Family Play Festival Five Practices: SING

CLEL Bell Award books--winners and shortlisted titles

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Book cover for Sugar pie lullaby.
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2024 Shortlist
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A child and caring adult share their musical love in this bedtime lullaby-along. Includes background information about Motown legends.
Book cover for Welcome to the cypher.
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2023 Shortlist
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"Words burn bright in this joyful celebration of rap, creativity, and self-expression. "Welcome to the cypher! Now huddle up nice and snug. You feel that circle around you? Well, that's a hip hop hug!" Starting with beatboxes and fingersnaps, an exuberant narrator introduces kids in his community to the powerful possibilities of rap, from turning "a simple phrase/into imagery that soars" to proclaiming, "this is a voice that represents me!" As Khodi...
Book cover for Hush, little bunny.
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2020 Shortlist
Description:
"Hush Little Baby” is a lullaby that parents have sung to their children for generations. Now Caldecott Honor winner David Ezra Stein reimagines the classic, with a papa rabbit offering messages of nurturing protection and comfort to his baby.