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07/23/2015 - 12:35pm
Snip Snap! What's That? by Mara Bergman and Illustrated by Nick Maland

In Snip Snap! What's That?, an alligator crawls out of the city sewers and into an apartment building. The three children inside Room Thirteen hear it creep up the stairs. The book takes a moment to ask the reader, "Were the children scared?"

06/02/2015 - 2:28pm

Every morning, Patricia (Trisha) Polacco wakes to the sounds of singing birds on her old Michigan farm. She goes downstairs, pours herself a cup of coffee, and then plays an antique music box, enjoying its magical beauty. She then sits in her favorite chair, rocks and rocks, and dreams of stories, old and new, that she can tell to children through her words and her drawings.

07/23/2015 - 12:35pm
Boy + Bot by Ame Dyckman and illustrated by Dan Yaccarino

Boy + Bot are two very different friends who share the same love of discovery. Boy encounters the robot in the woods while collecting pinecones and asks to play. "Affirmative!" the robot answers.

07/23/2015 - 12:35pm
The Very Cranky Bear by Nick Bland

"In the Jingle Jangle Jungle on a cold and rainy day, four little friends found a perfect place to play." 

A zebra, a lion, a moose, and a sheep find shelter in a cave, but maybe they should have first asked The Very Cranky Bear. He chases the quartet out into the storm with a "ROAR!"

05/18/2015 - 12:00pm
Join the Summer Reading Club to Defeat the Nefarious Bore!

Are you worried about being bored to death over summer vacation? You don’t have to worry any more! Thanks to Super Librarian and the staff at the Central Rappahannock Regional Library, people of all ages can sign up for the Summer Reading Clubs online at librarypoint.org or at their local library branches starting on June 1.

07/23/2015 - 12:34pm
Wolfie the Bunny by Ame Dyckman

When the Bunny family finds an abandoned wolf pup on their doorstep, they raise it as their own. Only big sister Dot is skeptical of little Wolfie the Bunny.

07/23/2015 - 12:34pm
Bluffton by Matt Phelan

When the vaudevillians came to summer in Bluffton, they brought with them an elephant, a zebra, and a young actor named Buster Keaton. Henry Harrison is a regular kid from the nearby town. Upon meeting the showbiz folks, Henry is entranced by their world of gags and tricks.

05/01/2015 - 3:06pm

Two-time Caldecott medalist Nonny Hogrogrian grew up in a stone house in the Bronx, New York which had belonged to her family for three generations. She came from a hard-working and artistic family with strong Armenian roots. When very young she would settle into a big chair in the home library and page through books of beautifully illustrated children’s stories dreaming about one day drawing such pictures herself.

07/23/2015 - 12:34pm
I'm a Shark by Bob Shea

I'm a Shark is a hilarious book about fear by madcap master Bob Shea. We meet an awesome shark who declares himself unafraid of anything. Shots, scary movies, and dinosaurs are nothing to this undersea predator. That's when a tiny crab and fish happen to mention spiders.

"Creepy spider! Yuck! Is it on me? EWWW! EWWW! EWWW!"

07/23/2015 - 12:34pm
The Bear Ate Your Sandwich by Julia Sarcone-Roach

"By now I think you know what happened to your sandwich. But you may not know how it happened. So let me tell you."

The Bear Ate Your Sandwich follows one curious creature's romp through the big city, which he interprets as the strangest and most surprising forest he has ever been in.

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