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Visit the Island of Misfit Toys in this board book based on the classic 1964 holiday TV special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer that''s perfect for toddlers ages 0 to 3.Meet Santa Claus, Hermey, the Bumble, and the rest of Rudolph?s friends from the North Pole. This board book with sturdy pages introduces all the best-loved characters from the iconic Christmas classic story. It?s the perfect stocking-stuffer for children ages 0 to 3.Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer has been a beloved holiday tradition since it was first broadcast on December 6, 1964.

The robots from Netflix''s Ask the StoryBots star in an all-new Step 2 Step into Reading leveled reader about how toilets work.We use the toilet every day, but how does it work?and where does our waste go? Join the StoryBots for an amazing adventure into the toilet, through the plumbing, and beyond. What they learn will fascinate children ages 4 to 6 who love Netflix''s educational show.Step 2 Readers use basic vocabulary and short sentences to tell simple stories. For children who recognize familiar words and can sound out new words with help. Check out the other book in the series:Tyrannosaurus RexTriceratopsVelociraptorsThe Moon?s Turn to ShineStop That Virus!

A new book by Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout is cause for celebration. Her bestselling novels, includingOlive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys, have illuminated our most tender relationships. Now, inMy Name Is Lucy Barton, this extraordinary writer shows how a simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the most tender relationship of all?the one between mother and daughter. Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn?t spoken for many years, comes to see her. Gentle gossip about people from Lucy?s childhood in Amgash, Illinois, seems to reconnect them, but just below the surface lie the tension and longing that have informed every aspect of Lucy?s life: her escape from her troubled family, her desire to become a writer, her marriage, her love for her two daughters. Knitting this powerful narrative together is the brilliant storytelling voice of Lucy herself: keenly observant, deeply human, and truly unforgettable. Praise for Elizabeth Strout ?Strout has a magnificent gift for humanizing characters.??San Francisco Chronicle ?What truly makes Strout exceptional . . . is the perfect balance she achieves between the tides of story and depths of feeling.??Chicago Tribune ?[Strout] constructs her stories with rich irony and moments of genuine surprise and intense emotion.??USA Today ?Strout animates the ordinary with an astonishing force.??The New Yorker ?[Strout?s] themes are how incompletely we know one another, how ?desperately hard every person in the world [is] working to get what they need,? and the redemptive power in little things?a shared memory, a shock of tulips.??Peopleshow