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La La La 2024
VSBA 2024-2025 -- Primary Nominees
We’re All in This Together: Using Picture Books to Talk About Collective Trauma
VSBA 2024-2025 -- Primary Nominees
We’re All in This Together: Using Picture Books to Talk About Collective Trauma
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Reveals how even the smallest gesture can have a lasting impact on the world's biggest problems.
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Rhyming text full of animal sounds tells the story of a humble little truck named Blue who tries to help a big important dump truck that is stuck in the mud. When Blue gets stuck too, his farm animal friends come to the rescue and the big dump truck learns a lesson about the importance of friends.
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"Sal loves the water. All day, he thinks about it: being out there, just him and the waves, alone. More than anything else, he wants a boat. And he knows just what it would look like. So he decides to build it himself. It isn't long before everyone in town starts sharing advice. But Sal doesn't need their help. He knows just what he's building. And he does it! Except...he forgets one crucial detail--that no project, big or small, can be launched without...
4) Be kind
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When Tanisha spills grape juice all over her new dress, her classmate contemplates how to make her feel better and what it means to be kind. From asking the new girl to play to standing up for someone being bullied, this moving and thoughtful story explores what a child can do to be kind, and how each act, big or small, can make a difference or at least help a friend.
5) I help
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"When a boy finds a canteen in his garage, he finds his superpower--helping everyone, from the postman to the local birds"-- Provided by publisher.
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"Clifford has a big heart, but whenever he tries to do good deeds for others, his big size and personality always seem to get in the way. A sneeze sends just-raked leaves flying and a simple tail wag splatters paint all over the neighbor's house! But when a family is in danger, Clifford is the only one who can rescue them, and this time, Clifford's BIG heart makes him a BIG hero."-- Amazon.com.
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A young girl named Miranda Montgomery has fallen in love with the "Nature Joe Animal Show," watching it every day and taking note of how Nature Joe helps lost and injured animals. One day, Miranda sees her own teacher, Mrs. Birdley, not in her classroom but in a grocery store. Certain that her teacher is lost and in need of help, Miranda sets her traps and lays her plans to capture Mrs. Birdley and return her to her classroom.
13) Lost
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"Where, oh where is Kitty? She's not upstairs... not in her litter box... not at her food bowl. Hmm...There's only one thing to do: find this lost cat. As the cat's owner roams town in hopes of finding her pet, she discovers she's not the only one missing their beloved animal. There's also a lost dog...a lost bird...even a lost giraffe! Join the search party in this almost wordless story that celebrates helping our neighbors and gently reminds us...
14) Love the world
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Whether looking at one's own nose and toes, helping others, or exploring the world, there is always something to love.
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Eva decides that warning all the animals in the forest about the approaching storm is a perfect project to prove herself worthy of taking the Owl Oath, but when she stops to help a lost pony and they get caught in the storm, they have to take shelter in a cave, and end up helping each other to stay brave.
16) The wish tree
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In winter Charles and his trusty toboggan set out to find the wish tree, and along the way he helps to make the wishes of his friends Squirrel, Fox, and Beaver come true.
17) Big snow
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"An excited and frustrated boy watches hopefully as wintry weather develops slowly into a 'big snow.'"-- Provided by publisher.
18) Supersister
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A young girl does all kinds of things around the house to help her pregnant mother, proud that when the new baby comes she is going to be "a super sister."
19) Mademoiselle Mom
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When her mom gets sick, Nancy decides to help around the house by cleaning up and watching her sister JoJo.