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Maia, a dinosaur grows up

Horner, John R//Gorman, James

A dinosaur baby grows up and has babies of her own.

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baby, birth, change, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, dinosaur, family, goal setting, growing up, nonverbal communication, self esteem, stress management, verbal communication

Knots on a counting rope

Martin, Bill Jr.//Archambault, John

Sitting around a campfire, Boy-Strength-of-Blue-Horses and his grandfather talk about special events like the night that the boy was born and the special meanings of them.

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animals, birth, colors, family, feelings, grandparents, horse, love, multicultural, native american, storytelling, weather, wind

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

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

I want a brother or sister

Lindgren, Astrid

Peter wants a little brother or sister but after Lena is born he feels that his mama doesn't love him anymore. He soon realizes however, that having a little sister is a big responsibility and a lot of fun.

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affection, baby, birth, conflict resolution, family, fun, love, nonverbal communication, parents, responsibilities, self esteem, siblings

I love you mary jane

Balian, Lorna

Mary Jane is a dog who is having a birthday party. All the kids from around the block come and bring presents. Mary Jane has a special present for the children -- she has puppies!

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animals, assertiveness, birth, birthday, dog, party, presents, verbal communication

Horton hatches the egg

Seuss, Dr.

Horton the elephant is asked to sit on Mayzie's egg while she takes a break. He ends up sitting on it for a long time. After several seasons the egg hatches into an elephant bird. Horton takes the baby home with him.

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animals, birds, birth, determination, elephant, food, goal setting, helping, nutrition, refusal skills, responsibilities

Honkers

Yolen, Jane

The hatching of a goose helps Betsey forget her homesickness.

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birds, birth, family, goose, grandparents, homesickness

Home

Baker, Jeannie

From the day of her birth until the times of her adulthood, Tracy moves outside and inside her house experiencing important milestones. Through the same window scene, her neighborhood develops and matures with plants and animals. (A wordless book).

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accomplishment, author's note, birth, celebration, challenges, change, community, day, family, feelings, garden, growing up, gymnastics, happiness, neighbors, night, nonverbal communication, perspective, plants, seasons, sports, transportation, wedding

Henry's first-moon birthday

Look, Lenore

Jenny is in charge of helping her grandmother prepare for the one-month birthday party of her baby brother, Henry. Henry's party is a Chinese celebration! Food and decorations are made to bring good luck, health, and happiness to Jenny's mother and brother. Each member of the family attends in celebration of Henry's first month of life.

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baby, birth, birthday, body parts, celebration, chinese, cleanliness, clothing, culture, drawing, family, feelings, food, grandparents, happiness, health, heritage, holidays, language, luck, moon, nutrition, onomatopoeia, parents, party, responsibilities, reunion, self esteem, siblings, traditions, verbal communication, writing

Hello baby!

Rockwell, Lizzy

It is such a special time when there's a new baby on the way. This little boy has been involved in his new sister's life since the beginning. He went to the doctor with his mommy and helped unpack baby clothes. When his baby sister is born, he is the happiest boy in the world!

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baby, bath, birth, body parts, clothing, doctor, excitement, family, feelings, grandparents, happiness, memories, numbers, parents, photograph, pregnancy, rhythm, sequence, siblings, surprises

Happy birthday

Harris, Robie H.

A child is born and loved from the very first day of his life. Though long and tiring, the day of birth is filled with hearing voices, seeing faces, and many more wonderful things.

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baby, birth, birthday, family, feelings, five senses, grandparents, happiness, holidays, nonverbal communication, parents, verbal communication

Gypsy

Seredy, Kate

Gypsy, a mother cat, has kittens. As she lays with her kittens, she remembers her past and thinks about what her kittens will go through.

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animals, birth, cat, change, decision making, family, goal setting, growing up, memories, nature, nonverbal communication, parents

Grandfather's christmas tree

Strand, Keith

A young couple embarks on their own to an unknown land to build their life. When times get hard for their family, they adjust their lifestyles to make things work.

Gotta go!Gotta go!

Swope, Sam

A bug crawls all the way out of her skin! She sleeps then she blossoms into a beautiful butterfly. On her journey, she repeats her chant, Gotta Go! Gotta Go To Mexico! to all the insects and animals along her way. When her destination is reached, she flutters and dances around in the warm sky with her companion. A bug returns, lays her eggs, and the cycle of life is repeated again and again.

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adventures, aging, animals, ant, appearance, author's note, baby, birth, butterfly, caterpillar, challenges, change, cocoon, colors, companion, confidence, courage, cycle, dancing, discovery, environment, farm, flowers, food, forest, grasshopper, growing up, happiness, hibernation, insects, mexican, migration, morning, nature, nonverbal communication, overeating, relationship, reproduction, rhyme, seasons, sleep, travel, verbal communication, weather, winter

Gertie the duck

Georgiady, Nicholas P//Romano, Louis

Gertie is a duck who likes people and wants to build her nest where there are a lot of people to see. She flies to the city and decides to build her nest by the river because there were many people on the bridge. The people really liked Gertie. After she lays her eggs and they hatch, the people move Gertie and her baby ducks where there are many new people around.

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assertiveness, baby, birds, birth, conflict resolution, duck, feelings, goal setting, nature, nonverbal communication, travel

Fur

Mark, Jan//Voake, Charlotte

A child's cat builds a nest and has kittens.

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animals, birth, cat, family, pets

Frog, where are you?

Mayer, Mercer

A little boy is looking for his frog. When he finds it, the frog has started a family. He gets to take a new frog home and he is happy (A Wordless Book).

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amphibians, birth, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, family, feelings, friendship, frog, goal setting, happiness, lost, nonverbal communication, pets

Come back, salmon

Cone, Molly

Mr. King's fifth grade students work on a project to restore Pigeon Creek to its original beauty. They cannot believe the water was once clear and had fish. They learn about the life cycle of salmon, grow their own salmon, and release them into their now clear Pigeon Creek. The next fall they look for their salmon to return.

Christmas in the stable

Lindgren, Astrid

In this traditional story of the birth of Jesus, a child's imagination creates more modern images of the events.

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baby, birth, christmas, holidays, images, imagination, religion

Christmas in the barn

Brown, Margaret Wise//Cooney, Barbara

The story of Christmas begins with Mary and Joseph being refused at the inn, so they experience the birth of a special baby in the barn.

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animals, barn, birth, christmas, conflict resolution, holidays, nonverbal communication, religion, rhyme, spiritual, storytelling, verbal communication

Changes

Browne, Anthony

A little boy is told by his father that things are going to change. The boy imagines the tea kettle growing a tail and other ridiculous things to explain what his father said. However, when his mother and father arrive home with a new baby he realizes what his father meant about things changing.

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baby, birth, change, conflict resolution, coping, decision making, family, imagination, parents, siblings

Booby hatch

Lewin, Betsy

Pepe hatches from his egg to enter the world of the blue-footed boobies. Pepe learns the ways of life on the island as he grows up. One day Pepe meets Tina and they dance, showing off their bright blue feet. Soon Pepe and Tina will be awaiting the arrival of a little blue-footed boobie of their own.

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adventures, birds, birth, bodies of water, community, companion, crab, crustaceans, family, growing up, nonverbal communication, ocean, parents

Birthday presents

Rylant, Cynthia

The celebration of a little girl's birthday begins as soon as she is born. As each year passes, her personality, behavior, and presents change. Her parents celebrate the special moments of growing up by surrounding her with love, presents, and memories.

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animals, baby, birth, birthday, cat, celebration, conflict resolution, family, feelings, food, growing up, happiness, health, illness, love, moon, nonverbal communication, presents, sadness, sky, stars, toys, verbal communication

Big brother dustin

Carter, Alden R.

Dustin is so excited!His family is going to have a baby girl!Dustin's mom and dad teach him all about being a big brother. He even learns how to change diapers!When the baby finally arrives, Dustin shows what a great brother he is.

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baby, birth, child care, critical thinking, excitement, family, feelings, grandparents, happiness, hospital, love, new year, nonverbal communication, parents, siblings, verbal communication

Beginnings: How families come to be

Kroll, Virginia

Parents tell their children how they became a family. There are birth families, adoption families, single-parent families, two parent families, and different ethnic families.

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adoption, birth, differences, disability, family, foster care, love, marriage, multicultural, parents, siblings

Baby, come out!

Manushkin, Fran

Mrs. Tracy is pregnant and the baby does not want to come out. Everyone tries to tell the baby why she should come out. The baby does not want to come out until her Daddy says just the right thing.

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anticipation, baby, birth, conflict resolution, decision making, family, feelings, happiness, parents, pregnancy, refusal skills, self esteem, verbal communication

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

Arthur's baby

Brown, Marc

Arthur finds out he is going to have a baby brother or sister. At first, he feels left out and doesn't like his baby sister. Then when he has to help his sister, he realizes that he loves the baby.

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baby, birth, caring, conflict resolution, family, parents, siblings

April's kittens

Newberry, Clare Turlay

April owns a cat who gives birth to three kittens. There is not room for all four of them, so April must give away three. She gives away two kittens and her family decides to keep the other two.

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animals, birth, cat, decision making, giving, nonverbal communication, pets, responsibilities

Another important book

Brown, Margaret Wise

Learn about all of the important things in early childhood from ages one through six. At one, you've found your nose and discovered your toes. By five and six, you've learned some tricks.

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aging, baby, birth, body parts, counting, dancing, exercise, growing up, health, jumping, learning, numbers, playing, running, self confidence, self esteem, sequence, uniqueness, walking

An extraordinary egg

Lionni, Leo

Three frogs live together by a pond. One of them finds an egg. When the egg hatches, the three frogs believe that the animal is a chicken.

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alligator, amphibians, assertiveness, birds, birth, bodies of water, chicken, family, frog, helping, parents, pond, reptiles, self esteem, verbal communication

Amelia's nine lives

Balian, Lorna

A little girl has the misfortune of losing her best friend, a cat named Amelia. Her friends and family try to help the little girl by giving her cats that look like Amelia. In the end, Amelia returns home with four kittens.

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animals, birth, cat, conflict resolution, family, friendship, kindness, loss, numbers, pets

Alligator baby

Munsch, Robert

Kristen's mom is having a baby but she accidently makes a wrong turn into the zoo. Her parents make repeated attempts to find their baby until finally Kristen takes a journey to the zoo.

A web in the grass

Freschet, Bernice

A lonely spider spins a web in order to catch some food. The spider is careful not to be caught by a toad or an owl. She lays an egg sac and hundreds of spiderlings are produced. The babies, like their mother, spin webs and wait to capture food.

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amphibians, assertiveness, birds, birth, conflict resolution, food, insects, loneliness, nature, nonverbal communication, reproduction, spider

A home in the barn

Brown, Margaret Wise

In the winter, it is too cold for the animals to be outside but the barn is warm. All the horses, cattle, mice, birds, and cats stay there together to keep away from the cold. Even though there are a lot of animals in the barn, they all get along and help to keep each other warm.

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african american, animals, author's note, baby, barn, birds, birth, bluejay, cardinal, cat, chicken, cold, community, cow, dog, farm, goat, horse, insects, mouse, multicultural, night, onomatopoeia, pig, pony, problem solving, rhyme, rhythm, sparrow, squirrel, time, wasp, winter

A country far away

Gray, Nigel

This is a story comparing two young boys who live in Africa and the United States. Their lives are identical even though they live in different countries.

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african, america, bicycle, birth, celebration, comparisons, critical thinking, differences, friendship, geography, goal setting, growing up, maps, multicultural, school, soccer, sports, swimming, village

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