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1) Owl babies
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Three owl babies whose mother has gone out in the night try to stay calm while she is gone.
3) Koala Lou
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A young koala, longing to hear her mother speak lovingly to her as she did before other children came along, plans to win her distracted parent's attention.
8) This & that
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In rhyming text, Mother mouse tells her child stories at bedtime.
10) Bob, not Bob!
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"When a young boy gets a cold, he just wants his mommy. But his stuffy nose makes it difficult for him to call out to his mom--not 'Bob, ' who happens to be the family dog"--
15) We could fly
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"At a sparrow's urging, a young girl feels a mysterious trembling in her arms, a lightness in her feet, a longing to be free. Her mother tells her that her Granny Liza experienced the same, as did many of their people before her. Perhaps it's time, Mama says, to slip the bonds of earth and join the journey started long ago. To hold each other tight and rise. Drawing on lyrics from the song "We Could Fly" by Rhiannon Giddens and Dirk Powell, which...
17) Too much noise!
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While their mother is sleeping, two children try unsuccessfully to quietly make her breakfast.
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Jenny Gold's family once lived in a lavish brownstone in New York City, but now she is forced to live on a dirty farm and clean chicken coops, sharing a small room with her mother and brother, with no electricity. Jenny spends free time reliving the glory days in her old diary, but the itch for new adventure drives her to get out of her diary and take the world head-on.