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Swoop for Today
Onward and upward in Me, All Alone, at the End of the World by M.T. Anderson and Kevin Hawkes.
Fish Flying Up
Gravity is nothing in Hey Willy, See the Pyramids by Maira Kalman.
What Roots That Clutch, What Branches Grow
Boiling over in Mean Soup by Betsy Everitt.
Big Top Dreaming
Rash acts and final chances in Cannonball Simp by John Burningham.
The Horror
Some Things Are Scary (No Matter How Old You Are) by Florence Parry Heide and Jules Feiffer.
Filthy With Things
William Steig and the magic of junk.
The New New
Paris is sunshine, Paris is raindrops, Paris is wonderful.
Slow Jam
The joy of practice in Mole Music by David McPhail.
Mud Luscious
And Then It’s Spring by Julie Fogliano and Erin Stead.
The Unredeemed
Hucksters and flotsam in Three by the Sea by Mini Grey.
Welcome to the Dollhouse
Excellent elementary exercises in Everything I Need to Know Before I’m Five by Valorie Fisher.
Built to Spill
Bad eggs and tall orders in McFig and McFly, A Tale of Jealousy, Revenge and Death (with a Happy Ending).