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Read Out Loud

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This series brings authors' voices into the classroom and includes an array of titles featuring diverse people and cultures. Students will enjoy story time with authors of well-known children's books.

Book cover shows three illustrated children happily standing next to each other, in the center of a warm yellow background with colorful stars. Text reads, "What Would You Wish For?" By David Sable and Emma Tartlett.
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Episode 51
4 minutes
Grade Level: Ps - 4
Person holds up a book called "There Was an Old Dragon Who Swallowed a Knight," by Penny Parker Klostermann. Cover illustration depicts a tall, red dragon wearing a bandana around his neck and grinning with contentment while his hands rest on his full belly. Creeping up behind him, a knight wielding a sword and a horse.
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Episode 52
5 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 4
Author Katie Yamasaki sits in a chair, looking at us as she holds up her book titled "When the Cousins Came." Cover illustration shows three children in front of a blue background and surrounded by butterflies.
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Episode 53
4 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 4
Book cover shows an illustration of a girl wearing a brown dress and a slouchy red hat cuddling the white llama standing next to her. Title appears in English as "Maria Had a Little Llama" and in Spanish as "María Tenía Una Llamita," by Angela Dominguez.
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Episode 54
3 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 4
Inside cover of "Louise Loves Art" by Kelly Light, showing an illustration of a spacious bedroom, with drawings taped all over the walls and covering the floor around Louise, who lays on her stomach while drawing. In the back corner, a black cat sleeps on the bed, and a little boy peeks in through the doorway.
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Episode 55
7 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 4
Book cover shows an illustration of a boy standing in front of a red and white circus tent, where a white horse is posing. The boy holds an armful of colorful balls. Text reads, "The Circus Thief. Written by Alane Adams, illustrated by Lauren Gallegos."
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Episode 56
10 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 4
Person holds up a book titled "The Little Engine That Could," by Watty Piper, with art by Loren Long. The cover illustration shows a blue train engine, with determined eyes and a stuck-out tongue, trying hard to make it up a steep hill.
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Episode 57
9 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 4
Author Tad Hills looks at us and holds up his book titled "R is for "Rocket," as he sits next to a man with a fluffy dog hanging out between the two men.
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Episode 58
4 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 4
Stephen Savage stands next to a woman holding a poster that features the cover illustration for his book "Where's Walrus? And Penguin?" as another man takes a look at the poster.
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Episode 59
8 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 4
Two hands holding up the book "Chicken Soup with Rice" by Maurice Sendak. On the cover is a drawing of a boy holding a big bowl and a spoon, licking his lips.
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Episode 60
6 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 4
Paul Meisel holds up his book called "My Awesome Summer by P. Mantis." On the cover, a green praying mantis perches on the stem of a bright red, spiky flower, looking up towards a butterfly flying above.
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Episode 61
5 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 4
Person holds up a book titled "Happy in Our Skin," depicting diverse families with young children on a park pathway. A couple of the kids have balloons, one holds a soccer ball on her lap, another rides a red scooter.
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Episode 62
3 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 4
Book cover shows an illustration of a yellow-and-gray baby bird hatching out of a white egg, among a pile of other eggs. Text reads, "Hatch! Roxie Munro."
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Episode 63
9 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 4
Person holds a book titled "Cock-a-Doodle Oops!" by Lori Degman. Cover illustration depicts sunrise scene with a rooster standing confidently on a fence post while other farm animals crowd around the fence looking up at him.
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Episode 64
4 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 4
Person holds a book called "Goodnight Manger," which shows a rooster and a hen, a donkey, sheep, and other farm animals gathered around the baby Jesus lying comfortably in a manger.
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Episode 65
3 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 4
Man holds up a Dr. Seuss book titled "What Pet Should I get?" Cover illustration shows a little boy looking up as he is surrounded by a bird in a cage, a fish in a tank, a dog and a cat.
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Episode 66
6 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 4
Book cover shows an illustrated boy cracking open the lid of a glass jar that holds a ladybug habitat. A grasshopper sits on the top of his head, while another insect sits on the snout of a dog standing next to him. Text reads, "Pedro, Pedro Goes Buggy. By Fran Manushkin."
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Episode 67
3 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
Person holds a book titled "Emma and Julia Love Ballet." The cover shows an adult ballet dancer standing en pointe and a young girl ballerina posing next to her.
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Episode 68
6 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 4
Close-up of Patricia Lakin holding up her book titled "Dad and Me in the Morning." The cover shows a father and a young child standing on their house's porch next to a big body of water.
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Episode 69
6 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 4
Woman sits in a big cozy wooden chair and holds up a book called "Hoot and Honk Just Can't Sleep," whose cover illustration is of a yellow bird looking up from the bottom of the book cover and a blue bird looking down, upside down, from the top.
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Episode 70
3 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 4
Book cover shows an illustration of a white and orange cat holding a teacup near a table with another teacup on it. A paper airplane swirls through the air. Text reads, "Tea with Oliver. By Mika Song."
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Episode 71
3 minutes 41 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 4
Book cover shows an illustrated, orange-colored car smiling while covered in mud, parked outside of a car wash. Text reads, "Muddy, Mud, Bud. By Patricia Lakin, illustrated by Cole Atkinson."
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Episode 72
2 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 4
Person holds up a book called "I'm going to give you a Bear Hug!" whose cover illustration depicts a golden-brown bear lays on its back, cuddling a baby lying on its belly.
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Episode 73
2 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 4
Book cover shows an illustration of father bear holding his young son as he reads to him from an old sheet of paper. Text reads, "Eli Bear Stories. The Bear Essentials. Written by Hal Price, illustrated by Michael Bayouth."
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Episode 74
10 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 4
Illustration of a white-haired judge sitting on a stately bench with his hand holding up his head and a scowl on his face. Text reads, "An untrue tale by Harve Zemach: The Judge. With pictures by Margot Zemach."
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Episode 75
7 minutes 43 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 4
Person holds up a book titled "The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge" by Hildegarde Swift and Lynd Ward. The cover illustration shows a tall, heavy-duty metal bridge beside a smaller red lighthouse, projecting a spotlight out into the distance.
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Episode 76
13 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 4
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