Un pomeriggio da brivido
by Emma Lidia Squillari

While Piglet is immersed in reading scary stories, she receives a phone call from Magpie.
Their friend suggests that she and Goose go to the river, but the sky is threatening to rain and Piglet prefers to stay home.
A thunderstorm breaks out, the lights go out, the doorbell rings. Piglet opens it and... there is no one there! Could it be the ghosts? And where have Magpie and Goose gone to escape the rain?

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The Quiet One
by Yiting Lee

Life is not always easy for quiet people. In this tender story, creativity and trust form the fertile terrain for overcoming shyness and making new friends.

Milly doesn’t like speaking in front of groups. She doesn’t know if it’s her shyness that makes her stutter or if her stutter makes her shy.  Either way, she knows that Show and Tell is coming up and that she’d do anything to avoid it. So she hides out in her secret place, spending time on her own, making things with her hands, building machines from scrap. One day, a cleaning robot she’s fixed starts to talk. His name is Arnold and they soon become fast friends.  Arnold convinces her to bring him with her to school for Show and Tell.  Arnold starts off the talk but when he doesn’t know what he is made out of, Milly chimes in and together they share the amazing things they invented, opening their secret world to new friends.

"A reminder that there’s a spark inside every one of us.”
Kirkus

“A fresh, imaginative narrative in which a shy child finds her way, with a little help from her robotic friend.”
Booklist

“The story gently addresses social anxiety and being an introvert in a sea of extroverts.”
Mom Read It

“There is a quietly reassuring message in Yiting Lee’s picture book about shyness.”
Imaginary Elevators

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And There Was Music
by Marta Pantaleo

A playful reflection on the power of music and its deep connection to the roots of humankind. When you listen to music your heart changes rhythm.

Can you hear it? Music can make you happy or sad. It’s something magical that comes from your belly and can connect you to people who don’t even speak your language. With straightforward text and striking illustrations, each spread of this picture book is a conversation-starter that will inspire young readers to reflect on the importance music plays in our lives, while discovering faraway traditions, various musical instruments, and the need we all feel to play or listen to music, whether we are together or alone.

“Sweeping and thought-provoking. Readers will agree: “Music is magical.””
Kirkus

Pantaleo captures the joy, the sorrow, the sharing and the universality of music, which can evoke emotions through sounds as well as lyrics.
Booklist online

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I Forgot How to Sleep
by Bruno Zocca

Everyone’s Awake meets This is Not a Picture Book in this quirky and dreamlike story where the solution to falling asleep is right under our heroine’s nose!

When the young narrator of the book can’t fall asleep, she thinks she may have skipped one of her bedtime rituals (brush teeth, put on pajamas, say goodnight to dad), so she performs them all over again. But that doesn't work. After checking to see if anyone else is up, she ventures outside, where she meets a very sleepy bear who shares her problem. She reads him a bedtime story and bear starts snoring in a heartbeat. It's then that she remembers what she had forgot to do: read her own bedtime book! Sweet dreams.

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Wild your World: Bees
Illustrated by Philip Giordano

This delightfully wild book covers everything a young nature lover could want to discover about bees. From learning how bees use their bodies to communicate with each other to understanding how a swarm is formed, this book is filled with fascinating facts about bees. With eye-catching illustrations and practical tips, Wild Your World Bees is the ideal guide to understanding and nurturing the wildlife that shares our world.

The book begins with a comprehensive introduction to bees. Learn all about bee basics, from the make-up of a bee’s anatomy to how honey is made. Then, discover the many different species of bees across the world, from orchid bees to mason bees.

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E-I-UFO
by Zach von Zonk
Illustrated by Benjamin Chaud

Get ready to sing and laugh along with this intergalactic twist on the classic children's song 'Old MacDonald Had a Farm'in a rollicking picture book!

Old MacDonald had a farm that is, until an alien spirits his animals away in a UFO. Now, Old MacMartian has a farm in space and young readers will delight in the out-of-this-world hijinks that result when cows, pigs, sheep, and more create chaos in his spaceship.

With a zerp zap and a zerp zap there, colorful and detail-rich illustrations bring this hilarious tale to life as Old MacMartian and his faithful three-eyed dog get a bit more than they bargained for with their messy, hungry, noisy, and mischievous new barnyard companions. E-I-UFO!

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