Monroe Free Library

"Este pez pequeñito tiene un sombrero que no le pertenece. ¡Se lo robó a un pez grande! El sombrero es azul y muy bonito, le queda muy bien. Y además, el pez grande no vio cómo lo robaba. Y seguramente, aunque lo hubiera visto, no se imagina dónde se va a esconder. Nunca lo encontrará. ¿O sí?"-- A tiny minnow wearing a pale blue bowler hat has a thing or two up his fins in this underwater light-on-dark chase scene.

"A penguin whines about the uncontrollable problems in his life."--

The book you are holding is called The Three Billy Goats Gruff. The story was first written down in Norway almost 200 years ago. It has been told, over and over again. Here is my version. -- Adapted from inside cover.

Lily is upset when her mother announces the family will be moving back to Taiwan to care for her Ah Ma, but when her mother explains Taiwan is her home, Lily agrees it is her home too.

A bear almost gives up his search for his missing hat until he remembers something important.

"A stormy night at sea has uncovered some long-buried secrets and surprises. Is that the mast of a shipwreck? A faded pirate hat? And what's that hiding in the sand? A mandible and a clavicle, phalanges and femurs, a tibia and a fibula -- could there be a set of bones scattered across the ocean floor? And who might they belong to? A jaunty rhyme takes readers on an underwater scavenger hunt as a comical skeleton tries to put itself back together piece...

As a young girl observes that each of six women in her life wears her hijab and hair in a different way, she considers how to express her own style one day.

Frank and Carl try to figure out why no one wants to buy their hats while other vendors are attracting many customers.

A child lists things a mommy does, such as chasing monsters away, that show she is magic, even if she does not have a wand or magic hat.

"Provides facts and craft ideas for each of the states that make up the Pacific West region of the United States"--Provided by publisher.