Book Review
Outside
by Kara Hansen
An expansive world of animals can be found right outside your door—so long as you know where to look. Use this guidebook to learn about how to follow the clues, like tracks, noises, and bite marks, to discover all kinds of bugs, birds,...
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Animal Antipodes
by Kara Hansen
The condors of Santiago, Chile, are to the pandas of Xi’an, China as the polar bears of the North Pole are to the penguins of the South Pole: they are animal antipodes, meaning they are pairs of animals that reside exactly on opposite...
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Santa Claus and the Christmas Surprise
by Kara Hansen
It’s Christmas Eve when the people of a small village find themselves snowed in, and the children begin to worry that Santa Claus won’t visit because of the weather. Illustrated with warm and hazy paintings that remind of traditional...
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Running on the Roof of the World
by Kara Hansen
The rebellious Tash and cautious Sam are 12-year-old best friends living in a world full of rules, all with the same goal: avoid confrontation with the Chinese soldiers occupying their country, Tibet. But their careful lives are...
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The Queen and the First Christmas Tree
by Kara Hansen
Queen Charlotte’s favorite holiday tradition was always decorating a yew branch, but when she decided one year to throw a Christmas party for one hundred children, she knew that the decorations had to be extra special. This...
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The Star in the Christmas Play
by Kara Hansen
Raffi the giraffe is disappointed when everyone except him earns a special role in the school’s Nativity play; all he wants is to fit in, but his height seems to make that impossible. The muted illustrations feature adorable savanna...
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The Holiday Heroes Save Christmas
by Kara Hansen
A mere three days before Christmas, Santa Claus is sick—luckily, he has the rest of the Holiday Heroes to help him out. Told through lively illustrations and a comic-book style layout, some disaster ensues when a leprechaun, the Tooth...
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A Christmas Advent Story
by Kara Hansen
In this re-imagining of an Advent calendar, each page is a collage of rainbow colors, hidden flaps, and illustrations of Christmas fun that encourage kids to practice classic first words, learn to read in full sentences, and count as...
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