Melissa Iwai
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2024 Family Dinner Book Club
Diverse Books - Celebrating Diversity
Diverse Books - East & Southeast Asians
Diverse Books - Celebrating Diversity
Diverse Books - East & Southeast Asians
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Lili loves to cook little dumplings called baos with her grandmother, but when cabbage is needed, Lili races up and down the stairs of her grandmother's apartment building to find the ingredient and help the other grandmothers borrow ingredients for different dumplings, from Jamaican meat patties and Italian ravioli to Lebanese fatayer and more.
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"Gigi can't wait for her Ojiji--Japanese grandpa--to move in. Gigi plans lots of things to do with him, like playing tag, reading books, and teaching Roscoe, the family dog, new tricks. But her plans don't work out quite the way she'd hoped. And her grandpa doesn't seem to like Roscoe. Will Gigi find a way to connect with her Ojiji?"--
4) Soup day
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A mother and child spend a snowy day together buying and preparing vegetables, assembling ingredients, and playing while their big pot of soup bubbles on the stove. Includes a recipe for "Snowy Day Vegetable Soup."
9) The Beeman
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In rhyming text, a child describes the work Grandpa does to take care of honeybees and harvest the honey they make.
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"At times, all children need a little help getting along with others and respecting differences--at school, in the neighborhood, at home, and on the playground. Teaching tolerance and encouraging acts of kindness through clear words and charming illustrations, We Can Get Along supports children's development with simple yet essential skills for conflict resolution and peacemaking. The book includes activities and discussion questions that teachers,...
14) Snuggle Mountain
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In the morning, Emma climbs Snuggle Mountain, trying to rouse the two-headed Sleeping Giant to make pancakes for breakfast.