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In this Boston Globe-Horn Book award-winning picturebook, a young girl celebrates one of the most simple, yet powerful, facets of childhood—creativity.

As you and your students celebrate the end of the school year, we offer you a collection of links designed to keep you and the children and young adults in your life happily reading over the next several months.

A warm day, a welcoming playground, and a bright smile - the quintessential ingredients for childhood play and budding friendships. David’s Soman’s innovative new picture book is not only a joyous counting romp, it is also a wonderful invitation to discuss how to make a friend, how to be inclusive in play, and how to build community.

Offering hope for a more socially conscious, kinder tomorrow, New Kid should be required reading for every middle schooler before the start of every school year. The latest lesson plan from "The Classroom Bookshelf." 

Waking up to the sounds of birds chirping has me thinking about placing an order for my school's elementary bird study. Here are some of the titles on my list.

With rich sensory language and colorful comic style-illustration, award-winning author illustrator team Isabel Quintero and Zeke Pena celebrate Latinx culture, family, community and the thrill of a motorcycle ride in their latest picture book collaboration.

A New Jersey school book club read titles connected to an immigration and refugee theme then took a walking tour of a New York City neighborhood to help bring the text to life.

Broader in scope and more current than similar single-volume works for middle grades such as Dan Green’s Basher Science: Technology, but unsystematic in organization and free of leads to further information. Best suited for browsing

“When you look toward the stars, do you wonder if anyone is looking back? Is Earth the only planet with intelligent life? Is it the only planet with life at all?” Curtis Manley’s new nonfiction picturebook, Just Right: Searching for the Goldilocks Planet, tackles these complex wonderings with aplomb through the existence of exoplanets—that is, extrasolar planets that orbit the countless stars across the universe.