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From award winning children’s writer Niki Daly, author and illustrator of the Lolo early reader series
Skipping Stones Award Book 2024
Whether it’s jumping in puddles with Tata in the rain, greeting the neighborhood cat on the quiet back streets with Gogo, or holding hands...


Stories from the US and around the world
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A Booklist Starred Review
A big-hearted coming-of-age debut about a tiger, a Russian, a model airplane, unexplainable disaster, and a bewildered twelve-year-old boy just trying to find his place in the world...

A Booklist Starred Review
A big-hearted coming-of-age debut about a tiger, a Russian, a model airplane, unexplainable disaster, and a bewildered twelve-year-old boy just trying to find his place in the world...
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Nonfiction narratives of all types

Introducing Bait, the little toad with a big personality.
Bait the toad loves the camera, and the camera certainly loves him! From his river-bed roots to TikTok stardom, Bait has never found a pose he couldn’t slay, or a hat he couldn’t style.

Introducing Bait, the little toad with a big personality.
Bait the toad loves the camera, and the camera certainly loves him! From his river-bed roots to TikTok stardom, Bait has never found a pose he couldn’t slay, or a hat he couldn’t style.
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