Clark, Karen Henry
Summary: "This is a non-fiction picture book biography of beloved Seattle librarian Nancy Pearl, focusing on her childhood"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bigfoot, an imprint of Sasquatch Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 PEASmith, Emma (Emma Josephine)
Summary: "Most of what we say about books is really about the words inside them: the rosy nostalgic glow for childhood reading, the lifetime companionship of a much-loved novel. But books are things as well as words, objects in our lives as well as worlds in our heads. And just as we crack their spines, loosen their leaves and write in their margins, so they disrupt and disorder us in turn. All books...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 002.09 SMISanders, Ella Frances.
Summary: "An artistic collection of 50 drawings featuring unique, funny, and poignant foreign words that have no direct translation into English. Did you know that the Japanese have a word to express the way sunlight filters through the leaves of trees? Or that there's a Swedish word to describe the reflection of the moon across the water? The nuanced beauty of language is even more interesting and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 410 SANAlessandri, Alexandra
Summary: "English just feels wrong to Isabel. She prefers her native Spanish. As she prepares for a new school, she knows she's going to have to learn. Her first day is uncomfortable, until she employs her crayons and discovers there's more than one way to communicate with new friends"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2021