"Imagination is more important than knowledge." Albert Einstein
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David Adler [Teacher Resource] - Ages 4-8
A Picture Book of Lewis and Clark [Resources] - Ages 7-9
A Picture Book of Sojourner Truth [Link to Bio]
Benjamin Franklin--Printer, Inventor, Statesman (A First Biography) [Link to Autobiography]
A Picture Book of Anne Frank [Link to Anne Frank site]
A Picture Book of Eleanor Roosevelt
A Picture Book of Helen Keller (A First Biography) [Link to Ann Sullivan Macy and Helen Keller]
A Picture Book of Rosa Parks (A First Biography)
A Picture Book of Florence Nightingale [Florence Nightingale Museum]
Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man Ages 6-9 [The Iron Horse]
A Picture Book of Thomas Alva Edison [Teacher's Resources]
Mama Played Baseball
A Picture Book of Dwight David Eisenhower
Milo's Hat Trick - Milo the magician is a mess. Not only does he botch his card tricks andtangle his rope tricks, but he can't even manage the old standby: pulling a rabbit from a hat.
NOTHING - Otis has an antique shop crammed to the gills with stuff. So he's delighted when someone comes in and buys it all. Next day, Suzie Gump arrives, the shop is empty, full of nothing, and Suzy loves it" and takes it all. Suzie has set a trend, and soon everybody is craving nothing" the stores are full of it. It's only when there's not even a towel for drying off after a bath that Suzie realizes she may have gone a bit too far. Good message.
The Jolly Postman: Or Other People's Letters
A Bit More BERT
The Adventures of BERT
Catch That Goat! [a trip to a Nigerian street market]
Louella Mae, She's Run Away
Captain Duck
Duck in the Truck
Fix-It Duck [Board Book]
Duck's Key Where Can It Be? (Lift the Flap) (Hide and Seek)
Hit the Ball Duck [when all the basesball equipment gets caught in a tree it takes the smallest of the group to make retrieval work.]
Communication [See Special Collection]
[See How a Book Is Made]
Feelings (Reading Rainbow Book) - Learning to articulate feelings.
Manners - Why we are polite.
Ah, Music! [ntroduction to music: composers, instruments, performers, history]
A Play's the Thing [fitting in, bullying, teamwork, friendship]
Miss Nelson Is Missing!
Miss Nelson is Back
The Stupids Have a Ball
The Stupids Step Out
Amelia's Road (1993)
The Ugly Duckling (2000 Caldecott Honor) Jerry Pinkney, Illustrator
Jack and the Dreamsack (the importance of believing in dreams) (5-7)
World Famous Muriel
Behold the Trees [Trees of Israel - Hebrew]
Rumble in the Jungle (1997)
The Buffalo Storm [Hallie isn't afraid of anything-that is, anything but storms, which she braves alongside her grandmother, huddled beneath a special quilt. When her family decides to join a wagon train and go west, leaving her grandmother-and everything Hallie has ever known-behind, Hallie knows she will have to be braver than she's ever been before. Then one day on the trail she witnesses the wildest, most glorious storm imaginable.]
Once Upon A Banana [Everyday signs serve as captions for this pictorial tale of what happens after a man tosses a banana peel into the garbage can and misses.]
Parts
Mr. Maxwell's Mouse (Ages 6 Up) [not your typical mouse story/clever/suspenseful/handsome illustrations]
Mrs. Marlowe's Mice [Mrs. Eleanor Marlowe, a young widow who works at Purrington Street Library with her fellow cats and lives by herself - not counting the extended family of mice who secretly live with her. Harbouring mice is a very serious offence in Cat City. Why would a mild-mannered widow run such a risk?]
Holly Bloom's Garden [persistence/finding your unique talent]
Mr. Popper's Penguins [Teacher's Guide]
Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut (1995) [a Wise Woman puts a spell on Prunella, and the princess sprouts a purple peanut on her nose, which disappears only when she gives up her spoiled, selfish ways.] [alliteration]
Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes [the virtues of resisting restrictions] [alliteration]
Beauty and the Beaks: A Turkey's Cautionary Tale [A beauty shop, conceited Tom, fun words..."eggsercise (favorite exercise)," "eggsploring," "eggstensive," puns, and wow!-not-your-normal illustrations. Oh! and saving the conceited turkey from being dinner.
The Tale of Tricky Fox
The Gingerbread Man
Old Black Fly [Lesson Plan - Alphabetizing]
The Completed Hickory Dickory Dock
Country Crossing [Train lovers]
Aunt Pitty Patty's Piggy
Naughty Little Monkeys [26 little monkeys wreak havoc through the alphabet]
The Search for Delicious [searching for the definition]
Ouch (1998)
Words Are like Faces [Rhyming text points out the many uses of words and the different emotions and concepts they can convey. The underlying meaning demonstrates the role of language in building a human community, which connects, corresponds, informs and nurtures through dialogue. "And remember...Hurtful words spoken can't be unsaid..."]
Stanley Wild Ride [Stanley knows he's not supposed to leave the yard, but ....]
The Farm Team [The Farm (hockey) Team is up against the nastiest, smelliest, mangiest, snarlingest bunch of varmints you've even seen!]
The Aminal [imaginations gone wild. Use for creative writing in early years and creative dialogue]
Peacebound Trains
The Bird, the Monkey, and the Snake in the Jungle [rebus book: a story in words and pictures]
Close Your Eyes [bedtime theme]
The Turtle and the Hippopotamus [overcoming fear/team work]
A Gift from the Sea (2001)
The Night Worker (2000)
And If the Moon Could Talk (1998)
Spider, Spider (1997)
Baboon (1997)
Ask Albert Einstein [April writes a letter to Einstein asking him to solve a math problem. While April waits for an answer, she pictures all the things Einstein might be doing instead: working on his own math problems, playing his violin, riding his bicycle, gardening, sailing, helping other children with their homework - all things that he is known to have enjoyed. Clever concept.
Hiromi's Hands [true story of a young girl's determination to follow her dream, and a tribute to the loving family who supported her. As one of the first female sushi chefs in New York City this book celebrates Hiromi Suzuki's Japanese American roots and her achievements in the U.S.] (Ages 5-8]
The Mine-O-Saur [ He snatches all the toys. He grabs all the snacks at snack time. He hoards the blocks during recess. And all the while he yells, “MINE, MINE, MINE!” But soon enough, no one wants to play with him. What will it take for the Mine-o-saur to realize that what he really wants are friends?]
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs [Teacher Guide]
Pickles to Pittsburgh : The Sequel to Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (1997)
The Square that Ben Drew (1973)
Peppe the Lamplighter [Italian family in early America]
Cooking with Herb the Vegetarian Dragon
Herb, the Vegetarian Dragon
Dark at the Top of the Stairs
Doctor Ted [A bump on his knee, a class full of sniffles, a principal with foot odor, and not a doctor to be found...Ted knows it is time to become Doctor Ted.]
A Visitor for Bear [Cheery persistence wears down a curmudgeonly bear in a wry comedy of manners that ends in a most unlikely friendship.]
Maxwell's Mountain [quiet determination]
Emily (1992)
Sock Monkey Rides Again - Sock Monkey can hardly believe his ears. He's landed the starring role in a singing cowboy movie! Now he'll get to yodel, ride a horse, lasso a cow, and — yikes! — kiss the leading lady.
Madeline
Hosni the Dreamer: An Arabian Tale (1997)
Faerie
The Girl in the Castle Inside the Museum [Once upon a time, there was a girl who lived in a castle. The castle was inside a museum. When children visited, they’d press against the glass globe in which the castle sat, to glimpse the tiny girl. But when they went home, the girl was lonely. Then one day, she had an idea! What if you hung a picture of yourself inside the castle inside the museum, inside this book? Then you’d able to keep the girl company.
Goose's Story ["A wild goose has to learn to live with her weakness. Or she won't live at all"][based on author's actual experience]
Are You Going to be Good? [Robert is going to his first grownup party. All he hears is "Don't do that!" It’s hard to remember how he is supposed to behave. What it's like to be small in the world of adults.
Sally Jean, the Bicycle Queen [When Sally Jean outgrows her beloved bicycle, Flash, she experiments with various ideas for acquiring a new, bigger one.] Good read for being resourceful.
This is Baseball [farm team baseball/Philly Fans]
Anna Banana and Me (1987) (facing fears)
WOLF! ["Can't you see I'm a big and dangerous wolf?" "I'm sure you are," replied the pig. "But couldn't you be big and dangerous somewhere else? We're trying to read. This is a farm for educated animals..."]
Charlie Hits It Big (Ages 4-7) [A guinnea makes it big in Hollywood. A lively twist on there's no place like home.]
Bloomers! [how the infancy of the women's rights movement put a kink in the breeches of American history.]
Hurry, Hurry, Mary Dear (1998)
Goodnight Lulu (forever change bedtime fears and what if?) [Ages3-6]
Hector the Hermit Cra SRC="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1582348006/embracingthechilA/" BORDER="0"b (shyness/"Making friends wasn't so difficult after all.")
Hippos Go Berserk (1996)
The Last Basselope: One Ferocious Story [rumors][friendship]
Edwurd Fudwupper Fibbed Big
The Mitten [Teacher Resource]
Flusi: The Sock Monster [Finally! We know who's taking our socks!] [Warm, fuzzy, fun, cute]
Jim and the Beanstalk [respect and acceptance]
Fireflies! [Reading Rainbow Book] [more than just catching fireflies]
When Dinosaurs Came with Everything [Just when a little boy thinks he's going to die of boredom from running errands with his mom, the most remarkable, the most stupendous thing happens. He discovers that on this day, and this day only, stores everywhere are giving away a very special treat with any purchase. No, not the usual lollipop or sticker. Something bigger. Much, MUCH bigger.]
Mack Made Movies [picture-book biography of the moviemaker who made the Keystone Kops, Fatty Arbuckle, and Charlie Chaplin household names.] (Ages 6-9)
Polkabats and Octopus Slacks: 14 Stories (1998)
Flat Stanley [The Flat Stanley Project]
Stanley, Flat Again!
Home for a Bunny
Goodnight Moon
Flight of the Dodo [unlikely friendships]
Chowder
The Fabulous Bouncing Chowder
The Shape Game [a family trip to a museum/semi-autobiographical]
Voices in the Park [a bit heavy for yougsters]
ZOO [I don't think the zoo really is for animals . . . I think it's for people.]
Silly Billy - A funny, sympathetic antidote to worry
Boy Called Slow
Canticle (a poem)
Crazy Horse's Vision [Young Lakota man's vision quest] Ages 7-10
Twinnies (1997)
I Am the Mummy Heb-Nefert [Interesting activity]
A Day's Work [Francisco, a young Mexican-American boy, helps his grandfather find work as a gardener, even though the old man cannot speak English and knows nothing about gardening. ]
Edwardo: The Horriblest Boy in the Whole Wide World - Edwardo is an ordinary boy who does his best to live up to grown-ups' expectations. So when they rant at him for being the clumsiest, noisiest, nastiest, cruelest, messiest, and dirtiest boy in the whole wide world, he becomes all those things with a vengence, thus earning the title of the horriblest boy in the whole wide world. How Edwardo becomes the nicest boy in the whole wide world will be appreciated by ordinary little boys everywhere. John Burningham's amusing illustrations bring a lighthearted touch to the power of positive reinforcement.
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel (1993)
The Little House (1978)
Katy and the Big Snow [Lesson Plan]
Benjamin McFadden and the Robot Babysitter (1998)
I Am the Mummy Heb-Nefert
Albert the Bear [never just a bear by appearance]
Finn MacCoul and His Fearless Wife: A Giant of a Tale from Ireland
One-Dog Canoe [Can I come too?]
Dad & Me(1999)
Emily's Art (it's not important what anyone else thinks)
The Painter (love of family, love of art)
Matthew A.B.C. (Alphabetizing a classroom of Matthews by assigning attributes to their last name…"Matthew A. is affectionate")
The Very Hungry Caterpillar (1994)
The Very Busy Spider (1995)
The Very Quiet Cricket (1997)
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Spanish Translation [Lesson Plans]
Boss Of The Plains (1998)
Pizza for the Queen [based on the events of June 11, 1889, in Napoli, Italy, which gave birth to the Pizza Margherita, which shows off the red, white, and green of the Italian flag]
Bonaparte
Beware of the Storybook Wolves [imagination][childhood fears]
Clarice Bean Guess Who's Babysitting?
Hubert Horatio Bartle Bobton-Trent [Boy genius saves board-playing parents who think their money will never run out as they go from "frightfully, frightfully rich" to bankrupt.]
I Am Not Sleepy and I Will Not Go to Bed (Charlie and Lola) ["Lola likes to stay up coloring and scribbling and sticking and wriggling and bouncing and most of all chattering."]
I Am Too Absolutely Small for School (Charlie and Lola) [Charlie to persuade Lola that school is worthwhile — and that her invisible friend, Soren Lorensen, will be welcome, too.]
Peach Heaven [Based on true story/South Korean waters flood farm/giving back what is not yours.]
Pig and Crow (2000) [Loneliness and friendship]
VOTE! [Using a town’s mayoral election as a model, this lively introduction to voting covers every step in the process, from the start of the campaign all the way to the voting booth: background history on voting rights; explains the voting process; and answers questions about registration, volunteering, fund-raising, and recounting ballots. ]
Five Little Monkeys Play Hide-and-Seek
The Little Red Ant and the Great Big Crumb: A Mexican Fable (1995)
Young Pele: Soccer's First Star [Here is the story (picture book biography) of the boy who overcame tremendous odds to become the world champion soccer star Pelé. ]
The Amazing Love Story of Mr. Morf [circus dog, Mr. Morf, wants a friend of his own.]
Boris's Glasses [a hamster gets glasses and sees the ugliness in the world]
Down in the Subway [A Carribean vacation where you least expect it: down in the subway! ] Super Illustrations!
Eddy's Dream ["Dreams are stupid." But are they?]
Something Special [How many ways can a kiss be delivered?]
Wash Day [Story of love and friendship that can overcome barriers of age and race.]
Am I a Color Too? ["When I think of all the people, all those faces in my sight, if people are really colors, there should be more than black and white. Am I a color too?"]
The Giant's Toe [Jack and the Beanstalk theme]
Larky Mavis
This Boat
This Plane
This Train
This Car
The Story of Paper [includes historical notes and recipe for home-made paper]
The Tub People (1995) (dolls who think and feel)(imagination)
The Tub Grandfather (1993) (imagination)
To Sleep with the Angels
Eleanor
Hattie and the Wild Waves
Emily
Miss Rumphius [Teacher Guide]
Emma
Island Boy
Building [from vacant lot to finished building]
Ballpark
Ice Cream [from cow to freezer]
The Boy Who Wouldn't Go to Bed (1997)
Pumpkin Soup [the dynamics of friendship]
A Pipkin of Pepper (for the Pumpkin Soup) [Duck has the habit of wandering off but he promises not to get lost.]
The Little Fish That Got Away
My Life With the Wave (1997)(imagination)
The Hungry Giant [Lesson Plan]
The Hungry Giant of the Tundra
Cows in the Kitchen (1998)
Tessa's Tip-Tapping Toes [dancing mouse and crooning cat]
Henry and the Buccaneer Bunnies [a ship sinks and book-reading Henry uses the knowledge to build a hut, cook stew, clothe them all, and helps them build a new ship. The fun throughout the book enchances the message of the book—READ! (it could save your life.) Ages 4 to 8.
The LOUDS Move In! [The Louds are a LOUD family. The neighbors can't stand the noise...until they aren't there.]
8 O'Cluck (1997)[Lesson Plan]
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type
Wiggle (Baby/Prek)
Diary of a Fly
Diary of a Worm
Diary of a Spider
Duck for President [There's a fresh bill on Capitol Hill. Duck is tired of farm work. He runs for Govenor (it's too much work). He runs for President (it's too much work). He returns to the farm and writes (types) his autobiography. Remember the chads? Recounts? This is a FUN read! ]
Ten-Gallon Bart [This Dodge-city like treat finds Ten-Gallon Bart working up the courage to face the bug bully (Billy the Kid)]
Railroad John And the Red Rock Run [lots and lots of fun and a mighty tall-tale telling]
Ira Sleeps Over [Addresses the fear of first sleep-over]
Sailor's Night Before Christmas
That's Good! That's Bad
That's Good! That's Bad! In the Grand Canyon
The Witches
Bernelly & Harriet: The Country Mouse and the City Mouse
Henrietta [overcoming prejudice - pig (Henrietta) wants to go to Cambridge]
The Courage of Sarah Noble [supplemental guide]
The Starlight Princess and Other Princess Stories (1999)
Beetle Boy (1999)
The Magic Raincoat [To Emily's surprise, the orange raincoat that her mother bought her is even better than the yellow one Emily wanted—this raincoat is magical! After learning that she should use her new raincoat only for good causes, the raincoat disappears.]
Peggony-Po: A Whale of a Tale [Peggony-Po is no ordinary sailor boy. From the time he was in burlap booties, he could climb the mainmast faster than you could say Thar she blows! He can tie a knot to rival any of the crews and swim more swiftly than a dolphin. But the most unusual thing about Peggony-Po? He was carved from the piece of driftwood that saved his father Galleons life, after he tried to capture Cetus, the biggest, meanest whale of them all.]
Old Bob's Brown Bear [intergenerational/jealousy/sharing]
Ruby Sings the Blues [misery—Ruby's loud mouth—to mastery, a multicultural neighborhood celebrating music]
Ella Takes the Cake [wanting to help out, Ella learns to take charge.]
I Hate to Go to Bed!
Scared Stiff [overcoming fear]
Beegu [long floppy-eared yellow alien comes to earth to find her mother]
Slow Loris [the secret life of a loris]
A Child's Book of Blessings (1999)
Cold Feet
Three Perfect Peaches: A French Folktale
The Real, True Dulcie Campbell
Jamberry (1990)
Daddy Is a Doodlebug [tribute to fathers/fathers as role models]
The Legend of Saint Nicholas (Ages 7-11) 2003
Kites: Magic Wishes That Fly Up to the Sky (Ages 7-9)
The Donkey and the Rock
Muhammad [retelling of the Prophet's life] beautiful illustrations. (Ages 9-12)
Mother Teresa
The Boy Who Painted Dragons (Ages 7 and up) [timeless tale of using wisdom and valor to overcome fear.]
The Knight and the Dragon [fighting/conflict resolution]
Nana Upstairs and Nana Downstairs (death of grandparent)
Now One Foot : Now the Other [supplemental guide](grandparent illness)
Charlie Needs a Cloak: Story and Pictures
When Everyone Was Fast Asleep
Sasha's Matrioshka Dolls [Russian Nesting Dolls]
Jimmy Zangwow's Out-of-This-World Moon-Pie Adventure (2000)
The Spider and the Fly (2002)
Ted ["big, raspberry-colored oaf" DiTerlizzi's imaginary childhood friend] (2001)
Henry's Amazing Machine [putting things together for the pure joy of it/using imagination/creativity/a surprise ending/great illustrations]
The Kettles Get New Clothes [the Kettles, a family of dogs goes to town for their once-a-year shopping for the same clothes.]
The Snail and the Whale [no matter the size, we can all help each other]
Mary and the Mouse, The Mouse and Mary [Even though Mary has been warned to stay away from mice - and Mouse has been warned to steer clear of people - the two can't help but peek at one another. Side by side, they grow up, go to college, get married, and have children of their own - Maria and MouseMouse. And then one day, Maria and MouseMouse do something surprising . . . something their parents never did. They actually come nose-to-nose and speak to one another!]
The Fungus That Ate My School (2000)
Abuela [supplemental unit][lesson plan]
You See a Circus. I See... [A young acrobat shows his friends around the big top, but all is not as it seems.The stars are his family]
The Tattletale (Ages 5-8) - captures the essence of sibling rivalry—and friendship.
Tales from Old Ireland Niamh Sharkey, Illustrator
Casey Jones [Learn more about Legendary railroad engineer, John Luther "Casey" Jones]
Tell Me Something Happy Before I Go to Sleep
Tell Me What It's Like to Be Big {Big Brother/Little Sister]
Burger Boy - Benny likes burgers. Benny loves burgers. In fact, burgers are the only food that Benny ever eats. "If you don"t watch out, you"ll turn into a burger one day," warns his mom. And one day, Benny does. Hilarious, roly-poly illustrations capture Benny"s wacky transformation and the chaos that ensues. A delectable cautionary tale, this is a rollicking read-aloud that"s certain to tickle picky eaters (and their parents) everywhere.
Bear Noel [Holiday Book]
Cock-A-Doodle Moooo: A Mixed-Up Menagerie - Ages 6-10 [Imagined creatures that combine parts of different animals]
Clementine and Mungo [the know-it-all bigger sister is reassured by little brother]
The Magic Tree: A Folktale from Nigeria
Rude Mule (2002) 4-8 [please, thank you, manners]
The Grumpy Morning (1998) PreK
Livingstone Mouse (1998)
Honk!: The Story of a Prima Swanerina
Some Smug Slug [alliteration]
Barefoot: Escape on the Underground Railroad
Boston Tea Party
Clara Caterpillar
Four Famished Foxes and Fosdyke [alliteration]
Rosie's Roses [alliteration]
The Neat Line: Scribbling Through Mother Goose
The Extinct Files: My Science Project [Do dinosaurs still live among us? The shocking truth is revealed in this knock-your-socks-off illustrated book]
Painted Circus, The: P.T. Vermin Presents a Mesmerizing Menagerie... [the eye is tricked, bamboozled, hoodwinked and flimflammed … but finally rewarded when all mysteries are revealed after the grand finale! P.T. Vermin, ringmouse extraordinaire, ushers patrons into the Big Top to behold 22 astonishing stunts, including Norwegian Marching Ducks, The Spectral Sphere and The Flying Fishtastics, each featuring an eye-opening optical illusion.]
Slim and Jim (2002) [Oliver Twist for tots]
Jazper (1998)(father and son)
Three Magic Balls
Planting a Rainbow
Growing Vegetable Soup
Snowballs [Teacher Guide]
Cuckoo = Cucu: A Mexican Folktale = UN Cuento Folklorico Mexicano
Hunter's Best Friend at School ["We do everything together." Resisting peer pressure]
Hunter and Stripe and the Soccer Showdown [can best friends be competitive and good sports?]
My Colors Mis Colores
My Numbers Mis Numeros
My Opposites Mis Opuestos
Someone Bigger [kite flying with dad/proving your worth/"No, you're too small/-This kite needs/someone bigger"]
She Did It! [four energetic sisters always pointing a finger/blame]
Necks out for Adventure: The True Story of Edwin Wiggleskin [overcoming fear]
The Story of Frog Belly Rat Bone [Once upon a time, in a gray endless place called Cementland, there lived a boy who wished to find a treasure. After searching through piles of toaster ovens and wet smelly socks, he spies a box filled with specks and a note that says, "Put these wondrous riches in the earth and enjoy."]
Hannah Mae O'Hannigan's Wild West Show [self confidence/lasso destiny]
OLIVIA [2001 Caldecott Honor Book]
Olivia Saves The Circus 2002
Olivia Boxed Set with poster [Limited Edition] 2002 - Includes Olivia and Olivia Saves The Circus.
Olivia Saves the Circus: Journal
The Adventures of Polo - Equipped with a backpack full of supplies, Polo sets off on a little boat and on a series of delightful adventures that take him across (and under) the ocean, to an island and a frozen iceberg, to space and home again, with a world of magical encounters along the way. Polo's journey is packed with incident and expression; 80 pages of seamless, satisfying (wordless) picture storytelling are perfectly targeted to the youngest reader. Unique, dynamic, and playful, The Adventures of Polo calls to mind the worlds of film animation, comics, and classic books from Harold and the Purple Crayon to The Snowmanand has style, appeal, and substance all its very own.
Polo: The Runaway Book - Here’s a new volume every bit as charming and as mesmerizing The Adventures of Polo. When the resourceful dog sets aside his brand-new book and drifts off to sleep, a curious little creature makes off with it.
Halfway Hank [fun read-aloud with a message designed to reinforce every young reader's sense of individuality.] Ages 4-8
Mr. Wolf and the Three Bears [Goldilocks—the rudest girl in the neighborhood—crashes the party.]
Mr. Wolf's Pancakes
I Lost My Bear (1998)
Meanwhile
Armando and the Blue Tarp School - An artistic young Mexican boy living in a colonia (trash dump community) takes the first steps toward realizing his dream of getting an education. Based on the work of David Lynch, a teacher from New York who first began working in a colonia in Mexico in the early 1980s. (Ages 5-9)
LOST! A Story of String (2000)
The Animal Hedge (Ages 6-10) No one loves animals more than the farmer. But when a drought befalls the land, and he must sell his livestock and move to a cottage with only a hedge around it, he and his three sons discover something remarkable about their hedge —- and something unique about each person who trims its branches. A testament to vision, passion, and destiny, matched by Bagram Ibatoulline’s virtuoso paintings.
Time to Sleep (1997)
Where Once There Was a Wood (1996) [wildlife habitat conservation]
Buster (2003) [Buster had everything he wanted until one day his owner brought home a box (a cat)]
Time For Bed
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
Koala Lou
Possum Magic
Whoever You Are
Out of the Ocean
On The Day You Were Born
Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster
Corduroy (1976)
A Pocket for Corduroy (1980)
Manuelo the Playing Mantis 2004 [determination and friendship/Mantis wants to find an instrument to play]
Too Many Pears! [too much of a good thing...]
Diary of a Wombat [WARNING: This marsupial might give children the idea they can train their parents for treats on demand!]
No Such Thing! [Do monsters really live under beds?]
One Monkey Too Many [Use as counting book too]
One Monkey Too Many
Gus and Button
How Are You Peeling? (1999)
One Lonely Sea Horse (2000)
Dr. Pompo's Nose
I. Q. Goes to the Library [use as introduction to the library/getting a card]
I. Q., It's Time [I.Q., the classroom pet, helps get ready for parents' night.]
How My Parents Learned to Eat [supplemental guide] cultural differences
That Kookory! (1995)
A Princess, A Pirate, and One Wild Brother [...Little Violetta trains in secret to become THE PRINCESS KNIGHT. Fierce Molly is out to show ferocious Captain Firebeard and his motley crew just who really rules the high seas in PIRATE GIRL. And brave Ben, THE WILDEST BROTHER, battles moldy green ghosts and slime-belching monsters--until the sun goes down. That's when he seeks the protection of his big sis! ]
Lotus Seed [supplement unit] endurance and change
Well of the Wind (1998)
Yours and Mine [imaginary friends] Beautifully illustrated (2005)
Nutik, The Wolf Pup [bond between humans and animals]... a picture book introduction to Julie of the Wolves for ages 9-12...[See Newbery Section]
Nutik & Amaroq Play Ball 2001[Sequel]
How to Talk to Your Dog
How to Talk to Your Cat
Dear Rebecca, Winter Is Here
Cliff Hanger [mountain climbing rescue adventure/listening for storm]
Little Dog Poems (1999)
The Great Frog Race : And Other Poems
Old Elm Speaks: Tree Poems
Mama and Me and the Model T
Behold...the Dragons (1999)
Trains (1988)
Spiders (1994)
Thanksgiving (2004) [celebration of food, family, remembering the Pilgrams and Indians, and giving thanks for blessings.]
Oh, How I Wished I Could Read! [Frank Fiorello, Illustrator]
Not in the House, Newton! [colors...Red RED crayon - imagination - stories coming to life]
The Chick and the Duckling [same and different]
A Fish Named Spot [be careful what you feed your pets]
Uncle Blubbafink's Seriously Ridiculous Stories - Ages 7-10
Meerkat Mail [Sunny Meerkat lives in the Kalahari desert with his family. He likes beetles on toast (with insect larvae), daydreaming, and digging holes. The desert is hot, too hot, and Sunny thinks he wants to live somewhere else. Clever illustrations and postcards to home. (There's no place like home.)]
Eat Your Peas [a battle of strong wills]
Skunks!
Snakes! ["Tangled like spaghetti / Slithery and sweaty. Nesting in a heap beneath your bed. Can you feel your mattress shaking?] Just enough scare.
The Foot-Stomping Adventures of Clementine Sweet [tall tale/being recognized/two-steppin and stomping a tornado to save the town]
Cowboy Sam and Those Confounded Secrets [tall tale/keeping secrets]
Tommy at the Grocery Store (1991)
The Maggie B. (1975) (bedtime)
Ox-Cart Man
When Willard Met Babe Ruth - Ages 7-10
Don't Grown-Ups Ever Have Fun? (2003)
Miss Mingo and the First Day of School (2006) On sharing day in Miss Mingo's multispecies class, we learn that Cricket hears with his legs, Snake smells with his tongue, and Frog enjoys eating his own skin in this nonfiction storybook filled to the gills with laughter—and learning.
Lizzy's Ups and Downs: NOT an Ordinary School Day [sharing the good and bad of her school day..the frustration, embarrassment, the nervousness/the long version/mother's comfort/
Mark Twain and the Queens of the Mississippi
Hello Benny!: What It's Like to Be a Baby - Birth to first birthday - Bk. 1 Growing Up Stories Series
Go! Go! Maria: What It's Like to Be One Bk. 2 Growing Up Stories Series
Maybe A Bear Ate It! ["It's gone! It's nowhere! I can't find it anywhere! Where is MY BOOK? I need MY BOOK!" What happens when your favorite book goes missing?]
Things I Like About Grandma
Easter Angels (1999)
A Story for Bear - PreK-7 [enchanting story of woman who reads to bear]
Owen & Mzee: The True Story Of A Remarkable Friendship
Owen & Mzee: Language Of Friendship
The Patch [Becca, an aspiring ballerina is furious that she has lazy eye and has to wear a patch. Fun books to teach acceptance.]
The Names Upon the Harp: Irish Myth and Legend
The House of Widsom (1999)
Elwood and the Witch
Cabbage Rose
Jack, Skinny Bones, and the Golden Pancakes
Harmonica Night
In Coal Country
Wemberly Worried (2000)
Chrysanthemum (1996)
Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse (1996) [Literature Guide]
Julius, the Baby of the World (1990)
Chester's Way
Circle Dogs (1998)
Owen [ Letting go of a baby blanket ]
P Is For Putt: A Golf Alphabet (Ages: 4-10) Very cleverly done. Simple text for young readers. For older readers there are also sections of expository text that delves deeper into interesting facts and figures.
When Jessie Came Across the Sea (1997)
The Girl, the Fish, and the Crown (1995)
Jitterbug Jam - a young monster is afraid to sleep in his bed—there's a boy beneath! This rambunctious story of a youngster overcoming anxiety and limitations is set in a captivating otherworld that springs to life in pictures full of enchantment and surprise.Anna Grossnickle Hines [See Special Collection]
Pieces: A Year in Poems and Quilts [2001]
Winter Lights: A Season in Poems & Quilts [2005]
Which Hat Is That? [2002]
My Own Big Bed [1998]
BEAN Series
What Joe Saw
Remember The Butterflies
Even If I Spill My Milk
Big Help!
Frances Books
Bread and Jam for Francis [supplemental unit]
You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Stories to Read Together
Seven Silly Eaters
And to Think That We Thought That We'd Never Be Friends (1999)
The Eensy-Weensy Spider (2000)
Gulliver in Lilliput
Amazing Grace
Boundless Grace
Clever KatyaMeredith Hooper
Honey Cookies
Nothing is better than grandmother's honey cookies. What exactly goes into making this special treat? How do you make honey cookies? Where do all the ingredients (wheat, butter, eggs, sugarcane, cinnamon) in the recipe come from? Includes an easy recipe for honey cookies. A perfect introduction to food and cooking for very young readers.
"What do we need?" asked Ben. "We need..." said Gran,"A cow in a field eating fresh green grass, munch, dribble, munch, all day long."
Birdie's Lighthouse
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt [Teacher Guide]
Little Rabbit Runaway [Scolded, Little Rabbit runs away from home declaring, "I'm Little Rabbit Runaway. Nobody can tell me what to do!" ]
Silly Suzy Goose [Silly Suzy Goose is just like all the other geese. But how she wishes she could things like the other animals. When Suzy Goose wanders farther and farther from her flock she meets up with a cranky lion, and learns there may just be some advantages to blending in with the crowd!]
The Seals On The Bus (2000)
Tie Your Socks and Clap Your Feet
Cinco De Mayo: Celebrating Mexican-American Traditions [What exactly is Cinco de Mayo? Although many people think May fifth marks Mexico's independence, the holiday is actually the anniversary of a decisive battle against foreign occupiers.
The Celery Stalks at Midnight
Horace and Morris, but Mostly Delores (1999)
Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery
Howliday Inn
Hot Fudge
Rabbit-Cadabra!
Abel's Moon (1999) - imagination and family
The Lion and the Unicorn - fear and loneliness
Earth to Audrey [friendships that change lives/summer of discovery]
Tale of Three Trees : A Traditional Folktale (1989)
Rosie's Walk (1998)
It's My birthday! (1999)
My Father's Shop [a vibrantly illustrated book of culture, friends and barnyard denizens, and creative play with a rug with a hole.]
The Blue Balloon - 10th Anniversary (2000) PreK
The Great Pet SalePreK
Mrs. Piccolo's Easy Chair (1999)
Leon and Bob
Dear Mr. Blueberry [Teacher's Guide]
The Wild Woods
Big Lips and Hairy Arms
Thorndike and Nelson
Tawny Scrawny Lion
That's NOT Funny! [laughing at other people’s misfortune]
When I Am Old With You (1990)
Harold and the Purple Crayon [50th Anniversary Edition]
Magic Beach [Previously unpublished artwork by Crockett Johnson. Two children are playing on a beach talking: "Stories are just words. And words are just letters. And letters are just different kinds of marks." But if they make those marks in the sand on this beach, magic happens. When they write "jam", a wave flows over the word, and when it ebbs, a dish full of jam appears. "Bread" and "milk" follow and then the plot thickens."King" and "forest", "farm" and "castle" -- so the story grows.]
Amber on the Mountain (1994)
Grandpa's Song
Go Track A Yak! [great drama - the only thing that will save the baby is yak juice!] (2003)
Good Night, Sleep Tight: A peom for every night of the year!
Mama, Do You Love Me?
I Love You the Purplest [author interview]
The Witch's Children
Salt in His Shoes [chasing your dreams]
Big Time Olie (2002)
Snowie Rolie
George Shrinks
Brave as a Bunny Can Be [experiencing fear is normal]
Ooh La La (Max in Love)
Hey Willy, See the Pyramids
Max Makes a Million
Max in Hollywood, Baby
A Mother for Choco [caring/sharing/differences/diversity]
This is a Hospital, Not a Zoo! [perfect for child in hospital]
I'm Still here in teh Bathtub: Brand New Silly Dilly Songs (2003) [new nonsense songs set to the tune of old favorites]
The Snowy Day - Caldecott Medal 1963
Peter's Chair
Farfallina and Marcel [friendship and transformation]
The Rubber-Legged Ducky [Five is different than all the other ducklings. He doesn't quack, and he never waddles. Instead, he bounces. And bing-boings! Being different isn't always easy for Five, but boy oh boy, having an extra spring and s-t-r-e-t-c-h in his step sure comes in handy when an unwelcome (and hungry) visitor comes creeping. A fun romp that will put some spring in your step.]
Open Wide: Tooth School Inside
The Scrambled States of America
Arnie the Doughnut (2003) funny half-baked story.
William and the Night Train [bedtime story]
The Tiger Who Came to Tea
Mog the Forgetful Cat
Peach & Blue [An unlikely pair/story of friendship/wonders of nature]
Gershon's Monster: A Story for the Jewish New Year
The Great Texas Hamster Drive: An Original Tall Tale [Pecos Bill, Slue Foot Sue, their five children and 18,376 hamsters.]
Dance, Sing, Remember : A Celebration of a Jewish Holidays
Clorinda [a cow who wants to perform classical ballet!/things don't always work out the way we want]
Clorinda Takes Flight [One afternoon while taking the sun, a cow named Clorinda casually notices the flight of a passing barn swallow. "Oh, how I wish I could fly like a bird," thinks Clorinda. So (never mind that a cow never has), Clorinda resolves to be the first and to show the world how it's done. She flatly dismisses the reasoned misgivings of her dear friend Hop and then enlists the help of her dear friend Len. But more important to the intrepid trio than their Lindbergh-like achievement is the warm, sustaining friendship that binds them together. ]
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi [Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney/HarperCollins 2004]
I Have a Dream
Miss Spider's Wedding [PreK]
Little Bird Biddle Bird [PreK]
Comic Adventures of Boots
The Paper Princess Finds Her Way
The Owl and the Pussy-cat (Based on the poem by Edward Lear) Ages 4 Up
Library Lion - Miss Merriweather, the head librarian, is very particular about rules in the library. No running allowed. And you must be quiet. But when a lion comes to the library one day, no one is sure what to do.
The Flower Hunter: William Bartram, America's First Naturalist
Lily's Garden
Hokusai: The Man Who Painted A Mountain
Escuse Me! [gobs of glorious gaseous gluttonies in this goofy comedy of bad manners.]
Tissue, Please! [more bad manners!]
The Younger Brother's Survival Guide by Matt
The Carrott Seed [60th Anniversary Edition]
The Happy Egg
I'll Be You And You Be Me [rereleased June 2001]
Mary McLean and the St. Patrick's Day Parade
Sweet Magnolia
The Seasons and Someone
Africa Brothers and Sisters [father/only child relationship/learning the tribes of Africa]
Houdini: The World's Greatest Mystery Man And Escape King (Ages: 6-8)
Fire on the Mountain [Teacher Resource]
Only a Pigeon [Teacher Resource]
Pulling the Lion's Tail [Teacher Resource] (a father remarries)
River Friendly, River Wild [Teacher Resource]
I'm Sorry, Almira Ann [Teacher Resource] (wagon train/Oregon Trail)
The Raft [summer-grandson/grandmother relationship-discovery]
Jake's 100th Day of School [Everyone is bringing collections of 100 things, but Jake leaves home without his. The principal steps in to help him create a brand new collection--100 books. And a surprise visit by a 100 year old.]
Four Hens and a Rooster [bullying/sharing/cooperation]
Who Took the Cookies from the Cookie Jar?
Before I Was Your Mother [yes, we did have lives before motherhood!]
The Librarian Who Measured the Earth [ages 8 Up]
She's Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head!
Ben and Me [Teacher Resource] [story book]
Bitter Dumplings [the power of compassion]
The Story of Ferdinand [See more Bully Books Here]
How to Behave and WhyLEGO - The Ultimate Lego Book
Goodnight Blessings
Tibili: The Little Boy Who Didn't Want to Go to School ["He would rather read like his grandfather, not from a piece of paper, but from the sky, where the sun sings during the day and the moon dances during the night."... Until he can't read important directions]
Franny B. Kranny, There's a Bird in Your Hair! (long hair/bad hair day/bird nest/great fun)
Hooway For Wodney Wat [great bully book with lots and lots of laughs]
Tacky the Penguin
A Porcupine named Fluffy
Tacky in Trouble
Black Cowboy, Wild Horses : A True Story (1998)
John Henry
Shining (Ages 7-9) [A young girl who has not uttered a sound since birth is shunned by the people in her village, until they realize how special she is...The One Who Will Be]
Isabella Abnormella and the Very, Very Finicky Queen of Trouble
Hill of Fire [Teacher's Guide] [Paricutin volcano in Mexico]
The Bonsai Bear
Everything I Know About Monsters: A Collection of Made-Up Facts, Educated Guesses, and Silly Pictures About Creatures of Creepiness
Everything I Know About Pirates: A Collection of Made-Up Facts, Educated Guesses, and Silly Pictures About Bad Guys of the High Seas
What's With This Room?
The Red Bird [7 Up] [two orphans follow the red bird to and find hope, sunshine, and in the end, freedom. This extraordinary story of hope and redemption,]
Benny's Had Enough! [a toddler-age pig who's had enough runs away from home]
My Duck (story writing, imagination, squashing imagination0
Flicka, Ricka and Dicka series
Swimmy
On My Beach Here Are Many Pebbles
The Alphabet Tree
It's Mine [Sibling selfishness]
Matthew's Dream
A Color Of His Own
Frederick [Aspiring for more]
Little Blue And Little Yellow [Friends of Different Colors and blending of colors]
Alexander And The Wind-Up Mouse [A lesson in life.....when you want to be something other than you really are]
A Flea Story [Simple - Individuality – Excellent]
Frederick's Fables [A Collection of Lionni's 16 stories....friendship, human spirit, imagination, individuality]
Running Shoes [Sophy's secret wish is to be able to go the school one day. But Sophy and her mother live in a poor village in Camboida where there is no doctor, no hospital, and no school. When Sophy receives a pair of running shoes, her life changes forever.]
Marsupial Sue [Book, musical score and CD]
I'm a Manatee [Book, musical score and CD] 2003
Marsupial Sue Presents "The Runaway Pancake" ([Book and CD] 2005)
Frog and Toad Are Friends [Teacher's Guide]
How I Became a Pirate (illustrated by David Shannon)
Cowboy Bunnies
The Black Geese
Old Noah's Elephants: An Israeli Folktale
Weaving the Rainbow [Ages 5-8] [a weaver makes a rainbow with wool/introduction to weaving/skein,warp,weft,shuttle, and treadles] Beautifully illustrated.
My Friend, the Starfinder ["Once there was a old man./ I knew him/ when I was no bigger than you are." "For starters,he told me once/ he saw a star falling." .... "Now he couldn't bring home/ the rainbow/ the way he did the star./ But when he told the story/ holding out his hand/ I could feel the colors./] Beautiful. Reminds us of the importance of intergenerational storytelling.
Old Mr. Mackle Hackle [ A pink hen quacks and talks, but refuses to cackle.]
Pecorino's First Concert [Before the end of his first ever concert, Pecorino will furmuzzle a man with a long mustache, wamboodle himself down into a tuba, and cause the most Brobdingnagian blast of a note that anyone has ever heard.
Pecorino Plays Ball [Pecorino Sasqu