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HOPE IS LOVE. From sugar spun skies to flowery fields, to smooth stones - hope is sprinkled throughout the day. As a child discovers these moments, hope is planted, love grows.

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2019-10-25

TANGLE IN TUFTTOWN - 342 word The backyard hair monsters are great friends to play dinosaur with...until there's a terrible tangle! Time to give them a haircut and maybe mommy’s Little Dino could get a trim and a new style too!

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2019-10-25

KNITTED NESTS. A tight-knit community crafts with compassion. Grays to greens. Animals spring. Gather, build. Nest, rest. Until, teeter-totter down. Hands gather around.

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2019-10-25

Minnie Mae misses her grandmother terribly but time and space don’t matter when you have a vivid imagination and a cardboard spaceship. Together they tour the stars with their shared imaginary language.

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2019-10-25

Living on the muddy canals of Venice, Franco the frog and his friends yearned for adventure. Between their ingenuity and teamwork, they build a crude ship from discarded items with hopes to travel to the Carnivale. Danger and excitement await.

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2019-10-25

Two brothers in a small town like to invent things. One day they decide to go BIG. When they get stumped while transforming a station wagon into a flying car, they at first resist help from a neighbor girl.

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2019-10-25

When dad picks up his bottle, he gains a monstrous shadow that won’t disappear, so 6 y/o Ezra must learn to still love dad and live with the monster too. ME AND MY FEAR meets THE COLOR THIEF.  

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2019-10-25

Ever want to live out your Career Day dream? Follow Aaron the Dino Dentist as he travels back to the Jurassic to help a T-Rex with a wiggler, a triceratops with a mouth full of muck, and a frightened pterodactyl. It is sure to be jaw-dropping.

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2019-10-25

Doing the thing!
"Fly" written and illustrated by Talitha Shipman
When a boy picks up a feather in the park, he grows wings and takes to the skies, but he’s not the only one to discover this newfound magical ability.

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2019-10-25

HOPE IS LOVE. From sugar spun skies to flowery fields, to smooth stones - hope is sprinkled throughout the day. As hope is planted, love grows.

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2019-10-24

KNITTED NESTS. A community call for compassion and crafting. Grays to green animals spring. Gather, build. Nest, rest. Unless, teeter-totter down. Hands gather around.

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2019-10-24

Inquisitive Franco hopes to visit the Venetian Carnivale before it leaves forever. He has no way to make the journey, but will he be able to do something with the garbage collecting along the canal?

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2019-10-24

A boy with a forest soul and plenty of animal friends moves to a big city and desperately misses his old-pals. But as he starts to explore this strange place, a new friendship opens his eyes and he finds ANOTHER FOREST thriving in the city.

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2019-10-24

Juniper’s been waiting not so patiently all winter for the flowers to flourish and hibernation to end. Now, she must find the hedgies-the only Gardener's Friend she hasn’t met. J needs to add their portraits to JOURNEY BOOK, where she’s tracks her garden journeys.

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2019-10-24

Ten ballerinas line up in a row when one has to go...POTTY! Quickly she échappés off the stage. Then one by one and two by tutu they all follow in ballerina style. The lesson: Please go BEFORE the show!

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2019-06-20

The Fourth of July is coming, and Cousin Irene thinks everyone should make their pies with a fancy new pie filling. But Sadie and William like to make pies from their own cherry tree. Are homemade pies really the pits?

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2019-06-21

Simon wants more than anything to be old enough to ride Big Yellow, to start kindergarten, but as far as he's concerned it's never going to happen.

“Not today.”

Hearing those two words enough times, Simon has his answer. He'll be stuck in preschool forever!

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2019-06-21

Bionic arm? Check.
Mischievous imaginary friend? Check.
Ready for her new school? Maya’s parents think so, but Maya must think out of the box so her day won’t end in disaster.

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2019-06-21

Juniper's been waiting not-so-patiently all winter to visit her garden friends. She especially wants to visit the hedgehogs so she can add their portraits to her JOURNEY BOOK-where she tracks how the garden changes.
Juniper. Speaks. Animal so she's sure she'll find them

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2019-06-21

For as long as Franco the Frog could remember, he had always wished to see the Venetian Fair. Will his ingenuity allow him to build a boat out of whatever scraps he's able to find and navigate the canals in time to see it?

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2019-06-21