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May 31, 2021

5/31/2021

Theme: Summer vacation
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TK: The Octopus Escapes, by Maile Meloy; A Balloon for Isabel, by Deborah Underwood; Pie Is for Sharing, by Stephanie Parsley Ledyard

K: I Don’t Want to Be a Frog, by Dev Petty; Ribbit! by Rodrigo Folgueira; A Frog Thing, by Eric Drachman

1st: Hattie and Hudson, by Chris Van Dusen; The Summer Nick Taught His Cats to Read, by Curtis Manley

DHH: The Little Red Fort, by Brenda Maier

2nd: Hattie and Hudson, by Chris Van Dusen; My Awesome Summer, by P. Mantis

3rd: The Antlered Ship, by Dashka Slater; Life, by Cynthia Rylant

4th: Pictures from Our Vacation, by Lynne Rae Perkins; Ideas Are All Around, by Philip C. Stead

5th: The Bunyans, by Audrey Wood; Tadpole’s Promise, by Jeanne Willis

TK: Octopus photographer at Kelly Tarlton aquarium in Auckland, New Zealand

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May 24, 2021

5/22/2021

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TK: There Might Be Lobsters, by Carolyn Crimi; Big Al, by Andrew Clements

K: The Very Impatient Caterpillar, by Ross Burach; Gotta Go, Gotta Go, by Sam Swope

1st: Also an Octopus, by Maggie Tokuda-Hall; Rufus the Writer, by Elizabeth Bram

DHH: Farfallina and Marcel, by Holly Keller; something about the moon?

2nd: Facts vs. Opinions vs. Robots, by Michael Rex; Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek, by Deborah Hopkinson

3rd: The Happy Book, by Andy Rash; Little Brown, by Marla Frazee

4th: I’m Trying to Love Rocks, by Bethany Barton; A Stone Sat Still, by Brendan Wenzel

5th: Voyage in the Clouds: The (Mostly) True Story of the First International Flight by Balloon in 1785, by Michael Olshan

K: "The Great Monarch Migration"

5th: Creating the balloon-lifted house from Up, by National Geographic Channel

5th: "Clair de Lune": Alexandre Tharaud, Yoann Bourgeois, piano and dance

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May 17, 2021

5/13/2021

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Asian-American / Pacific Islander Heritage Month
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TK: Pattan’s Pumpkin: A Traditional Flood Story from Southern India, by Chitra Soundar; The Mangrove Tree: Planting Trees to Feed Families, by Susan L. Roth

K: Uncle Peter’s Amazing Chinese Wedding, by Lenore Look; Two of Everything, by Lily Toy Hong

1st: Luka’s Quilt, by Georgia Gubak; Hana Hashimoto, Sixth Violin, by Cheri Uegaki

2nd: Ruby’s Wish, by Shirin Yim Bridges; The Boy Who Grew a Forest: The True Story of Jadav Payeng, by Sophia Gholz

3rd & 4th: Fauja Singh Keeps Going: The True Story of the Oldest Person Ever to Run a Marathon, by Simran Jeet Singh; show summer reading list

5th: The Secret Kingdom: Nek Chand, a Changing India, and a Hidden World of Art, by Barb Rosenstock

TK: Mangrove trees; "Ecosystem of the Florida Mangrove"

1st: "Animal Sounds on the Violin"

2nd: "Jadav Payeng: The Forest Man"

3rd and 4th: Fauja Singh, oldest marathon runner

5th: Nek Chand Rock Garden of Chandigarh

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May 10, 2021

5/5/2021

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Asian-American Pacific Islander Heritage Month
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TK: Two of Everything, by Lily Toy Hong; My Name Is Yoon, by Helen Recorvits

K: No Kimchi for Me, by Aram Kim; Pattan’s Pumpkin: A Traditional Flood Story from Southern India, by Chitra Soundar

1st: The Firekeeper’s Son, by Linda Sue Park

2nd: Basho and the River Stones, by Tim Myers

3rd: Happy Birthday, Mr. Kang, by Susan Roth

4th: Barbed Wire Baseball, by Marissa Moss

5th: Mountain Chef: How One Man Lost His Groceries, Changed His Plans, and Helped Cook Up the National Park Service, by Annette Bay Pimente