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Max & Milo Go to Sleep! (Max and Milo)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Ethan Long
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Aladdin (2013, Jan 1st).
Pages: 32
Meet Max and Milo, two hilarious beaver brothers who make going to sleep an up-all-night adventure.Milo can’t get to sleep: He tosses and turns; he turns and he tosses. And then finally he calls on his older brother: “MAX! WAKE UP!” But no matter what helpful sleeping tip Max suggests, Milo turns it riotously on its head and is as far from rest as ever. Will Milo finally get to sleep? Will he ever stop driving Max crazy? Will the beaver brothers be up half the night in search of forty winks? Insomniacs everywhere, take comfort! Max and Milo are here to solve your sleepless nights in the most hilarious of ways! more
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The Devouring Dragon: How China's Rise Threatens Our Natural World
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Craig Simons
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: St. Martin's Press (2013, Mar 12th).
Pages: 304
China’s rise is assaulting the natural world at an alarming rate. In a few short years, China has become the planet’s largest market for endangered wildlife, its top importer of tropical trees, and its biggest emitter of greenhouse gases. Its rapid economic growth has driven up the world’s very metabolism: in Brazil, farmers clear large swaths of the Amazon to plant soybeans; Indian poachers hunt tigers and elephants to feed Chinese demand; in the United States, clouds of mercury and ozone drift earthward after trans-Pacific jet-stream journeys. Craig Simons’ The Devouring Dragon looks at how an ascending China has rapidly surpassed the U.S. and Europe as the planet’s worst-polluting superpower. It argues that China’s most important 21st-century legacy will be determined not by jobs, corporate profits, or political alliances, but by how quickly its growth degrades the global environment and whether it can stem the damage. more
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Colorasaurus
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Megan E. Bryant
Format: Board book
Publisher: Chronicle Books; Brdbk edition (2012, Jul 25th).
Pages: 20
In this new series of concept-based, shaped dinosaur board books, little ones will learn dinosaur names for every letter of the alphabet, identify bold shapes, practice counting skills, and discover the bright colors in the dinosaur world. Both kid-friendly and educational, these board books make reading and playtime fun for the whole family! more
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Little Bo in London
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Emma Walton Hamilton
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins (2012, Nov 13th).
Pages: 112
For Little Bo, the tiny cat with an extraordinary spirit, and her friend Billy, life just keeps getting better and better. They have traveled from England to France, sailed with the crew of the motor yacht Legend to Italy, and now are enjoying a leisurely cruise through the Mediterranean. But a scuffle with pirates cuts their journey short and calls for the heroic efforts of Bo and Billy. Then a change of course means a triumphant return to England—and Little Bo's most amazing adventure yet!With remarkable courage and the sweetest, deepest friendships, Little Bo's exciting journey brings her home again and offers a thrilling conclusion to her globe-trotting adventures. more
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Doc: A Memoir
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Ellis Henican
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: New Harvest (2013, Jun 4th).
Pages: 304
A bruisingly honest memoir of addiction and recovery from one of the greatest pitchers of all time. With fresh and sober eyes, Dwight Gooden shares the most intimate moments of his successes and failures, from endless self-destructive drug binges to three World Series rings. Known for his triumphs on the baseball field and his excesses off of it, Gooden was a soft-spoken, dominating wunderkind who tallied a mountain of strikeouts while leading the 1986 bad-boy New York Mets to a World Series win. Even at that pinnacle, Gooden had already succumbed to a cocaine addiction that would short-circuit his career and personal life. Gooden’s story transcends baseball, from his childhood in Tampa raised by a father who was an alcoholic womanizer, to the recent experience of overcoming his own demons on the show Celebrity Rehab. more
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Animal Helpers: Wildlife Rehabilitators
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Jennifer Keats Curtis
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Sylvan Dell Publishing (2012, Aug 10th).
Pages: 32
Like humans, animals can get sick or hurt. People visit doctors. Pets see veterinarians. What happens to wild animals when they are injured, become ill, or are orphaned? Often, wildlife rehabilitators are called to their rescue. This photographic journal takes readers behind the scenes at four different wildlife rehabilitation centers. Fall in love with these backyard animals as they are nursed back to health and released back to the wild when possible. This is the first of a photographic series introducing the different ways and the many people who care for a wide variety of animals. more
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Alphasaurus
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Megan E. Bryant
Format: Board book
Publisher: Chronicle Books; Brdbk edition (2012, Jul 25th).
Pages: 20
In this new series of concept-based, shaped dinosaur board books, little ones will learn dinosaur names for every letter of the alphabet, identify bold shapes, practice counting skills, and discover the bright colors in the dinosaur world. Both kid-friendly and educational, these board books make reading and playtime fun for the whole family! more
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The Black Rabbit (Junior Library Guild Selection (Candlewick Press))
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Philippa Leathers
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Candlewick (2013, Jan 22nd).
Pages: 40
In this clever picture book, a debut author-illustrator introduces a plucky rabbit and the new companion that he just can’t shake.Rabbit has a problem. There’s a large black rabbit chasing him. No matter where he runs — behind a tree, over the river — the shadowy rabbit follows. Finally in the deep, dark wood, Rabbit loses his nemesis — only to encounter a real foe! Kids who like to be in on the secret will revel in this humorous look at shadows and friendship, brought to light by a talented animator. more
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Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Jon Mooallem
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The (2013, May 16th).
Pages: 368
Journalist Jon Mooallem has watched his little daughter’s world overflow with animals butterfly pajamas, appliquéd owls—while the actual world she’s inheriting slides into a great storm of extinction. Half of all species could disappear by the end of the century, and scientists now concede that most of America’s endangered animals will survive only if conservationists keep rigging the world around them in their favor. So Mooallem ventures into the field, often taking his daughter with him, to move beyond childlike fascination and make those creatures feel more real. Wild Ones is a tour through our environmental moment and the eccentric cultural history of people and wild animals in America that inflects it—from Thomas Jefferson’s celebrations of early abundance to the turn-of the-last-century origins of the teddy bear to the whale-loving hippies of the 1970s. more
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Yoo-Hoo, Ladybug!
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Laura Ljungkvist
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Beach Lane Books (2013, May 7th).
Pages: 32
Can you locate Ladybug? A charming, playful seek-and-find adventure from beloved author Mem Fox.Yoo-hoo, Ladybug! Where are you?There you are…afloat in the bath, with Duck and Giraffe! Ladybug loves to hide. Come along on a treasure hunt to find this sneaky little bug, wherever she may be! Children will delight in this picture book game of hide-and-seek and will eagerly read along, pointing out Ladybug’s newest and cleverest hiding spot time and again. more
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