Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University

A pebble for your pocket | by Hanh, Thich Nhat

Enjoy the stories of Thich Nhat Hanh, a Zen Buddhist. Learn how to transform negative feelings into positive feelings so you can live more at peace with yourself and in harmony with your environment.

Chameleon, chameleon | by Cowley, Joy

Come follow this colorful chameleon through the woods to a new tree home to find food. See how the chameleon creeps by geckos, frogs, scorpions, and others to protect himself on his way to his new tree homw. Do you think this chameleon can make it to a new tree to find food without getting hurt by the other creatures on the way?

Keywords: author's note, caterpillar, chameleon, climbing, colors, conflict resolution, decision making, food, frog, gecko, goal setting, home, insects, nonverbal communication, photograph, protection, scorpion, tree

Earth day - hooray! | by Murphy, Stuart J.

Ryan, Carly, and Luke set out to clean up Gilroy Park for an Earth Day celebration. They decide to plant flowers to beautify the park while collecting cans to raise money through recycling. The children use math and find school resources to help them with their project.

Island-style alphabet | by Yee, Tammy

Learn the alphabet from a diverse perspective through the Hawaiian, Japanese and Chinese cultures. Learn more about these different cultures through the ethnic words and colorful illustrations.

Keywords: animals, assertiveness, birthday, butterfly, cat, celebration, chicken, cockroach, decision making, dog, dolphin, family, fish, food, gecko, goose, guilt, hawaiian, japanese, jellyfish, multicultural, nonverbal communication, octopus, pig, self esteem, shrimp, verbal communication, wedding

Keep climbing, girls | by Richards, Beah E.

Climb the highest tree possible with an ambitious young girl and learn never stop reaching for your hopes and dreams. Children are reminded that goal setting and perserverence are keys to success.

Beyond turkey | by Herman, Debbie // Koffsky, Ann D.

Almost 400 years ago, pilgrims traveled to North America. They met and befriended the Indians of the area. The different cultures came together to prepare a harvest and a celebration. This celebration became known as Thanksgiving.

Can you find it? | by Cressy, Judith

Go on an adventure around the world to many exciting places. Search through each painting for many objects. Create your own stories and imagine what life was like in each place.

Clouds | by Bauer, Marion

A boy spends his day outside with his cat exploring different types of clouds and the different things that clouds do. He also explains in a colorful and easy way, what clouds are made of and how we interact with clouds on an everyday basis, using weather terminology.

Keywords: animals, assertiveness, author's note, cat, clothing, clouds, communication, critical thinking, decision making, dinosaur, environment, health, nonverbal communication, rain, science, seasons, snow, spring, storm, summer, teaching, travel, verbal communication, vocabulary, volcano, walking, weather, wind, winter

The good tiger | by Bowen, Elizabeth

Sara and Bob want to invite their tiger friend over for tea. When Sara fails to tell her mother that she invited a tiger, chaos occurs. The tiger leaves, but Sara and Bob find him in the forest where they have the best party ever.

Keywords: animals, anticipation, assertiveness, car, celebration, conflict resolution, decision making, excitement, exercise, family, fear, feelings, fight, food, friendship, happiness, lion, nonverbal communication, nutrition, parents, party, running, sadness, tiger, transportation, verbal communication, walking, zoo

The biggest bear | by Ward, Leila

Johnny brings home a baby bear that eats everything and grows bigger and bigger. Johnny tries to take him back to the woods, but the bear keeps coming back. Finally, the bear finds a home in a zoo.

Keywords: animals, assertiveness, bear, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, food, growing up, nonverbal communication, nutrition, shelter, verbal communication, zoo

Come on, rain! | by Hesse, Karen

A heat wave hits Tess's town and she's sizzling like a hot potato. Mamma's plants are all dying and all Tess wishes for is a little bit of rain. As she feels the rain coming, she runs to get her friends and they all change into bathing suits. The rain comes down in big drops and the girls dance, laugh, and play in the cool raindrops.

Keywords: african american, beverage, celebration, clothing, community, dancing, decision making, diversity, exercise, feelings, friendship, happiness, multicultural, play, prevention, rain, running, seasons, self esteem, summer, sun, temperature, verbal communication, weather

Hosni the dreamer: An arabian tale | by Ben-Ezer, Ehud

Hosni is a shepherd who spends his days telling stories to his sheep and his nights dreaming about the city. When he finally has the opportunity to travel to the city, his life changes. He hears some special words of wisdom from a wise old man.

Keywords: adventures, animals, arab, bodies of water, camel, change, critical thinking, culture, death, decision making, desert, dreams, excitement, fear, feelings, folktale, food, love, marriage, money, mountains, multicultural, night, nutrition, peer resistance, rain, river, sadness, sheep, storytelling, travel, verbal communication, weather

Marven of the great north woods | by Lasky, Kathryn

A boy named Marvin leaves his family during the flu epidemic. He goes to a lumberjack camp in northern Minnesota and works and learns French while making some interesting friends. Marvin learns to ski, dance, and do the bookkeeping as a lumberjack.

Keywords: assertiveness, author's note, bedtime, cabin, careers, conflict resolution, counting, dancing, decision making, diseases, exercise, family, food, forest, french, friendship, language, money, numbers, nutrition, religion, seasons, shadows, skiing, snow, train, transportation, travel, verbal communication, weather, woods

Crackle creek | by Monsell, Mary Elise

A new newspaper comes to Crackle Creek. A fierce storm hits and floods the town, destroying one of the presses. The rival editors help each other.

Keywords: animals, community, conflict resolution, decision making, flood, goal setting, illness, newspaper, storm, stress management, weather

Old home day | by Hall, Donald

From the time when only plants and animals lived there, to the modern bicentennial celebration, the people who called the fictional village of Blackwater home remember its history.

Keywords: aggression, aging, american, animals, author's note, autumn, baby, barn, baseball, birds, birth, bodies of water, bones, careers, celebration, change, community, conflict, conflict resolution, cow, death, decision making, deer, family, farm, farmer, forest, future, generations, goal setting, grandparents, hard work, history, hunting, lake, love, marriage, memories, nature, neighbors, nonverbal communication, parade, parents, peer resistance, plants, pond, reunion, seasons, settlers, snow, sports, spring, summer, war, water, weather, wilderness, winter, work

The snow goose | by Gallico, Mary//Gallico, Paul

A young, naive girl attempts to understand her environment in the midst of war. She does this through the love of the birds who live in this area.

Keywords: autumn, birds, bodies of water, critical thinking, decision making, feelings, fog, goose, happiness, history, loss, love, nonverbal communication, rain, sadness, sea, seasons, snow, spring, summer, sun, verbal communication, war, weather, winter

The house that makes shapes | by Potts, Jim

A man releases a bunch of shapes and is then demanded to clean them up. He must discover a creative way and finally chooses to build a house out of the shapes.

Keywords: conflict resolution, decision making, exercise, nonverbal communication, park, ranch, shapes, verbal communication, walking

The hallo-wiener | by Pilkey, Dav

Oscar is teased by the other dogs because of his oblong shape. He soon proves that a dog his shape can do things that other dogs cannot.

Keywords: animals, assertiveness, bully, conflict resolution, courage, decision making, differences, dog, loneliness, self esteem, uniqueness, verbal communication

Aunt harriet's underground railroad in the sky | by Ringgold, Faith

Cassie take a ride on the Underground Railroad with Harriet Tubman as her guide. She learns what steps slaves had to go through in order to reach freedom in the North.

Keywords: african american, assertiveness, conflict resolution, courage, critical thinking, decision making, freedom, goal setting, history, multicultural, nonverbal communication, refusal skills, slavery, teamwork, train, transportation, underground railroad, verbal communication

A day's work | by Bunting, Eve

Fransico takes his grandfather out to look for work. His grandfather does not speak English, so Fransico must translate. Fransico accepts a gardening job for his grandfather by telling the man he is a great gardener. When the man comes at the end of the day, he finds the job done incorrectly. Fransico's lie teaches him an invaluable lesson.

Keywords: apology, careers, conflict resolution, critical thinking, deception, decision making, disappointment, english, family, garden, grandparents, hard work, honesty, language, love, mexican, multicultural, parents, pride, responsibilities, spanish, truth, verbal communication

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