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Everything about easter rabbits

Roser, Wiltrud

As everyone knows, the Easter Rabbit comes on Easter Sunday. But did you know there are many different kinds of Easter rabbits?Let's learn about the funny and interesting characteristics of each kind!

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airplane, animals, boat, car, differences, easter, family, holidays, humor, motorcycle, rabbit, siblings, similarities, traditions, transportation

Clever bill

Nicholson, W.

In a child's haste to pack for visiting her aunt, she forgets a toy comes running after her.

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decision making

Louis the fish

Yorinks, Arthurs

Louis inherits his father's meat store after he dies. Louis never like meat and prefers fish. He eventually turns into a fish himself.

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careers, change, coping, death, family, fish, food, nutrition, parents, responsibilities

Chocolate

Dineen, Jacqueline

What is chocolate? Where does chocolate come from? How is chocolate made? Explore the history and contents of chocolate. Learn how the body uses chocolate. Learn how chocolate is used in cooking.

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cooking, farm, food, history, machines, nutrition, overweight

Piggins and the royal wedding

Yolen, Jane

A ring is stolen before a royal wedding. The only person who can crack the case is Piggins who is at his home.

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conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, goal setting, mystery, robbery, royalty, verbal communication, wedding

Howard and gracie's luncheonette

Kroll, Steven

Howard and Gracie own a luncheonette. They describe the work that they do and all the people that come to eat there.

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careers, community, food, helping, kindness, nutrition, restaurant

Colors

Turner, Gwenda

This book tells about 10 main colors. It gives tangible examples of these colors that help children to understand.

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colors

Little kit or the industrious flea circus girl

McCully, Emily Arnold

In hopes of a better life, a young orphan girl disguises herself as a boy and goes to work for a cruel professor and his flea circus.

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careers, circus, critical thinking, english, flea, gender, insects, loneliness, multicultural, orphan, verbal communication

A christmas book

Svend, Otto S.

Christmas traditions are very different in Denmark.

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christmas, danish, holidays, multicultural, traditions

From this to that

Jennison, Keith

This book describes things that change, including how a spruce tree becomes this book.

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books, change, critical thinking, growing up, plants

Polar slumber

Rockhill, Dennis

A backyard snow bear comes to become an integral part of a little girl's slumber. She explores the arctic landscape in the bear's company and awakens to question the authenticity of the experience. Was her excursion fantasy or reality?

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animals, arctic, clothing, colors, home, imagination, light, moon, night, polar bear, rhythm, seasons, sleep, snow, song, storytelling, winter

A tiger called thomas

Zolotow, C.

A tiger family moves and Thomas worries that no one will like him in his new home.

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change, conflict resolution, coping, family, feelings, moving, self esteem, shelter, worry

The new friend

Zolotow, C.

A little girl's best friend finds a new friend to play with. The little girl hopes she finds a new friend too.

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change, coping, friendship, play, self esteem

Meteor!

Polacco, Patricia

A meteor crashes into the Gaw's front yard and changes the quiet communitylives forever.

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change, community, family, nature, self esteem

Busiest people ever

Scarry, Richard

This book is collection of little stories about busy people and what they do. The book depicts all the different things that go on in a city.

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assertiveness, careers, community, coping, problem solving

I want to be...

Martin, Pawnee A.

This book depicts a varity of occupations and the significance of each one.

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careers, decision making, determination, goal setting, growing up, hard work, nonverbal communication, verbal communication

Find demi's sea creatures

Demi.

Children try to identify a certain animal within a larger sea picture.

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animals, assertiveness, bodies of water, ocean, recognition

Honkers

Yolen, Jane

The hatching of a goose helps Betsey forget her homesickness.

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birds, birth, family, goose, grandparents, homesickness

Flap your wings and try

Pomerantz, Charlotte

After a bird learns how to fly, he goes from nest to nest trying to encourage other birds to fly.

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assertiveness, birds, bravery, encouragement, goal setting, growing up, learning

I'm not sleepy

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.

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

Harry takes a bath

Ziefert, Harriet

Harry shows the steps for taking a bath.

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bath, bedtime, cleanliness, hygiene, sequence

Barn savers

High, Linda Oatman

A young boy gets out of bed early to head to work with his father. They work all day long restoring an old barn to keep it from being torn down. They are the barn savers.

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barn, careers, caring, clothing, cold, conservation, dedication, family, farm, hard work, hunger, parents, safety, sleep, teamwork, tools, truck, work

Jeremy isn't hungry

Williams, Barbara

Davey tries to feed his difficult little brother, Jeremy, while his mom tries to get ready. Davey tries many things, and finally Jeremy feeds himself.

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baby, family, food, helping, humor, hunger, nutrition, parents, siblings

Never satisfied

Testa, Fulvio

Two boys walk around their neighborhood complaining that nothing exciting ever happens. They are unaware of the odd events going on around them.

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adventures, awareness, boredom, critical thinking, disappointment, neighbors, nonverbal communication, play, refusal skills, verbal communication

Every autumn comes the bear

Arnosky, Jim

A bear wakes up in autumn to get food and eventually hibernate. The big bear scares all the other animals.

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animals, assertiveness, autumn, bear, change, hunger, nonverbal communication, raccoon, wilderness, woods

Miranda's smile

Locker, Thomas

When Miranda's father paints her portrait, he can't seem to get her smile right. After many trials, he finally realizes that it's not her smile, but her eyes that he needs to capture differently.

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art, body parts, family, parents, teeth

My crayons talk

Hubbard, Patricia

A little girl's box of crayons comes to life. Each color of crayon speaks of its role through different actions and rhyme words.

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animals, art, colors, imagination, rhyme, verbal communication

Tigress

Cowcher, Helen

A tigress and her cubs kill animals for food. The sanctuary ranger and herdsmen must find a way to save the animals and the tigress so they develop a plan.

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animals, assertiveness, careers, conflict resolution, decision making, nature, tiger

Animals everywhere

D'Aulaire, Ingri//D'Aulaire, Edgar

Animals are discussed in detail, the climate they live in, and the noises they make.

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animals, noise, sounds

Oink

Geisert, Arthur

Baby pigs sneak away and get into mischief while their mother sleeps. Eventually they are rescued from their troubles.

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animals, conflict resolution, deception, decision making, disobedience, family, nonverbal communication, parents, pig, rescue, safety, sleep

The open road

Grahame, Kenneth

Little animals have differing opinions on exploration of nature. They cannot come to one consensus, so they all go off and do their own thing.

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animals, assertiveness, decision making, goal setting, nature, opinions, peer resistance

Gobble growl grunt

Spier, Peter

From a bird to a hippopotamus, each page is filled with pictures of animals and the sounds they make.

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animals, listening, sounds, verbal communication

This is the farmer

Tafuri, Nancy

A farmer kisses his wife and sets off a sequence of happenings on the farm.

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animals, farm, marriage, sequence

Elephants aloft

Appelt, Kathi

Rama and Raja are elephants who receive a letter from their aunt. The elephants live in India while the aunt lives in Africa. Their aunt wants them to come and visit her. The elephants travel to India in a hot air balloon.

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animals, balloon, bodies of water, elephant, family, feelings, happiness, nonverbal communication, ocean, rain, transportation, weather, wind

The big pets

Smith, Lane

There is a mysterious world where the children are small and the pets are big. These children, along with their pets, gather to play at night and are therefore called nightchildren.

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animals, dreams, imagination, night, opposites, pets, play, recreation, sizes

A day, a dog

Vincent, Gabrielle

A dog is left behind on a road to begin an adventure through the fields, city, beach, and country. Will it ever find someone who will love it again? (A Wordless Book)

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accidents, animals, beach, car, conflict resolution, dog, fear, feelings, friendship, loneliness, lost, love, transportation

Rex q.c.

King, Dorthea

Rex Q.C. is a dog that belongs to the queen of England. He is allowed to follow the queen wherever she goes. He follows her to goverment parties, garden parties and other special occasions.

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animals, dog, fame, nonverbal communication, party, performance, royalty, security, speech

Stripes and spots

Ipcar, Dahlov

A young tiger and leopard meet while looking for food. They decide that the tiger can only find food with stripes and the leopard can only find things with dots.

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animals, differences, food, friendship, leopard, tiger

Who came down that road?

Lyon, George Ella

A boy and his mother walk down a road. The boy is curious about the history of the road.

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animals, critical thinking, curiosity, family, history, learning, parents, travel, verbal communication

Small rabbit

Miles, Miska

A rabbit goes out to play all by himself for the first time. He watches out for danger and meets a friend along the way.

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animals, confidence, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, friendship, play, rabbit, safety, self esteem, verbal communication

Rude giants

Wood, Audrey

Beatrix, the buttermaid, teaches two rude giants how to be clean and beautiful and to have good manners in order to rescue her friend, Gerda the cow, from being eaten.

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animals, cleanliness, cow, food, giants, hunger, hygiene, learning, manners, neighbors, nutrition, party

The rooster's gift

Conrad, Pam

Rooster believes that he has the gift to make the sun rise. One morning, he oversleeps and the sun rises without him.

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animals, chicken, differences, farm, feelings, friendship, pride, sadness, sleep

Joey's cat

Burch, Robert

Joey's cat has kittens in the garage, but why won't Joey's parents let him go near them?He finally does get near them when Mama Cat's kittens are in danger from a opossum in the garage. Mama Cat then allows Joey to see the kittens.

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african american, animals, birth, cat, feelings, multicultural, nonverbal communication, stress management, worry

Have you seen my cat?

Carle, Eric

A little boy looks everywhere for his cat, and in the meantime finds cats from many different countries.

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animals, cat, helping, lost, multicultural

Tom and tabby

Peterson, Hans

Tom and Tabby are two cats that are best friends.

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animals, assertiveness, cat, decision making, differences, friendship, nonverbal communication

Duckat

Gordon, Gaelyn

Mabel makes friends with a very odd duck who thinks he is a cat.

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animals, birds, cat, differences, friendship, pets

It's the bear

Alborough, Jez

Eddie and his mother plan to have a picnic in the woods but a big bear comes and eats all the food.

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animals, bear, family, food, nutrition, picnic, rhyme, woods

Mr. bear's chair

Graham, Thomas

Mr. Bear makes another chair for Mrs. Bear after it breaks at breakfast. Mr. Bear spends the whole day making a new chair for her. Then his chair breaks at dinnertime.

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animals, bear, careers, conflict resolution, decision making, giving, goal setting

Paddy goes traveling

Goodall, John S.

Paddy leaves on a trip to the beach. While trying to help a young boy, Paddy ends up in the mountains.

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animals, beach, bear, helping, mountains, nature, nonverbal communication, travel

Mice at bat

Oechsli, Kelly

After the human baseball game is over, the mice run onto the field to begin their game. One team works and practices hard to become the best team in the area.

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animals, baseball, dedication, determination, exercise, hard work, mouse, play, practice, recreation, sports, teamwork

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