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"Shut up in a trunk by a taciturn old sea captain with a secret, five friends--a king, a wolf, a girl, a boy, and an owl--bicker, boast, and comfort one another in the dark. Individually, they dream of song and light, freedom and flight, purpose and glory, but they all agree they are part of a larger story, bound each to each by chance, bonded by the heart's mysteries. When at last their shared fate arrives, landing them on a mantel in a blue room...
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Books for Preschoolers (3-4 years old)
Books to Inspire Creativity
Diverse Books - East & Southeast Asians
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Books to Inspire Creativity
Diverse Books - East & Southeast Asians
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A boy and his grandfather cross a language and cultural barrier using their shared love of art, storytelling, and fantasy.
4) Witch Hazel
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"A girl is transformed by the magical power of stories through the shared memories of a kind "witch" named Hazel"--
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"When Lily and her family move in with her sick grandmother, a magical tiger straight out of her halmoni's Korean folktales arrives. The tiger offers Lily a deal--if Lily will open her grandmother's star jars and return what she stole, the tiger will heal her grandmother. But deals with tigers are never what they seem! With the help of her sister and her new friend Ricky, Lily must find her voice . . . and the courage to face a tiger"--Provided by...
10) This & that
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In rhyming text, Mother mouse tells her child stories at bedtime.
11) Zen shorts
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When Stillwater the bear moves into the neighborhood, the stories he tells to three siblings teach them to look at the world in new ways.
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"Andy and Terry are once again inviting readers to come hang out with them in their astonishing 39-story treehouse (it used to be 13 stories, then 26 stories, but they keep expanding). And this year they will have even more time to jump on the world's highest trampoline, toast marshmallows in an active volcano, swim in the chocolate waterfall, pet baby dinosaurs, and go head-to-trunk with the Trunkinator, since Terry has created the greatest invention...
16) The word pirates
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When word-eating Captain Rottingbones and his crew steal from the Word Wizard while she is telling a story, her pen proves mightier than the pirates' swords.
17) It's a tiger!
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A child imagines that he is in a story where he encounters a tiger at every turn.