Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University

Heckedy peg | by Wood, Audrey

A mother goes to market. While she is gone, a witch persuades her children to let her in the house. The witch turns the children into her supper, but the mother arrives home in time to save her children and chase the witch away.

Keywords: conflict resolution, deception, decision making, family, food, magic, nutrition, parents, peer resistance, refusal skills, safety, shelter, verbal communication, witches

The bakers dozen | by Forest, Heather

Jan Van Amsterdam is a well known baker. People travel from all over to buy his goods. When he begins to get greedy, he starts to use less ingredients in his cookies. When a woman asks for a bakers dozen, he only gives her 12 She puts a curse on him and his baked goods. When he finally realizes that a bakers dozen is 13, the curse is broken.

Keywords: author's note, careers, celebration, christmas, community, deception, folktale, food, greed, holidays, magic, nutrition, poverty, seasons, winter

Henry possum | by Berson, Harold

Young Henry Possum has so much energy that he'll never learn to play dead. He makes many friends, but one is a wolf, so he soon discovers what his mother has been trying to teach him all along.

Keywords: adventures, animals, assertiveness, critical thinking, deception, decision making, family, learning, music, nature, nonverbal communication

Solomon the rusty nail | by Steig, William

A rabbit turns into a nail whenever he scratches his nose and wiggles his toes. He plays practical jokes and gets into trouble when a hungry cat figures out his secret.

Keywords: animals, cat, deception, decision making, hunger, rabbit, secrets

And to think that i saw it on mulberry street | by Seuss, Dr.

A young boy walking home from school fantasizes about events on Mulberry Street. Although he tells his father a fantastic tale about an elephant pulling a brass band, a policeman, a trailer and the mayor, he later admits that all he saw was a horse and wagon.

Keywords: animals, creativity, critical thinking, deception, decision making, elephant, family, fantasy, horse, imagination, parents, rhyme, verbal communication

The potato man | by McDonald, Megan

A young boy steals potatoes and has bad luck. He then meets the potato man he stole from and eventually respects him enough to become his customer.

Keywords: assertiveness, conflict resolution, critical thinking, deception, decision making, food, honesty, nutrition, robbery, verbal communication

Which witch is which? | by Hutchins, Pat

Ella and Emily, a pair of identical twins, dress up as witches for a Halloween party. No one can tell which witch is which. Eventually, their choice of food, games, and colors help to tell them apart.

Keywords: celebration, colors, conflict resolution, confusion, deception, differences, family, food, games, halloween, helping, holidays, nonverbal communication, party, siblings, uniqueness, witches

Something queer in rock and roll | by Levy, Elizabeth

A group of young friends start a music group and want to enter a contest. Their dog, Arnold, howls in their song It's a Dog's Life. A boy from another group sabotages them by feeding Arnold so much pizza that he will not howl anymore.

Keywords: animals, competition, conflict resolution, deception, dog, food, friendship, music, nutrition, pets, problem solving

Tom | by dePaola, Tomie

Tommy and his grandfather share the same name. At the same time they enjoy sharing time together and playing jokes on one another. One day, Tom gives Tommy some chicken legs because he is a butcher. He takes the chicken legs to school and gets in trouble for scaring a girl.

Keywords: careers, deception, disobedience, family, food, grandparents, nutrition, school, verbal communication

Peeping beauty | by Auch, Mary Jane

Poulette, the dancing hen, dreams of becoming a ballerina someday. A hungry fox tries to trick Poulette onto his dinner plate by appealing to her dreams of dancing in a New York show. It is Poulette that ends up deserving the applause in the end.

Keywords: animals, birds, chicken, conflict resolution, critical thinking, dancing, deception, dreams, exercise, food, fox, self esteem, stress management, trick

Stone soup | by McGovern, Ann

A young man is hungry and convinces an old woman that he can make soup from a stone. By the time the soup is ready, the woman has added several things from her garden to the soup. They eat the soup and when the boy leaves her house, he pulls the stone out of his pocket.

Keywords: deception, five senses, folktale, food, hunger, nutrition

Stone soup | by Brown, Marcia

Three hungry soldiers walk down the road. They stop at several houses to ask for food, but nobody has any extra to share. One of the soldiers tricks the townspeople and says he can make stone soup. By the time the soup is finished, all of the townspeople contribute some type of food to the soup.

Keywords: community, deception, folktale, food, nutrition, sharing, teamwork

Otto shares a fright | by Morey, Kathleen

Otto is in bed and because the night is so dark, nothing can be seen in his room. He is awakened by a noise that frightens him. Finally, Otto realizes that it was only his dog, Tiki, sleeping soundly with a piece of paper caught over his face.

Keywords: animals, deception, dog, fear, feelings, monsters, night, sleep, stress management

Pollita pequenita | by Kellogg, Steven

An exaggeration by Chicken Little that the sky is falling leads to the capture of her and her feathered friends by Foxy Loxy. Foxy Loxy's smugness causes him to be captured as well.

Keywords: animals, chicken, critical thinking, deception, fantasy, fox, goose, sky, turkey

The great pumpkin switch | by McDonald, Megan

A grandpa tells his grandchildren a story about his childhood when he and a friend mistakenly cut the vine on his sister's pumpkin. Grandpa's sister grew the pumpkin in order to earn a patch for her quilt. The boys find a way to save the pumpkin so that her hard work is not lost.

Keywords: conflict resolution, deception, family, food, friendship, grandparents, growing up, holidays, memories, nutrition, plants, problem solving, quilt, storytelling, verbal communication

Once in a wood: Ten tales from aesop | by Rice, Eve

Follow the Fox, the Lion, and other animals through the various lessons of life. Aesop's Fables teach many lessons about being clever and playing the fool.

Keywords: aggression, amphibians, animals, assertiveness, birds, cat, conflict resolution, cow, critical thinking, crow, deception, decision making, deer, dog, duck, fable, fear, feelings, fox, friendship, frog, goal setting, goat, helping, horse, lion, mischief, mouse, music, pig, pride, problem solving, refusal skills, sizes, song, storks, stress management, teaching, verbal communication

The funny thing | by Gag, Wanda

A wise mountain man uses his wisdom to outsmart a mean dragon.

Keywords: conflict resolution, critical thinking, deception, dragons, mountains, verbal communication

Robin goodfellow and the giant dwarf | by Jennings, Michael

Robin Goodfellow likes to get into mischief. One day he decides to play a trick on a slow-witted giant. The giant appears to be smaller and goes to others for advice and help.

Keywords: assertiveness, conflict resolution, deception, differences, giants, helping, self esteem, sizes, stress management

The story of the three little pigs | by Brooke, L. Leslie

A Mother pig sends her three little pigs out to seek their fortune. In the process, two little pigs are eaten by a wolf. The third little pig outsmarts the wolf, then eats him for dinner.

Keywords: adventures, animals, assertiveness, challenges, critical thinking, deception, decision making, food, fortune, pig, problem solving, stress management, surprises, wolf

Mother goose and the sly fox | by Conover, Chris

Mother Goose leaves her seven goslings with Mr. Mouse while she goes to town. Although the goslings have been warned not to let anyone in, the sly fox tricks them into opening the door and catches all but one. Mother Goose rescues her goslings by playing a trick on the fox.

Keywords: animals, birds, conflict resolution, critical thinking, deception, fox, mouse, play, responsibilities, rules, trust, verbal communication

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