Leslie Staub
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If you were an elephant ... You'd live in a herd, not a house. You'd eat all day long and guzzle gallons and gallons. When you went swimming, you'd use your trunk as a snorkel! You'd give yourself mud baths and throw dirt all over. You'd make a breeze with you ears to cool yourself down. You'd snuggle up with your herd all around you, and open this book with your trunk, not your hand.
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Click-Clack Waddle Dot Dewey Dew from Planet Eight Hundred Seventy-Two Point Nine does not want to go to school -- not on his planet, and definitely not on Planet Earth at Mrs. Brightsun's School for Little Learners. Everything on Earth is different. His clothes don't fit right, his classmates don't look like him, and even Earth noises sound weird. In this first day of school story with a twist, nervous Dewey Dew learns that new experiences -- like...
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A touching tale of parent-child separation and immigration, from a National Book Award finalist After Saya's mother is sent to an immigration detention center, Saya finds comfort in listening to her mother's warm greeting on their answering machine. To ease the distance between them while she's in jail, Mama begins sending Saya bedtime stories inspired by Haitian folklore on cassette tape. Moved by her mother's tales and her father's attempts to reunite...