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Author: Marcus Pfister
This book is about a fish with shiny scales. He knows that other fish admire the scales and loves having them. Other fish ask for one too and he says no. He begins to not have any friends and wonders why. He has to learn how to make things better and be friends with the other fish again.

This book is important because it can show children that sharing is sometimes better than keeping it all to yourself. That it is better to have friends and be nice compared to lonely and selfish.

This book can fall under family and friendship because the Rainbow fish learns the meaning of friendship and making friends.

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Author: Margaret Wise Brown
This book is about a little bunny who is going to sleep. Before he goes to sleep he looks around the room and says goodnight to all the objects.

This book is important because it teaches students different objects and can help kids go to sleep.

This book can fall under the learning and observing category because the little bunny is going to bed but saying goodnight to all of these different objects in his room. He was observing what was there and learning new things.

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There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly 

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Author: Lucille Colandro
This book is about an old lady who swallowed a fly. She continued to swallow different animals to get the animal swallowed first.

This book can be important towards children's literature because it is a bit of a tongue twister and it can help students with memorization.

This book could fall under the learning and observing category because the old lady learns that she does not always have to fix her mistakes. Sometimes trying to fix it will make it worse.

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Author: Grace Byers
This book is about a little girl who talks about how no matter the culture and background we are all the same. Different scenarios are said to explain that everyone even if different are the same and do the same things.

This book is important because it teaches children that anyone can do anything regardless of their background.

This book could fall under the learning and observing category because these girls are learning that no matter your culture or race/ethnicity, we are all people and should be treated as that. That you can be friends with anyone regardless of their background.

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Author: Janan Cain
This book gives different emotions and examples that go with them. Showing that feeling those emotions are normal.

This book is important in children's literature because it teaches children different emotions one might have and that it is normal to feel a certain way.

This book can fall under the learning and observing category because it is teaching us the different emotions that people can have. Also, that it is okay to feel those emotions.

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Author: Eric Carle
This book is about a caterpillar that is hungry and eats too much. It later forms into a cocoon and turns into a butterfly.

This book is important for students because it teaches students the days of the week and food the caterpillar ate.

This book falls under the learning and observing category because the caterpillar learns to not eat too much. Readers also learn how caterpillars become a butterfly.

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Author: Ezra Jack Keats
This book is about a little boy that wakes up to see it had snowed. He goes outside and explores the snowy area around him. He tries all the activities that one would do in the snow.

This book could be important to children's literature because it is the first children's book using an African American boy as the main character.

This book can fall under the learning and observing category because this little boy goes out to play in the snow. He learns and observes all the different things that he can do outside in the snow.

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Author: Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle
This book is about a teacher who is reviewing colors and animals with her students.

This book is could be important towards children's literature because kids can learn colors and animals from the book in a fun way.

This book can fall under the learning and observing category because this book teaches the students about learning the colors and that repetition will help you learn more.

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Author: Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault
This book is about a bunch of lowercase letters who climb up a tree. There is too much weight on the tree that it starts to tip over. The uppercase letters come to rescue their kids.

This book could be important for students because it helps kids figure out the relationship between capital and lowercase letters in a fun way.

This post could fall under the family and friendship category because the lower case letters were all friends and wanted to climb a tree together. When the tree fell over cause of the weight, all of the uppercase letters rushed to their kids to make sure they were alright.

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Author: Maurice Sendak
This book is about a boy who gets sent to his room without dinner. He sleeps and dreams he is sailing to an unknown place where he is the ruler of the wild things. After a while he goes home to find that his mother brought him dinner.

This book is important for children's literature because it tells students that it is okay and normal to have an imagination. It is a good thing.

This book can fall under the family and friendship category because the little boy Max gets sent to his room by his mother without dinner. Even though he was in trouble his mother still made sure to put his dinner in his room so he ate.  Even though she was mad at him, she wouldn't let her son starve. I think this shows the love she has for her son because no matter what they are family.

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Author: Laura Numeroff
This book is about a mouse who asks a boy for a cookie. Once he gets the cookie he begins to ask for one thing after the other almost like a cause and effect. He does one thing that will need something else.

This book is important for children's literature because the mouse represents children when they are younger and how they ask for a lot of things. Maybe the teacher relaying that to them could get them to think.

This book could fall under the family and friendship category because the mouse is asking for a lot one after the other. The little boy is a good friend and helps him with whatever he wants.

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Author: Christopher Paul Curtis
This book is about a family who navigates their life during the civil rights movement. From friend and family issues

This book is important for students because it is told from a child's point of view. Students can relate to the boy as they are the same age. It also gives students a glimpse into what life was like for an African American family during the civil rights movement.

This book falls under the family and friendship category because there is an aspect of the importance of family support. No matter what the situation they protect each other. There is also a big friend aspect in which they found out who their true friends were. Kenny also made a new best friend when he did not have many friends.

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Author: Shel Silverstein
This book is about a tree and a boy. The tree is with the boy for all the stages in his life. Though the boy only asks for things the tree will do anything for the boy and give him anything she can.

This book is valuable because it really shows the relationship between a parent and their child. The tree representing the mother and the boy is the child.

The Giving Tree would fall into the love and loss category because the tree has so much love for this boy that she will do anything for him. Even if the boy always leaves her and comes to her when he needs help.

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The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 

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Author: Kate DiCamillo
This book is about a selfish doll bunny who loses his owner and goes on a journey and gets passed around from new owner to new owner. He learns the meaning of love and friendship over the years.

This book is important for kids because it shows the journey of how love and loss can effect someone. It shows kids how to learn to love. You have to get to know the person before you judge.

This book falls into the love and loss category because Edward learns how to love throughout the book. He also goes through many different loses losing many friends.

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Author: Jacqueline Woodson
This book is from a little boys perspective. His father is a professional football player and begins to have some brain issues from being hit so much. He learns to adapt to his new life where his father might have memory loss, a headache, an angry episode, or a good day.

I think that this is important for kids because it shows how one may adapt to unfortunate circumstances. That we can't change your situation, but learn to live with it.

This book falls. under the love and loss category because a little boys dad suffers from brain injuries and will never be the same. He lost his normal life because he never knows if his father will have a good or bad day.

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Author: Gail Carson Levine
This book is about a girl named Ella who was cursed when she was born to alway obey. When she gets older she goes on a journey to find the fairy that cursed her to undo it. Throughout the book she reluctantly obeys others around her trying to figure out how to break this curse.

This book is important for children's literature because it teaches you about selflessness. That even if you love something, you have to let it go if it can get hurt. It also is important because it really makes you think about how lucky you are to be able to make your own decisions.

This book falls under the love and loss category because Ella loses her mother at a young age. She is forced to navigate life without her.

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Author: Michael Buckley
This book is about two sisters who move in with their grandmother they never met. Their parents went missing so they had nobody to look after them. They figure out they are descendants of the Grimm brothers (Who had written all the fairytale stories) and go on a mystery adventure to save the town.

This book is important towards children's literature because it really shows the importance of family and how they will always have your back.

This book can fall under the family and friendship category because there is a huge importance on helping family even when they may not have wanted to in the beginning. That even though the sisters have never met their grandmother, they became very close and became a little family. They were always looking out for each other.

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Author: Katherine Applegate
This book is about a little boy who moves to America from Africa to escape the government. He lost a lot of his family and cannot find his mother. Staying with his aunt and cousin, he has to learn a new language and how to do everything. This book takes you through his journey of learning to navigate his new life.

This book is important for students to read because hearing from a child's point of view, they can empathize with him and realize what many people go through to be safe from their own country.

This book can fall under the love and loss category because this little boy moves to the US away from his home and everything he knows. He has lost his father and brother and didn't know where his mother was.