| Picture
of Book |
Author |
Title |
Description |
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Dorros,
Arthur |
Abuela |
While
riding on a bus with her grandmother, a little girl imagines
that they are carried up
into the sky and fly over the sights of New York City. |
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Viorst,
Judith |
Alexander
and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day |
Recounts
the events of a day when everything goes wrong for Alexander. |
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McDermott,
Gerald |
Anansi,
the Spider; a Tale from the Ashanti |
In
trying to determine which of his six sons to reward for
saving his life, Anansi the Spider is responsible for placing
the moon in the sky. |
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Brown,
Marc |
Arthur's
Family Vacation
|
Arthur
is unhappy about going on vacation with his family, but
he shows them how to make the best of a bad situation when
they end up stuck in a motel because of rain. |
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McCloskey,
Robert |
Blueberries
for Sal |
Little
Sal and Little Bear both lose their mothers while eating
blueberries and almost end up with the other's mother. |
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Hoban,
Russell. |
Bread
and Jam for Frances |
Frances
decides she likes to eat only bread and jam at every meal--until
to her surprise--her parents grant her wish. |
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Martin,
Bill |
Brown
Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? |
Children
see a variety of animals, each one a different color, and
a mother looking at them. |
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Slobodkina,
Esphyr |
Caps
for Sale |
A
story about a peddler who has an experience with monkeys
that delights children. |
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Williams,
Vera B. |
A
Chair for My Mother |
A
child, her waitress mother, and her grandmother save dimes
to buy a comfortable armchair after all their furniture
is lost in a fire. |
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Martin,
Bill |
Chicka
Chicka Boom Boom |
An
alphabet rhyme/chant that relates what happens when the
whole alphabet tries to climb a coconut tree. |
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Barrett,
Judi |
Cloudy
with a Chance of Meatballs |
Life
is delicious in the town of Chewandswallow where it rains
soup and juice, snows mashed potatoes, and blows storms
of hamburgers--until the weather takes a turn for the worse. |
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Freeman,
Don |
Corduroy |
A
story about a toy bear in a department store who searches
for a button missing from his overalls, but finds instead
the thing he misses most--a home. |
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Rey,
H. A. |
Curious
George |
The
curiosity of a newly-captured monkey gets him into continual
trouble. |
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Noble,
Trinka Hakes |
The
Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash |
Jimmy's
boa constrictor wreaks havoc on the class trip to a farm. |
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Steig,
William
|
Doctor
De Soto |
Dr.
De Soto, a mouse dentist, copes with the toothaches of various
animals except those with a taste for mice, until the day
a fox comes to him in great pain. |
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Crews,
Donald |
Freight
Train
|
Brief
text and illustrations trace the journey of a colorful train
as it goes through tunnels, by cities, and over trestles. |
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Marshall,
James
|
George
and Martha |
Relates
several episodes in the friendship of two hippopotamuses. |
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Emberley,
Ed |
Go
Away, Big Green Monster! |
Die-cut
pages through which bits of a monster are revealed are designed
to help a child control nighttime fears of monsters. |
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Brown,
Margaret Wise |
Goodnight
Moon |
Goodnight
to each of the objects in the great green room: goodnight
chairs, goodnight comb, goodnight air. |
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Say,
Allen |
Grandfather's
Journey |
A
Japanese American man recounts his grandfather's journey
to America which he later also undertakes, and the feelings
of being torn by a love for two different countries. |
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Johnson,
Crockett |
Harold
and the Purple Crayon |
Harold
goes for an adventurous walk in the moonlight with his purple
crayon. |
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Zion,
Gene |
Harry,
the Dirty Dog |
When
a white dog with black spots runs away from home, he gets
so dirty his family doesn't recognize him as a black dog
with white spots. |
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Galdone,
Paul |
Henny
Penny |
When
an acorn falls on her head, the chicken, Henny Penny, is
convinced the sky is falling. |
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Seuss,
Dr. |
Horton
Hatches the Egg |
When
a lazy bird hatching an egg wants a vacation, she asks Horton,
the elephant, to sit on her egg--which he does through all
sorts of hazards until he is rewarded for doing what he
said he would. |
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Rounds,
Glen |
I
Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly |
A
cumulative folk song in which the solution proves worse
than the predicament when an old lady swallows a fly. |
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Numeroff,
Laura Joffe |
If
You Give a Mouse a Cookie |
Relating
the cycle of requests a mouse is likely to make after you
give him a cookie takes the reader through a young child's
day. |
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Lester,
Julius |
John
Henry |
Retells the life of the legendary African American hero
who raced against a steam drill to cut through a mountain.
|
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Galdone,
Paul |
Little
Red Riding Hood |
A
retelling of the folk tale about a little girl who finds
a wolf in her grandmother's clothing. |
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Waber,
Bernard |
Lyle,
Lyle, Crocodile |
Lyle
is perfectly happy living with the Primms on East 88th St.
until irritable Mr. Grumps next door changes all that. |
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Bemelmans,
Ludwig |
Madeline |
Madeline,
smallest and naughtiest of the twelve little charges of
Miss Clavel, wakes up one night with an attack of appendicitis. |
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McCloskey,
Robert |
Make
Way for Ducklings |
Mr.
and Mrs. Mallard proudly return to their home in the Boston
Public Garden with their eight offspring. |
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Burton,
Virginia Lee |
Mike
Mulligan and His Steam Shovel |
When
Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel, Mary Ann, lose their
jobs to the gasoline, electric, and diesel motor shovels,
they go to little country town where they find that one
new job leads to another. |
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Gág,
Wanda |
Millions
of Cats |
How
can an old man and his wife select one cat from a choice
of millions and trillions? |
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Steptoe,
John |
Mufaro's
Beautiful Daughters |
Mufaro's
two beautiful daughters, one bad-tempered, one kind and
sweet, go before the king, who is choosing a wife. |
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Wood,
Audrey |
The
Napping House |
In
this cumulative tale, a wakeful flea atop a number of sleeping
creatures causes a commotion, with just one bite. |
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Rathmann,
Peggy |
Officer
Buckle and Gloria |
The
children at Napville Elementary School always ignore Officer
Buckle's safety tips, until a police dog named Gloria accompanies
him when he gives his safety speeches. |
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Aylesworth,
Jim |
Old
Black Fly |
Rhyming
text and illustrations follow a mischievous old black fly
through the alphabet as he has a very busy bad day landing
where he should not be. |
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Fox,
Mem |
The
Magic Hat |
A
wizard's hat blows into town, changing people into different
animals when it lands on their heads. |
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Van
Allsburg, Chris |
The
Polar Express |
A
magical train ride on Christmas Eve takes a boy to the North
Pole to receive a special gift from Santa Claus. |
 |
selected
and illustrated by Arnold Lobel |
The
Random House book of Mother Goose |
An
illustrated collection of Mother Goose nursery rhymes, including
well-known ones such as "Bah, Bah, Black Sheep"
and "Little Boy Blue". |
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Hutchins,
Pat |
Rosie's
Walk |
Although
unaware that a fox is after her as she takes a walk around
the farmyard, Rosie the hen still manages to lead him into
one accident after another. |
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Zelinsky,
Paul O. |
Rumpelstiltskin |
A
strange little man helps the miller's daughter spin straw
into gold for the king on the condition that she will give
him her first-born child. |
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Keats,
Ezra Jack
|
The
Snowy Day |
The
adventures of a little boy in the city on a very snowy day. |
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Brown,
Marcia |
Stone
Soup |
When
three hungry soldiers come to a town where all the food
has been hidden, they set out to make soup of water and
stones, and all the town enjoys a feast. |
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Brunhoff,
Jean de |
The
Story of Babar, the Little Elephant |
An
orphaned baby elephant goes to live in the city with an
old lady who gives him everything he wants, but eventually
returns to the forest where he is crowned king of the elephants. |
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Leaf,
Munro |
The
Story of Ferdinand |
Ferdinand
likes to sit quietly and smell the flowers, but one day
he gets stung by a bee and his snorting and stomping convince
everyone that he is the fiercest of bulls |
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De
Paola, Tomie |
Strega
Nona |
When
Strega Nona leaves him alone with her magic pasta pot, Big
Anthony is determined to show the townspeople how it works. |
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Lionni,
Leo |
Swimmy |
A
little black fish in a school of red fish figures out a
way of protecting them all from their natural enemies. |
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Steig,
William |
Sylvester
and the Magic Pebble |
In
a moment of fright Sylvester the donkey asks his magic pebble
to turn him into a rock but then can not hold the pebble
to wish himself back to normal again. |
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Potter,
Beatrix
|
The
Tale of Peter Rabbit |
Peter
disobeys his mother by going into Mr. McGregor's garden
and almost gets caught. |
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Mayer,
Mercer |
There's
a Nightmare in My Closet |
At
bedtime a boy confronts the nightmare in his closet and
finds him not so terrifying after all. |
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Asbjørnsen,
Peter Christen |
The
Three Billy Goats Gruff |
Three
clever billy goats outwit a big ugly troll that lives under
the bridge they must cross on their way up the mountain. |
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Mosel,
Arlene |
Tikki
Tikki Tembo |
When
the eldest son fell in the well and most of the time getting
help was spent pronouncing the name of the one in trouble,
the Chinese, according to legend, decided to give all their
children short names. |
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Scieszka,
Jon |
The
True Sstory of the 3 Little Pigs / by A. Wolf |
The
wolf gives his own outlandish version of what really happened
when he tangled with the three little pigs. |
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Wiesner,
David
|
Tuesday |
Frogs
rise on their lily pads, float through the air, and explore
the nearby houses while their inhabitants sleep. |
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Carle,
Eri |
The
Very Hungry Caterpillar |
Follows
the progress of a hungry little caterpillar as he eats his
way through a varied and very large quantity of food until,
full at last, he forms a cocoon around himself and goes
to sleep. |
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Rosen,
Michael |
We're
Going on a Bear Hunt |
Brave
bear hunters go through grass, a river, mud, and other obstacles
before the inevitable encounter with the bear forces a headlong
retreat. |
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Zelinsky,
Paul O |
The
Wheels on the Bus |
The
wheels on the bus go round, the wipers go swish, the doors
open and close, and the people go in and out in this movable
book version of the classic song. |
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Sendak,
Maurice |
Where
the Wild Things Are |
A
naughty little boy, sent to bed without his supper, sails
to the land of the wild things where he becomes their king. |
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Aardema,
Verna |
Why
Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears |
This
retelling of a West African tale follows the chain of events
that result from a mosquito's boasting. |
