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The camel who took a walk

Tworkov, Jack

In this book, the forest is waking up and the sun is slowly rising. A camel takes a walk through the forest and approaches other animals who have come up with a plan. However, the camel turns around before he reaches the other animals and their plan falls through.

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animals, anticipation, camel, exercise, forest, morning, sun, walking

Spring comes to the forest

Gunthorp, Karen

Several animals from the forest are excited because spring has arrived. The animals make sure all their friends wake up to begin their work.

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animals, badger, bear, beaver, birds, canary, excitement, feelings, forest, happiness, seasons, spring

All ready for winter

Adelson, Leone

How do animals get ready for winter? Is it different from how children get ready for winter?

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animals, conflict resolution, critical thinking, differences, food, preparation, responsibilities, seasons, similarities, winter

What's what?A guessing game

Serfozo, Mary

In order to find out what is soft and hard, warm and cold, wet and dry, long and short, and light and dark, come along and play this unique guessing game.

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adventures, animals, body parts, colors, dog, feelings, food, fun, happiness, rain, school, train, transportation

The pig's picnic

Kasza, Keiko

Mr. Pig goes to Miss Pig's to invite her for a picnic and on the way gets advice on how he should look from others. He finds he is better off just being himself.

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animals, food, fox, friendship, lion, peer resistance, picnic, pig, self esteem, zebra

The itch book

Dragonwagon, Crescent

On a hot summer day in the Ozarks, the itch begins. It's an itch epidemic and no one can escape it. Finally, without even discussing it, the whole town shows up at King Creek for a social picnic full of cold, itch-freeing water.

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animals, beverage, community, conflict resolution, cow, dog, food, horse, nonverbal communication, nutrition, picnic, swimming, verbal communication, water

Applebet: An abc

Watson, Clyde

A girl picks shiny red apples, fills her cart, and takes off to the county fair. Judges at the fair decide who brought the best pumpkins, jelly, and apples. The winner takes the prize.

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animals, autumn, competition, conflict resolution, fair, food, nutrition, rain, seasons, transportation, weather

Peanut butter and jelly

Westcott, Nadine Bernard

Through a rhyme, two little children show how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

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animals, cooperation, elephant, family, food, nutrition, parents, rhyme, sequence, siblings, teamwork

Mr. rabbit and the lovely present

Zolotow, C.

A girl looks for a birthday present for her mother. She has no money so she asks Mr. Rabbit for help. She tells Mr. Rabbit the various colors that her mom likes. In the end, her mother receives a beautiful fruit basket.

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animals, birthday, colors, conflict resolution, decision making, food, holidays, nutrition, poverty, presents, rabbit, stress management, verbal communication

The bowl of fruit

Dunbar, Joyce

Pand and Gander have a big bowl of fruit to share. They each take their favorite fruit, but Gander's pomegranate takes much longer to eat than Panda's pear. As Panda finishes his piece, he takes another, and another. By the time Gander is done with his pomegranate there are only a few cherries left. Even though sharing is hard, the friends share the last few cherries.

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animals, conflict resolution, food, friendship, fun, goose, greed, hunger, nutrition, panda, sharing, verbal communication

Yummers!

Marshall, James

Emily, the pig, decides she needs to lose weight. She takes a walk then eats everything in sight. Eugene Turtle suggests that walking is a good way for losing weight.

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animals, assertiveness, body image, conflict resolution, exercise, food, friendship, goal setting, hunger, nutrition, overeating, pig, recreation, refusal skills, reptiles, stress management, turtle, walking, weight loss

Autumn story

Barklem, Jill

A little mouse, Primrose, goes berry picking all by herself. Soon, it begins to get dark and she cannot find her way home. Her parents are worried and go looking for her. When they find Primrose, they take her home to her comfy bed.

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animals, conflict resolution, family, food, lost, mouse, nutrition, responsibilities

Little pink pig

Hutchins, Pat

When Little Pink Pig's mother is calling him for bedtime, his head is buried in apples and he can't hear her. As his mother goes around the barnyard gathering animals to help her find her son, Little Pink Pig keeps falling into places where he can't hear the animals' calls to him.

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animals, cow, family, farm, five senses, food, hearing, helping, horse, lost, nutrition, parents, pig, sheep, sounds

Milk from cow to carton

Aliki.

Describes the steps of milking a cow then processing it at a dairy. Children also learn how butter and cheese are made from milk.

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animals, cow, farm, food, nutrition

Breakfast time, ernest and celestine

Vincent, Gabrielle

When Celestine, a mouse, breaks a cup, her bear friend Ernest offers to help her clean up the mess. But Celestine thinks that is is her responsibility.

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animals, assertiveness, bear, conflict resolution, decision making, family, food, mouse, nutrition, parents, responsibilities, verbal communication

Miranda's day to dance

Schaefer, Jackie Jasina

Miranda collects tropical fruit each day of the week in order to make a headdress to wear on Sunday, which is her day to dance. Fruits such as bananas, pineapples, and raspberries are shown with a different animal indigenous to South America.

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animals, author's note, counting, dancing, exercise, food, jungle, multicultural, nutrition, south american, time

Something queer in rock and roll

Levy, Elizabeth

A group of young friends start a music group and want to enter a contest. Their dog, Arnold, howls in their song It's a Dog's Life. A boy from another group sabotages them by feeding Arnold so much pizza that he will not howl anymore.

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animals, competition, conflict resolution, deception, dog, food, friendship, music, nutrition, pets, problem solving

Snow on snow on snow

Chapman, Cheryl

Playing in the winter snow leads to a search for a missing companion.

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animals, clothing, companion, dog, food, friendship, loss, missing, nutrition, play, seasons, snow, winter

Hannah's farm

McCurdy, Michael

Hannah helps her family cut wood, plant crops, gather crops, and make Christmas dinner on their farm in the early days of America. She discovers that her job changes with the seasons.

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animals, autumn, change, christmas, cow, dog, family, farm, food, grandparents, helping, history, holidays, horse, nutrition, parents, pioneers, plants, responsibilities, seasons, siblings, spring, summer, winter

Too many cooks...

Kneen, Maggie

Twenty well known proverbs are given meaning through clever illustrations featuring animals in a variety of situations. Some of the proverbs illustrated include, Too many cooks spoil the broth, Half a loaf is better than none, and Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

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animals, author's note, bear, birds, cat, dog, duck, elephant, flamingo, food, fox, horse, mouse, nutrition, owl, pig

Orange juice

Chanko, Pamela//Chessen, Betsey

Do you ever wonder where orange juice comes from?Follow the growth of an orange from a tiny seedling to the ripe, juicy fruit that is squeezed to make orange juice.

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animals, beverage, birds, cycle, farm, five senses, flowers, food, history, nutrition, plants, reproduction, sequence, sight, taste, wood

The tale of squirrel nutkin

Potter, Beatrix

Nutkin is a little squirrel with no manners. Nutkin and the other squirrels ask Old Brown the owl if they can gather nuts. Nutkin is very disrespectful and bothers Old Brown. Old Brown bites Nutkin's tail off. Nutkin learns a hard lesson.

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animals, conflict resolution, disobedience, food, island, learning, misbehavior, nonverbal communication, nutrition, owl, rhyme, squirrel, verbal communication

Bon appetit, mr. rabbit!

Boujon, Claude

Mr. Rabbit does not like carrots, so he investigates what his other animal friends eat. Based on his findings, Mr. Rabbit decides carrots are not so bad after all!

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animals, assertiveness, conflict resolution, decision making, food, friendship, investigation, nutrition, rabbit, verbal communication

Spaghetti for suzy

Coplans, Peta

Spaghetti is Suzy's favorite food. In fact, she has it for every meal. While at the park eating spaghetti, Suzy meets some animals who ask to borrow pieces of her spaghetti to replace shoelaces, fishing line, or yarn for knitting. After they have taken all of her spaghetti, the animals bring Suzy some fruit. The fruit is almost as good a spaghetti!

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animals, cat, dog, food, nutrition, pig

Hi, pizza man!

Walter, Virginia

A young girl waits anxiously for the pizza man to arrive. While she waits, her mother asks her how she would greet the delivery boy if he were a woman, cat, dog, duck, cow, snake, or dinosaur.

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animals, anticipation, birds, cat, cow, dinosaur, dog, duck, food, manners, nutrition, reptiles, snake, 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

Gregory, the noisiest and strangest boy in grangers grove

Bright, Robert

Gregory is the noisiest and strangest boy in Grangers Grove, and he knows it. One day he goes to his grandma's house for griddle cakes. All she needs is a few eggs, but Gregory is too busy showing off to listen.

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animals, bear, change, family, farm, food, grandparents, growing up, mule, noise, nutrition, pride, self esteem

The oreo cookie counting book

Albee, Sarah

From 10 to 1, it's Oreo counting fun. Practice counting down from 10 to 1 with the help of Oreo cookies. Oh, some friends have come along to help. Turn the page and find out how many Oreos are left.

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activities, animals, baby, bear, beverage, birthday, cat, celebration, counting, dog, elephant, food, magic, numbers, nutrition, rabbit, sequence, sharing, zoo

$The hershey's milk chocolate bar fractions book$

The hershey's milk chocolate bar fractions book

Pallotta, Jerry

Unwrap a Hershey's milk chocolate bar and read along as chocolate pieces become math fractions. Learn about parts of a whole, numerators, denominators, and fractions. Take a trip to count more fractions on the farm. Visit the chocolate factory and the cacao trees where cocoa pods grow.

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animals, colors, counting, cow, farm, food, math, numbers, nutrition, picnic, plants, recipe, sequence

William's shadow

Austin, Margot

William the woodchuck wakes up after hibernation and is starving. William's friends bring him his meals in bed one day because they do not want him to see his shadow.

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animals, assertiveness, decision making, food, friendship, groundhog's day, holidays, nutrition, peer resistance, refusal skills, seasons, verbal communication, woodchuck

Peeping beauty

Auch, Mary Jane

Poulette, the dancing hen, dreams of becoming a ballerina someday. A hungry fox tries to trick Poulette onto his dinner plate by appealing to her dreams of dancing in a New York show. It is Poulette that ends up deserving the applause in the end.

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animals, birds, chicken, conflict resolution, critical thinking, dancing, deception, dreams, exercise, food, fox, self esteem, stress management, trick

Two good friends

Delton, Judy

A duck stays at home and cleans his house all day. His friend, Bear, comes to visit and tries to find something to eat. Bear cannot find anything and they go to Bear's house to cook some food.

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animals, assertiveness, bear, birds, conflict resolution, decision making, food, friendship, nutrition, responsibilities, shelter, teamwork, verbal communication

The shopping basket

Burningham, John

Steve is sent to the store with a list. On his way home, he is approached by many animals demanding his food. He tricks the animals and goes home with all of his groceries.

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animals, assertiveness, conflict resolution, critical thinking, food, refusal skills, stress management, verbal communication

My five senses

Aliki

How do you taste your favorite food or see an airplane in the sky?Your five senses let you see, hear, touch, taste, and smell. You may use one sense or several at one time. Wherever you go and whatever you do, your senses are always working for you.

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airplane, animals, awareness, baby, bear, birds, body parts, cat, dog, dolls, fire engine, five senses, food, frog, games, hearing, moon, rabbit, sight, smell, stars, taste, touch, toys, tree

Bear mouse

Freschet, Bernice

Follows the natural habitat of a mouse who must feed her family, dodge predators, and search for food during the winter.

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animals, family, food, habitat, mouse, seasons, winter

The pea patch jig

Hurd, Thacher

Farmer Clem had a beautiful garden. He shares his garden with another family that he did not know about - mice!Baby mouse is always up to something and keeps her parents very busy.

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animals, assertiveness, baby, careers, conflict resolution, family, farm, food, garden, grandparents, mouse, parents, party

The tale of mr. todd

Potter, Beatrix

When Tommy Brock kidnaps baby rabbits and plans on eating them for breakfast, Benjamin Bunny and Peter Rabbit must come up with a plan to rescue the babies. To their luck, Mr. Todd and Tommy Brock get into a fight and forget the breakfast.

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animals, baby, badger, fight, food, fox, rabbit, rescue

Arthur's christmas cookies

Hoban, Lillian

Arthur decides to bake some cookies for his parents for their Christmas presents. Even though they turn out badly, Arthur finds another way to make wonderful presents out of his cookies.

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activities, animals, assertiveness, celebration, chimpanzee, christmas, cooking, critical thinking, family, food, friendship, giving, helping, holidays, money, monkey, nonverbal communication, nutrition, parents, party, preparation, presents, sharing, siblings, snow, teamwork, teeth, verbal communication, weather, winter

The little blind goat

Wahl, Jan

Casimiro, the hero, overcomes his disability in this tale of perserverance. The world is not always kind to our disabled friends, but with a little hard work anything can be overcome.

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accomplishment, animals, blindness, boat, cooperation, critical thinking, dancing, disability, exercise, family, folktale, hard work, listening, loneliness, lost, siblings, smell, stress management, swimming, taste, verbal communication, vision

Rosie's fiddle

Root, Phyllis

Rosie O'Grady loves being by herself, but people can't stay away when she plays her fiddle. She is so good that they say she could out-fiddle the devil himself!One day, the devil shows up to challenge Rosie to a contest, the devil's golden fiddle for Rosie's soul!

Taste

Rius, Maria

Some foods taste good, while others taste bad. Your tongue senses when foods are sweet, sour, salty, and bland. Learn how your tongue decides which foods you like and don't like.

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animals, bee, birds, cat, duck, five senses, flowers, food, insects, mouse, taste, tree

Listen to the desert

Mora, Pat

With a combination of lyrics in English and Spanish, this poem describes different sounds of the desert. Each page describes new sounds for a frog, coyote, rain, wind, and snake.

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amphibians, animals, coyote, desert, five senses, frog, language, lyrics, multicultural, poetry, rain, reptiles, snake, sounds, spanish, weather, wind

Hearing

Rius, Maria

Listen -- can you hear the birds chirping? Can you hear the chimes of the bells? Listen to the children sing and the waves splash. Your ears can hear so much if you use your sense to listen.

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animals, birds, body parts, dog, five senses, hearing, listening, music, school, sounds, train

Nightfall: Country lake

Cunningham, David

Imagine the sights and sounds of summertime by a country lake. During bright mornings, hot afternoons, and clear summer nights, the lake is full of life and beauty. Watch deer drink out of the lake and listen to frogs croak with delight as summer arrives.

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amphibians, animals, beauty, birds, bodies of water, cat, deer, five senses, frog, insects, lake, nonverbal communication, owl, peace, seasons, sounds, summer, sun

Find the cat

Livermore, Elaine

A dog is looking for his bone and suddenly smells the scent of a cat. The reader and the dog must find the cat.

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animals, cat, dog, five senses, observation, pets, smell

Tuesday

Wiesner, David

Wonderful illustrations show what might happen with different animals at night. There sure are a lot of frogs. Can frogs fly?

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amphibians, animals, five senses, frog, night, pig, sight, sounds

Night in the country

Rylant, Cynthia

Night is a dark experience. In the country, you hear very different sounds when it is this dark.

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amphibians, animals, cat, cow, dog, five senses, frog, night, sounds

Possum and the peeper

Hunter, Anne

Possum is determined to find out who has awakened him and all his animal friends from their winter naps. They soon discover that the Peep!Peep!Peep! is coming from an ambitious frog who is ready to begin spring.

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amphibians, animals, five senses, frog, hibernation, morning, nature, opossum, seasons, sleep, sounds, spring, verbal communication

Faraway drums

Kroll, Virginia

Jamila has the important responsibility of watching her little sister when their mom goes to work. While trying to ignore unfamiliar creepy sounds, Jamila comforts her sister and herself by recalling their grandmother's stories about their native homeland, Africa.

And if the moon could talk

Banks, Kate

A young child gets ready for bed. Her father reads her a book, and her mother tucks her into bed. Soon, she is fast asleep and dreaming. The moon watches from outside as the world prepares for nightfall.

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animals, beach, bedtime, boat, books, crab, desert, donkey, dreams, family, fire, five senses, lion, lizard, moon, night, parents, rabbit, reading, sleep, stars, storytelling, wind

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