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New York Times bestselling children's book!

Smart, simple story that will make readers of all ages eager to take a side: From the award-winning author of Little Pea, Little Hoot, and Little Oink comes a clever take on the age-old optical illusion: is it a duck or a rabbit? Depends…

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1 author picked Duck! Rabbit! as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I discovered this book in a library in Kisumu, Kenya, while working there on a bio-sand water filter project. Oh my gosh! I wondered how I had missed it at home. It was almost as rewarding as a drink of fresh, pure water from a bio-sand filter!

I’ve used this book in most of the mediation trainings that I’ve led in the years since then. Who would think that one duck and one rabbit could–in very few words–show us an amazing truth about how viewpoints vary? That’s a truth that we have to grasp if we’re going to be mediators,…

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December on 5C4 by Adam Strassberg,

Magical realism meets the magic of Christmas in this mix of Jewish, New Testament, and Santa stories–all reenacted in an urban psychiatric hospital!

On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argue…

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