When the bus driver decides to take a break from driving, a wild and wacky pigeon pleads and begs to take his place, capturing the antics of a preschooler's temper tantrum.

9. Double bass blues

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Author:
Loney, Andrea J.
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4.5 stars
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E LONEY
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E LONEY
East Regional - Picture Books
E LONEY
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After school orchestra practice, young Nic carries his double bass through rough neighborhoods to his grandfather's home, where he and Grandaddy Nic play jazz music with friends, delighting the neighbors.

10. Du iz tak?

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Author:
Ellis, Carson, 1975-
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4.4 stars
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19 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Athens Drive Community - Picture Books
E ELLIS
Cary Regional - Picture Books
E ELLIS
East Regional - Picture Books has 2
E ELLIS
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Readers are invited to imagine the dramatic possibilities to be found in the natural world, even the humblest back garden! With exquisitely-detailed illustration that will appeal to children and art-lovers alike, and a wonderfully playful invented language, we soon find ourselves speaking "Bug" ... Du iz tak? What is that?

11. The garden of Abdul Gasazi

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Author:
Van Allsburg, Chris
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5 stars
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Cary Regional - Picture Books
E VANALLSBURG
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When the dog he is caring for runs away from Alan into the forbidden garden of a retired dog-hating magician, a spell seems to be cast over the contrary dog.

12. The gardener

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Author:
Stewart, Sarah
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7 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Cary Regional - Picture Books
E STEWART
Eva H. Perry Regional - Picture Books
E STEWART
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A series of letters relating what happens when, after her father loses his job, Lydia Grace goes to live with her Uncle Jim in the city but takes her love for gardening with her.

13. Going down home with Daddy

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Author:
Lyons, Kelly Starling
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Alan looks forward to the annual family reunion at the farm where Daddy grew up, but everyone is supposed to share something special and Alan worries about arriving with empty hands.

14. Grandpa Green

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Author:
Smith, Lane
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2.5 stars
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Fuquay-Varina Community - Picture Books
E SMITH
Holly Springs Community - Picture Books
E SMITH
North Regional - Picture Books has 2
E SMITH
Description:
A child explores the ordinary life of his extraordinary great-grandfather, as expressed in his topiary garden.

15. Green

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Author:
Seeger, Laura Vaccaro
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4 stars
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Description:
Illustrations and simple, rhyming text explore the many shades of the color green.

16. Have you ever seen a flower?

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Author:
Harris, Shawn (Artist)
Average Rating:
3.6 stars
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A child experiences a flower by seeing its colors, smelling its fragrance, and imagining the tiny world within it.

17. Henry's freedom box

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Author:
Levine, Ellen
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4.7 stars
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Cary Regional - Picture Books has 3
E LEVINE
Eva H. Perry Regional - Picture Books
E LEVINE
Fuquay-Varina Community - Picture Books
E LEVINE
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A fictionalized account of how in 1849 a Virginia slave, Henry "Box" Brown, escapes to freedom by shipping himself in a wooden crate from Richmond to Philadelphia.

18. Hershel and the Hanukkah goblins

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Author:
Kimmel, Eric A.
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E KIMMEL
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E KIMMEL
Duraleigh Road - Picture Books - Holidays has 2
E KIMMEL
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Relates how Hershel outwits the goblins that haunt the old synagogue and prevent the village people from celebrating Hanukkah.

19. Hondo & Fabian

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Author:
McCarty, Peter
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4 stars
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Holly Springs Community - Picture Books
E MCCARTY
Morrisville Community - Picture Books
E MCCARTY
North Regional - Picture Books
E MCCARTY
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Hondo the dog gets to go to the beach and play with his friend Fred, while Fabian the cat spends the day at home.

20. Interrupting chicken

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Author:
Stein, David Ezra
Series:
Interrupting Chicken
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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Book, Board Book
Description:
Little Red Chicken wants Papa to read her a bedtime story, but interrupts him almost as soon as he begins each tale.