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102) Happy in our skin
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Bouquets of babies sweet to hold: cocoa-brown, cinnamon, and honey gold. Ginger-coloured babies, peaches and cream, too - splendid skin for me, splendid skin for you! A delightfully rhythmical read-aloud text is paired with bright, bustling art from the award-winning Lauren Tobia, illustrator of Anna Hibiscus, in this joyful exploration of the new skin of babyhood. A wonderful gift book for new mums and toddlers, all children can see themselves, and...
105) Nina Bonita: a story
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Enchanted by Nina Bonita's black skin, a white rabbit determines to find a way to have children as beautiful and black as she is.
109) The foodie flamingo
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"Frankie the Flamingo loves food but she's tired of eating the same thing day after day: shrimp. So Frankie decides to expand her palate by trying exciting new foods--with some colorful consequences! But as Frankie's food world expands, her friends can't quite seem to understand what's gotten into her. Until they spy on Frankie cooking up something special and decide that they, too, might want to go on a food adventure of their own"--
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Los crayones que Duncan ha perdido, olvidado en alg?n lugar durante las vacaciones, abandonado en el patio al calor del sol, tirado en el piso al alcance de su perro o que ha dejado en su bolsillo y han llegado a la lavadora, le escriben cartas para exigirle que los rescate de los apuros en los que se encuentran. Duncan se pone triste por haberlos abandonado y de inmediato pone manos a la obra para recuperarlos a todos y compensar el tiempo perdido....
111) Bronxtones
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After school, children find a rainbow of colors in their Bronx neighborhood, from Yadi's red balloon to Angeliz's violet bubble wand.
112) The colors of us
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Seven-year-old Lena and her mother observe the variations in the color of their friends' skin, viewed in terms of foods and things found in nature.
113) Sunflower sisters
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"Amitra and Kiki get dressed for their siblings' weddings while enduring family nitpicks about lightening cream, sun rays, and the skin-darkening effects of the color yellow. Luckily, Amitra's mother has a lesson or two to teach about that! With the support and empowerment of their moms, the sunflower sisters are two strong, confident South Asian and Nigerian girls finding joy in their own skin"--
114) Counting ovejas
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When increasing numbers of sheep in a rainbow of colors appear in a man's bedroom as he tries to fall asleep, he must resort to more and more elaborate means of removing them. What do you do when you can't sleep? Count sheep in Spanish and English, of course! But what happens when those rascally sheep get a little too close for comfort? Well, if you're anything like the sleepy little hero in this clever tale, you might just tire yourself out trying...
115) This book is gray
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Gray just wants to be included. But the other colors are always leaving him out. So he decides to create his own project: an all-gray book. Once upon a time, there lived a wolf, a kitten, and a hippo... Gray just knows it's going to be perfect. But as he adds page after page, the Primary and Secondary colors show up...and they aren't quite so complimentary. A book within a book, this colorful tale explores the ideas of fitting in, appreciating others,...
116) Every color of light
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Illustrations and easy-to-read, rhyming text depict nature darkened by a brief rainstorm then, at sunset, colors brighten, rain drips like crystals, and the bright white moon shines as we fall asleep.
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"A seemingly endless road trip for Lula and her father only seems to get worse when the car breaks down in the middle of the desert. Things are too boring and too orange until Lula encounters a mysterious painter who shows her that the desert is full of so much more to explore. This is an exploration of color, lighting, and the magic of art and nature, filtered through the lens of a fictional interaction with the artist Georgia O'Keeffe. Learn about...
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"A Minimoni le encanta pintar mil cosas de colores: mariquitas rojas, cielos azules, plátanos amarillos ... pero nunca ha pintado un beso. ¿De qué color será? ¿Rojo como una deliciosa salsa de tomate? No, porque también es el color de cuando estás enfadado ... ¿Será verde como los cocodrilos, que siempre le han parecido tan simpáticos? Imposible, porque es el color de las verduras y ¡no le gusta comérselas! ¿Cómo podría averiguar...
120) Otto's orange day
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When Otto finds a magical genie, he wishes that the entire world was colored orange. He seems initially pleased with his decision, but soon learns that orange is not the best color for everything.
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