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Be Kind Rewind

Margaret Wise Brown on singing, crying and remembering in The Dead Bird.

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Filed Under:  Animals   Death   Growing  

Will We Ever Feel That Way Again?

Stumbling to salvation in Cloudland by John Burningham.

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Filed Under:  Adventure   Growing   Sleep  

Fixer Upper

From here to home equity: A House for Hermit Crab by Eric Carle.

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Filed Under:  Growing   Home  

Baby, It’s You

First crushes and private places in Garmann’s Secret by Stian Hole.

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Hoots and Shadows

House Held Up by Trees from Ted Kooser and Jon Klassen.

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The Horror

Some Things Are Scary (No Matter How Old You Are) by Florence Parry Heide and Jules Feiffer.

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Filed Under:  Growing   Scary  

Welcome to the Dollhouse

Excellent elementary exercises in Everything I Need to Know Before I’m Five by Valorie Fisher.

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Filed Under:  Growing   Language   Toys  

Shrink to Fit

Dreams of a father in When You Were Small by Sara O’Leary and Julie Morstad.

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Filed Under:  Growing   Parents  

Fears of a Feather

The Flying Lesson of Gerald Pelican by Nathaniel Benchley.

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Filed Under:  Adventure   Animals   Growing   Parents   Role Models   Scary  

Watch the Ripples Change Their Size But Never Leave the Stream

Pomelo Begins to Grow by Ramona Badescu and Benjamin Chaud.

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Filed Under:  Adventure   Animals   Foreigners   Growing  

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