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Carrie Finison began her literary career at the age of seven with an idea, a box of markers, and her father’s typewriter. She has been writing off and on ever since, though she has (somewhat regretfully) traded in the typewriter for a laptop. Her picture books include DOZENS OF DOUGHNUTS, illustrated by Brianne Farley (Putnam, 2020) - a Junior Library Guild selection; DON'T HUG DOUG, illustrated by Daniel Wiseman (Putnam, 2021) - an ALA Notable Children's Book; LULU & ZOEY: A SISTER STORY, illustrated by Brittany Jackson (Running Press Kids, 2022); HURRY, LITTLE TORTOISE, TIME FOR SCHOOL, illustrated by Erin Kraan (Random House Studio, 2022). Her latest picture book is PIGS DIG A ROAD (Putnam, 2024) She lives outside Boston with her husband ...more

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Average rating: 4.36 · 4,320 ratings · 1,117 reviews · 14 distinct works • Similar authors
Don't Hug Doug

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Tomatoes on Trial by Lindsay H. Metcalf
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This fun nonfiction book is highly engaging and filled with humor. It describes the efforts of John Nix, the “produce king of New York” to prove that tomatoes are a fruit, not a vegetable, and therefore avoid the vegetable import tax in 1886. Readers ...more
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Beatrice and the Nightingale by Patricia Newman
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I enjoyed reading about this moment from history, and interesting collision of music, technology, and nature that brought the world together. At its center is Beatrice Harrison, a gifted cellist who played on the radio - still a new technology at tha ...more
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On Fridays by Winsome Bingham
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This absolutely beautiful book tackles the topic of love and loss with care and sensitivity. On Fridays, Jamar rides the bus to his mother's work at a therapy center. Jamar befriends several of the elderly characters at the center - Miss Neely, who b ...more
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Lots and Lots of Ocelots by Vicky Fang
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This book is hugely enjoyable on so many levels. First, the rhyming lines are fun to read. How would you count lots and lots of ocelots? Slews and slews of cockatoos? Loads and loads of giant toads? I also love that the text guides the reader, first ...more
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You and I Are Stars and Night by Kate Hosford
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This gorgeous book uses metaphor and repeated text, to create a soothing, dreamy feeling as a mother and child go on an imaginative flight of fantasy just before bedtime. Starting while the child is in the bath, the text asks, "Will you sail away wit ...more
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So Many Years by Anne Wynter
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The short, lyrical lines of this text are packed with power, and, combined with the illustrations, serve to give the reader a sense of what emancipation and freedom meant for enslaved people, as well as helping us understand the ways in which we cele ...more
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If Pets Wrote Poems by Susan Johnston Taylor
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This clever and charming poetry collection imagines what would happen if the pets of famous poets and writers wrote poems in their owners' styles -- with quite funny results. My favorite is perhaps "I'm Carlo. Who Are You?" by Emily Dicksinson's dog, ...more
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Night Prints by Kari Allen
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This is a charming board book featuring a dad and son on a camping trip spotting paw prints and various other animal traces that can be seen at night. Each page has small cutout holes revealing part of the next page, and poses a question to the reade ...more
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This powerful story depicts the experiences of two young girls detained at Fort Sill in Oklahoma. Told in short lyrical lines, the first half of the story shares the experience of a young Japanese girl, imprisoned there during World War 2. In the sec ...more
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