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Night noises

Fox, Mem

An old woman sleeps but her dog is disturbed by all kinds of noises. The old woman dreams of all the important events in her life. When she wakes up, her family giving her a surprise 90th birthday party.

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aging, animals, birthday, critical thinking, dog, dreams, family, five senses, hearing, holidays, memories, noise, party, sleep, sounds

In the middle of the night

Fisher, Aileen

A girl loves the night and watches the sky and environment almost nightly. For her birthday, she wants to go out and explore that night. Her father takes her out, and they explore a wooded area finding a variety of plants, animals, and insects.

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animals, autumn, birthday, decision making, family, night, nonverbal communication, parents, plants, seasons, spring, summer, tree, verbal communication, winter, woods

Oh no, it's waylon's birthday!

Stevenson, James

These three short animal stories describe a different birthday for an elephant, rest for a hippo, and fun for a bunch of penguins.

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animals, birthday, celebration, elephant, hippopotamus, penguin, sleep, squirrel

Ponies of mykillengi

Anderson, Lonzo

Two children and their ponies get caught in a snow storm. There is also an earthquake and a volcano that prevent them from making it home. One pony is about to give birth and the two children help.

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animals, birth, conflict resolution, coping, critical thinking, decision making, helping, pets, pony, teamwork, weather

Arthur's pet business

Brown, Marc

Arthur's parents say he may have a puppy if he proves that he is responsible. Arthur decides to get a job pet sitting a neighbor's dog and eventually many pets. Finally when the neighbor comes home, she finds her dog and new puppies. She pays Arthur ten dollars and gives him one of the new puppies to care for himself.

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animals, birth, conflict resolution, decision making, dog, goal setting, neighbors, peer resistance, pets, responsibilities, stress management, verbal communication

In the moonlight, waiting

Carrick, Carol

A young girl, her brother and mother find one of their sheep has lambed. They are overjoyed and are anxiously expecting the next sheep to give birth.

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animals, birth, conflict resolution, family, sheep, verbal communication

The donkey's dream

Berger, Barbara Helen

The story of the Virgin Mary giving birth to Jesus and how important the donkey was to their journey.

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animals, birth, christmas, donkey, holidays, miracle, nonverbal communication, travel, verbal communication

Niki's little donkey (Niki's eselchen)

Hol, Coby

When the family donkey finally has its baby, Niki can hardly wait to call the donkey her own. She is disappointed, though, when Niki's father insists that they sell the donkey. Through hard work and determination, Niki earns the money to buy the donkey from her dad!

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animals, assertiveness, birth, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, discipline, donkey, family, feelings, goal setting, greek, happiness, multicultural, parents, sadness, stress management, verbal communication

Like butter on pancakes

London, Jonathan

A boy awakes to a sunny room and a delicious breakfast. This keeps him dancing and playing all day long on the farm. Supper time brings more good food and then comes bedtime with sweet dreams of the next day.

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animals, bedtime, birds, cat, chicken, dancing, dreams, exercise, family, farm, food, jumping, morning, night, nutrition, parents, sun, woodpecker

Georgie

Bright, Robert

Georgie, the ghost, makes spooky sounds to let the Whittaker's know when it's time to go to bed. Herman, the cat, knows when it is time to prowl and Miss Oliver, the owl, knows when it is time to WHOO! When the Whittaker's fix the creaking sound, Georgie does not know what to do. Eventually everything gets back to normal.

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animals, birds, cat, conflict resolution, cow, decision making, ghosts, homesickness, noise, owl, rain, sequence, sounds, weather

Shadow the deer

Radcliffe, Theresa

Shadow, the deer, leaves her fawn to search for food in the forest. She senses danger and returns just in time to save her fawn from a hungry fox.

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animals, bat, birds, conflict resolution, deer, food, forest, fox, heroism, hunger, nature, nonverbal communication, owl, rescue, safety

What do you see?

Domanska, Janina

Different animals discover that the world is not just wet, dry, green, and dark. A bird flying overhead sees that the environment is different for everyone.

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amphibians, animals, bat, birds, colors, fly, frog, insects, perspective, spider

A friend for minerva louise

Stoeke, Janet

Minerva Louise decides to takes a trip into the farmer's house. She finds a lot of new items for the new baby and mistakes the baby for a bunny. Minerva's way of looking at things often seems silly!

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animals, baby, birds, cat, chicken, confusion, critical thinking, farm, feelings, humor, mistake

Fox in a box

Hurd, Edith Thacher

Joe decides to go hunting for a fox because he wants a pet. He catches one with the help of a lion. When Joe brings the fox home in a box, the fox isn't very happy. Joe returns him to the woods where the lion and the fox help him find an owl who will happily be his pet.

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animals, birds, feelings, fox, kindness, lion, neighbors, owl, pets, sadness, woods

The owl and the pussy cat

Lear, Edward

An owl and a pussy cat fall in love and sail to an island to get married.

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animals, birds, boat, cat, island, love, marriage, owl

The wildlife 123: A nature counting book

Thornhill, Jan

Through the use of beautiful animals and wildlife, children learn how to count with numbers and words. The sequence is 1-20, 25, 50, 100, and 1000 Nature notes describe the animals in great deal at the end of the book.

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alphabet, animals, birds, counting, fish, insects, nature, numbers, sequence

Who is the beast?

Baker, Keith

We take an adventure through this book looking for the beast. We meet many animals along the way to find out who the beast is.

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animals, birds, critical thinking, fish, jungle, monkey, plants, tiger

Nothing at all!

Cazet, Denys

It's a morning on the farm with the animals waking for the day and the scarecrow quietly watching from the field. It's quiet on the farm until he gets a mouse inside of him.

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animals, birds, cat, chicken, cow, dog, farm, horse, morning, mouse, nutrition, scarecrows, sheep, verbal communication

Journey cake, ho!!

Sawyer, Ruth

A family lives happily on a farm, but each must do an equal share of work. When food gets scarce, Johnny must leave. A round cake is packed with Johnny's things. When the cake falls out and rolls, it takes animals back to the farm.

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animals, birds, cow, duck, farm, feelings, food, happiness, money, moving, pig, sadness, sheep

Cold little duck, duck, duck

Peters, Lisa

When a little duck comes back to soon for spring, he finds himself in the dead of winter. So the little duck imagines what it would be like if it were spring. To his surprise when he wakes the ice is melting and other ducks are around him.

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animals, bear, beetle, birds, bodies of water, cold, duck, flowers, ice, insects, letters, mistake, nonverbal communication, pond, rhyme, seasons, sounds, spring, swimming, winter, worm

Hosie's alphabet

Baskin, Leonard

All the letters of the alphabet are associated with many different animals, birds, and insects.

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animals, birds, crow, eagle, fly, insects, mole, octopus, rhinoceros, spider, whale

Old black fly

Aylesworth, Jim

An old black fly bothers a crazy mixed-up family by flying around and interrupting every aspect of their lives. The fly progresses through the alphabet by landing first on an apple pie, a baby, cookies, then a dog.

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alphabet, animals, baby, birds, birthday, cat, clothing, concepts, death, dog, family, fly, food, grandparents, insects, nutrition, parents, parrot, seasons, sequence, summer

All the colors of the earth

Hamanaka, Sheila

Children across the earth come in all different colors, and they are just like you and me!

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animals, bear, birds, bodies of water, cat, colors, eagle, feelings, friendship, happiness, learning, multicultural, nature, nonverbal communication, sea, verbal communication

Snowballs

Ehlert, Lois

Children wait for a big snowday to make their snow family. They create a dad, mom, boy, girl, baby, dog, and cat by using objects found around the house. When the sun comes out, the family melts away.

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animals, author's note, birds, cardinal, cat, clothing, critical thinking, decision making, dog, food, goal setting, nutrition, recipe, seasons, snow, spring, squirrel, sun, winter

Nene

Coste, Marion

The female nene keeps watch over her eggs, while the male nene stays close by watching for danger. When the eggs finally hatch, the birds must keep close watch over the baby goslings so that no cats, rats, or mongooses eat the young. The family must stay in this area for a few months, waiting until the babies get their flying wings. Not all of the goslings survive the wait, but when all the new feathers grow in, the family flies from the land near the ocean to the mountain.

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animals, author's note, birds, birth, bodies of water, cat, challenges, change, escape, family, goose, habitat, mountains, ocean, parents, protection, rat, seasons, summer, survival, winter

Albert

Napoli, Donna Jo

Each day Albert reaches out the window to check on the weather for his walk. One day when he reaches his hand out the window, two cardinals build a nest. Now Albert must stand there until the eggs hatch. Days pass and Albert longs to be outside. When the family of birds fly away, Albert walks a lot.

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animals, beverage, birds, cardinal, careers, caring, cat, dreams, encouragement, exercise, family, food, games, listening, morning, noise, radio, safety, surprises, walking, weather

Cecily parsley's nursery rhymes

Potter, Beatrix

Beatrix Potter puts beautiful illustrations to classic nursery rhymes such as Three Blind Mice.

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animals, art, birds, cat, dog, goose, mouse, rabbit, rhyme

The goose that almost got cooked

Simont, Marc

Emily the goose gets separated from her flock during their migration to Lake Artok. She drops in on a farm with other geese. As more and more geese begin to disappear, Emily realizes that her life is in danger.

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animals, birds, bodies of water, contentment, critical thinking, disappearance, farm, fear, feelings, friendship, fun, goose, lake, loneliness, migration, travel

Off to school, baby duck!

Hest, Amy

It's baby ducks first day of school and she's a little bit nervous. Mr. and Mrs. Duck tell her to be brave because she's going to have so much fun. They hurry off to school and meet Grandpa duck on the way who gives baby duck the confidence she needs for the first day. Baby duck happily goes off to school with her new friend Dary Duck.

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animals, assertiveness, birds, bravery, courage, duck, family, fear, feelings, food, friendship, grandparents, nonverbal communication, nutrition, parents, preparation, school, self esteem, shyness, song, sounds, teaching

The owl who became the moon

London, Jonathon

A boy dreams about what it would be like to ride on a train at night through the forest.

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animals, birds, dreams, forest, night, owl, snow, sounds, train, transportation, weather

Color farm

Ehlert, Lois

Pages with color and shape cut-outs are added together to make animals on a farm. The shapes and animals are labeled.

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animals, birds, cat, chicken, colors, cow, dog, duck, farm, goose, pig, shapes, sheep

Animal action abc

Pandell, Karen

Come work out with the animals while you learn your ABCs. See all the kids stretching, reaching, crawling, and moving just like the cats, bears, elephants, and whales that are pictured nearby.

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activities, alphabet, amphibians, animals, birds, crane, duck, elephant, exercise, frog, giraffe, hippopotamus, kangaroo, nonverbal communication, penguin, sequence, tiger, whale, wolf

More spaghetti, I say!

Gelman, Rita Golden

Minnie is too busy eating spaghetti in various ways in different places to play with Freddy.

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animals, biking, exercise, food, friendship, jumping, monkey, nutrition, play, rhyme, running, transportation, truck

One fine day

Hogrogian, Nonny

One day, a fox is very thirsty and comes upon some milk in a jug. The fox drinks up all of the milk. An angry old woman cuts off his tail. In order to get his tail sewn back on, the fox must complete several missions.

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animals, beverage, conflict resolution, fox, learning, nature, nonverbal communication, self esteem, stress management, sympathy, trust, verbal communication

Milk

Carrick, Donald

This is a behind-the-scene story about milk. It all starts with the cows, and they must be well fed. After they eat, the cows are hooked up to the milking machine. When they have been milked, the milk truck comes to take away the milk to clean it and make it ready to drink.

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animals, beverage, cow, farm, food, nutrition

I met a penguin

Asch, Frank

A lion who lives on an island is told he is a bad fisherman by his friends. He goes out in a rowboat to think and is caught in a storm. When the storm is over, he is shipwrecked on a different island. He meets and falls in love with a penguin, but ends up in another storm and is shipwrecked back on the first island by himself.

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animals, beliefs, critical thinking, decision making, feelings, friendship, lion, loneliness, love, nonverbal communication, peer resistance, penguin, verbal communication

Nobiah's well: A modern African folktale

Guthrie, Donna

Nobiah is an African American boy who is very generous. One day he fetches water for his mother, but by the time he gets home, his water is all gone. His generosity pays off when his friends build him a well in return.

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african american, animals, bear, beverage, family, helping, multicultural, parents, responsibilities, seasons, sharing, siblings, summer, water

Asleep, asleep

Ginsburg, Mirra

Everyone and everything sleeps. Sometimes children must be reminded of this so they can fall back to sleep like the boy in the story.

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animals, bedtime, bee, birds, family, fish, fox, insects, nonverbal communication, parents, sleep, weather, wind, wolf

Going to sleep on the farm

Lewison, Wendy C.

A father and his son are playing on the floor. The son asks how each farm animal sleeps, so the father describes each animal's sleep patterns in a quiet, gentle rhythm to the boy.

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animals, bedtime, family, farm, parents, play, rhyme, sleep

Good night, owl

Hutchins, Pat

An owl tries to sleep during the day, but all the noisy animals keep him awake. At night when the animals are fast asleep, the owl is noisy and wakes them up.

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animals, bedtime, birds, day, five senses, night, noise, owl, sounds

You'll be good and i'll be night: Jumping on the bed poems

Merriam, Eve

A series of poems on topics such as going to bed, ghosts, wishing fish, dancing pigs, contents of a lunch of box, and the coming of dawn is presented.

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animals, bedtime, exercise, fish, food, ghosts, nutrition, pig, poetry, rhyme

Sweet dream pie

Wood, Audrey//Teague, Mark

Mouths on Willobee Street start to water when the aroma of the Brindle's Sweet Dream Pie fills the air. But does Sweet Dream Pie really create sweet dreams?

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animals, bedtime, cat, community, cooking, dreams, food, helping, neighbors, nutrition, overeating, recipe, weather

Ant plays bear

Byars, Betsy

Ant is a young boy with a wild imagination. An imagination that allows him to be a bear and a dog. He also imagines a giant outside his window and experiences the careers of his dreams.

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animals, bear, bedtime, careers, cave, creativity, dog, exercise, family, fear, fun, games, giants, goal setting, parents, play, playing, pretend, running, siblings, sounds

Ira sleeps over

Waber, Bernard

Ira has to make a tough decision about a bear, and just does not know what to do. The sleep over proves to be stressful, but it finds a way to work itself out.

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animals, bear, bedtime, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, friendship, nonverbal communication, peer resistance, problem solving, security, self confidence, self esteem, sleep, stress management, verbal communication

Only the cat saw

Wolff, Ashley

While everyone else is busy, the cat sees beautiful sights. When the cat falls asleep, Amy sees the beautiful sights, too.

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animals, beauty, cat, five senses, nonverbal communication, responsibilities, sight, stress management, vision

Theodore

Ormondroud, Edward

A stuffed bear goes through the washer and dryer because Lucy is careless with him.

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animals, bear, hygiene, responsibilities, self esteem

The bear at the hunter's ball

Hacks, Peter

A bear goes to a party disguised as a hunter and participates in some senseless drinking. All those at the party decide to go bear hunting.

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alcohol, animals, bear, beverage, food, party, play, recreation, verbal communication

Somebody and the three blairs

Tolhurst, Marilyn

When the Blair family returns home one day, they find that someone or something has been there. Food is all over the floor, chairs are broken, and there is water all over the bathroom. Little do they know, the culprit is asleep in baby's bed!

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animals, baby, bear, cleanliness, confusion, curiosity, discovery, family, food, hunger, mischief, parents, sleep

James bear's pie

Latimer, Jim

James Bear is tired of grazing and eating alfalfa. He desires to eat something with more calories, protein and more taste. So Bear goes to his friend, the crow, who provides Bear with an oven and ingredients to make a raisin-soybean pie. This is no ordinary pie!

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animals, bear, birds, critical thinking, crow, decision making, five senses, food, friendship, nutrition, skunk, taste

Little mouse and the big cupcake

Taylor, Thomas

Little Mouse finds a big cupcake, but it is so big he can't carry it home. Other animals come by and ask to try the cupcake, but they can't help him carry it. After all the animals have some of the cupcake Little Mouse is sad. He cheers up when he realizes there's a positive side to the smaller cupcake.

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animals, birds, chipmunk, conflict resolution, decision making, excitement, feelings, food, frog, kindness, mole, mouse, opossum, problem solving, sizes

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