 Hi, welcome to PictureDisc. I am Chenda at Bach Library. Hi, my name is Denea and I'm from the Billie Jean Ture main library. PictureDisc is our monthly conversation sharing great picture books from our picture book collection. Airing the first Wednesday of every month. Denea, what do you have to share this month? Okay, so for my first two books I have, my first one is Good Night Astronaut by Scott Kelly and Illustrated by Izzy Burton. This was written actually by Scott Kelly and who's an actual astronaut. The story is about our young Scott Kelly who loved adventure but sleep was not his favorite. Because how can you have adventures if you're sleeping? So his mother who said in the beginning had the book done. I'm not sure you can see actually, I think he has a twin brother. Yes, he does. So double the fight. So yeah, I definitely would have wanted to see if I were this. So his mother would say, your mother said because the rest is your friend. And if you close your eyes and dare to dream, you can go anywhere. So you can do anything. So when you read about this, you get to see all the places that Scott Kelly has gone. Like he has, he has it on boats and he has been camping and everywhere he has left. So he's even been on big ships and sleeping in little bunkers. But what is he dreaming about? He's dreaming about space. So he's even been underwater but he's still dreaming about space even about that. So he'll read all about the places that he's into and he's dreaming from the deepest oceans to the highest mountains or even in the sky. And so I got this as a really weird book because you can see the many places of where he got to sleep. But in the end, he said nothing beats home. So he has gone to many places. And at the end of the book, you get to actually read about a little bit of Scott Kelly and then you get to see actual pictures about him and what he's done. So I thought this is a really great book about any future astronauts or anybody that loves his space or even sleeping out in the great outdoors. This is a great book to have. Okay, and so my second book is The Awkward Night. So this is actually an opposite. So I have a guy who goes out into space and then I have a woman who loves to be underwater. So this is The Awkward Night by Jill Heiner and it was illustrated by Jamie Kim. This book is written actually by her. So we have two books that I picked that are actually about the safe person. And but she's actually a cave diver and underwater explorer, a writer and a photographer and a filmmaker. So she's very busy and she hasn't seen many things underwater. And this book tells the story of her as she feels too young and wanting to reach her dreams or with her imagination. She was able to dream big and actually turn into reality. So in this book, you get to see how quite well she wants to be in the water. But her mom's telling me maybe not right now. So she dreams about it and she thinks about how ways, like, so like this is her, she's older and kind of bounces back and forth and how she helps people and how all the things that she dreams about actually helps her in the future and what she wants to be when she gets kind of older. So I really love how each of these books really brought out the dreams and the dream aspect of it. And we have got Kelly who uses dreams of sleep to help her reach his dream. And in here we have an aquanaut, we have Jill Heiner and who had felt that when she's young, she's too far away from her dreams but of becoming a squire, but I thought that was a good to consider. And also in the back of this book, you can also read about her too. So there's a picture of her, we got some more pictures. So it's also nice to, like, hey, they were kids once, so, and we can actually, if you dream big, you get it. You get all of these wonderful great stories. So what about you, Chanda? Well, it's hard to follow those two great books and biographies of their dreaming big but they also work hard and you see their journeys, not just being an astronaut or aquanaut, they work and they go out and pursue that. So my book is about this wonderful illustrator book by the author is Larissa Thule. It's an illustrator by Rebecca Green. It's Kafka and the Doll. So this story was the author is inspired by the story that was told by Kafka partner doing his last year in Berlin, how he was a serious writer and they happened to meet a little girl who was crying because she lost her doll, Supsy, and she was crying in Kafta, who was a serious author, not in great health, helped her by telling her that her doll was not lost. It was just traveling. And for three weeks, he delivered a letter from the doll to the little girl and share with her the doll's adventure. And she went, there's the letter and the doll wrote to the little girl on these many adventure until the end after three weeks, he went to Egypt and wrote back to her. And he finally ended when he realized that he couldn't continue to write anymore, that the doll just went on a grand adventure, but she got married and had her family, so she won't be able to write to the little girl anymore. And the author modernized that ending a little bit and just said that the doll, Supsy, actually joined a grand expedition to Antarctica and won't be able to write back to her anymore. But she encouraged the girl, to carry a notebook and pen with you wherever you go so that your adventures remain. So kind of like encourage her to keep a journal. And so that's such a beautiful and it just a beautifully illustrated written and touching book about the kindness of a stranger to a child. And then at the end, you see the young girl growing up and she travel, but the illustrator didn't miss a point to included Kafka's title in her travel bag and she went to Egypt. We, I mean, it's implied. So, and there's a wonderful author's note to read through and also a bibliography of if you wanna know more about the author Kafka and also the author's note. It's really a wonderful book to share because it just shows the kindness of stranger and what adventures you can have with just your imagination. So I hope you guys check this one out and there's to see that all this. And then my other book is more fun, but it could be misleading because the title is called Wolf Boy. What's a Hungry Huffy Growly Wolf Boy to Do by Andy Hartness. I love the illustration, even from the beginning of the end paper. All the way you see the little rabbits running, all the details. And what I love especially about this book is the beginning of the book, A Note on the Art, how the author explained the process of creating this book. And it's a, I really love and appreciate all the artwork and the stories, especially very, very funny, but you have to read it all the way or else you'll be your perception orbit or what you thought of it at the beginning is not what you get at the end. And I can't, doesn't that look yummy? Look like clouds and the moon and the grass and he keeps saying, rabbits, rabbits, where are you? Oh, Wolf Boy, what do you think it's going to happen to the rabbit crunching, munching, gobble and gump. But I'm not gonna tell you what happened, but here's the clue. So I hope you check out, this is a fun read for preschoolers or preschoolers to check out and also act out it's really fun, Wolf Boy. Okay, what's your next one? Well, I have something that kind of close to your book and it's called Howl, but it's not a Wolf Boy, but it was by Cat Patrick and it's illustrated by Evie Barrow and have you ever had a bad day and just wanted to scream or what about howl? Well, this book right here is great for those who just made a great, a good howl. So like here we have Maggie and she was having a really, really, really, really bad day and everything was going wrong for her and even her two teeth, they just decided to fall out. So she was just having a bad day. She's been one of those days where like, see, she just had things that are just falling out, not going for her. So the spaghetti was too long, the pajamas were the wrong kind and it's just like, so her mom's trying to throw up, so her mom's feeling a little like down too and then to top it off, her two front teeth decided to fall out. And what does she look like? She looks like a little wolf. She's just a fox. But after like the two small things flew back in their place and she could touch their sharpness with her tongue and she began to have wolfish thoughts. And then she ended up going outside but do you see there's a shadow of a wolf? So she just went out there with a shadow but perfectly ferocious and in the light, each hair turned bright so. So even her mom was feeling a little wolfish too. So I just left her teeth. I just said something about, we love those kids with the whole teeth. So even then her mom ended up having a Maggie was surprised like, how did she do that? So her mom came and told her, so her mom showed her how to. She said, you take a deep breath and count to seven, which is a 10 in human breath. So imagine your biggest feelings and flying it into the sky and they howl together and yes. And so not only do they just howl, they did some fun stuff together as like what a wolf would do. Like throw out some plants, make some clouds and they dance. And after that really, really, really bad day, Maggie felt better and this is a really good book. If you just wanna check out the illustrations they're very beautiful and we can read the story about Maggie and just if you're having a bad day, you can howl along with her. So I have another one and it's called Pete and Ducky Sweepover. And this is a really cute book about two very sweet friends. And this is by David Martin and it was shared by David Walker. And these two friends, we get to go on a cool sleepover adventure and Ducky gets a little sad that he's papa leaves. So it's sleepover night and Pete and Ducky, they're all together and then his, but when papa leaves and leaves goodbye, Ducky gets sad. So Pete and mama, they comfort him. So this is really fun and it's just a very simple, sweet book that if you just wanna read about with sleepover, you get to see them enjoy playing with each other, getting ready for bed and then they get scared because they start scaring each other and then they run out and they have pizza. Mama has pizza for them while they're scaring each other. Never, never do that because then now they're scared as they're hiding underneath the blanket. So and then it's just a really cute story where they're staying up but of course they stay up too long and mama tells them it's time for bed. So the next day, everything go having breakfast and they're filming, not only do they get to sleepover but then they get to hang out still for the rest of the year. They have to hang out with papa. So this is a really cute book and I love how both families like are really close with each other and the kids are just having a great time and sometimes you just want to have a book like that. And okay, Chandan, what about you? What's your next book? I love that. I like the idea of how you feel like howling about the technical difficulty we have this morning. Yes. That's why there's no green spring today. So I have Ducks on the Road by Anita Lobel. It's a really cute, just accounting book adventure. 10 little ducks went out on the road. 10 little ducks walked on the road behind mama and papa duck. Until the 10th little duck in line turned back to quack. Hello frog. So that's the first one. And then you count down. Of course, we've done this numerous time with other accounting book until the ninth little ducks. They keep walking until they get, no, we're not. Oh, there's another little duck that came because mama and papa duck didn't realize all the ducks are gone. And if you look behind me, see how many ducks you find there. Okay, so you can count your, and it's a great rhyming books to go with the five little ducks went up one day over the hill and far away, right? And mama and papa duck have to say quack, quack, quack. It's nice. All right, so I hope you check that out for your accounting. And then this book answers what my, I've always wondered what happened in the mosque. It's by, in my mosque by M.O. Yokso. The author have traveled and visited mosque around the world, but especially with roots in Turkey and Uphikistan, and she loved writing about the many culture and all the stuff. But this one, you know, we seen a lot of media about we see men in the mosque praying, but we hardly ever see the women, but we know women are separated. But this one gives you an inside look at what happened in the mosque. In my mosque, we are a rainbow of colors and speak in different accents. And the author includes Arabic writing in here. I greet my friends and newcomers too. Everyone is welcome here. And there's more Arabic writing. But throughout the book, she shows little kids just how like having fun like you would if you at the synagogue or a temple, there's like a kid section, except in the mosque, they separate the men from the women and the children. And, but they still hug and greet each other. They're happy to see each other. And it's really beautifully illustrated and written and they're having a barbecue right here. At the end of the day, they share food and then the kids are running around until you get to the informational book back matter about the author's note. There's some glossary and a few of the famous mosques around the world and all about mosques. So it's a really wonderful book to share about mosques around the world if you want to visit and see what happened and what you can expect. Be sure like if you're going to visit a mosque that you don't know someone that actually goes there, it's their mosque, you might want to call ahead and ask if it's okay for you to visit and try to make like a schedule appointment where they're open to the public because their friends, in my mosque, we pray for peace, love and joy just like my friends who worship in churches, temples and synagogues. So we always pray in the worst place of worship for peace, blessings and joy and you're welcome in my mosque. Just, there you go. So if you want to, you can always look up where you're living and just look up like a mosque and long beach that where we're at. There's a mosque that it does invite you to be sure to schedule a visit so that somebody is there to welcome you and greet you. All right. And then another book of, what do you have actually? You're still mute. Yeah, I'm unmuted. So I have three books that I want to talk about and I'm going to transfer it over to you. So my first book out of the three is the title is Zonia, Zonia's Rainforest. So here we meet Zonia in the story. We follow her in her backyard which is not any regular backyard, it's the rainforest, which is her backyard. She says hello to all of her animal friends here in the book and the illustrations are very beautiful and you can see that it's her mother and she starts off at her house and then here's the rainforest. So every morning the rainforest calls to Zonia and she sees all of her friends and she says good morning to all of them and she's enjoying each of her friends and it's just, it's fairly beautiful. Like it's just... A sloth? Yeah. Oh cool, that's what we all love sloths. And just the colors are very beautiful. The types of animals, I mean, in the rainforest. So these are really different from what we usually kind of see, you know? And I mean, can you imagine this being in the backyard and she gets a ride on a cheetah? I don't know if that's real though, but I don't know who the writer she did, but in the story she can. So she's enjoying, enjoying and all of a sudden she comes up to an area where the wood has been chopped and everything looks dead and she was really worried because she's never seen anything like this before. She runs back and she tells her mother about what happened and the mother tells her that the forest is talking to her. And so she says, then I'll answer it as I always do. So she said, that's if we almost answered this. So this is a really great book to show like what is happening in the rainforest and they're actually not only animals but there are people that actually live in the rainforest. So Zonia is actually in the back of an excerpt. She's actually from the largest indigenous group living in the Peruvian Amazon. You can read more about this group back here and you can actually learn some facts about the Amazon. But the cool thing that I saw because I kept looking at on this page and it's actually for a transcription. So, I mean, actually it's a translation from Ashon Muta. So that's the indigenous group. So this is their language. But if you ever want to curious to see how the language is, it's on the back of the book. So you should really take a look at this and it's something that we should always think about too. So the rainforest is really important. Okay, so my second book is... This is a new day written by Brad Meltzer and illustrated by Dan Santab, my favorite. Okay, so if you look at the cover, you're gonna see some people and they all have their names of the week. So this is about the titles of the day. And if you see, this is an outline of a person and that is Sunday. So it's the days of the week and Sunday has quit. She was tired of being a day. She gave the world a beautiful free day but no one ever says, how are you? Or thank you, or anything. So she was just like, I'm done. Oh, this is Sunday. And she's just, I'm done. She says, do you know how much it works to take to give the world a beautiful free day? To play, to pray, to sleep away or even just to sway in a hammock or even a raspberry sorbet. And then I do it all over again. She doesn't even get any thank yous. So all of the days they have to figure out what are you gonna make that day then? Because there's no Sunday, you have to make a new day. So they come up with all of these new days and you have to read about all the fun stuff that they come up with. But the funniest one that I really liked was where they combined a jazz day and make-and-mol-ratter day with mixed with batter day. You gave them make-and-mol-ratter day skitties that did leave that batter day, which was actually pretty absurd since batter day got mentioned twice. So that's like a really long day. But at the end, let me see this little girl come up and she was a product for that. And so, you know, Mondays are like, what, is this gonna be like botchoy day or egg plant day? And the girl's like, no, it's a gift to say thanks. And Sunday would never forget that moment. And she says with a little more kindness and then every day can be a new day. You have to read this book to see what kind of days they come up with. And of course, my favorite is the illustration is always colorful. And my last book is an interactive book. So this is titled, it's called, There's a Superhero in Your Butt. And it's written by Tom Fletcher and illustrated by Greg Abbott. So this an interactive book is where you have, actually the book is interacting with you. So you have to help the superhero save the book from the Scribbler. So when you work with a superhero on every page to beat the Scribbler. So you have to lift, tap, concentrate and stretch to try to beat the Scribbler. And there's one thing that you can do with him to beat the Scribbler. So you have to check this book out to see. So I really enjoyed it. All right, Chanda, you can take it away. Well, I have a very wonderful book called, Watercress by Andrea Wang, called, called Honorary Pictures by Jason Chin. And I love the attention to detail. This book will be great for Asian-American Pacific Islander Month, but we got it late. But I just love that the author does the illustration in kind of like Chinese water color design. And it's very sensitive to the story itself. And, you know, it just talked about an immigrant child who's riding in Ohio. And then her parents see, look, mom shouts and the car come out. What a crest I exclaim, two voices heavy with memories. And the parents does not share why watercress gave her parents so much joy, but to them it took them back to their home country in China. And the reason why they were eating watercress. And so the young girl is embarrassed, of course, having to go by the waterway and the ditch to collect with her brother the watercress. And of course she's afraid that what if her schoolmates or other people see her, they're kind of like picking, you know, wild vegetable by the side of the road. And then there's, but she does it because that's what her parents does. And so she takes it home and she doesn't know why her parents are doing this. Don't they know how embarrassing it is to stop by the side of the road to pick up vegetable, to pick vegetable. And mom and dad pressed me to try some. It's fresh and it's free. I shake my head, free is bad. Free is hand me down, closes and roadside, trash heap furniture and now dinner from a ditch. You know, when we think about it, those lines that people had to go through to pick those pandemic bags, food, we have to understand like, well, why, you know, how does the children feel to know that? So her parents' teacher, it's from my family. She says from before, and her mom never talked about her family in China. And she pointed to a small boy as thin as a stem of water press. My little brother, your uncle, we hold our breath. Mom never told us what happened to him. And then you find out what happened to them doing the great famine in China. But you know, so the family goes, that's her mom's history that she didn't know about. And after hearing her mom's history, she kind of like have a change of heart because then she realized what it means to her family, her mom's memory of home. And I love, love the story because even if you don't live in the United States, in China, you may live in other country, you might live in the United States, but there, if you grew up poor, there are moments of just kind of like embarrassment and humiliation sometime or you're scared that, you know, your friends might find out that your family are, you know, not as well to do. And it's just, but together we eat it all and make a new memory of water press. So you make a new memory because you shared it together. And the note from the author is really wonderful to read. And the note from the artist too, because the artist took great care and was reading this wonderful touching story by Andrea Wang. I hope you give this book a read and share your own family memories with your child or with your grandparents also. And then I have a fun, more light hearted book, Apocato Ask, What Am I? by Mamoko Abe. And I love this one. It's a funny laugh out loud kind of story because Apocato asked, look at this mushroom, what am I? And because, look at all the, I love the retro graphic of this artwork, plenty of white space, but there's diverse people in the community that shares Apocato was feeling just fine in the fruit and vegetable aisle of the supermarket. Life was pretty simple. No doubts, no question, no confusions. Until one day a small customer pointed and asked, is it an avocado? Is an avocado a fruit or a vegetable? Oh no, so suddenly Apocato's world turned upside down and started going off, asking other fruits and vegetable. And you're not a vegetable, is it the vegetable aisle? You're not a fruit by saying the fruit aisle until he doesn't know where he belongs until he meets somebody. It's not dairy, right? Apocato's not dairy, but it is very creamy until he meets. So what am I? Until he meets a snazzy character. Now let him know, cheer up Amigo, the tomato. You don't know what you are, so what? Don't stew in your own juices. I'm a fruit, but no one believes me. And I don't care. And there we go. Tomato talking about all the stuff, the wonderful thing you can do with tomatoes and wonderful thing you can do with avocados and who cares what we are when we're simply amazing. And so you have to read, because who comes next? As I'm reading this, I'm really loving the funny laugh out loud, other fruits or vegetable people or fruits or vegetable that came out. And that's the end they're having high five. I have to say, you have to wonder what is a watermelon? Is it a fruit or a vegetable? You have to read and find out, not in this book, but maybe in another book by Momoko Abe, the really funny book to share. Let's take it that way. And then my other one, so this is a new book. It's Harry, we recognize, or some of you might recognize, it's Harry, the dirty dog. But in this new one, it's written by a different author. Harry and the guinea pig is based on the character created by Jean Zion and Margaret Lloyd Graham. But this author is Nancy Lambert. So she wrote this book and she stays true to the character that we were introduced to from 1956. All the people are in that time line in the 50s and it's really cute. It's about Harry and being maybe jealous of a class pet that the kids get to bring home. So he does his old trick, but nobody really paying him any attention because the guinea pig is the new pet. But if you miss Harry, the dirty dog, the original one that was published in 1956, give it a try and there's other Harry, the dirty dog adventure throughout. There's Harry and the lady next door and there's a whole list of other books that we will tag on our catalog. So, but if you haven't read Harry, the dirty dog, read the first one, then you'll really enjoy the rest of the book. This one is a cute adventure, it's very funny too. And then since we're going to be showing this episode, we'll picture this in the first week of July. It's going to be fourth of July celebration of the United States, 245th birthday. But this book is written by Jerry Spinelli, illustrated by Larry Day. And this book I love, but I just wanted to let you know this book was provided by Christine Bircham Endowment Fund, which is Ms. Bircham was a former librarian at El Dorado. And then later on, she was a manager at Maine Library and the branch manager. And this is her endowment funding. Every year we get a few books that are really great to read aloud and share. But my fourth of July is really super to read about what the kids can expect and do. I hope that we get to do it this year too. So maybe some celebration coming out of the pandemic. This one is a great one to share. And so it's this one, a pie is for sharing. It's by Stephanie Lidgeard. So, but this is a really cute, simple book. But also this one, another fourth of July book, The Night Before the Fourth of July by Natasha Wing, illustrated by Amy Womer. And I love this one because the rhyme is pretty true, twice the night before July fourth and all across the USA. Americans were gearing up for Independence Day. So it's really cute that we can dream of fireworks and hot dogs and dressing up. I hope we get to have at least a backyard barbecue and of course watermelon. Is it a fruit or vegetable that we all share? So I hope we get to enjoy this year. Happy 245th birthday to the United States of America. I hope you give these book a share or a try. And so thank you for joining us for Pitcher This. Remember if you find, if you want the titles, you can find it on our catalog by typing Pitcher This, 0721 or July 2021. We'll hope we see you next month. And thank you from the Long Beach Public Library. I'm Chenda Bok. I'm the mayor of the village and community library. Grab well, take care and happy reading.