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Good driving, amelia bedelia

Parish, Herman

Amelia Bedelia is a maid who is not quite together. She misunderstands everything she is told to do, always with hysterical results. What will happen if Mr. Rogers lets her test drive his car?

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adventures, birthday, car, celebration, challenges, conflict resolution, confusion, cow, decision making, farm, forgiveness, friendship, frustration, humor, literal interpretation, mischief, stress management, verbal communication

The magic school bus gets baked in a cake

Beech, Linda

It is Ms. Frizzle's birthday so the kids plan a party, but something is missing -- a cake!For a field trip, they go to the bakery and bake a cake and accidentally get baked inside the magic school bus.

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birthday, bus, celebration, food, friendship, holidays, nutrition, party, safety, school, transportation, travel

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

Waiting for noah

Oppenheim, Shulamith

A grandmother tells her grandson a story about the night he was born. She tells him about all the things she wanted to do with him when he was older.

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anticipation, birth, conflict resolution, decision making, family, grandparents, growing up, storytelling, verbal communication

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

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

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

You were born on your very first birthday

Girard, Linda Walvoord

The development of a growing baby is shown sleeping and moving. Body parts and special sounds develop from the inside environment of the mother's tummy until a new day when the baby is born. A nurse and doctors are there with the baby's parents in the hospital when the baby is born.

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balloon, bedtime, birth, birthday, body parts, doctor, excitement, family, hospital, love, new baby, nurse, onomatopoeia, parents, pregnancy, rainbow, relationship, reproduction, sizes, sleep

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

Woodpecker forest

Tejima, Keizaburo

A young woodpecker hatches out of his egg and matures until he is ready for his first flight. He is frightened to fly, but the image of his father comforts him.

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birds, birth, family, fear, feelings, growing up, parents, woodpecker

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

The boat that mooed

Fry, Christopher

Tom Crunch lives on a boat with his Uncle Jack. The only problem is that Tom is very bored, because his Uncle doesn't talk to him. In a big fog, Tom ventures out on a small boat. He meets a friend and a swan to keep him company while they look for the sky and sun which are lost in the fog.

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birds, boat, fishing, fog, imagination, sounds, stress management, sun, swan, transportation, verbal communication, weather

Song of the swallows

Politi, Leo

Since Juan loves to watch the swallows in the Mission Garden, he is sad when they fly away at the end of the season. While waiting for their return, Juan decides to build a garden at his house in hopes that swallows will return to his garden.

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birds, celebration, conflict resolution, garden, hispanic, multicultural, song, swallow, verbal communication

The adventures of sparrowboy

Pinkney, Brian

Henry, the paperboy, loves to read the comics. One day while on his route, he imagines that he has the ability to fly. He flies around saving the day like his favorite comic hero.

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assertiveness, biking, birds, books, conflict resolution, critical thinking, exercise, feelings, heroism, imagination, nonverbal communication, reading, self esteem, sparrow, stress management, verbal communication, work

Subway sparrow (Gorrion del metro)

Torres, Leyla

When a sparrow flies on the D train, four people help figure out a way to get the sparrow off the train. The problem is that the four people on the train speak different languages. The teens on the train speak English, a man speaks Spanish, and a woman speaks Polish. Through various forms of communicating, the four of them come up with a strategy to help the sparrow.

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american, birds, caring, communication, conflict resolution, cooperation, critical thinking, goal setting, helping, hispanic, multicultural, nonverbal communication, polish, problem solving, rescue, sparrow, train, transportation, verbal communication

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

My mom hates me in january

Delton, Judy

Lee Henry's mom hates him in the cold, snowy, winter month of January. Everything irritates his mom during this month especially Lee Henry. Does his mom really hate him in January or does she really hate January?

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birds, family, feelings, moods, parents, robin, seasons, snow, spring, weather, winter

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

Rome antics

McCaulay, David

With the help of a pigeon, we take a journey through the city of Rome where there are many ancient buildings and sculptures. We soar over beautiful architecture and cobblestone streets as we explore the city.

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architecture, art, birds, exploration, history, italian, multicultural, nonverbal communication, pigeon, restaurant, surprises, travel

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

Polly jumped over the moon

Soloman, Helen

A family has a pet parrot named Polly that refuses to talk. The family continually repeats nursery rhymes to him, until one day he repeats them back. Now they are all mixed up!

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assertiveness, birds, goal setting, parrot, pets, refusal skills, rhyme, speech, verbal communication

The man who could call down owls

Bunting, Eve

A man has control over the owls. He is one in the same with them. A stranger takes the man's owl clothes, but the owl man turns into an owl and wins the confrontation.

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assertiveness, birds, conflict resolution, nonverbal communication, owl, robbery, verbal communication

Owl babies (Bebes chouettes)

Waddell, Martin

Three young owls become aware of the horror of being alone and learns to cope with the problem differently.

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baby, birds, change, coping, family, feelings, identification, individuality, loneliness, loss, love, nonverbal communication, owl, parents, stress management, uniqueness, verbal communication, worry

My spring robin

Rockwell, Anne

A young girl spends her whole day in search of her favorite robin whom she befriended last spring. On her search, she comes in contact with many other beautiful natural things before finding the robin.

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assertiveness, birds, critical thinking, decision making, goal setting, nature, plants, robin, seasons, self esteem, spring, verbal communication

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

Sparrow song

Shecter, Ben

A boy has good memories of an old house and a singing sparrow. The house is torn down and the boy uses parts of the house to build a home for the sparrow.

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birds, critical thinking, memories, music, nonverbal communication, shelter, song, sparrow

April wilson's magpie magic: A tale of colorful mischief

Wilson, April

A child's drawing of a bird comes to life. The child and the bird draw with the coloring pencils to outsmart each other. (A Wordless Book).

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art, balloon, birds, body parts, colors, competition, conflict resolution, critical thinking, drawing, fantasy, fire, images, magic, magpie, nonverbal communication

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

Inch by inch

Lionni, Leo

An inch worm does not want to be eaten, so he tells the robin that he is useful because he can measure things. Later, he uses his brain to get out of a sticky situation.

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birds, conflict resolution, intelligence, robin, self esteem, uniqueness, verbal communication, worm

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

Dancers in the garden

Ryder, Joanne

A hummingbird moves from flower to flower while eating, drinking, and flying. After a full day of activities, the hummingbird falls asleep.

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birds, colors, flowers, food, garden, hummingbird, nonverbal communication, sleep

Pumpkin seeds

Yezback, Steven A.

David uses his nickles to buy a bag of pumpkin seeds. Willing to share his seeds, he offers some to everyone he meets, but only the pigeons want his pumpkin seeds.

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birds, happiness, kindness, manners, nonverbal communication, pigeon, running, self esteem, verbal communication

Dawn

Bang, Molly

Dawn's father tells her the story of his shipbuilding days, and how he met her mother. Her mother would weave the sails, and she makes her father promise to never look at her while she weaves.

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anger, birds, fairy, family, feelings, goal setting, goose, mythical, parents, ship

Petunia's christmas

Duvoisin, Roger

Petunia is a goose that wants to save her friend from being eaten Christmas Day. She uses many resources to get this done.

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assertiveness, baby, birds, christmas, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, family, goal setting, goose, holidays, nonverbal communication, parents, seasons, wedding, winter

The apple bird

Wildsmith, Brian

A bird finds an apple, eats the whole thing and gets fat.

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birds, critical thinking, decision making, food, nonverbal communication, nutrition, overweight

Farmer goff and his turkey sam

Schatell, Brian

Farmer Goff has a turkey that he wants to enter in the county fair turkey contest to win a blue ribbon. Sam the turkey likes Mrs. Goff's pie and eats it all the time. Farmer Goff is upset because his turkey will not win a blue ribbon at the fair. But in the end Farmer Goff and Sam still win a blue ribbon, but in the pie eating contest.

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assertiveness, birds, competition, fair, food, greed, nutrition, refusal skills, turkey

Go tell aunt rhody

Aliki.

This illustrated version of the children's folk song tells about a goose that dies and is then used to stuff a feather bed.

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birds, death, folktale, goose, song

Raven: A trickster tale from the pacific northwest

MacDermott, Gerald

A raven flies into a dark world and wants to bring light to the people. He journeys to the house of the Sky Chief. After exploring he takes the sun in his mouth and places it in the sky giving light to the world.

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birds, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, folktale, helping, raven, sun, travel

Come again, pelican

Freeman, Don

Ty learns about tides and fishing from his old friend, the Pelican. Ty loses a boot in the tide, but catches a fish in his boot. However, he loses that boot too. He gives his fish to the hungry pelican and the pelican gives Ty the lost boot.

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birds, bodies of water, clothing, creativity, curiosity, decision making, fish, friendship, hunger, learning, ocean, pelican, verbal communication

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

The chick and the duckling

Ginsburg, Mirra

The chick does everything the duck does. The chick finds out the hard way that he is not a good swimmer and it saved by the duck. The chick never tries to swim again.

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birds, decision making, fear, feelings, friendship, rescue, safety

The happy owls

Piatti, Celestina

The birds alway fights, so they go to see the owls, who are always peaceful. The birds do not like the answer from the owls as to why they are always happy, so they go back to fighting.

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birds, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, differences, feelings, happiness, learning, nature, nonverbal communication, owl, seasons, verbal communication

The terrible troll-bird

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

Four brothers and sisters are sent to the woods to get firewood and encounter a troll-bird. This causes a lot of trouble and they have to kill it which brings even more trouble!

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assertiveness, birds, conflict resolution, critical thinking, death, decision making, family, fear, feelings, folktale, nature, siblings, stress management, woods

The story about ping

Flack, Marjorie//Wiese, Kurt

To avoid getting a spanking for being the last duck to cross the bridge, Ping stayed overnight on the river bank. He loses his family and is captured by a little boy. He is held hostage on the little boy's boat. Finally the little boy sets Ping free and he is reunited with his family.

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assertiveness, birds, change, chinese, conflict resolution, coping, decision making, discipline, family, fear, feelings, goal setting, lost, multicultural, self esteem, shelter, transportation

Owl at home

Lobel, Arnold

This book contains five stories about Owl and his daily adventures - from inviting winter in to sit by the fire to thinking sad thoughts to make tear-water tea.

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assertiveness, birds, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, fear, feelings, goal setting, nature, nonverbal communication, owl, problem solving, refusal skills, sadness, seasons, verbal communication

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

Least of all

Purdy, Carol

Little Raven Hannah feels sad when she is not big enough to do anything on the farm. Then she teaches herself to read (something no one else in her family can do) and she becomes very happy.

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birds, family, farm, feelings, gender, happiness, nonverbal communication, raven, reading, religion, sadness, self esteem, siblings, verbal communication

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