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Bell, Cece |
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Itty Bitty |
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Finding an enormous bone, tiny Itty Bitty the dog works hard to
make it a special place to call his own, but after cutting out
windows and a door, he finds it just too empty and so now must
locate the appropriately sized decorations to fit inside his
special home. |
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Braun, Sebastien |
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Back To Bed, Ed! |
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Ed the mouse will not sleep in his own bed, until eventually his
exasperated and tired parents find a way to keep him from
joining them in the middle of the night. |
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Braun, Sebastien (adaptor) |
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Ugly Duckling |
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Han's Christian Andersen's classic tale of belonging and
self-discovery. An ugly duckling spends an unhappy year
ostracized by the other animals before he grows into a beautiful
swan. |
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Burningham, John |
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It's A Secret! |
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Every night Marie-Elaine's cat, Malcolm, goes out, and every
morning he comes back in and sleeps. "Where do cats go at
night?" the girl wonders. With a whimsical story and
breathtaking artwork, the acclaimed John Burningham takes us on
an exciting night's journey. |
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Dubosarsky, Ursula |
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Terrible Plop |
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When a mysterious sound sends the whole forest running away in
fear, only the littlest rabbit is courageous enough to discover
what really happened. |
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Ericsson, Jennifer |
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Whoo Goes There? |
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An attentive owl searches for tasty animals for his dinner, but
every time he sees a movement it is an animal he does not want
to eat. |
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Feldman, Eve B. |
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Billy and Milly, Short and Silly |
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Follow Billy and Milly through thirteen adventures in these
funny and simple short stories. Through very basic
storytelling, these brief narratives are told in only three or
four words apiece. |
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Field, Rachel |
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Prayer for a Child |
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Reissue of this Caldecott award winner. An illustrated bedtime
prayer which gives thanks for the many aspects of a child's
world. |
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Fucile, Tony |
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Let's Do Nothing* |
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Believing they have done all there is to do, two bored boys come
up with a strange new activity to keep them occupied and
discover an entirely new way to pass the time by doing--nothing. |
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Gal, Susan |
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Night Lights* |
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While preparing for bedtime, a little girl and her dog note all
the different kinds of lights that brighten up the night, from
headlights to moonlight. |
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Gall, Chris |
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Dinotrux |
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Millions of years ago, the prehistoric ancestors of today's
trucks, such as garbageadon, dozeratops, and craneosaurus,
roamed the Earth until they rusted out and became extinct. |
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Gay, Marie-Louise |
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When Stella was very, very small |
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When she was small Stella saw the world through her imagination,
from hearing trees talk about holding up the sky, to seeing
words as ants running off a page, to racing rubber ducks in her
bathtub. |
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Gilani-Williams, Fawzia |
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Nabeel's New Pants |
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Now that Ramadan has come to an end, and the celebration of Eid
will begin tomorrow, Nabeel the shoemaker goes to buy special
gifts for his family to wear to the mosque for the holiday.
Includes a glossary of Arabic. |
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Gravett, Emily |
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Dogs |
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Big dogs, small dogs, stripy dogs, spotty dogs. There are so
many different kinds of dogs. How can anyone pick one type of
dog to love the most? |
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Henkes, Kevin |
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My Garden |
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After helping her mother weed, water, and chase the rabbits from
their garden, a young girl imagines her dream garden complete
with jellybean bushes, chocolate rabbits, and tomatoes the size
of beach balls. |
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Kladstrup, Kristin and Matt Tavares |
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Gingerbread Pirates |
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When Jim's gingerbread pirate, Captain Cookie, comes alive, the
tasty treat prepares to battle Santa Claus, who likes to eat
cookies on Christmas Eve. |
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Kohara, Kazuno |
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Here Comes Jack Frost |
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A boy is lonely because all of his friends are hibernating for
the winter, until he finds Jack Frost writing on his
windowpanes. |
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Lipson, Eden Ross |
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Applesauce Season |
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In an urban setting, the story of how a family gets together to
cook apples for applesauce. Includes a recipe for applesauce, to
help you create your own traditions. |
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Low, William |
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Machines Go To Work* |
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Illustrations and text on life-the-flap pages present vehicles
and other useful machines at work, including a backhoe, a fire
truck, a tug boat, a railroad crossing sign, a tug boat, and a
container ship. |
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Macken, JoAnn Early |
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Waiting Out the Storm |
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A mother reassures her child about the wind, lightning, and
thunder when a storm passes through. |
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McCarty, Peter |
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Henry In Love |
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On the first day of school, Henry the cat vies for the attention
of the most amazing girl in class, Chloe Rabbit. |
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McCarty, Peter |
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Jeremy Draws A Monster |
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A young boy who spends most of his time alone in his bedroom
makes new friends after the monster in his drawing becomes a
monstrous nuisance. |
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McMullan, Kate |
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Pearl and Wagner: One Funny Day |
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April Fools' Day is not a happy one for Wagner the mouse because
his best friend, Pearl the rabbit, and other children and adults
at school keep tricking him. |
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Morris, Richard |
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Bye-Bye, Baby! |
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Felix does not like his new baby sister and thinks his parents
should take her back, until a trip to the zoo makes him realize
that she might not be as bad as he thought. |
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Na, il Sung |
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Book of Sleep |
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While other animals sleep at night, some quietly and others
noisily, some alone and others huddled together, a wide-eyed owl
watches. |
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Nyeu, Tao |
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Bunny Days |
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As a pair of busy goats inadvertently cause trouble for six
bunnies, their neighbor Bear comes to the rescue. |
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Patricelli, Leslie |
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Higher! Higher!* |
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One child. One swing. An obliging dad. The inevitable plea to go
"Higher! Higher!" The inevitable plea to go "Higher! Higher!"
Add Leslie Patricelli's wildly expressive illustrations, and an
everyday pastime reaches new heights of humor and whimsy. |
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Ryder, Joanne |
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Panda Kindergarten |
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School is in session! But this is no ordinary kindergarten
class. Meet sixteen young giant panda cubs at the China
Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda at the
Wolong Nature Preserve. Under the watchful eyes of the
scientists and workers, the cubs learn skills that will help
prepare them to be released into the wild. |
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Schoenherr, Ian |
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Don't Spill the Beans! |
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A bear tries hard to keep a birthday surprise a secret. |
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Schories, Pat |
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When Jack Goes Out |
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Jack the dog plays happily in his backyard with visitors from
outer space, but is not so sure that he wants to go home with
them. |
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Seeger, Laura Vaccaro |
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Dog and Bear: Three to Get Ready |
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Bear has a bucket stuck on his head, but luckily, Dog has a
plan. It's not a perfect plan, but in this and two other
stories, imperfect plans still work out when good friends help
each other. |
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Seeger, Laura Vaccaro |
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What If? |
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What if a boy found a beach ball and kicked it into the ocean?
What if two seals found it and began to play? Enjoy this visit
to the beach and the chance to guess what happens when different
choices are made. |
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Shea, Bob |
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Oh, Daddy! |
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A young hippopotamus shows his father the right way to do
things, such as getting dressed, watering the flowers, and
especially giving big hugs. |
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Stein, David Ezra |
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Pouch! |
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A baby kangaroo takes his first tentative hops outside of his
mama's pouch, meeting other creatures and growing bolder with
each outing. |
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Stutson, Caroline |
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By the Light of the Halloween Moon |
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In this cumulative story, a host of Halloween spooks, including
a cat, a witch, and a ghoul, are drawn to the tapping of a
little girl's toe. |
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Taylor, Sean |
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When A Monster Is Born |
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Explores the options available to a monster from the time it is
born, such as becoming the scary monster under someone's bed or
playing on the school basketball team. |
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Underwood, Deborah |
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Quiet Book |
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From the quiet of being the first one awake in the morning to
"sweet dreams quiet" when the last light is turned off, simple
text explores the many kinds of quiet that can exist during the
day. |
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Van Dusen, Chris |
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Circus Ship |
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When a circus ship runs aground off the coast of Maine, the poor
animals are left on their own to swim the chilly waters.
Staggering onto a nearby island, they soon win over the wary
townspeople with their kind, courageous ways. |
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Weeks, Sarah |
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Sophie Peterman Tells the Truth! |
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A disgruntled big sister reveals unpleasant facts about babies. |
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Weeks, Sarah |
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Woof: A Love Story |
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Despite a language barrier, a dog and cat fall in love with the
help of a buried trombone. |
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Williams, Karen Lynn |
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Beach Tail |
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When his father tells him not to leave the lion he is drawing on
the beach, a little boy starts making a very, very long
tail--and a trail to follow back. |
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Young, Ed |
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Hook |
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A chick hatched by hens turns out to be an eaglet who must get
help from a boy in learning how to fly. |
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*Best of the best
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