Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University

"L" is for library | by Terry, Sonya

Children with a friendly tabby cat, a dog, and ducklings move through the library stacks from A-Z as they discover many things to do and see in a library. You can learn about the Caldecott award, the Dewey Decimal System, and URL Web address.

Keywords: alphabet, animals, birds, books, calendar, cat, children, computer, dog, duck, library, onomatopoeia, sequence, technology

Love is | by Adams, Diane

A little girl raises a duckling and loves it very much. One day, she realizes that it is time for her duckling to leave and join the other ducks outside. Even though she misses her pet, their love stays strong and she still gets to see her duck and its new family.

Keywords: african american, animals, bath, birds, bodies of water, change, companion, courage, duck, feelings, health, hygiene, morning, multicultural, nature, pond, sadness, sleep, swimming, teaching, trust

Busy little mouse | by Fernandes, Eugenie

A playful little mouse races out of the house to play on the farm. He comes across many different animals out on the farm. The animals talk in their animal sounds. At the end of a busy day of play, he returns home to go to sleep.

Keywords: animals, bedtime, cat, cow, dog, duck, exercise, farm, feelings, happiness, horse, jumping, mouse, pig, rhyme, running, sheep, sounds

Muriel's red sweater | by Dokas, Dara

Muriel Magee's party invitations are very late because her birthday is today! She runs around town handing out invitations to her friends. What she doesn't realize is that her sweater unravels with each person she invites. By the time she gets home, she sees that her sweater is all gone, but she is in for a surprise! Her friends are all there to wish her a happy birthday, and they give her a present. When she opens it she realizes it's just what she needed - a new sweater!

Keywords: animals, balloon, beaver, birds, birthday, bridge, celebration, clothing, duck, excitement, feelings, friendship, hedgehog, mystery, nonverbal communication, otter, owl, park, party, presents, rabbit, river, squirrel, travel, verbal communication

Four famished foxes and fosdyke | by Edwards, Pamela Duncan

A mother fox leaves her four children at home for five days. They must feed themselves. Three of the siblings plan different ways to catch meat. The fourth fox is a vegetarian and saves the day by cooking a feast for all of them.

Keywords: alliteration, animals, assertiveness, chicken, cooking, critical thinking, dog, duck, family, food, fox, french, goal setting, health, individuality, multicultural, nutrition, parents, self esteem, sequence, siblings, verbal communication

Guji Guji | by Chen Chih-Yuan

A rolling egg finds a home in a duck nest. It wasn't until three crocodiles find Guji Guji that she may not be a duck. The crocodiles ask Guji Guji to trap his family for them to eat. Instead Guji Guji, with the help of his duck family, drop heavy rocks into the crocodiles open mouths.

Keywords: animals, birds, books, comparisons, crocodile, duck, family, feelings, fight, food, loyalty, reading

Brown bear, brown bear: What do you see? | by Martin, Bill

Through a repeating phrase what do you see?, animals of different colors fulfill the intellectual and social dimensions of health. In the end, a mother looks at a variety of children.

Keywords: amphibians, birds, cat, colors, deer, differences, dog, duck, family, feelings, fish, frog, horse, memory, observation, pets, sheep, sight, sizes, variety, vision

Hunter bunny saves Easter | by Weaver, Alexis Rae

Hunter Bunny, made fun of because of his limp leg, meets Clark, the duck who has trouble seeing and the two become best friends. The night before Easter, the two find the Easter bunny lying on the ground and it is now up to them to deliver the baskets around town. After successfully saving Easter, the return to the forest to find all the animals praising and cheering for them.

Keywords: animals, baby, differences, disability, discrimination, duck, easter, family, feelings, friendship, glasses, handicap, happiness, helping, heroism, holidays, hope, injury, learning, loneliness, moods, parents, playing, rabbit, sadness, siblings, sight, surprises, swimming, teaching, teasing, vision

Oh say can you say? | by Seuss, Dr.

Oh say can you say is filled with tongue twisters to make the reading fun yet challenging. The story features pages of rhymes ranging from animals to people.

Keywords: beach, birds, boat, bones, books, christmas, colors, dinosaur, dog, duck, family, fish, island, money, monkey, music, parrot, pig, poetry, rain, reading, storm, travel, umbrella, water, whale

Duck, duck, goose? | by Arnold, Katya

A goose wishes to look different than all the other geese so she travels to all the different birds she envies and switches one of her body parts for theirs. She later learns she is unable to perform the same things the other birds can even with her new look, and she begins to appreciate her own qualities.

Keywords: animals, birds, crow, differences, duck, envy, fly, fox, goose, helping, jealousy, peacock, pelican, pond, rescue, running, storks, swan, swimming, teasing

Mung-mung | by Park, Linda Sue

Animal sounds in different languages such as Turkish, Chinese and Hindu are shared. Open the flap to find out what animal it is.

Keywords: animals, arabic, birds, cat, chicken, chinese, conflict resolution, dog, duck, english, filipino, french, frog, german, hindu, horse, italian, japanese, korean, language, norwegian, pig, polish, russian, spanish, swedish, turkish, verbal communication, vietnamese

Mooove over! | by Beil, Karen Magnuson

A trolley driver has a set system that he always uses to keep track of the number of passengers: he counts by twos. One day, everything is going right on schedule, until a big, bossy cow comes on the trolley. The driver loses count and the cow forces the other passengers onto the roof. Finally, the driver realizes there is only one passenger, gets everyone back inside the trolley, and pushes the cow off to the streets.

Keywords: animals, author's note, chaos, conflict, confusion, counting, cow, duck, feelings, games, goose, horse, manners, numbers, pig, safety, selfishness, sheep, teaching, transportation, trolley, verbal communication

Nora's ark | by Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie

As the rain keeps coming, the flood gros larger. Everyone in town goes to Grandma's house because it sits high on a hill. Along with many animals, everyone, except Grandpa, is there. Grandma and Wren are worried about Grandpa so they head out to try and save him from the flood.

Keywords: animals, cat, chicken, cow, critical thinking, decision making, duck, family, farm, flood, goal setting, grandparents, horse, pig, rain, rescue, stress management, verbal communication, weather

Chicks and Salsa | by Reynolds, Aaron

The barnyard animals of Nuthatcher Farm are discontent as they grow weary of the same old slop and feed. Their worries are laid to rest when the rooster devises a plan that leads to the first ever barnyard fiesta, complete with chips and salsa, guacamole and nachos. Their celebration is halted however, when they can find no more supplies on the farm. Is someone else on the farm planning a fiesta of their own?

Keywords: animals, barn, celebration, chicken, cooking, critical thinking, dancing, duck, exercise, fair, food, nutrition, pig, smell

Funny walks | by Hindley, Judy

Everyone does things a little differently, even when walking. Some people walk slowly and others walk quickly. As long as we move along, it doesn't matter how we walk.

Keywords: animals, birds, cat, differences, dog, duck, exercise, guinea pig, health, rabbit, squirrel, walking

The runaway duck | by Lyon, David

Sebastian ties his wooden duck to his father's car then forgets about it. The duck ends up in France. After much effort, he gets his duck back.

Keywords: birds, duck, french, imagination, lost, multicultural, problem solving, travel

Marco Flamingo/ Marco Flamenco | by Jarkins, Sheila

Marco is just a regular flamingo with one problem, he wants to be a winter bird. Watch what happens when he travels north for the winter.

Keywords: birds, duck, firefly, flamingo, fly, goose, ice, insects, language, letters, migration, pelican, reading, research, seasons, skiing, sledding, snow, snowman, spanish, weather, winter

Henry the impatient heron | by Love, Donna

Henry the heron can't stand still. He is always moving, and it drives everyone crazy. All herons have to stand still to catch their food, so how will Henry ever be able to eat on his own? Henry learns a valuable lesson from the King of Camouflage, which teaches the importance of just being still.

Keywords: adaptation, animals, birds, deer, duck, family, fish, frog, habitat, heron, hunting, learning, patience, pond, survival

Dooby dooby moo | by Cronin, Doreen

Duck and his friends decide to participate in the county fair, behind Farmer Brown's back. Farmer Brown knows his animals are up to something, but doesn't know what. To keep them out of trouble, he takes them to the fair with him. Little does he knnow, that's exactly where they wanted to be!

Keywords: animals, barn, cat, cow, dancing, day, dog, duck, fair, jumping, moon, mouse, newspaper, night, performance, pig, practice, reading, repetition, rhyme, sheep, sleep, song, stars, transportation, truck

Cluck's clock | by Gray, Kes

Day begins on the farm at 4 o'clock in the morning. The chickens stretch and begin breakfast followed by laying their eggs from 6 to 8 oﾒclock. At 2 o'clock, they play a game of hide-and-seek, and then visit the horses before dinner. As the sun sets, the chickens return to the coop and await the fox. When the fox arrives, a chicken lures him to a hole in the door then dirt is thrown on him to scare him away. At midnight, the chickens say good night.

Keywords: animals, birds, chicken, day, dog, duck, exercise, farm, fear, feelings, fox, happiness, horse, morning, night, nonverbal communication, numbers, sequence, time, tractor, transportation, walking

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