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Popcorn at the palace

McCully, Emily Arnold

Based on real events, Maisie Ferris, a girl from the mid-1800s, and her family don't really fit in with their neighbors in the small town of Galesburg, Illinois with their new ideas. They take one of their American creations, popcorn, to England and impress everyone with their corn that turns to snow.

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american, animals, assertiveness, author's note, boat, carriage, cow, creativity, dolls, english, family, farm, food, garden, history, horse, imagination, multicultural, neighbors, nutrition, pioneers, royalty, self esteem, snow, spiritual, transportation, travel

Tim's friend towser

Ardizzone, Edward

Tim and Ginger are cabin boys who find a dog on the S.S. Royal. The captain does not like dogs, so they try to find it a home every time they go to shore. When the captain finds the dog in hiding, he scolds the boys. In the end, the boys get to keep the dog.

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animals, boat, bodies of water, careers, conflict resolution, decision making, dog, friendship, hiding, pets, responsibilities, transportation, travel

Little toot

Gramatky, Hardie

Little Toot is known only to play, but when he decides to work, no one lets him. So he drifts away to the ocean where he saves a big liner who gets stuck between rocks.

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boat, bodies of water, careers, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, helping, ocean, transportation

Rhymes for annie rose

Hughes, Shirley

More than twenty rhymes tell about the daily life and activities of a young girl named Annie Rose. The playful poems cover several topics including animals, people, seasons, routines and adventures that children love.

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adventures, animals, bedtime, behavior, birds, boat, body parts, clothing, counting, cow, dancing, day, dog, dolls, dreams, food, friendship, games, garden, imagination, mice, moon, morning, nature, neighbors, night, numbers, playing, poetry, presents, rain, rhyme, sand, sea, seasons, sheep, snow, summer, sun, toys, tree, water, weather, winter

Re-zoom

Banyai, Istvan

Re-zoom represents a series of scenes, each from farther away. For example, an Indian is on a wrist watch worn by a man, who is painting a wall. Re-zoom illustrates different perspectives of the same scenes. (A Wordless Book).

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acting, activities, actor, animals, art, biking, boat, car, dog, egyptian, elephant, food, illusion, island, jungle, multicultural, nutrition, perspective, reading, subway, time, transportation, volcano

The forgotten bear

Joerns, Consuelo

Stuck on an island attic and very lonely, Sam Bear sends a message in a bottle to a boy named Peter. Peter finds Sam Bear and they sail away into a storm!When Sam Bear's firecrackers are struck by lightning, they light the stormy sky, and help is found.

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adventures, animals, bear, boat, bodies of water, island, loneliness, rescue, sea, sky, storm, transportation, travel, weather

Amelia bedelia goes camping

Parish, Peggy

Amelia Bedielia follows exact instructions given to her on a camping trip, including rowing boats and pitching the tent.

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boat, camping, confusion, decision making, literal interpretation, recreation, stress management, travel, verbal communication

Birdie's lighthouse

Hopkinson, Deborah

Ten year-old Bertha, daughter of a lighthouse keeper, receives a diary for her birthday. She records significant family events such as their relocation to rugged Turtle Island and the time when her brother went to sea for a long time.

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author's note, birds, birthday, boat, bodies of water, bravery, calendar, careers, challenges, change, courage, diary, family, fishing, fog, growing up, hard work, helping, heroism, island, light, moving, ocean, recreation, responsibilities, sea, seagull, seal, ship, storytelling, stress management, transportation, verbal communication, weather, writing

The foxes of chironupp island

Takahashi, Hiroyuki

An old man and his wife return every spring to Chironupp Island, an island off the coast of Japan. Right before the war, the couple befriends a young fox cub, Tiny.

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adventures, aggression, animals, asian, boat, critical thinking, death, disappearance, family, fox, friendship, island, japanese, multicultural, reunion, seasons, spring, stress management, war

Katie Morag and the two grandmothers

Hedderwick, Mairi

Katie Morag eagerly waits for the arrival of her Grandma Mainland who lives in the big city. Upon her arrival, Grannie Island, Katie's other grandmother tries to get Alecina, the prize sheep out of the murkey pool. Likewise the judging for the best ewe and fleece trophy is about to begin when Katie Morag saves the day.

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anger, animals, boat, conflict resolution, critical thinking, family, feelings, grandparents, happiness, island, nonverbal communication, sheep, stress management, transportation, vacation

Mommy go away

Jonell, Lynne//Mathers, Petra

Christopher is tired of his mommy telling him what to do. Christopher tells his mommy to go away. Suddenly, mommy shrinks to the size of a toy and he sends her away on a toy boat in his bathtub. After Mommy's scary adventure, she realizes that it is rough being little.

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adventures, anger, bath, bedtime, boat, change, conflict resolution, fear, feelings, hygiene, imagination, love, manners, sizes, toys, verbal communication, water

Grandmother and the runaway shadow

Rosenberg, Liz

A young girl escapes alone to America and finds companionship in a runaway shadow. They experience their new world together.

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american, author's note, boat, careers, clothing, dancing, differences, exercise, family, feelings, friendship, grandparents, imagination, immigrants, loneliness, running away, shadows, transportation, travel

Tiger watch

Wahl, Jan

When a tiger in the village causes trouble, Azad and his father are sent out to search for it. When Azad comes face to face with the tiger, it changes his outlook on hunting.

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anger, animals, assertiveness, birds, birthday, boat, bodies of water, change, community, exercise, family, fear, feelings, food, goat, holidays, hunting, monkey, nonverbal communication, nutrition, parents, reptiles, river, running, sadness, self esteem, sleep, tiger, transportation, walking, weather, wind, woodpecker, zoo

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

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

Beach ball

Sis, Peter

Mary and her mother visit the beach. They see numbers, opposites, letters, and shapes. There are many fun things to do at the beach.

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beach, boat, bodies of water, colors, critical thinking, differences, fishing, letters, numbers, opposites, play, sequence, shapes, swimming, transportation

Carolina shout!

Schroeder, Alan

Delia who lives in Charleston, South Carolina and hears music wherever she goes. But her sister, Bettina, cannot hear music. So Delia shows her that music is everywhere. You just have to listen, especially along the streets and harbor of this historical city.

Shout! Shout it out!

Fleming, Denise

Children love to shout and show what they know, so let them do both! A mouse demonstrates to children how to identify numbers, letters, animals, and modes of transportation.

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alphabet, animals, bee, birds, boat, bus, car, cat, chicken, colors, cow, dog, duck, fly, goat, hamster, horse, identification, insects, letters, numbers, pig, rabbit, sheep, train, transportation, truck, verbal communication

The hundred penny box

Mathis, Sharon B.

Michael greatly admires his great-great Aunt Dew. He likes to sit with her while she sleeps or sings her long song. She dances with him and helps him count her hundred pennies in a special box. When Michael's mother attempts to take the special box and other belongings of Aunt Drew, Michael takes a stand and defends his aging Aunt.

Henry the sailor cat

Calhoun, Mary

Henry the cat stows away on a boat. Henry is discovered by a father and his son. When a storm starts, the father falls overboard. Henry helps the son rescue his father.

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adventures, animals, boat, bodies of water, cat, critical thinking, family, nonverbal communication, parents, rescue, sea, storm, transportation, weather

The amazing felix

McCully, Emily Arnold

Even on the boat, Felix has to play the piano and practice but he can't sit still. After watching the magic show, he decides he'd rather practice that. Felix ends up saving the day and amazing his father.

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assertiveness, boat, critical thinking, family, heroism, lost, magic, parents, practice, siblings, transportation, verbal communication

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

Neeny coming, neeny going

English, Karen

Neeny and her mom move to the big city on the mainland. They leave behind the rest of their family including Neeny's best friend, her cousin. Neeny comes back for a visit but she has changed. However, on her last night on the island Neeny once again has fun with her cousin.

My father who has 10 children

Guettier, Benedicte

A devoted father works hard to take care of his ten children day and night. He decides to get away and sail around the world, until he realizes something is missing and returns home.

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bath, bedtime, boat, car, child care, clothing, cooking, counting, family, fishing, food, grandparents, numbers, parents, relaxation, school, sleep, stress management, transportation

Little tim and the brave sea captain

Ardizzone, Edward

Tim wants to be a sailor, so he stows away on a boat. He stays on the boat until a storm overturns it, and then he heads for home.

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assertiveness, boat, bodies of water, conflict resolution, critical thinking, family, feelings, goal setting, happiness, parents, rain, refusal skills, sadness, sea, self esteem, transportation, verbal communication, weather

Tim all alone

Ardizzone, Edward

Tim, a little boy, comes home after being at sea to find his parents have moved. He goes out looking for them. He travels on different boats and stays with different people. Then, one day by luck, he finds his parents.

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assertiveness, boat, bodies of water, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, family, feelings, goal setting, happiness, parents, rain, refusal skills, sadness, sea, transportation, verbal communication, weather, wind

Louie's goose

Ehrlich, H.M.

Louie's toy goose goes everywhere he goes. Sometimes the goose needs to be fixed. Louie's mom and dad, and even the sun, fixes the goose.

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accidents, accomplishment, affection, animals, assertiveness, beach, birds, boat, bodies of water, caring, clams, coping, crab, critical thinking, crustaceans, decision making, disappointment, dog, exercise, family, feelings, goose, happiness, helping, ocean, parents, play, sadness, sand, seagull, seasons, self confidence, self esteem, song, summer, swimming, toys, verbal communication

The moon lady

Tan, Amy

Grandma Nai-Nai tells her granddaughters the stories of when she was a seven year old girl in China. One story was about going to see the moon lady and being granted a wish.

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animals, asian, assertiveness, boat, chinese, determination, family, grandparents, multicultural, self esteem, siblings, storytelling, tiger, verbal communication, wish

On our vacation

Rockwell, Anne

The bear family takes a vacation to an island. They pack their things and hit the road. They see many water activities from the deck of the boat. After pitching their tent they begin a busy two weeks of swimming, fishing, and many other fun activities.

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animals, beach, bear, boat, bodies of water, car, exercise, family, food, motorcycle, nutrition, ocean, rain, seasons, summer, swimming, transportation, travel, truck, walking, weather

Mother osprey

Nolan, Lucy

What if Jack and Jill had been playing on a nice soft sand dune instead of that treacherous hill? And suppose Mary's pet wasn't really a lamb? What if Mary had a little clam? This collection retells Mother Goose rhymes and celebrates America's coastlines and waterways from sea to shining sea.

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activities, adventures, animals, author's note, birds, boat, bodies of water, clams, fish, flamingo, jellyfish, lighthouse, lobster, mermaids, ocean, pelican, poetry, rhythm, sand, seagull

Beware the dragons!

Wilson, S.

Tildy sets sail over Spooner Bay, being warned to beware of the dragons. When she encounters the dragons, she finds them friendly, and realizes that they only want to play. She decides to teach the town about the friendly dragons.

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assertiveness, bias, boat, community, conflict resolution, critical thinking, dragons, safety, stereotypes, teaching, transportation, travel, verbal communication

Sea-fari deep

Woodman, Nancy

The JASON Project is studies underwater life in Mexico. When Dusty finds out about this, she writes the scientists to ask if she can go along. During her adventures, Dusty learns all about deep sea plants and animals. It is the adventure of her life!

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adventures, animals, assertiveness, author's note, boat, bodies of water, car, careers, discovery, dolphin, exploration, family, fish, garden, geography, letters, lobster, maps, mexican, numbers, photograph, plants, science, sea, sequence, siblings, storm, temperature, transportation, travel, verbal communication, volcano, water, weather, whale

Holiday for edith and the bears

Wright, D.

A doll, Edith, and Little Bear are told about boats by Big Bear. Little Bear is told not to go on a boat, but he and Edith disobey and get lost in the big ocean. Big Bear saves them and they learn their lesson about going on a boat by themselves.

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animals, assertiveness, bear, boat, bodies of water, critical thinking, decision making, disobedience, dolls, goal setting, learning, lost, ocean, refusal skills, rescue, safety, transportation, verbal communication

Complete adventures of curious george

Rey, Al//Rey, H.A.

A compilation of Curious George stories show his adventures which range from getting a job, riding a bike, getting a medal, flying a kite, learning the alphabet, and going to the hospital.

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alphabet, animals, balloon, bicycle, boat, bodies of water, books, circus, conflict resolution, curiosity, decision making, doctor, elephant, emotions, fire, hospital, kite, letters, monkey, newspaper, river, sequence, symbols, verbal communication, work, writing

Seven brave women

Hearne, Betsy

A young girl tells the story of her family's history. She explains how each of her female ancestors played a very important role in the shaping of this family's history.

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aging, airplane, anger, animals, art, author's note, basketball, boat, careers, coping, farm, feelings, flowers, german, god, grandparents, history, horse, hospital, instruments, loneliness, loss, medicine, multicultural, music, native american, parents, school, science, sports, storytelling, transportation, war

Grandmas at the lake

McCully, Emily Arnold

Pip and Ski go on a camping trip with their Grandmas Nan and Sal who cannot agree on anything. The kids do not have any fun until they take a boat into the middle of the lake, and the Grandmas learned to compromise.

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boat, bodies of water, camping, compromise, conflict resolution, decision making, family, grandparents, happiness, lake, summer, verbal communication, walking

Bayberry bluff

Lent, Blair

Bayberry Bluff starts out as a summer tenting island but some of the campers wish to extend their visit. The campers stay and the little island becomes a small village with houses instead of tents.

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boat, change, community, island, seasons, summer, transportation, vacation

The boats on the river

Flack, Marjorie

There are many, many different kinds of boats that float down the river. The river comes from the mountains, by the city, and out to the sea.

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boat, bodies of water, community, fog, mountains, river, sea, transportation, weather

One lighthouse, one moon

Lobel, Anita

Nini the cat takes an exciting journey in which he discovers the concepts of color, days of the week, months of the year, and numbers. Nini sees a different colored pair of shoes each day of the week, explores a variety of activities during each month of the year, and counting the sights that surround the sea where he finally comes to one hundred stars and one moon lighting up the sky around the lighthouse.

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birth, boat, christmas, clothing, colors, Days of The Week, discovery, exploration, flag, fourth of july, goose, hanukkah, holidays, month, moon, numbers, pelican, sea, seagull, seasons, sequence, sky, stars, thanksgiving, valentine's day, whale

Changes, changes

Hutchins, Pat

Two dolls work together to build various things. They build a house, a boat, and a train out of wooden blocks. (A Wordless Book)

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boat, change, colors, cooperation, creativity, dolls, feelings, happiness, sadness, toys, train, transportation

Sheep in wolves' clothing

Kitamura, Satoshi

Three sheep go to the beach for the last swim of the year and ask some wolves to watch their fleecy coats. When they return from their swim, they find that their wool is gone. They hire a detective to solve the mystery of their stolen wool.

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adventures, animals, beach, boat, car, clothing, conflict resolution, crime, critical thinking, fight, golf, investigation, mystery, nonverbal communication, robbery, sand, sheep, sports, transportation, trick, verbal communication, water, wolf

Bobby shafto's gone to sea

Taylor, Mark

This is a story about a man who had no experience on a ship. When he was forced to sail, he ruined everything. However, in the end, he managed to save the ship with his musical talent.

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boat, bodies of water, careers, conflict resolution, critical thinking, music, safety, sea, transportation, verbal communication

Noah's ark

Haley, Gail E.

Noah dreams about an empty zoo with extinct animal signs, so he builds an ark to save the animals from the badly polluted environment.

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animals, boat, careers, conflict resolution, critical thinking, dreams, environment, helping, verbal communication, zoo

The maggie b.

Haas, Irene

A little girl wishes she could sail all day on a boat. Her wish comes true when she gets to sail on a boat named for her best friend, maggie b.

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assertiveness, boat, bravery, conflict resolution, decision making, dreams, friendship, imagination, nonverbal communication, self esteem, transportation, verbal communication

Coral island

Mordivnoff, Nicolas

Terii dreams of growing bigger so he can become a pearl-shell diver like his Uncle Teopu. Uncle Teopu always tells Terii that he will grow bigger when Teopu's hat is all worn out. Whe Terii saves the hat from Kaveka, Uncle Teopu let Terii paddle the canoe. After he saves Teopu from a shark, Terii is ready to become a diver.

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activities, animals, assertiveness, beach, birds, boat, bodies of water, careers, cat, celebration, dog, dreams, exercise, feelings, fishing, food, fun, growing up, happiness, horse, island, nonverbal communication, nutrition, party, relief, running, sea, shark, swimming, verbal communication, walking

Watch the stars come out (Mira como salen las estrellas)

Levinson, Riki

A girl's grandma tells her a bedtime story on Friday night of her mother's journey to the New World. She tells the girl how much she is like her great grandmother.

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boat, bodies of water, courage, family, grandparents, ocean, siblings, similarities, stars, storytelling, transportation, travel

Tim in danger

Ardizzone, Edward

Ginger, a little boy, runs away to live on a ship, and Tim and Charlotte go after him. They both join the crew on another ship and work. Their ship collides with Ginger's ship. Ginger comes aboard. They all work and go back home to their parents.

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assertiveness, birthday, boat, bodies of water, critical thinking, decision making, family, fog, food, goal setting, holidays, nutrition, ocean, parents, stress management, train, transportation, verbal communication, weather

The thanksgiving story

Dalgliesh, Alice

The pilgrims voyage across the ocean from England to the new world. Many hardships await them in America, but they are determined to get there. After a long, cold winter and a beautiful spring, summer and autumn, the pilgrims celebrate Thanksgiving with the Indians.

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