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Garth pig steals the show

Rayner, Mary

The Pig Family puts on a musical concert for charity, and during their performance, they discover that their newest member, a lady sousaphonist, is there for more than helping pigs.

Garth pig and the ice cream lady

Rayner, Mary

When Garth Pig goes to buy ice cream for himself and his nine brothers and sisters, he is kidnapped in the ice cream truck by a wolf pretending to be the ice cream lady. His siblings come to rescue him.

Oliver and amanda and the big snow

Leevwen, Jean Van

Amanda and Oliver are brother and sister pigs who see the first snow of the year. They have many adventures in the snow including building a snow fort, sledding, and making a snow pig.

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animals, clothing, conflict resolution, exercise, family, goal setting, nonverbal communication, parents, pig, play, siblings, sledding, snow, verbal communication, weather, winter

Pigs at christmas

Dubanevich, Arlene

A family of pigs make preparations for Christmas. They get letters to Santa just in time for Christmas.

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animals, christmas, conflict resolution, decision making, family, feelings, holidays, moods, pig, snow, verbal communication, weather

Six hogs on a scooter

Spinelli, Eileen

The hog family wants to go to the opera. But when father Hog's car breaks down, they must find a different mode of transportation. After unsucessfully trying a scooter, roller skates, and other ideas, the six hogs take the bus. By the time they get to the opera, the show is over.

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animals, balloon, bath, bus, car, cleanliness, clothing, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, dog, entertainment, exercise, family, feelings, humor, music, night, opera, pig, skating, sleep, taxi, transportation, travel, wagon

The tale of pigling bland

Potter, Beatrix

Pigling Bland is a young pig who is sent to the market with his brother by his mother. His brother gets taken away and he gets picked up by Mr. Piperson who takes him to his home. There he meets Pig-wig who was stolen by Mr. Piperson. The two of them decide to run away together.

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animals, companion, conflict resolution, decision making, family, pig, running away, siblings, travel, verbal communication

Pigwig and the crusty diamonds

Dyke, John

Pigwig, a pig, goes to a party. At the party, diamonds are stolen by Crusty, and Pigwig goes out and finds them.

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animals, assertiveness, baby, cat, conflict resolution, decision making, family, party, pig, teamwork, transportation

I really want a dog

Breslow, Susan//Blakemore, Sally

A boy really wants a dog, but there is a lot of responsibility that comes with caring for a dog. After considering all that has to be done, the boy picks out the dog he wants.

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animals, assertiveness, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, dog, goal setting, pets, responsibilities, verbal communication

Jeanne-marie at the fair

Francoise.

Jeanne-Marie goes to the fair, and is told not to take her pet sheep. She ties her sheep to the tree. The sheep gets loose and runs to the fair, where he is confronted by a large elephant. Jeanne-Marie saves him.

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animals, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, elephant, peer resistance, pets, sheep, verbal communication

The dog who thought he was a boy

Annett, Cora

Peter gets a dog for his birthday. The dog, Ralph, thinks he is a boy. The family works day after day to try to show Ralph he is a dog and not a boy.

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animals, birthday, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, goal setting, nonverbal communication, pets

Eugene the brave

Conford, Ellen

Eugene, the possum, is afraid of the dark. This is a real problem since possums sleep in the day and look for food at night. When he has to rescue his sister one dark night, he discovers he is brave.

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animals, assertiveness, bravery, conflict resolution, family, fear, food, goal setting, night, opossum, self esteem, siblings, sleep, stress management, verbal communication

Marie louise's heyday

Carlson, Natalie Savage

Marie Louise was having a good day. When she got home, she was asked to babysit five possums. The possums tired her out with all of their activity. The next day, the possums brought her flower and asked if she would babysit again. It was another good day.

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animals, assertiveness, child care, conflict resolution, critical thinking, curiosity, decision making, nonverbal communication, opossum, self esteem, stress management, verbal communication

Mouse tv

Novak, Matt

A mouse family can never agree about what to watch on television. One day their television breaks and they decide to be creative and try other activities. They decide the new activities are better than the television.

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activities, animals, argument, change, conflict resolution, decision making, family, mouse, parents, siblings, television, verbal communication

The church mice spread their wings

Oakley, Graham

Humphrey and the other mice decide to go back to nature, and Sampson, the church cat, follows. They experience lots of adventures and also realize how much they love their home.

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adventures, animals, assertiveness, birds, cat, conflict resolution, exercise, goal setting, homesickness, mouse, owl, rat, verbal communication, walking

Ruby

Emberley, Michael

Ruby, a mouse, has to take cheese pies to her grandmother across town. Her mother has given Ruby strict orders not to talk to strangers, especially cats. When Ruby runs into a cat, she has to find a way to get through a sticky situation.

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animals, assertiveness, cat, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, family, food, grandparents, mouse, nutrition, parents, refusal skills, rules, safety

Walter and the lazy mouse

Flack, Marjorie

A mouse loses his home so he searches to find a new one. When he finds a new home, he makes furniture to lie on. He only leaves to go swimming or teach school.

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animals, change, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, exercise, laziness, mouse, recreation, school, swimming

Muffie mouse and the busy birthday

Nixon, Joan Lowery

Muffie Mouse is determined to help her mom have a good birthday. First, she makes her breakfast. She then makes sure to get along with Tommy Mouse and teaches him to share.

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animals, assertiveness, birthday, celebration, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, helping, holidays, intelligence, mouse, privacy, self esteem, sharing, stress management

Tuttle's shell

Murdocca, Sal

Tuttle, the turtle, loses his shell, so he stays inside a pumpkin. Gradually, he runs into different animals in the forest, and they all pull together to find his shell.

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animals, beaver, birds, caring, conflict resolution, cooperation, critical thinking, friendship, helping, lost, mouse, rabbit, rat, reptiles, shelter, snake, turtle, verbal communication, wolf

Keep your socks on, albert!

Glaser, Linda

Albert and his sister Shirley tell each other stories. They also go to the park and play.

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animals, assertiveness, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, family, monkey, nonverbal communication, opossum, park, peer resistance, play, refusal skills, siblings, stress management, verbal communication

Jingle the christmas clown

dePaola, Tomie

Jingle and Il Circo Riccolo, the little circus, venture off to perform their circus at a little town, as they do every Christmas, on their way to the city. To their surprise, the town is poor, almost abandoned, and can't afford the circus. See how Jingle brightens their Christmas.

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animals, christmas, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, giving, goal setting, holidays, italian, monkey, multicultural, sharing, verbal communication

Willy and hugh

Browne, Anthony

Willy the monkey is alone. One day, Willy becomes friends with Hugh. They do things together like go to the zoo.

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animals, conflict resolution, feelings, friendship, loneliness, monkey, sadness, sizes

Curious george goes to the hospital

Rey, Margret//Rey, H.A.

Curious George needs to go to the hospital. While he is there, he succeeds in making a sad girl very happy and creates a lot of mischief.

Mole music

McPhail, David

Mole lives by himself underground, spending his days digging tunnels. One night her hears the beautiful music from a violin, and he gets one and begins to make wonderful music. Although he thinks he is playing only for himself, his music has an impact on numerous people.

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ambition, animals, conflict resolution, dedication, dreams, goal setting, hobby, instruments, listening, mole, music, nonverbal communication, peace, practice, royalty, success

The picnic: A frolic in two colors and three parts

Daugherty, James

A mouse family goes on a picnic. While walking they run into a sleeping lion who captures one of the mouse children. When the lion lets the mouse go, the family promises that they will one day return the favor. One day, the lion gets into trouble and the mice come to his rescue.

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animals, assertiveness, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, family, fear, lion, loyalty, mouse, picnic, verbal communication

Geraldine, the music mouse

Lionni, Leo

Geraldine the mouse finds a large chunk of cheese. She gnaws the cheese into a statue that plays music. She then learns that she has music in her too.

Frederick's fables

Lionni, Leo

Many animals go through several adventures. Some of them learn lessons, solve conflicts, and make discoveries.

The great zoo hunt

Unwin, Pippa

This is a story about a zoo and a zookeeper who finds ten animals missing. The animals are very clever and hard to find. By looking at the detailed illustrations, the zookeeper tries to find the missing animals.

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animals, careers, conflict resolution, lost, nonverbal communication, zoo

Morris and boris at the circus

Wiseman, B.

Boris takes Morris to the circus where he tries to be an acrobat, a high wire walker, and a lion tamer. In the end, he finds out that he is best at being a clown.

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animals, careers, circus, clowns, conflict resolution, goal setting, gymnastics, lion, nonverbal communication, verbal communication

The happy lion roars

Fatio, Louise

The happy lion is unhappy because all of his friends have mates. His good friend, Francios, takes him to the circus one day and he falls in love with a beautiful lioness. One night, he sneaks out to meet her and takes her back to his cave at the zoo. After many protests, the zoo keeper and the lion trainer decide she can stay. The lion is happy once again.

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animals, assertiveness, circus, conflict resolution, decision making, feelings, friendship, lion, loneliness, love, zoo

Edward, benjamin & butter

Hall, Malcolm

Edward Tapir hopes to cheer up his friend Benjamin Horse. He plays a little joke to get him out of his slump with a pound of butter.

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animals, conflict resolution, critical thinking, feelings, food, friendship, happiness, horse, nutrition, presents, sadness, stress management, tapir, verbal communication

The girl who loved wild horses

Goble, Paul

A young Native American girl is lost in a lightening storm. Horses save her and a Poorqui tale is developed.

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animals, assertiveness, conflict resolution, horse, multicultural, native american, self esteem, storm, stress management

Uncle fonzo's ford

Miles, Miska

A young girl is embarrassed by her uncle's eccentric ways. Through a variety of experiences, she realizes that although he is different, he is dependable, and she loves it.

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animals, assertiveness, car, conflict resolution, decision making, family, horse, nonverbal communication, relationship, transportation

The land of no

Anderson, Jill

Tiffany always hates to be told no, so she dreams up a place called the Land of No. Here, everyone always answers with the word no. Tiffany learns how to word her requests in order to het her way. When she awakes from her dream, her mother answers yes.

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animals, assertiveness, conflict resolution, critical thinking, family, feelings, goal setting, happiness, horse, parents, refusal skills, sadness, self esteem

Flip

Dennis, Wesley

Flip is an early riser and often awakens the other barnyard animals. The animals make up a story to keep Flip busy in the mornings. Flip shocks the animals when he comes back to tell them he saw an imaginary duck.

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animals, barn, communication, conflict resolution, horse, storytelling

The tale of two bad mice

Potter, Beatrix

Two mice raid a little girl's doll house, while the dolls are out one day. They break the dolls belongings and take some things. In the end, the two bad mice have to pay for everything they broke and clean up the mess they made.

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animals, conflict resolution, decision making, dolls, honesty, mischief, mouse, responsibilities, robbery

It's me, hippo!

Thaler, Mike

This story consists of four chapters which relate the troubles that hippo has when building a house, when he is painting a landscape scene, when he is healthy while all of his friends are ill, and finally when hippo's friends throw him a surprise party.

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animals, art, careers, change, conflict resolution, coping, decision making, feelings, friendship, frustration, health, hippopotamus, illness, party, peer resistance, shelter, surprises, verbal communication

The tale of the flopsy bunnies

Potter, Beatrix

The flopsy bunnies fell fast asleep in a ditch outside Mr. McGregor's garden. Mr. McGregor emptied lawn mowing clippings into the ditch and noticed ears standing up. He took the rabbits and dropped them in his sack. Luckily Mrs. Tittlemouse found them and nibbled a hole in the sack so they could escape.

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animals, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, garden, helping, rabbit, rescue, sharing, verbal communication

Princess kalina and the hedgehog

Marshall, F.

Kalina, a very untidy Princess, was ordered to clean up herself and her room. A hedgehog, who was actually a Prince, helped her clean up her room. When everything was cleaned up, he turned back into a Prince and the two were married.

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animals, cleanliness, conflict resolution, fable, hedgehog, helping, hygiene, love, marriage, mythical, nonverbal communication, responsibilities, royalty, shelter, witches

Fox at school

Marshall, Edward

Fox learns important lessons from his friends on how to be a friend. For example, he learns how not to be greedy and how not to be too proud.

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animals, assertiveness, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, feelings, fox, friendship, goal setting, greed, learning, nonverbal communication, peer resistance, pride, refusal skills, school, self esteem, stress management, verbal communication

Gordon the goat

Leaf, Munro

Gordon the goat learns to do his own thinking after a series of disasters when following the flock. Gordon questions his aimless following of the flock leader and learns about peer resistance.

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animals, assertiveness, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, goat, illness, overeating, peer resistance, ranch, separation, stress management

The giraffe and the pelly and me

Dahl, Roald

A boy makes two wonderful friends. Together they have all their wishes granted.

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animals, conflict resolution, decision making, determination, friendship, giraffe, goal setting, nonverbal communication, self esteem, teamwork

Sheep on a ship

Shaw, Nancy

Five sheep set sail on their ship. They run into a violent storm that causes their ship to sink. The sheep escape on a life raft and drift to shore where they are safe again.

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animals, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, friendship, sheep, ship, storm, verbal communication, weather, wind

Listen, rabbit

Fisher, Aileen

A boy spends many days trying to be-friend a rabbit. His sister has pets, and he wants one too. He settles with watching the rabbit's babies grow up.

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animals, conflict resolution, decision making, five senses, friendship, goal setting, nature, nonverbal communication, patience, pets, rabbit, rhyme, seasons

Rina at the farm

Gunthorp, Karen

One day, Rina went to a farm. She got into a lot of mischief and the animals did not like her. When a storm came, they would not help her. Finally when Rina was very sick, the animals took her in and helped her.

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animals, conflict resolution, friendship, helping, illness, nonverbal communication, peer resistance, verbal communication, weather

Mr. tod's trap

Carrick, Malcolm

Mr. Tod does the hunting for the family. The only problem is that he cannot catch any rabbits. Mr. Tod has many clever ideas for traps. The traps work for Mr. Weasel, but Mr. Tod cannot catch rabbits with them. Mr. Tod and Mrs. Tod decide to switch roles. Mr. Tod is going to take care of the cubs while Mrs. Tod hunt for the rabbits.

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animals, conflict resolution, decision making, family, fox, hunger, parents, problem solving, rabbit, responsibilities, siblings, support, teamwork, verbal communication, weasel, working mother

Fox and heggie

Guzzo, Sandra E.

Fox tries to earn enough money to buy a Greek fishing hat by helping out all his friends and neighbors. But, his generosity keeps him from earning the money, so his friends pull through for him in the end.

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animals, bear, clothing, conflict resolution, critical thinking, fox, frustration, giving, hard work, presents, rabbit, raccoon, stress management, unselfish, verbal communication

The tomten and the fox

Lindgren, Astrid

Reynard is a hungry fox who goes to a farm to steal food. There he meets a tomten who shares his food with Reynard.

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animals, assertiveness, conflict resolution, critical thinking, farm, fox, giving, hunger, mythical, ox, peer resistance, prevention, refusal skills, sharing, trolls, unselfish, verbal communication

Cock-a-doodle dudley

Peet, Bill

Dudley the rooster is the only one to wake up to the sun each day. When goose chases him into the forest, the sun doesn't rise the next day. Hector the horse rescues him, and the day goes on.

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animals, birds, chicken, conflict resolution, forest, fox, goose, horse, pig, rescue, self esteem, sun, turkey, verbal communication

Flossie and the fox

McKissack, Patricia C.

Flossie will not believe the fox is a fox until he proves it.

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animals, conflict resolution, critical thinking, fox, refusal skills, verbal communication

Henny penny

Galdone, Paul

An acorn falls on Henny Penny's head and she thinks the sky is falling. She goes to tell the king, and a few of her friends go with her. A fox lures them into his cave and eats up Henny Penny and her friends.

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animals, birds, conflict resolution, death, fear, feelings, food, fox, friendship, loss, misunderstanding, royalty, shelter, sly

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