Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University

I'm busy, too | by Simon, Norma

Three children and their families get ready for a busy work and school day. See how all three families spend their time during the week.

Keywords: activities, assertiveness, bedtime, child care, night, parents, school, stress management, time

Once upon a time and grandma | by Blegvad, Lenore

Grandma takes Emma and Luke to visit the house she once lived in when she was a little girl named Norrie. Grandma tells Emma and Luke the kinds of things Norrie used to do. When Emma and Luke have difficulty believing Grandma was Norrie, she proves it to them.

Keywords: activities, art, bedtime, dancing, exercise, family, food, games, generations, grandparents, history, jumping, memory, music, nutrition, play, playground, reptiles, seasons, siblings, sleep, spring, summer, toys, transportation, turtle, winter

When mama comes home tonight | by Spinelli, Eileen

Mama tells her child about all the things they will do together when she gets home from work. For example, they will share many activities together leading up to bedtime where mama will read a story, sing lullabies, and finally, tuck her child into bed.

Keywords: activities, affection, bath, bedtime, caring, clothing, colors, food, nutrition, play, reading, rhyme, toys, working mother

Olivia | by Falconer, Ian

Olivia, a very active pig, wears everyone out during her daily activities. From waking up, going to the beach, dancing and playing, Olivia has a busy day.

Keywords: acting, activities, animals, argument, art, bath, beach, bedtime, books, compromise, dancing, exercise, family, health, imagination, imitation, museum, pets, pig, pretend, routine, sand, sleep, sun, teeth, verbal communication

Great-grandma tells of threshing day | by Cross, Verda

Great Grandma tells her grandchildren of threshing day. It is a day in late June when the wheat is harvested. The men harvest the wheat while the women cook a hearty meal. This was always an exciting day for grandma and her brother. Threshing day was a day she will never forget.

Keywords: accomplishment, animals, bath, bedtime, beverage, chicken, cooperation, cow, family, farm, food, grandparents, hard work, horse, machines, memories, nutrition, parents, seasons, siblings, storytelling, summer, verbal communication

Raising sweetness | by Stanley, Diane

The town sheriff adopts eight orphans to save them from the mean Ms. Stump, but there are a few problems. Pa is not too good at cooking and his cleaning is quite shabby. The orphans one wish is for him to get married. One of the orphans, Sweetness, believes a letter that arrived in the mail is the answer.

Moon jump | by Matura, Mustapha

Cayal loves jumping. He jumps everywhere. One day, he jumps to the moon where he meets a moon man and has tea with him. When he is tired, he jumps home.

Keywords: acceptance, bath, bedtime, beverage, exercise, family, fantasy, food, hygiene, imagination, jumping, moon, multicultural, nonverbal communication, nutrition, school, self esteem, sleep

Wemberly worried | by Henkes, Kevin

A young mouse named Wemberky worries about everything. Now she faces her biggest worry, the first day of school. Find out what Wemberly will do with so many worries to worry about!

Keywords: acceptance, animals, bath, bedtime, birthday, body parts, butterfly, car, change, confidence, conflict resolution, dolls, emotions, encouragement, family, feelings, friendship, grandparents, halloween, happiness, holidays, imagination, mouse, noise, parents, party, playground, playing, rabbit, relief, school, self esteem, shyness, stress management, verbal communication, worry

The eensy-weensy spider | by Hoberman, Mary Ann

Travel beyond the waterspout -- out into the garden, pond, brook, shoe store, and even the park with this determined spring-loving spider. Sing the all-time classic tune or just read with rhythm!This book will catch you in its colorful web and keep you on your toes as you advance beyond the traditional limits.

Keywords: acceptance, accidents, accomplishment, activities, adventures, affection, amphibians, anticipation, baby, bath, bedtime, beetle, birds, bodies of water, body parts, brook, bully, butterfly, caring, caterpillar, change, climbing, clothing, colors, community, companion, compromise, confidence, conflict resolution, cooperation, counting, courage, curiosity, cycle, dancing, decision making, determination, direction, discovery, dragonfly, duck, environment, exercise, family, fish, flowers, frog, fun, garden, grasshopper, injury, insects, instruments, language, morning, moving, music, nature, numbers, parade, parents, park, plants, pond, practice, rain, rhyme, routine, seasons, sharing, shopping, skipping, sleep, song, spider, spring, success, sun, swimming, travel, verbal communication, walking, weather, worm

A teeny tiny baby | by Schwartz, Amy

Have you ever wondered what goes on in the mind of a newborn baby?Listen to the thoughts of this baby as he talks about all the different places he likes to go. Where does he like to sleep?

Keywords: baby, bedtime, curiosity, family, parents, play, sleep

I'm not sleepy | by Cazet, Denys

It is Alex's bedtime, but he is not tired. Alex's father tells Alex a bedtime story about a little boy's adventure to the jungle. By the end of the story, Alex is asleep in his bed.

Keywords: bedtime, critical thinking, family, goal setting, imagination, jungle, moon, parents, sleep, stars, storytelling, verbal communication

Harry takes a bath | by Ziefert, Harriet

Harry shows the steps for taking a bath.

Keywords: bath, bedtime, cleanliness, hygiene, sequence

Now I'm big | by Miller, Margaret

Six children share pictures of themselves when they were babies. They describe the things that they used to do for fun and compare it to all of the things they can do now - all by themselves.

Keywords: accomplishment, bedtime, change, comparisons, growing up, learning, nonverbal communication, photograph, self esteem

Wiggle | by Cronin, Doreen

There are many ways to wiggle during the day. Join this dog as he wiggles from morning until night through the pages of lively rhyming text. From flipping pancakes to exploring the moon, your imagination will take you to even more ways to get your wiggles out.

Keywords: animals, bedtime, bee, birds, body parts, butterfly, crocodile, dancing, dog, exercise, fish, grasshopper, imagination, insects, moon, mouse, music, polar bear, rhyme, shadows, sleep, snake, time

Bears | by Krauss, Ruth

As a young boy drifts off to sleep with his teddy bear, out of jealousy, his dog jumps up, takes it and runs away. The boy follows the dog through a series of beary full scenes involving bears with simple rhyming text. At last the dog retrieved the bear. The boy, the bear, and the dog happily retreat to bed. Was it a dream or was it reality? Decide for yourself.

Keywords: adventures, bear, bedtime, dog, feelings, giving, rhyme, sleep, vocabulary

My brother, ant | by Byars, Betsy

Anthony is a wild and creative little brother who, in the course of four different stories, tests the patience of his older brother.

Keywords: acceptance, activities, bedtime, caring, challenges, coping, correspondence, creativity, family, fear, fight, forgiveness, growing up, helping, imagination, mischief, monsters, patience, siblings, storytelling, worry, writing

Willy the dreamer | by Browne, Anthony

Willy the ape dreams. Willy dreams the same things you or I might dream and his dreams show a very colorful imagination.

Keywords: adventures, animals, ape, bedtime, dreams, fantasy

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