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A very special sister

Levi, Dorothy Hoffman

Laura has a new baby coming to her family and she's very excited. However, because Laura is deaf, she is worried that if the new baby can hear, her mother will love it more.

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baby, disability, family, hearing impaired, love, parents, siblings

A very, very special day

De Armand, Frances Ullmann

The narrator tries to get the reader to guess special holidays. All the major holidays are eliminated until Your Birthday is guessed.

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birthday, critical thinking, holidays

A village full of valentines

Stevenson, James

Every animal living in various villages celebrates Valentine's Day in a different way. All the animals learn how to appreciate the many ways to celebrate this fun holiday.

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acceptance, animals, appreciation, assertiveness, communication, conflict resolution, cooperation, creativity, differences, diversity, friendship, holidays, love, valentine's day, verbal communication

Rachel is excited when she and her family visit her cousin Amy-Claire. When Amy-Claire pays more attention to Rachel's little sister, Rachel is hurt and angry. Rachel realizes that it is special to be a big sister.

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attention, conflict resolution, family, feelings, jealousy, sadness, siblings

A visit to oma

Russo, Marisabina

A young girl visits her great-grandmother, Oma, every Sunday. She cannot understand her grandmother's language and makes up stories in her head to fit her great grandmother's gestures.

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aging, family, german, grandparents, imagination, multicultural, nonverbal communication, verbal communication

A visit to the bakery

Ziegler, Sandra

A group of children visit a bakery and learn how to bake bread and buns.

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careers, five senses, food, learning, nutrition, school, smell, taste, transportation, truck

A visit to the country

Johnson, Herschel

A young boy named Mike lives with his grandparents near the train tracks. One day he finds a bird and takes it home. However, he realizes that the bird must be let go so it can live in the country.

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animals, birds, cardinal, cow, decision making, family, freedom, grandparents, rescue, responsibilities, stress management, train, transportation

A visit to the dairy farm

Ziegler, Sandra

Kathy's class takes a field trip to her dairy farm to see and learn where milk and other dairy products come from.

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animals, careers, cow, farm, food, hunger, nutrition, school, travel

A visit to the dentist's office

Murphy, Patricia

Patients visit Oz Family Dentistry for a checkup to ensure that they have a healthy smile and know how to care for their teeth. After meeting the dental hygienist in the exam room, patients get their teeth cleaned and polished before getting x-rays of their mouth. Then, the dentist meets with patients to teach them more about oral hygiene.

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awareness, body parts, cleanliness, dentist, encouragement, goal setting, health, hygiene, photograph, protection, routine, self esteem, teaching, teeth, verbal communication, vocabulary

A walk on a snowy night

Delton, Judy

A girl and her father go out in the snow together. They see many of the normal sights, but they look different at night covered with snow. They stop at a local cafe to get hot chocolate before bundling up their coats and walking home.

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beverage, community, exercise, family, five senses, food, night, nonverbal communication, parents, recreation, seasons, snow, verbal communication, weather, winter

A walk with Grandpa/ Un paseo con el abuelo

Solomon, Sharon

Daniela and her grandpa take a walk in the woods and share what they mean to each other.

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exercise, family, feelings, grandparents, language, love, nature, spanish, walking, woods

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 weekend in the country

Lorenz, Lee

A bunch of farm animals take a weekend trip form the city to the country to learn about country life.

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animals, community, critical thinking, decision making, farm, friendship, nonverbal communication, peer resistance, refusal skills, teamwork, travel

A weekend with wendell

Henkes, Kevin

Wendell visits his friend Sophie and her family for a weekend. He spends most of his time terrorizing Sophie. She wants him to leave but by the end she finds that a weekend with him was not all that bad.

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bedtime, family, growing up, learning, mischief, peer resistance, stress management

A winter day

Florian, Douglas

A family spends a winter day together. After a breakfast of pancakes, everyone puts on their coats, boots, and hats. While outside, they skate, sled, and make snowballs. They warm their toes by the fire when they go inside for their evening meal.

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appreciation, clothing, exercise, family, food, nature, nutrition, recreation, relaxation, seasons, skating, snow, weather, winter

A winter walk

Barash, Lynne

A mother explains to her daughter that winter is more than just cold and gray. In fact, winter has the colors of blue, orange, green, and red. You can be happy in the wintertime too.

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animals, child care, critical thinking, happiness, learning, nonverbal communication, rabbit, sight, snow, stress management, verbal communication, winter

A woggle of witches

Adams, Adrienne

A small group of witches prepare for their favorite night of the year, Halloween. The witches become frightened of the children that are dressed up in costumes.

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assertiveness, clothing, conflict resolution, decision making, differences, fear, feelings, halloween, holidays, night, self esteem, witches

A worm's tale

Lindgren, Barbro

Arthur is a lonely man who accidently steps on a worm one day. Arthur adopts the worm and they become good friends.

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adoption, assertiveness, decision making, feelings, friendship, happiness, loneliness, self esteem, worm

A year of beasts

Wolff, Ashley

Let's view a monthly listing of animals around a farm.

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animals, autumn, beaver, cow, deer, farm, fox, mice, month, porcupine, rabbit, raccoon, seasons, sequence, skunk, spring, squirrel, summer, winter, woodchuck

A yoga parade of animals

Mainland, Pauline

Yoga is an activity that children can experience in many forms. Children can imitate the ways animals move and position themselves to help relax the body and free the mind.

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alligator, amphibians, animals, bee, birds, blackbird, body parts, camel, colors, eagle, emotions, exercise, feelings, frog, giraffe, health, insects, lion, nonfiction, parade, sleep, snake, storks, stress management, sun, swimming, tiger, walking, whale, worm, yoga

A-hunting we will go!

Kellogg, Steven

As it gets close to bedtime, a brother and sister gather up their animal friends and go on an adventure because they do not want to go to sleep. They go hunting for more friends and fun and travel through woods and across an ocean. As the children and animals get sleepy, they return home to take a bath, brush their teeth, and put on their pajamas. The words of the story are set to the classic children's tune A-Hunting we will go.

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adventures, animals, bear, bedtime, cleanliness, clothing, family, fox, friendship, giraffe, goose, happiness, health, hunting, kangaroo, moose, music, parents, preparation, reading, rhyme, siblings, sleep, song, teeth, weasel, whale

A. lincoln and me

Borden, Louise

A young boy discovers that he shares a birthday on the same day as Abraham Lincoln's. Learn how many other common characteristics a boy shares with a past president.

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appearance, appreciation, baseball, birthday, body parts, books, bus, calendar, celebration, freedom, friendship, history, individuality, learning, money, monuments, music, playground, president, reading, running, school, self confidence, self esteem, slavery, sports, teaching, transportation

Aaron and gayla's counting book

Greenfield, Eloise

Two African American children explore numbers on a rainy day. The children play in the rain, counting all the things they see.

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african american, counting, friendship, fun, learning, multicultural, numbers, rain, weather

Abby

Caines, Jeanette

Abby is a little girl who wants to know all about her first days with her adopted family. After some coaxing, her brother, Kevin, tells her how much he loves her and how glad he is that the family gets to keep her.

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adoption, family, self esteem, siblings, verbal communication

Abc

Seuss, Dr.

This book teaches each letter of the alphabet and how to use them to begin reading. Each letter has it's own story rhyme.

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alphabet, animals, rhyme, sequence

ABC pop!

Isadora, Rachel

D is for dancer, and E is for egg, but F stands for frog and fly on the same page. Some letters in this alphabet book have four or more images of different colors and textures. Which one is your favorite?

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alphabet, art, letters, nonverbal communication, sequence, word association

ABC safari

Lee, Karen

Go on an around-the-world rhyming journey with animals, in different habitats, biomes, and geographic regions. From the cold tundra to the hot deserts and from the jungles of Africa to the high mountains, find the hidden safari boy and his pet parrot in each illustration.

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alligator, alphabet, amphibians, animals, author's note, beaver, birds, classification, dolphin, elephant, frog, gorilla, hippopotamus, iguana, koala, lion, mountains, newt, owl, parrot, penguin, pets, quail, rabbit, rhinoceros, snow, tiger, vulture, wolf, yak, zebra

Abel's moon

Hughes, Shirley

Abel Grable returns from his work greeted by his family. When he tells them all about his adventures, his children only want to hear more. Before he sets out on his next outing for work, he writes his stories down. As he is away, his children take his writing table and create a certain machine that lets them be with their dad all the time while he's gone.

Abigail takes the wheel

Avi

Every morning Abigail and her brother go to school on board their father's boat. One morning they see an accident and decide to help one of the boats. Abigail has to steer while her father helps on the other boat. On her way down the river, Abigail must make some quick decisions. With Captain Abigail in charge everyone arrives safely.

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accidents, adventures, author's note, boat, bodies of water, careers, cooperation, critical thinking, decision making, family, geography, maps, market, parents, river, school, ship, siblings, transportation, trust, verbal communication

Abiyoyo

Seeger, Pete

A little boy and his father are banished from town. The little boy is banished because he plays his ukelele all the time and his father is banished because of his magic and his storytelling about the monster Abiyoyo. When the monster comes to terrorize the town, the boy puts it to sleep with his ukelele music and then his father makes the giant disappear with his magic. They are welcomed back into the town.

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acceptance, assertiveness, community, courage, critical thinking, decision making, magic, monsters, multicultural, music, patience, peer resistance, refusal skills, storytelling

Abracatabby

Hiller, Catherine

A boy gets a cat that is magical. The boy tells a friend about his cat and his friend promises not to tell. His friend tells and all the kids laugh and make fun of him. The cat proves to everyone that he is magical and then makes everyone forget, but the friend remembers and never tells.

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animals, cat, decision making, friendship, magic, pets, trust, verbal communication

Abuela

Dorros, Arthur

A little girl uses her imagination to transport her and her grandmother out of a bus to view the many sites over New York City.

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bus, family, grandparents, hispanic, imagination, multicultural, transportation, travel

Abuela's weave

Castaneda, Omar S.

Esperanza works hard at weaving cloth to sell, then she and her grandmother travel to the city to sell the cloth.

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accomplishment, careers, clothing, family, grandparents

Accidental zucchini

Grover, Max

Max takes an alphabet tour. He sees cupcake canyon, ice cream island, macaroni merry-go-round, and peach pie pile. Max stops to visit many other letters on his tour.

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alphabet, food, nutrition, sequence, travel

Across the blue mountains

Clark, Emma Chichester

Miss Milberry lives happily at the base of the blue mountains with her beautiful garden and her animals, but she is curious about what it is like on the other side of the mountains. Miss Milberry takes a long trip trying to get to the other side, but she ends up at a place that looks very familiar.

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adventures, animals, birds, cat, curiosity, dog, food, forest, garden, mountains, nutrition, plants, travel

Across the wide dark sea: The mayflower journey

Van Leeuwen, Jean

A young boy and his family leave England with many other people to search for a new life in a new land. They dream of finding a place where they can worship God in their own way. During their journey, everyone endures many hardships, but they find what they are looking for.

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animals, assertiveness, author's note, autumn, birds, boat, bodies of water, cat, death, dog, english, family, fear, feelings, food, garden, goal setting, god, happiness, illness, multicultural, native american, nonverbal communication, nutrition, ocean, parents, pilgrims, religion, seasons, self esteem, siblings, snow, spring, storm, transportation, travel, verbal communication, weather, wind, winter

Across town

Sara

A man journeys across town and makes friends with a cat (A Wordless Book).

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animals, cat, friendship, nonverbal communication, travel

Action alphabet

Neumeier, Marty//Glaser, Byron

Active pictures depict each letter of the alphabet in this ABC book. The letters help to create each picture.

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alphabet, sequence, verbal communication

Action! How movies began

McCarthy, Meghan

Movies are an important part of our society today, but they have not always been what we see in theaters. From the Kinetoscope to black and white film, and from soundless productions to special effects, the movie industry has evolved over time to make what we see and enjoy today!

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african american, author's note, careers, colors, emotions, five senses, generations, history, inventions, movies, multicultural, nonfiction, photograph, photography, sequence, shadows, sounds, technology, time, vision

Adam and the wolf

Gunthorp, Karen

Despite warnings not to go looking for strawberries because of the wolf, Adam goes anyway and finds a pleasant and unexpected friend.

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animals, decision making, discovery, disobedience, food, friendship, nutrition, surprises, wolf, woods, worry

Adam draws himself a dragon

Korschunow, Irina

A young dragon comes to stay with Adam for a while and they help each other overcome the problems that make their school days unhappy.

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acceptance, assertiveness, body image, conflict resolution, differences, dragons, feelings, goal setting, insecurity, mythical, overweight, peer resistance, problem solving, sadness, self esteem

Adam's abc

Fife, Dale H

Adam and friends have many adventures in alphabetical order throughout the day.

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adventures, alphabet, decision making, friendship, sequence

Addie meets max

Robins, Joan

Addie is reluctant to befriend her new neighbor Max, expecially after they run into each other when riding bikes. Eventually Addie's mom sets up a luncheon between the two of them. Addie begins to like Max and they become friends.

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acceptance, accidents, assertiveness, bicycle, biking, change, compromise, conflict resolution, decision making, feelings, food, friendship, jealousy, neighbors, nutrition, peer resistance, play, transportation

Addie runs away

Robins, Joan

Addie's parents want to send her to camp. She thinks that they do not want her anymore, so she runs away. Her friend, Max, tells her camp is fun and they decide to go to camp together.

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camping, exercise, family, fear, feelings, friendship, independence, neighbors, parents, play, recreation, running, running away

Adoption is for always

Girard, Linda Walvoord

Upon learning that she is adopted, Celia experiences feelings of insecurity about her birth-parents. Through openly talking with her parents, Celia learns that she is loved by her birth-parents and her parents, and accepts her feelings about adoption.

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acceptance, adoption, anger, assertiveness, conflict resolution, coping, family, fear, feelings, loneliness, parents, self esteem, stress management, verbal communication

Aekyung's dream

Paek, Min

A little girl named Aekyung has trouble adjusting to America, because it is so different from Korea. She doesn't like to go to school because her classmates make fun of her. Eventually she begins to feel more comfortable and accepted.

Africa brothers and sisters

Kroll, Virginia

At lunchtime Daddy and Jesse play their favorite game: a question and answer game about people who live in Africa and the ways in which they are connected to Jesse.

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africa, african, animals, art, clothing, community, critical thinking, dancing, family, farm, fishing, games, geography, giraffe, jewelry, maps, multicultural, parents, recreation, siblings, storytelling, traditions, verbal communication, village

Africa calling

Adlerman, Dan

A young girl dreams of all the animals in Africa. The animals seem to capture her attention through their actions. The animals frolick in the dusk of beautiful Africa.

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