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I'm terrific

Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman

Everytime Jason Bear does something terrific, he gives himself a star. He soon realizes that his behavior is ruining his friendships. Thus, Jason Bear decides to change.

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animals, bear, change, confidence, critical thinking, determination, friendship, manners, raccoon, squirrel, verbal communication

Cowboy small

Lenski, Lois

Cowboy Small takes care of his horse Cactus and rides him around the ranch. He does jobs like fixing the fence and rounding up the cows.

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animals, bedtime, careers, cow, cowboys, critical thinking, decision making, food, nutrition, ranch, responsibilities, sleep, stress management, verbal communication, water

How do dinosaurs say goodnight?

Yolen, Jane//Teague, Mark

Do dinosaurs say goodnight in the same way that people say goodnight?A dinosaur says goodnight to Papa in quite a different way than when Mamma comes in to turn off the light.

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affection, animals, bedtime, decision making, dinosaur, emotions, family, feelings, frustration, night, parents, resolution, rhyme, rules, sleep, verbal communication

Moy moy

Politi, Leo

Moy Moy is the youngest sister who is fascinated by toys and bright celebrations. She sees and is in the Chinese New Year Parade where she is no longer afraid of the lion.

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animals, assertiveness, bee, chinese, dragons, fireworks, goal setting, holidays, insects, lion, multicultural, music, new year, nonverbal communication, parade, self esteem, toys, verbal communication

Billy's beetle

Inkpen, Mike

A boy has lost his beetle. He asks many people and animals in his search for the beetle. The search continues until it is found.

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animals, beetle, caterpillar, critical thinking, dog, elephant, five senses, food, goal setting, hedgehog, insects, instruments, loss, music, pig, polar bear, smell, spider, verbal communication, worm

Paul and arthur search for the egg

Rockwell, Anne

Paul and Arthur the bull, hear a crying seagull. The seagull has lost her egg and Paul and Arthur take on the responsibility of finding it. When they do, a baby gull is born and the mother gull is very happy.

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animals, assertiveness, baby, birds, birth, bull, conflict resolution, cooperation, critical thinking, decision making, feelings, friendship, goal setting, lost, responsibilities, sadness, seagull, verbal communication

The little red hen

Galdone, Paul

The little red hen lived with a cat, dog, and mouse, but was the only one who ever did any work. She planted wheat, took it to the mill to ground into flour, and made a cake. Even though she asked for help, no one helped her with anything. But once the cake was made, they all wanted a piece. After the hen finished the cake herself, she had three eager helpers whenever there was work to be done.

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animals, assertiveness, birds, cat, cooperation, decision making, dog, food, helping, laziness, mouse, nutrition, refusal skills, responsibilities, sharing, shelter, verbal communication

The owl and the pussy-cat

Knight, Hilary

Two children are magically transformed into an owl and a cat. They return back when their parents call them.

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animals, birds, cat, conflict resolution, decision making, family, fantasy, friendship, imagination, magic, owl, parents, self esteem, verbal communication

Old mcdonald had a farm

Quackenbush, Robert

More and more animals, birds, and, finally, a car and wife keep adding on to the traditional song of Old MacDonald.

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animals, birds, car, chicken, cow, donkey, duck, farm, goose, horse, pig, sheep, turkey, verbal communication

Jennie's hat

Keats, Ezra Jack

Jennie gets a hat from her aunt but it is very plain. Jennie is upset because it isn't as pretty as other hats. She tries to find a prettier hat. Finally, as Jennie is leaving church, the birds come and decorate it.

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animals, birds, church, clothing, critical thinking, decision making, envy, nonverbal communication, presents, surprises, verbal communication

Katy no-pocket

Payne, Emmy

Katy Kangaroo does not have a pocket in which to carry her son, so she asks different animals to help her. She finally goes into the city and finds a man with an apron.

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animals, birds, clothing, critical thinking, crocodile, decision making, family, growing up, kangaroo, lion, monkey, owl, parents, reptiles, shelter, tortoise, verbal communication

Bill and pete go down the nile

dePaola, Tomie

Bill and his friend Pete go on a field trip down the Nile. They are in for a surprise when they encounter a jewel thief and save the precious jewel from being stolen.

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animals, assertiveness, birds, crocodile, egyptian, history, multicultural, nonverbal communication, robbery, school, verbal communication, water

The bird who was an elephant

Kamal, Aleph

A little bird flies around India, depicting the various customs. When the bird sees a palmist, he finds out he used to be an elephant years ago.

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animals, birds, customs, elephant, indian, multicultural, verbal communication

Farmer duck

Waddell, Martin

Farmer Duck cooks, cleans, tends the fields and cares for the other animals because the farmer is too lazy. Farmer Duck grows tired so the animals come up with a plan.

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animals, assertiveness, birds, careers, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, duck, farm, food, helping, hygiene, laziness, nonverbal communication, self esteem, teamwork, verbal communication

Petunia's treasure

Duvoisin, Roger

Petunia the goose finds a treasure chest. Before she opens it, she tells her friends about it and they all beg her for gifts. She finds that the chest had nothing in it and that money is not always that important.

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animals, assertiveness, birds, conflict resolution, decision making, feelings, friendship, goose, greed, money, peer resistance, self esteem, verbal communication

No ducks in our bathtub

Alexander, Martha

David endlessly tries to convince his mother to allow him to have a pet. However, all of his choices are inappropriate. Finally, they agree on fish, so he waits for the fish eggs to hatch. Only, the eggs aren't fish eggs after all.

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animals, bath, birds, compromise, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, family, fish, frog, goal setting, obedience, parents, pets, pond, stress management, verbal communication

Casper and the rainbow bird

Hyman, Robin//Hyman, Inge

One day, Casper flies all the way to town. Through a window, Casper sees Rainbow, a bright, colorful bird who lives in a cage in the city. Rainbow is afraid to leave the comfort of her cage, but Rainbow overcomes her fear and lives with Casper in the forest after Casper proves that he is a true friend.

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adventures, animals, beauty, birds, colors, critical thinking, crow, differences, environment, feelings, flowers, forest, freedom, friendship, giving, growing up, happiness, nonverbal communication, parrot, rain, rainbow, self esteem, verbal communication, weather

Petunia beware!

Duvoisin, Roger

Petunia is a goose who eats everyone else's food and never touches her own because she thinks the other food is better. Petunia decides to go up a windy hill to get the better grass, but others warn her not to because of wild animals. After escaping from the wild animals, she realizes that her grass is just as good.

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animals, birds, conflict resolution, coping, curiosity, food, goose, greed, nutrition, peer resistance, selfishness, verbal communication

A for the ark

Duvoisin, Roger

The book tells the alphabet by going over the animals on the ark in alphabetical order.

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animals, birds, insects, octopus, rain, reptiles, snake, verbal communication, weather

Will it ever be my birthday?

Corey, Dorothy

Rabbit must first go to all his friends' birthday parties before it is time for his birthday again. Rabbit is impatient waiting but then happy when his own party day comes.

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animals, bear, birds, birthday, conflict resolution, duck, halloween, holidays, nonverbal communication, party, rabbit, verbal communication

More tales of amanda pig

Van Leeuwen, Jean

Amanda pig and her family experience five short stories. One describes Amanda playing with her brother and another describes how she organized a birthday party for her dad.

Olive and the magic hat

Christelow, Eileen

While Olive and Otis pretend to do magic with their father's birthday present of a hat, it blows out the window. Mr. Foxley gets the hat and Olive and Otis must work to get it back in time for the birthday party.

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animals, assertiveness, birthday, clothing, conflict resolution, decision making, family, fox, holidays, magic, opossum, parents, presents, siblings, verbal communication

Moose and friends

Latimer, Jim

Moose and his friends confront many situations and must decide what to do about them. Together, as a group, they solve their problems.

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animals, birthday, conflict resolution, critical thinking, crow, decision making, food, fox, holidays, nonverbal communication, nutrition, reading, skunk, stress management, teamwork, valentine's day, verbal communication

Birthday wishes

Schweninger, Ann

The Rabbit family makes Buttercup's fifth birthday special by throwing her a party and planning lots of fun activities, not to mention giving her many nice gifts.

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animals, birthday, celebration, decision making, family, growing up, holidays, party, presents, verbal communication

Noggin and the whale

Postgate, Oliver

Noggin gives presents to all the boys and girls on his birthday. When they play their music on the boat, a whale wants to join in. Noggin makes him an instrument, so everyone is happy.

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animals, birthday, boat, celebration, conflict resolution, critical thinking, fishing, holidays, instruments, music, nonverbal communication, song, transportation, verbal communication, whale

Sheep in a shop

Shaw, Nancy

Five sheep go shopping to look for a birthday gift for one of their friends. They find the perfect gift but do not have enough money to buy the gift. The sheep share their wool and trade in for the gift.

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animals, birthday, conflict resolution, critical thinking, presents, sheep, shopping, verbal communication

Burt dow, deep water man

McCloskey, Robert

Burt Dow is an old deep-water fisherman. He goes out in his old boat one day and catches a whale tail. He puts a bandaid on the hole in his tail and later becomes a doctor to all the other whales in that school.

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animals, birds, boat, careers, colors, critical thinking, decision making, doctor, fishing, injury, nonverbal communication, seagull, transportation, verbal communication, whale

Weekend girl

Hest, Amy

Sophie always spends a weekend with her grandparents when her parents take a trip to honeymoon cottage. Every year her grandparents have a special surprise, so she can hardly wait for this year's surprise.

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animals, beach, bodies of water, car, dancing, dog, exercise, family, feelings, five senses, food, grandparents, marriage, nonverbal communication, nutrition, parents, picnic, poetry, sadness, sea, seasons, self esteem, smell, summer, taste, transportation, travel, verbal communication, walking, weather

Fire and stone

Le Guin, Ursula K.

A dragon terrorizes a city. Min and Polo discover what the dragon wants and saves their city in the process.

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animals, bodies of water, cat, community, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, dragons, fire, mythical, nonverbal communication, pond, rescue, stress management, teamwork, verbal communication

The north wind and the sun

La Fontaine

The north wind and the sun compete with each other on who can make a man take off his cloak. The wind tries to force the cloak off of the man, but is unsuccessful. The sun makes everything warm, and the man takes off his cloak through the sun's gentleness.

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animals, bodies of water, clothing, conflict resolution, fear, stress management, sun, verbal communication, weather, wind

Five little monkeys sitting in a tree

Christelow, Eileen

While on a picnic, five little monkeys decide to tease Mr. Crocodile. One by one they fall from the tree. In the end, the monkeys are found in another tree.

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animals, assertiveness, bodies of water, crocodile, monkey, picnic, plants, reptiles, river, teasing, verbal communication

The way home

Richardson, Judith Benet

Savi, a baby elephant, is left at the beach, because he did not want to return home with his mother. He becomes scared and finally follows a trail of bananas home.

The star rocker

Slate, Joseph

Old Cassie lives on a floating raft. One night, she tries to quiet the fears of her animal friends, by singing a lullaby near the pond.

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animals, bedtime, bodies of water, fear, feelings, friendship, music, nature, night, pond, song, stress management, verbal communication

Arthur's prize reader

Hoban, Lillian

Arthur loses the Super Chimp Club contest. But because he helped her learn to read, Arthur's sister wins the first grade reading contest and a prize for both of them.

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animals, assertiveness, books, chimpanzee, competition, dancing, dog, food, helping, intelligence, monkey, neighbors, nonverbal communication, rain, reading, school, siblings, spelling, success, teaching, teamwork, verbal communication, weather

A tournament of knights

Lasker, Joe

Justin is a newly made knight who prepares for his first tournament. Justin must fight a more experienced knight named Rolf in order to keep his honor.

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animals, bravery, celebration, competition, conflict resolution, decision making, fear, horse, loyalty, nonverbal communication, parade, royalty, self esteem, traditions, verbal communication, violence

Nessa's fish

Luenn, Nancy

Nessa and her grandmother catch enough fish to feed the whole camp. However, during the night, Nessa's grandmother becomes sick and Nessa must protect her and the fish from wild animals.

The take-along dog

Porte, Barbara Ann

Sam and Abigail take Benton, their dog, everywhere because their mother doesn't like him. However, she learns to like Benton when he scares away another dog to protect her.

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animals, assertiveness, bravery, dog, family, feelings, library, park, picnic, sports, swimming, verbal communication

Salty sails north

Rand, Gloria

Salty the dog travels on a boat around the world with his master.

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animals, assertiveness, boat, bravery, conflict resolution, decision making, dog, pets, self esteem, transportation, travel, verbal communication

White dynamite and curly kidd

Martin, Bill Jr.

A young child, Curly Kidd, wants to grow up to be just like Dad. Dad is a bronco rider, and together they ride the toughest bulls in all the country. In the end, the reader learns that Curly Kidd is a girl.

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animals, assertiveness, bull, careers, critical thinking, determination, growing up, imagination, role model, self esteem, stress management, verbal communication

The story of ferdinand

Leaf, Munro

Ferdinand is a bull who likes to smell flowers and be by himself. He grows up and is chosen to be in the bull fights. He enters the ring and sits down to sniff the flowers.

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animals, assertiveness, bull, conflict resolution, cow, fight, five senses, growing up, jumping, nonverbal communication, plants, refusal skills, running, self esteem, smell, verbal communication

Goggles!

Keats, Ezra Jack

Archie and Peter find a yellow pair of motorcycle glasses. Then some big boys come along and try to take them. Willie, their dog, takes the goggles and runs. After hiding out, they eventually regroup and make it back to their house.

The day of ahmed's secret

Heide, Florence Parry//Gilliland, Judith Heide

Ahmed has a secret which he keeps all day long. Tonight he will tell his secret to his family but first he has work to do. Ahmed works in the loud and crowded city. The sights and lovely sounds fill his day while he works. When at last he has done all of his work, he can reveal his secret.

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animals, assertiveness, bodies of water, bus, camel, car, careers, community, critical thinking, decision making, desert, dog, donkey, egyptian, family, food, multicultural, nutrition, parents, river, transportation, truck, verbal communication, weather

Frida's office day

Lewis, Thomas P.

Frida cat goes in to work with her father and helps out in the office in the morning. She also spends the afternoon with him in the big city and has a great time.

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animals, assertiveness, careers, cat, critical thinking, family, helping, parents, verbal communication

Anotole and the pied piper

Titus, Eve

Anotale, a mouse, has to be a hero and save the children of his village from a musician. The musician steals the children so he can use them in his symphony. The mice end up escaping because they trick one of the musicians.

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animals, assertiveness, careers, conflict resolution, cooperation, deception, decision making, escape, goal setting, mouse, music, nonverbal communication, refusal skills, robbery, verbal communication

Ellen's lion

Johnson, Crockett

Twelve different stories teach lessons of politeness, geography, and life experiences. A young girl named Ellen is aided by her stuffed animal who helps her on her journey.

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animals, caring, companion, conflict resolution, decision making, differences, feelings, geography, kindness, lion, manners, storytelling, verbal communication

If I were a mother

Mizumura, Kazue

The many positive aspects of mothering by different animals are described. The narrator realizes that she would like to be like her mother.

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animals, assertiveness, caring, family, goal setting, love, parents, self esteem, verbal communication

Mr. Putter and tabby walk the dog

Rylant, Cynthia

Mr. Putter and Tabby decide to help Mrs. Teaberry when she hurts her foot. Her dog is supposed to be a dream dog, but he turns into a nightmare everyday when Mr. Putter takes him for a walk.

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animals, carnival, cat, conflict resolution, dog, exercise, helping, neighbors, surprises, verbal communication, walking, zoo

The great othello: The story of a seal

Palazzo, Tony

Othello, the seal, performs at carnivals. His trainer, Mr. Higgins, helps him perform at all of the carnival shows. Once Othello becomes famous, he is invited to Sealskin Island where he decides to stay.

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animals, carnival, decision making, exercise, fame, jumping, music, nonverbal communication, performance, seal, self esteem, verbal communication

The house gobbaleen

Alexander, Lloyd

After a stroke of bad luck, Tooley calls up on the Friendly Folk to help him improve his luck. When Hooks comes to the door, Tooley invites him in the house despite warnings from his cat. Hooks takes advantage of Tooley and makes his luck even worse than before-until the house gobbaleen scares Hooks away.

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adventures, anger, animals, cat, change, depression, fantasy, fear, feelings, friendship, greed, mythical, nonverbal communication, peer resistance, relief, sadness, self esteem, superstition, verbal communication

Miss flora mcflimsey's may day

Mariana.

Miss Flora McFlimsey feels like she is ugly and has no friends. At the end of the May Day, she feels differently.

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animals, appearance, cat, dolls, friendship, porcupine, rabbit, raccoon, self esteem, verbal communication

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