 Hi, welcome to Pitcher this. I'm Chender at Routhbock Library and I'm Denea from the Deletion Climbing Library. Okay, thank you for joining us for our second of the month conversation, sharing great books of a Pitcher books collection every Wednesday of every month. Denea, what do you have to share in this section? Okay, so I'm going to start with my first two books and my first book is Let's Play Monsters by Lucy Cousins and it's another great book from all many of the books that she has written and this story is about a boy named Gabriel who loves to get chased by monsters. So in this story, you'll see all of the family members, this regular family members, but then she asks them to play and she asks them to change into monsters. So she'll go and he'll be, you'll be the monster who is green and scary with sharp pointy teeth and teeth that are hairy. And so his family member turns into a monster and chases him but then they can't catch him. So throughout the book, you'll see different family members trying to chase them and they turn into monsters. Oh, and since this is green, you can't see the background on them. This one, so even their cat turns into a monster. So at that end, we will see because I think there is one family member that can actually catch him. So you have to find out and read this one to see who can catch Gabriel and it's really fun story. My next book is a beginning reader book that we have many, many wonderful books in our collection and this is the Fly Guy and Fly Girl collection which is by written by Ted Arnold. So this is a very popular book and the story is about where Fly Guy and Fly Girl they're at the zoo and they end up going into the creatures of the night exhibit and in this story, you'll get to see what kind of creature you're in there and the tiger creatures are fly eating animals. So you have to find out so Fly Guy and Fly Girl make it out of this exhibit because it looks pretty scary but not too scary. So I think you'll enjoy it. So this is my second book and what about you, Tender? Well, I have also a series in the beginning reader section and if you go to the library, you'll see these books that we have the pink labels on that's the author's last name and it has like some branches have number one and two. This is the second level which is for beginning independent readers and it has more text but it's just one story and this series by David A. Adler is about Moe, this boy who has so much energy and he's trying at all these different sports so he tries swimming, he tries baseball, he tries basketball, he tries soccer and he tries football and every time he's trying a new sport, he always has to persevere and just hang in there because it's always a challenge to try something new but he always has adults and other people encourage him to do his best at the sports that he tried. So it's a really great wonderful beginning reader book series to try and then I have another series, oh no this is a one book, it's a nonfiction which means we have a subject call number right here, it's called Who Am I by Tim Flatch, it's a peak through pages book of endangered animals. So if you think of endangered animals, what do you see? There's like little clues throughout the book, see there's a cut out and there's the picture clues right here and then there's some writing and then you have to figure out who they're talking about like this one, who do you think they're talking about but this one I'm going to read. I'm a priceless living work of art with my pattern black and gold shell. I'm known for being a bit slow so when a predator comes my way I tuck my head and limbs inside my shell to stay safe. Who am I? Open it. I'm a plowshare tortoise, look at his shell also he's very slow, he tuck his head in and there's other animals that you'll have to figure throughout the book that are endangered and see if you can guess them with the clue and at the end of the book there's more information in the back but if I show it to you then you know all of the animals so that would not be fun. If you like this type of animal this this book there's an old series that we have in the library it's called Looking Closely Around and it look this one around the pond but there's one looking closely around the rainforest the forest the garden the desert and this one is similar it doesn't have the the peekaboo cut out but it has part of the animal that you're looking very closely at looking closely what do you see swirl a paint a snowy day what could it be and I'll let you see the first one it's a mower duck look at that and it has more text and so more information maybe for an older reader but it's a good series to check out if you like this one all right and what do you have next? Danea? Okay so I'm gonna write on your turtle and I have a book called Turtle Walk by Matt sorry Matt Thelan and it's about a turtle family they are going on a trip on a trip that means that well since they can't drive they're gonna have to walk and it starts off with them it starts off with the season which is spring so throughout this book you're going to start seeing how the seasons start to change and I mean the font I mean the there's not a lot of where so it's very for the young readers but I thought it's really fun because and even with turtle families you get like the young baby turtles asking aren't we there yet so you know since turtle walk nice and slow here we go so you're starting to see how it's summer and then eventually it turns to fall and then at the end it goes to winter so you're kind of seeing them walking and walking and walking and it goes here we go are we there yet and then the parent turtles go yes and then you're gonna have to keep reading to find out why they walk so far and so long to get somewhere and it's a very sweet book and I thought it was very cute and you can actually um there's a lot of stuff happening in here so it's a lot of great things to talk about with your little one and to even talk about the seasons and um also if you get Chenda's book and this book is really really great to put together okay so my next book is sweet child of mine by guns and roses so we have many books in our collection that we um many songs that turned into book so this is one and one of them and look at the illustrations so reading the book after I finished reading the book I had to listen to this song so you have the option of either reading it or seeing it while you're looking through the book um and as I was reading but it's always fun to read the excerpts on the side or if you can see on the side of the book and it talks about how the band gives new meaning to the unforgettable lyrics as we follow a child's wondrous discovery that music is everywhere around us and it is so you'll see it throughout the book and you get to see all the wonderful illustrations and what they're good to do that is my um other book I have two more left but Chenda what about you you have anything else well this is similar to turtowoc because this child is thinking about seasons changing and what comes with each season so this book is titled if winter comes tell it I'm not here by Simona Sarah Olo so it has a picture book the end paper has ice cream which is summer and there's sandals and there's ducks and beach ball and this little boy here he loves summer everything summer which is swimming and being by the pool and eating ice cream but then my his sister says summer is going to end soon what happens when the summer ends he asks well first comes fall and then the days get shorter there's a chill in the air and the tree lose all their leaves that's what's happening now isn't it and then you don't even get to use your swimsuit anymore and she's scaring him and there's a page right there's a funny page his mom are you saying calm down his sister his dad is mad at his sister for teasing him and then his cat is like norm and he's there's nothing to do except to wait so he waits and it does come true winter is coming so fall the days get shorter and the leaves the trees begin to lose their leaves but guess what the winter because it's darker sooner so they get to have movie night and then it's raining a lot so oh we rarely get to have enough rain to wear our rain boots and he gets to carry an umbrella it's so much fun to get all wet and he doesn't go to the ice cream shop but he gets to go to a cafe and have hot cocoa and he's lucky to to live in some place where it snows and he gets to do all the fun winter things so even though all the color has been taken out of the world I would never call it dull and there's some beautiful colors in winter too you just have to look for it so there he is and he's enjoying the season and then something comes up in the end so that's a really wonderful book if you're thinking about the seasons to share and then I have a series of book it's an older one it's by Mark Burnett and illustrated by um class and he is a really wonderful illustrator and author team they started out with these three shapes if you look at the spine it's in the picture book under Barnett square circle and triangle and they are all their own character so if you know some after you read these books see if you can find someone in your life or do you know who you can identify as the type of shapes that they are like triangle he always likes to break the rules and he is very very naughty and there he is and he plays in this book he plays a trick on square but square got back at him because he's afraid of the dark and then there's circle and circle everybody thinks circle is perfect because circle just seemed to roll around and circle loves to follow rules and stick with the rules and then they're square square also like to follow the rules but square gets really anxious it's very creative and sometimes she's so um he's so worried you have to read all three and see if you can find someone in your life or know someone in your life that you can identify with the shapes now I show you three shapes so far square circle and triangle you close your eyes imagine what the author what shape the author is writing about next what do you think let me know or else we'll have to wait until mark Barnett decides what square what shape he's doing next right danae what do you have so for my last two I have brown the many shades of love written by Nancy johnson james and constants more this is a beautiful book um about a young boy who describes the many beautiful hues of his family I love the words um that they use to describe their family for example my daddy's brown is an autumn leaf or like a field of wheat one and then his sister is sister's brown like polished pine fragrant tall and strong so I was I love the words um that they used to describe and it was like my senses for something when I close my eyes and I imagine and it would help me visualize and to even feel or and to even taste because my cousins are just babies all smiles and curly hair too are like brown sugar brown sugar doesn't that taste sweet and then just the color of it so yeah I um really enjoy this and um I was really amazed with the words that they use and it's just really wonderful to see the many different colors of the shades I'm sorry different different shades of brown okay and then my last one is the forzatin crayon by yoko maruyama this is a very sweet story about whoops if you look at the front cover there's a boy and a girl and there's a box of crayons and if you look at it the white crayon is the tallest one out of all of the colors so in the beginning the box belonged to the boy who would color and use all the colors to to draw and to make all of his creations but as time went on the white crayon started to notice that everybody was getting shorter except for the white crayon and the white crayon was kind of sad so the day came when the boy didn't want his box of crayons anymore and he decided to sell them in a yard sale and the white crayon is very sad and some of them are sad because they know that they're not going to be around anymore so one day at a yard sale a little girl ends up finding the box of crayons and she's so happy because she was looking for a white crayon and with the white crayon she made the most beautiful drawings so everybody got to have a chance to use to be used I guess and this is a great book about showing you how much participation how everybody wants to participate and they enjoyed it and also to let you know that sometimes maybe one person might not want everything or something and another person might need it so it's a really great book and those are my books and Chenda do you have any special books for us today? I do but I love your forgotten crayons I can think of a project where you use the white one to make shapes and then you have a water color that you paint over so all those positive white um white crayon spaces that you use will show up and then the background will be the watercolor oh project too and it reminds me of the day the crayons quit nothing came home I made a little example too but next time maybe I'll um I got two holiday to celebrate and share with you um the first one is February 12th which is the lunar Chinese new year so there you go um and um if you celebrate um lunar new year you know usually they make a big um celebration lion dance and everything in Chinatown and most um like San Francisco we have one in LA and other area but we can also celebrate at home this next new year by Janet S. Wong illustrated by Yang Suk Choi and it's just a beautiful telling of how you know when you move into a community you celebrate and you can celebrate the new year that you know so instead of January 1st they which you know um the lunar year new year is celebrated different days throughout um and each year this year is the year of the ox February 12 and this character in the book he is half Korean so he even though they call it new year his mother makes um Dok Guk is a Korean new year soup and then he has the community in where he lives he has his best friend Glenn who's French and German and then they celebrate Chinese new year with him by ordering Thai food to go and his other friend who's part Hopi and part Mexican they celebrate Chinese new year um with their neighbor who is from Singapore and she gives them these envelope stuff with money oh if you want to you can always stuff it with chocolate coins too but the kids usually love money or dollar dollar coins and some people I know um usually also give um two dollar bills because they are hard to find oh I haven't seen my two dollar bill in forever so they always know it's going to be good but before the new year comes they have to sweep out last year's dust and then clean up their whole house from top to bottom and besides cleaning your house and everything inside you also have to clean yourself and tonight they're washing your hair because you want to get rid of all the old um dirt and everything and you even cut your nails and brush your teeth and then you put on your best outfit that you have it's nice if you have new um a new new clothes for the new year but you don't have to it could be just the best clothes that you have and then you can have firecrackers but the best thing is on the day of new year's day you will not say one awful thing none of that can't do not don't have a why me because this is the fresh start and a second chance to dream big and think of the possibility to make your dream come true that's really cool for so I hope you guys know someone who's giving out the red envelope you're not going to buy it you're gonna go no um and then I have two valentine's day book to share the first one is the day it rain hearts by Felicia Bond and it's about this little girl Cornelia Augusta isn't that a wonderful name Cornelia Augusta it rain at heart oh where's she where's she living she's used her raincoat pocket to catch as many as she can it must be getting close to valentine's day she thought and she's set to work making valentine's the hearts she caught would make perfect hearts so she thought hard and she'd think of all the friends who what type of gifts or a card that they would like to have and she made one that looks like this who do you think will get a card that has a little pom pom oh and then she made a heart that has holes cut out and then she also made a some artistic one that just has drawings and rainbows really wonderful she made that and then she mailed it out to her four friends so if you have a friend that's live far away maybe you can get a stamp and put it out in the mail and then or else you know since we're all at home right now you can always just drop them off at your friend's house um you know put it in the mailbook wouldn't they be surprised if you give them deliver a valentine's card so there's her friends they all got their personalized card and it's a really wonderful day because she's thinking of what's going what's she going to make next year so really wonderful book to celebrate valentine's day and then the this one is the ballot of valentine by Elise Allison Jackson illustrated by Trisha Tulsa I love this book because it's you can be you can be sent to um oh my darling Clementine and it's right here it's the boy this lady right here the girl and over the hill and over under um in the valley over the hill lived her boyfriend who's trying to send her a valentine so he's gonna sing in a cabin in a canyon near a mountain laced with pine lived a girl who was my sweetheart and her name was valentine dinea oh my darling oh my darling oh my darling valentine because he gave the letter to a mailman to deliver rain or shine but he couldn't find your address so he has to keep on trying to send a letter to her our message to his valentine so he tried it with the homing pigeon he tried it with a smoke signal he tried it with everything oh he even tried it with um more using morris code with a big rented like railroad truck he sent a big valentine and the last one he bought an airplane wrote a message with a big heart underline but the wind erased three letters and you're now my oh and i oh that's my favorite part so he keep on trying but look at her she made a pie she walked up that high hill down that valley and you think she's going to deliver her valentine you have to find out the ballad of valentine and just a reminder that february 13th it's a saturday um the library will be closed so be sure to order these books before that day if you're interested in them and if you're interested in any of the books we mentioned um today type in picture this zero two twenty one in the search bar and the list of books will appear and we just thank you for joining us for picture this we hope to see you next month on the second wednesday thank you stay safe and stay healthy bye