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as much as I love cookies and milk

to live a life that is bursting with vibrant energy

the Gingerbread Man steals her book

Andrea and Brian Pinkney convey the final months of Martin Luther King's life -- and of his assassination -- through metaphor

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Born Ready: The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope Cover:Hardcover as much as I loveJodie Patterson, activist and Chair of the Human Rights Campaign Foundation Board, shares her transgender son's experience in this important picture book about identity and acceptance. Penelope knows that he's a boy. (And a ninja.) The problem is getting everyone else to realize it. In this exuberant companion to Jodie Patterson's adult memoir, The Bold World , Patterson shares her son Penelope's frustrations and triumphs on his journey to share