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2020!
Readi Activities
4 Verse Ocean Unicorn 30 Recipe The Breakfast Dog
5 The Adventures of Spot 32 Craft Build a Birthday Cake
Sound Asleep
34 Move It! Monster Romp
6 Tex and Indi The Cleanup Dance
12 Fiction Sloth Party Guide
20 Nonfiction Spots and Dots
22 English and Spanish
Lola Chick: So Many Questions!
28 Graphic Story
A Surprise for Annabelle
Puzzles
10 My First Hidden Pictures Sidewalk Art
16 Look and Look Again Tasty Robots
18 That’s Silly! Bookstore Browsing
26 Poem Puzzle Bears on a Roll!
35 Whoops! Big Wheels
36 Back Cover Which animal has a trunk?
Join the fun!
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Verse By Diana Murray Art by Gareth Lucas
Ocean Unicorn
A narwhal often has a tooth
that sticks out like a horn,
which makes it look a little like
an ocean unicorn.
It swims across the Arctic sea
as sheets of ice float by
and points its swirly-twirly “horn”
straight up into the sky.
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The Adventures of Spot
SOUND ASLEEP
Episode #157
By Marileta Robinson Art by Ron Zalme
Splinter is asleep in her cozy bed. Crash!
Boom! Boom! Boom! Swish, swish, swish.
Nothing wakes her. Nothing—except the sound of dinner.
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Tex and Indi
The Cleanup Dance
By Lissa Rovetch Art by Amy Wummer
“I can’t find the soccer ball,” said Indi.
“I can’t find my library book,” said Tex.
“And I can’t find my homework binder,” said their
sister, Arizona.
“Maybe our cats took them,” said Tex, smiling.
“Yeah,” Indi giggled. “Maybe Charlie and Cow
play soccer, read books, and do homework when
we’re not looking.”
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“Or maybe this room is too messy to find anything,” said Dad.
“I’d say it’s time for the cleanup dance.”
“What’s that?” the kids asked together.
“We set the timer for 10 minutes,” said Dad, “then turn on
some happy music and do the cleanup dance!”
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Soon, everybody was dancing and cleaning and laughing.
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“Hooray!” said Arizona. “My homework binder was hiding
under this pillow.”
“Look, Tex,” said Indi. “Your book was in the game basket.”
“And here’s the soccer ball,” Tex said as the timer buzzed.
“Wow!” said Indi. “The cleanup dance makes cleaning fun!”
“I’m glad you think so,” said Mom, dancing into the room.
“Next can we do a cleanup dance with the breakfast dishes?”
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walk wit ch
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Sidewalk Art
Paper Clip Spoon Envelope Bandage Broccoli
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Art by Jeff Crowther
Find the objects hidden in the picture!
Look for
this ladybug
on the back
Peanut Basketball Paintbrush Ladybug cover!
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Fiction
Sloth
Party
Guide
By Carrie Williford Art by Monika Filipina
If you want a sloth to come to your
party on a Wednesday, tell him to be
there by Tuesday. (As we all know, sloths
are usually late.) Sloths are the slowest
mammals on the planet, so you have to
give them plenty of time to get to a party.
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If you’re going to
throw a party for a
sloth, be sure to have
the snacks he likes.
Put a nice, big plate
of leaves on the table,
and you’ll have a
happy sloth.
If it’s hot, make it a pool party! Sloths are great swimmers.
As for inviting other
party guests, the sloth
would be delighted to
see two of his closest
relatives, the anteater
and the armadillo.
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And last, to make a sloth feel welcome, the most
important thing to have at your party is a nice,
sturdy branch. A sloth will insist on the longest
branch you can find. This way, everyone can hang
out with him. What a party!
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Look and Look Again Photos by Jim Filipski, Guy Cali Associates, Inc. ⋆ Food art by Amy De Lay
TASTY
How are these pictures the same?
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ROBOTS
How are they different?
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That’s Silly! Art by Julissa Mora
Bookstore Bro
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What silly things do you see?
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Nonfiction
Leopards have
a lot of spots.
But zebras
don’t have any.
Spots and
D s
By Heidi Bee Roemer
Ladybugs have spots and dots.
Dalmatian dogs have many.
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Freckles are a kind of dot.
They’re covering my nose.
Call them freckles, dots, or spots—
I’ve lots and lots of those!
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English and Spanish
So Many
Questions!
By Ana Galán ⋆ Art by Francesca Assirelli ⋆ Spanish pronunciation by Linda Elman, Ph.D.
Lola Chick looked out the window and sighed.
The rain kept coming down.
“Lola Chick, would you like to go somewhere
special?” asked Grandma Hen.
“¿Dónde?” asked Lola Chick.
“The bowling alley!” said Grandma Hen.
“¿Cuándo?” asked Lola Chick.
“We can go now,” said Grandma Hen.
¿Dónde? ¿Cuándo?
DOHN-deh KWAHN-doh
Where? When?
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“You may invite two friends,”
said Grandma Hen.
Lola Chick phoned her friends
Rabbit and Duck. ¿Cómo vamos?
After they arrived, Lola Chick KOH-moh VAH-mohss
looked at her grandma. “¿Cómo How do we go there?
vamos?” she asked.
“We can take the bus,” said
Grandma Hen.
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At the bowling alley, Grandma Hen got
them all shoes and bowling balls.
Lola Chick held a ball. “¿Cómo?” ¿Cómo?
KOH-moh
“You bowl like this!” Grandma Hen rolled How?
her ball down the lane. All the pins fell over.
“And that’s a strike!”
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Poem Puzzle
Bears on
a Roll!
By Heidi Bee Roemer Art by Josh Cleland
Beepity-beep!
Three bears in a jeep.
And where do you think they’re going?
In bags they haul
big, heavy balls—
Of course! They’re going bowling!
How many B’s can
you find?
What do you see
that begins with
the B sound?
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Graphic Story
A SURPRISE FOR ANNABELLE
By Gretchen M. Everin ⋆ Art by Jannie Ho
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Recipe By Bonnie Baker Photos by Jim Filipski, Guy Cali Associates, Inc.
The
The
B r eakf a s
t
DOG
DOG
You Need
+ + + + +
yogurt nut butter hot-dog bun banana berries granola
Show us your breakfast dogs!
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1 2 3
Spread.
Cut.
Sprinkle.
Spread the yogurt Cut the banana in half Sprinkle berries
and nut butter on the lengthwise and place and granola over
hot-dog bun. into the bun. the banana.
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Craft
Build a
Build a
Birthday
Birthday
Cake
Cake
You Need Scissors
Tape Paper straws
Cardboard
Glue
boxes Ribbons
Paint Pompoms
Paintbrush Confetti
By Lisa Glover Photos by Jim Filipski, Guy Cali Associates, Inc.
1 2 Paint. 3
Cut.
Tape.
Tape the boxes On a covered To make candles:
together. surface, decorate Cut the straws in half.
with paint. Let dry. Glue a pompom on
top of each half.
4 Glue.
Glue
ribbons,
pompoms,
confetti,
and the
candles to
the cake.
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Move It! By Barbara L. Scanlan Art by Mitch Mortimer Photos by Jim Filipski, Guy Cali Associates, Inc.
Some monsters stomp
u .
Some monsters walk on two feet.
M nster MP
Some monsters swoosh their tails.
This monster likes to ROAR!
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Whoops!
Art by Natascha Rosenberg
Big W heels
Unicycle Bicycle
Octo-cycle?
Tricycle WHOOPS!
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Your High Five!
Which
animal has
Andi, age 3,
California (craft from a trunk?
September 2019)
Everett, age 3,
Colorado (recipe
from August 2019)
Lilah, age 4,
New York (craft
from August 2019)
Look for the hidden
Isaiah, age 4,
Minnesota (recipe “Smiling ” on the
from July 2019)
front cover.
You found me!
Photo Credits: Page 20: (leopard) iStock/Getty Images Plus/GlobalP, (zebra) E+/Getty Images/Freder, (dog) iStock/Getty Images Plus/MirasWonderland, (ladybugs) E+/Getty Images/Antagain; 21: Photographer’s Choice/
Getty Images/Marcus Lyon; 30: (yogurt) iStock/Getty Images Plus/serezniy, (nut butter) iStock/Getty Images Plus/Magone, (hot-dog bun) iStock/Getty Images Plus/karandaev, (banana) iStock/Getty Images Plus/
ChubarovY, (berries) iStock/Getty Images Plus/Zakharova_Natalia, (granola) E+/Getty Images/Alina555