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For You Are A Kenyan Child is a beautiful story by Kelly Cunnane that follows a young boy through his day in a Kenyan village. The trip includes chores, visits, sounds, and tastes in Swahili words. This book has gorgeous illustrations and is great to read aloud. Nora's Ark is the heartwarming story based on the Vermont flood of 1927. It's written by Vermont author Natalie Kinsey-Warnock. Bruce McMillan tells the story of two ladies in a small remote village in Iceland in, The Problem With Chickens. As you may have guessed by the title, the ladies have a problem with their chickens--they have stopped laying eggs. The ladies come up with a clever idea to help the chicken and themselves. Amanda the Pig knows about being hot. Hot as a fried egg. Hot as toast. Hot as oatmeal. Beat the heat this summer with these four short tales by Jean Van Leeuwen in Amanda the Pig and the Really Hot Day. In Ballet of the Elephants by Leda Schubert, elephants and ballerinas dance together in the spotlight. This true story tells the fascinating tale of the "Circus Polka", choreographed in 1942 by George Balanchine and performed by John Ringling North's elephants.

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