Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University

Z goes home | by Agee, John

The letter Z leaves his job of making the word zoo. Along the way he passes other letters forming their words until he goes through the entire alphabet.

Keywords: alien, alphabet, architecture, bodies of water, careers, glossary, karate, mythical, ocean, river, running, sequence, shapes, sports

Cassie's word quilt | by Ringgold, Faith

Cassie, a young African American girl living in New York City, shares a few of her favorite things. She labels many things and gives words to the things she treasures most.

Keywords: alphabet, bus, car, clothing, community, family, food, school, sequence, subway, taxi, transportation, verbal communication, vocabulary

The alphabet room | by Pinto, Sara

Look at this illustrated sequence of hidden doors. As you look behind each door, different pictures accumulate from A to Z. You'll find 26 surprises in the alphabet room (A Board Book).

Keywords: alphabet, animals, art, clothing, colors, fish, instruments, kite, newspaper, owl, plants, quilt, sequence, snake, umbrella, zebra

The flower alphabet book | by Pallotta, Jerry

Meet Amaryllis to Zinnia and every flower in between. Learn the sequence of the alphabet from A to Z and new flowers too.

Keywords: alphabet, animals, bee, colors, flowers, fruit, garden, insects, plants, seasons, sequence, spring, sun

Zoopa: An animal alphabet | by Marino, Gianna

Check out this alphabet book surrounding a bowl of soup. Each page brings two more letters to the soup bowl accompanied by animals beginning with those letters. In the end, the bowl is full of letters and the table is covered in animals.

Keywords: alphabet, animals, ant, birds, butterfly, chipmunk, dog, elephant, food, frog, grasshopper, hedgehog, iguana, insects, koala, ladybug, monkey, nutrition, ostrich, pig, quail, rabbit, sequence, snake, turtle, unicorns, vulture, worm, yak, zebra

Alphabet adventure | by Wood, Audrey

The little letters are going to school to help teach children their alphabet and how to write. Along the way little i loses her dot, and cannot go on to school without it. The letters go on an adventure as they look for little i's dot. They then decide that they must choose something to replace the dot so they can get to school to help the children. As i chooses a cherry and its about to leave, her dot comes out from a game of hide and seek just in time to find charley awaiting them at the school.

Keywords: adventures, alphabet, bodies of water, celebration, colors, feelings, games, island, letters, problem solving, school, sequence, shapes

Zoopa, an animal alphabet | by Marino, Gianna

Have you eer had alphabet soup? Take an inviting journey through the alphabet as various animals and insects appear with their corresponding letters in a bowl of soup. As the pages begin to fill, the challenge of finding the corresponding animals becomes more difficult in this wordless alphabet adventure

Keywords: alphabet, animals, ant, birds, butterfly, chipmunk, dog, elephant, food, frog, goat, grasshopper, hedgehog, iguana, insects, jellyfish, koala, ladybug, monkey, ostrich, pig, quail, rabbit, sequence, snake, turtle, unicorns, vocabulary, vulture, worm, yak, zebra

Q is for duck | by Elting, Mary // Folsom, Michael

A zoo filled with a wide variety of animals, their behaviors, and the noises that they make creates a fun-filled atmosphere for an exciting riddle using all twenty-six letters of the alphabet. This alphabet guessing game keeps children anticipating what is on the next page as they are learning they connections between animals and letters.

Keywords: alphabet, amphibians, animals, birds, camel, cat, chameleon, cow, coyote, dinosaur, dog, elephant, horse, insects, kangaroo, lion, mole, mosquito, mule, owl, pig, prairie dog, reptiles, riddle, snake, sounds, zoo

What's inside? The alphabet book | by Kitamura, Satoshi

Playful pictures prompt each letter's picture and word. The guessing game aspect of this format sets it apart from typical alphabet book (A wordless book).

Keywords: alphabet, birds, cat, critical thinking, dog, elephant, fire engine, hippopotamus, iguana, kite, morning, night, octopus, rat, sequence, snow, tiger, transportation, umbrella, woodpecker, zebra

Alec's primer | by Pitts-Walter, Mildred

Alec was a slave who wanted to be free. Ms. Josephine, one of his masters and three years older than him, told Alic if he wanted to be free he needed to learn to read. Ms. Josephine taught him to read and when Alec was old enough he couragously fights in the Civil War and obtained his freedom.

Keywords: accomplishment, african american, alphabet, ambition, assertiveness, author's note, biography, books, courage, critical thinking, freedom, goal setting, hard work, learning, multicultural, museum, peace, photograph, prejudice, racism, reading, self esteem, slavery, verbal communication, war

Zolo a b z: An alphabet book | by Glaser, Byron // Higashi, Sandra

Learn your alphabet with a dog named Ozlo. Bright illustrations and imaginative characters form a rhythmic pattern of rhyme and fun words.

Keywords: adventures, alphabet, animals, birds, bug, dog, flamingo, future, letters, nonverbal communication, play, rhyme, rhythm

Nutshell library | by Sendak, Maurice

A set of four tiny books, each presenting its own individual message, cleverly, through the use of rhyme, illustrations, numbers and the alphabet.

Keywords: alligator, alphabet, apathy, autumn, behavior, calendar, caring, counting, decision making, feelings, misbehavior, month, nonverbal communication, numbers, seasons, stress management, summer, variety, winter

Amelia to zora | by Chin-Lee, Cynthia

Explore in an alphabet formula, biographies that examine different successes and triumphs of famous women in history from Amelia Earhart to Zora Neale.

All butterflies | by Brown, Marcia

Let's use every letter of the alphabet to tell a story about different animals, Valentine's Day, Christmas, and the zoo.

Keywords: alphabet, animals, butterfly, cat, christmas, elephant, giraffe, holidays, insects, letters, lion, mouse, raccoon, reptiles, turtle, valentine's day, zoo

Teacher! Sharing, helping, caring | by Hubbell, Patricia

Great big school! In we go! Our teacher greets us, waves hello! A teacher and her class do lots of interesting things throughout the week. They paint, read, look at weather charts, count money, work on the computer, and greet a special guest. The students not only learn, but they have fun, too. And so does the teacher!

Keywords: african american, alphabet, art, asian american, careers, caring, computer, cooperation, Days of The Week, garden, helping, learning, multicultural, music, numbers, playground, reading, role model, school, teaching

My kindergarten | by Wells, Rosemary

Kindergarten is no longer a mystery, thanks to Emily who illustrates the lessons and activities in Miss Cribbageﾒs classroom. Many concepts are explored in this kindergarten classroom. Poems, songs, and activities keep the lessons light-hearted and enjoyable.

Keywords: african american, alphabet, art, calendar, celebration, colors, critical thinking, dancing, Days of The Week, decision making, exercise, flowers, hanukkah, hebrew, holidays, kwanzaa, latin, letters, library, maps, math, money, month, moon, multicultural, museum, music, photograph, poetry, politics, rain, school, science, self esteem, sequence, snow, song, temperature, valentine's day, weather, wind

Food for thought: The complete book of concepts for growing minds | by Freymann, Saxton

Fruits and vegetables are strategically carved to emulate people and animals in order to teach shapes, colors, numbers, letters, and opposites. Readers can learn these skills while being entertained by the creative use of healthy foods.

Keywords: airplane, alphabet, animals, ant, birds, cat, colors, counting, dog, duck, elephant, feelings, fish, flowers, food, frog, giraffe, guinea pig, happiness, insects, kangaroo, letters, numbers, opposites, penguin, sadness, shapes, sheep, sizes, snake, turtle, umbrella

Ashanti to zulu: African traditions | by Musgrove, Margaret

Explains some traditions and customs of twenty-six African tribes beginning with the letters from A to Z.

Keywords: africa, african, alphabet, animals, boat, bodies of water, cattle, celebration, clothing, community, crocodile, dancing, family, farmer, fishing, geography, instruments, language, maps, multicultural, music, nonfiction, nonverbal communication, parrot, play, prayer, river, symbols, traditions, transportation

Wild animals of Africa, abc | by Ryden, Hope

African animals are photographed in alphabetical order ranging from aardvark to zebra.

Keywords: african, alphabet, animals, multicultural, sequence

The circus alphabet | by Bronson, Linda

Come along on a circus adventure. Each illustration depicts a letter of the alphabet that relates to the overall circus theme.

Keywords: acrobat, alphabet, animals, balloon, circus, dog, elephant, giraffe, juggling, kangaroo, lion, monkey, sequence, toys, vocabulary, walrus, zebra

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