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If You Make a Call on a Banana Phone by Gideon Sterer

If you make a call on a banana phone, a gorilla will probably answer. What will happen next??? Well, over a long, happy day of telling jokes, asking questions, and sharing secrets, you might learn that a friend can be made across ANY distance. A sweet little fable about how to approach others with kindness and curiosity, this book is silly, warm, and beautiful to look at!!!

If You Make a Call on a Banana Phone by Gideon Sterer, (List Price: $19.99, Clarion Books, 9780063375222, September 2025)

Reviewed by Charlie Monroe, Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, North Carolina

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Blue Baboon Finds Her Tune by Helen Docherty

Love this rhyming, colorful book full of fun! Your child will quickly fall under the spell of Blue Baboon. When you find your place on Earth you can do anything.

Blue Baboon Finds Her Tune by Helen Docherty, (List Price: $14.99, Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, 9781728238906, September 2022)

Reviewed by Suzanne Lucey, Page 158 Books in Wake Forest, North Carolina

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