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Bug in a rug

Cole, Joanna//Calmenson, Stephanie

Come learn the alphabet, match words with pictures, and tell silly stories. Bright, colorful pictures and clever rhymes help capture and hold your attention.

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airplane, alphabet, animals, assertiveness, bear, bicycle, books, bus, cat, concepts, critical thinking, dog, elephant, food, fox, frog, goat, kangaroo, monkey, pig, poetry, reading, rhyme, transportation, truck, verbal communication

Cat on the mat

Wildsmith, Brian

Let's look how animals invade a cat's mat while the cat is still on it!

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animals, cat, cow, dog, elephant, goat, rhyme

Babar, the elephant, visits America. Babar and other elephants visit their old friends, meet new friends, and sight see throughout America. Although Babar is sad to leave, he will always treasure the memories.

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animals, assertiveness, conflict resolution, elephant, feelings, friendship, learning, memories, nonverbal communication, sadness, travel, verbal communication

Alphabatics

MacDonald, Suse

Letters of the alphabet are transformed into pictures of objects that begin with that letter. For example, an h becomes a house and a f becomes a fish.

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alphabet, animals, balloon, elephant, fish, giraffe, lion, owl, quail, sequence, swan, whale

Bruno Munari's ABC

Munari, Bruno

All the letters of the alphabet are represented by pictures and words starting with each letter.

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alphabet, animals, birds, butterfly, elephant, fly, insects, letters, owl, sequence

The twelve circus rings

Chwast, Seymour

Numbers are shown as characters in the circus. At first there is a dare devil, then a dare devil and two elephants, and then a dare devil, two elephants, and three monkeys.

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animals, bear, circus, counting, dog, elephant, exercise, horse, jumping, monkey, numbers, sequence, walking

Too tired

Turnball, Ann

As the rain begins, two of all the animals on the Earth are getting aboard the Ark, except one. When Noah realizes that the sloths are not on the Ark, he goes to rescue them.

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animals, boat, critical thinking, elephant, flood, heroism, lost, rain, rescue, sleep, sloth, transportation, verbal communication, weather, worry

Frank and ernest play ball

Day, Alexandra

Frank and Ernest are a bear and an elephant who need jobs. Mr. Palmer lets them manage his baseball team. They do not know very much about baseball so they are always looking up baseball terms in the baseball dictionary.

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animals, assertiveness, baseball, bear, careers, elephant, language, learning, recreation, responsibilities, song, sports, teamwork, verbal communication

Zorina ballerina

Gianni, Enzo

Zorina is considered too young to dance with the other elephants at the circus. The clowns, realizing how much Zorina wants to dance, teaches her. Modoc, the star elephant, becomes sick from eating too many peanuts. Zorina surprises everyone and dances so well that she becomes a star.

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animals, circus, clowns, dancing, elephant, exercise, performance, persistence, surprises

Python's party

Wildsmith, Brian

A python is hungry so he decides to throw a party for all the animals in the forest. All the animals perform tricks for each other, so the python tricks the animals into crawling into his stomach. The elephant saves the animals then they all tie a knot in the python's tail as punishment.

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animals, assertiveness, conflict resolution, critical thinking, deception, decision making, elephant, food, hunger, nutrition, party, peer resistance, refusal skills, reptiles, snake, teamwork, verbal communication

Hello, elephant

Wahl, Jan

Ricky meets an elephant on the telephone. He adopts the elephant and saves him from imprisonment at the local zoo.

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animals, assertiveness, conflict resolution, elephant, excitement, heroism, kindness, nonverbal communication, technology, telephone, verbal communication, zoo

Clown

Blake, Quentin

Clown and his friends are thrown into a garbage can in the city by a woman who no longer wants them around. Clown, however, hops out of the garbage and wanders the city to look for someone to love them. By accident, Clown finds a family and he and his buddies live happily ever after. (A Wordless Book)

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baby, bear, birds, clowns, conflict resolution, critical thinking, disappointment, elephant, family, fear, feelings, friendship, goal setting, happiness, kindness, love, nonverbal communication, parents, sadness, siblings, toys

Animals are sleeping

Slade, Suzanne

Lyrical text provides fascinating information onnimals such as location, position, and duration of their sleep patterns on animals living in different habitats. Learn about the interesting sleeping habits of different animals that live on land, in water, and fly through the air.

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animals, author's note, bear, bodies of water, cat, elephant, fish, flamingo, giraffe, groundhog, habitat, lion, lizard, otter, owl, reptiles, rhyme, rhythm, sea, sleep, sloth, snow

ABC safari

Lee, Karen

Go on an around-the-world rhyming journey with animals, in different habitats, biomes, and geographic regions. From the cold tundra to the hot deserts and from the jungles of Africa to the high mountains, find the hidden safari boy and his pet parrot in each illustration.

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alligator, alphabet, amphibians, animals, author's note, beaver, birds, classification, dolphin, elephant, frog, gorilla, hippopotamus, iguana, koala, lion, mountains, newt, owl, parrot, penguin, pets, quail, rabbit, rhinoceros, snow, tiger, vulture, wolf, yak, zebra

Doctor De Soto goes to Africa

Steig, William

Dr. and Mrs. De Soto travel all the way to Africa to fix an elephant's tooth. When the elephant's enemy kidnaps Dr. De Soto, the elephant worries that Dr. De Soto will never get away.

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african, animals, careers, dentist, determination, elephant, escape, jungle, missing, monkey, mouse, multicultural, stress management, teeth, travel, worry

Safari journal

Talbot, Hudson

Carey is a young boy who goes on vacation to Kenya with his aunt. While there he learns about the culture and all of the animals.

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african, airplane, animals, birds, buffalo, car, cattle, critical thinking, crocodile, culture, decision making, desert, egret, elephant, giraffe, goat, habitat, hunting, hyena, kenyan, leopard, lion, multicultural, observation, rhinoceros, safari, stress management, transportation, vacation, verbal communication, village, wilderness, wildlife

Why the bush fowl calls at sunrise

Tredgold, Margaret

In this folktale from Zimbabwe, a repeated sequence of inadvertent events between people, animals, and objects lead to the bush fowlﾒs eggs being crushed. The bush fowl is too sad to call the sun in the morning so the Great Spirit intervenes. As each participant is questioned by the Great Spirit, the sequence is repeated and deconstructed. Finally, the buzzing fly is restricted to saying only ﾓBUZZﾔ and the bush fowl promises to always call the sun in the morning.

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african, animals, birds, elephant, fly, folktale, insects, multicultural, rat, sequence, snake, sounds, zimbabwe

I am eyes-nimacho

Ward, Leila

A young girl from Kenya wakes up one morning by saying Nimacho, which means I am awake or I am eyes in Swahilian. Her eyes lead her to observe brilliant things that appear in the African environment and landscape.

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african, animals, crab, crustaceans, elephant, environment, giraffe, multicultural, nature, observation, pelican, sight, vision

The kids yoga book of feelings

Humphrey, Mary

Kids model yoga poses to help them identify different feelings they have within. Twenty simple poses are provided to help children calm, center, and balance themselves. Each pose is correlated with an animal or nature connection then supported with human feelings and words of affirmation.

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animals, balance, birds, butterfly, cat, chameleon, cow, dog, dragons, elephant, emotions, exercise, health, insects, lion, mountains, mouse, nonfiction, opossum, polar bear, relaxation, swan, tiger, tree, yoga

The jungle grapevine

Beard, Alex

In Africa, the bird and the turtle are taking a walk and the turtle says that the humor at the watering hole is drying up. The bird misunderstands him and flies off to tell the elephant that the watering hole is drying up. The snake hears and goes to the watering hole but finds that it's full. Snake tells the crocodile that the watering hole might actually flood. This scares the crocodile, and one misunderstanding leads to another spreading chaos throughout the jungle.

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africa, animals, ant, anteater, birds, chaos, crocodile, elephant, fear, feelings, fish, flamingo, hippopotamus, humor, insects, lion, misunderstanding, nonverbal communication, snake, truth, turtle, verbal communication, water, wildlife, zebra

Don't take a snake for a stroll

Ireland, Karin

A little boy talks about taking a variety of animals into public places. Using his imagination he describes what could possibly happen. In the end, he advises to just take people along and leave the animals at home.

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animals, bodies of water, coyote, critical thinking, decision making, duck, elephant, exercise, fantasy, humor, imagination, kangaroo, moose, ocean, pets, pig, rabbit, rhyme, rhythm, shopping, skunk, snake, swimming, television, walking

Does a kangaroo have a mother, too?

Carle, Eric

Does a kangaroo have a mother too? Of course a kangaroo does, and so do all animals, humans included! Inquiry about mothers and baby animals lead us to this simple, but very important fact. All living creatures have a mother, just like you.

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animals, baby, bear, deer, dolphin, elephant, fox, giraffe, kangaroo, lion, love, monkey, pattern, penguin, repetition, sheep, swan

Elephant dance: memories of India

Heine, Theresa

Ravi's grandfather comes from India so Ravi asks him questions aabout India. Grandfather uses a simile to describe different aspects of India. Ravi is interested in the elephants of India and dances an elephant dance.

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animals, colors, cooking, dancing, elephant, fish, flowers, food, horse, india, love, maps, multicultural, music, presents, rain, rainbow, shopping, sleep, snow, storytelling, sun, tiger, weather, wind

The hunter

Geraghty, Paul

Jamina goes looking for honey in the bush with her grandfather. She hopes to see an elephant, but her grandfather tells her that it is not likely since the hunters have come. Jamina tells her grandfather that she wants to be a hunter. When she helps a little elephant whose mother was shot by hunters, she realizes she never wants to be a hunter.

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african, animals, community, elephant, family, grandparents, helping, hunting, lion, lost, multicultural, nature, recreation, rescue, rhinoceros, village, violence

The circus alphabet

Bronson, Linda

Come along on a circus adventure. Each illustration depicts a letter of the alphabet that relates to the overall circus theme.

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acrobat, alphabet, animals, balloon, circus, dog, elephant, giraffe, juggling, kangaroo, lion, monkey, sequence, toys, vocabulary, walrus, zebra

Drumbeat in our feet

Keeler, Patricia//Leitao, Julio T.

Informative passages and lyrical verse explore the history and rhythmic qualities of traditional African dance as performed long ago and today.

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africa, african, african american, america, animals, celebration, ceremony, colors, congo, dancing, elephant, ethnic, exercise, generations, geography, history, instruments, learning, maps, monkey, multicultural, music, nonfiction, nonverbal communication, performance, rhythm, storytelling, traditions, village

The heart of the lion

Watson, Pete

An American boy comes to understand and admire the rich culture and traditions of West Africa.

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africa, african, animals, art, baboon, butterfly, chicken, cooking, courage, culture, customs, dog, elephant, family, food, friendship, hunting, lion, magic, multicultural, parade, parents, scorpion, sharing, teasing, traditions, tree, uniqueness, verbal communication, village

Shadow

Brown, Marcia

The village storytellers and shamans of African expound on the important, mysterious, haunted, and enchanted life of shadows.

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africa, animals, appreciation, birds, bodies of water, cow, dancing, eagle, elephant, fable, fire, forest, insects, magic, mystery, night, reptiles, river, scorpion, shadows, snake, spy, storytelling, tree, war

Cool time song

Schaefer, Carole Lexa

After a hot day on the African savannah, the animals begin to move and make sounds in the cool air of evening.

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africa, animals, birds, day, desert, elephant, giraffe, hyena, lion, music, night, savannah, song, sounds, sun, zebra

Home now

Beake, Lesley

How can Sieta feel happy with so many sad pictures inside her head? She remembers her real home far away over the mountains, her parents getting sick, and Aunty taking her to live in a new place she calls Home Now. There Sieta meets another orphan with memories like her own.

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africa, animals, community, death, diseases, elephant, empathy, family, feelings, flowers, friendship, happiness, home, illness, memories, orphan, parents, sadness, stars, sympathy

Water hole waiting

Kurtz, Jane//Kurtz, Christopher

A thirsty monkey waits as the larger animals drink from the water hole on the African savanna.

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africa, animals, bodies of water, crocodile, elephant, giraffe, hippopotamus, lake, lion, monkey, sounds, zebra

The first bear in africa

Ichikawa, Satomi

The animals of the African savanna help Meto as he tries to return the toy bear left behind by a young tourist.

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africa, african, animals, bear, discovery, elephant, exploration, family, giraffe, goat, helping, hippopotamus, language, lion, love, multicultural, parents, photography, thanksgiving, travel, verbal communication, village

Jubela

Kessler, Cristina

When a baby rhino leaves his mother, he must rely on his own resources to survive until he is adopted by an old female rhino.

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africa, animals, baby, caring, confusion, death, elephant, family, fear, feelings, lizard, loneliness, parents, play, protection, reptiles, rhinoceros, sleep, zebra

Through tsavo: A story of an east African savanna

Bull, Schuyla

Follows a herd of elephants, including a playful young calf, as it slowly makes its way to Tsavo National Park in Kenya to the Mzima River during a long, dry season.

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africa, animals, badger, birds, bodies of water, buffalo, crocodile, elephant, escape, family, fire, geography, giraffe, hippopotamus, hyena, kenyan, lake, leopard, lightning, maps, migration, parents, travel, water, zebra

Bashi, elephant baby

Radcliffe, Theresa

As the sun rises over the African plain, the mother elephant and her newborn calf, Bashi, follow the herd down to the watering hole. But they are not alone, for the water has drawn some lionesses to the edge to drink and they are looking hungrily at Bashi.

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africa, african, animals, baby, bodies of water, caring, elephant, family, helping, hunting, lion, nature, protection, sun

What the animals were waiting for

London, Jonathan

The story of the dramatic cycles of life on the African savanna, one of the last great, wild places on earth.

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africa, animals, bodies of water, celebration, crocodile, elephant, family, giraffe, grandparents, language, lightning, lion, moon, multicultural, nature, night, patience, river, storytelling, wisdom, zebra

Off to the sweet shores of Africa: And other talking drum rhymes

Unobagha, Uzo

African-inspired nursery rhymes.

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africa, animals, beach, birds, bodies of water, camel, cattle, celebration, chicken, community, cooking, desert, dog, donkey, eagle, elephant, fable, fish, fruit, giraffe, goat, grasshopper, instruments, lion, mice, monkey, multicultural, music, ocean, parade, play, rainbow, rhyme, rhythm, river, sand, song, tree, village, zebra

Lemons are not red

Seegar, Laura Vaccaro

Experience the many vibrant colors while becoming acquainted with some of lifeﾒs common objects. Animals such as elephants and flamingos, foods such as carrots and eggplants, as well as objects like the moon and sky are illustrated here. Read all about these things and experience the rainbow of colors.

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animals, colors, concepts, deer, elephant, food, moon, night, nutrition, seasons, sky, snowman, winter

My pal, Victor

Bertrand, Diane Gonzales

Dominic and Victor have a special friendship in spite of Dominicﾒs disability. They laugh, tell jokes, and do many fun things together on the baseball field, at the amusement park, and during sleepovers.

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animals, baseball, birds, disability, dog, duck, elephant, friendship, frog, language, multicultural, park, parrot, running, sleep, spanish, sports, storytelling, swimming, verbal communication, vocabulary, walking

Food for thought: The complete book of concepts for growing minds

Freymann, Saxton

Fruits and vegetables are strategically carved to emulate people and animals in order to teach shapes, colors, numbers, letters, and opposites. Readers can learn these skills while being entertained by the creative use of healthy foods.

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airplane, alphabet, animals, ant, birds, cat, colors, concepts, counting, dog, duck, elephant, feelings, fish, flowers, food, frog, fruit, giraffe, guinea pig, happiness, insects, kangaroo, letters, numbers, opposites, penguin, sadness, shapes, sheep, sizes, snake, turtle, umbrella, vegetables

Elephant prince: The story of Ganesh

Novesky, Amy

In this mythical story, that takes place in India, a girl grows up listening to her motherﾒs and grandmotherﾒs stories. As a princess, she meets her love and is married. He promises her a baby and has one within a year. When gods gather around the babyﾒs head vanishes. Another god helps save the baby with the help of an elephant offering his life. The little boy was saved and became the elephant prince, listening to his motherﾒs stories everyday.

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animals, assertiveness, baby, bodies of water, elephant, family, feelings, god, goddess, happiness, india, loneliness, love, marriage, multicultural, mythical, parents, presents, river, sadness, storytelling, stress management, verbal communication, wish

Olivia saves the circus

Falconer, Ian

After making breakfast for her two younger brothers, Olivia dresses herself and heads to school. Today is Olivia's turn to tell the class about her vacation. She tells of a time when all the circus people are sick and she has to run the entire show. She uses her imagination to tell about her experiences as a lion tamer, juggler, and more. Olivia then heads for home, talks with her mother, and goes to bed.

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acrobat, animals, bedtime, circus, dog, elephant, history, imagination, lion, photograph, pig, presentation, school, storytelling, vacation, verbal communication

Carnival of the animals

Lithgow, John

A young boy sneaks off from a school field trip. He is left in the history museum overnight where he discovers his classmates, family, and acquaintances take on new forms.

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animals, baboon, badger, birds, cattle, chicken, cuckoo, dinosaur, dreams, elephant, family, feelings, ferret, fish, fox, happiness, hyena, kangaroo, lion, mischief, museum, nonverbal communication, sadness, swan, turtle, weasel

Mzimba and the crowned cranes

Mashiri, Pascal

Chief Mzimba was very old, but he still had magical powers. He used his magic on the animals. Sometimes it helped the animals, sometimes it didn’t. What does Mzimba have to learn about giving gifts?

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africa, animals, birds, crane, elephant, folktale, glossary, kenyan, magic, multicultural, storytelling, vulture

If I could/ Si yo pudiera

Sweetland, Nancy

A world full of beautiful, fanciful and comical possibilities where you explore what life would be like if you could be anything you wanted to be, if you only could.

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animals, ant, birds, butterfly, eagle, elephant, fantasy, fish, frog, goose, identity, insects, language, lizard, moon, multicultural, reptiles, river, seal, snake, spanish, stars, toad, walrus, wind, wish

Ella sets the stage

Amico, Carmela

Ella wants so badly to be in the school talent show, but she has no talent. She decides instead to join the talent show committee and helps make the show the best it can be. During the show, something unexpected happens and Ella comes to the rescue, finding her true talent: helping others.

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animals, arabian, art, cooking, dancing, discovery, elephant, exercise, feelings, happiness, helping, heroism, identity, instruments, juggling, jumping, magic, music, performance, poetry, practice, puppets, sadness, school, shyness, song, sounds, support, writing

Ella the elegant elephant

D'Amico, Carmela & D'Amica, Steven

Ella is the new elephant at school and is worried about fitting in. to feel more comfortable, Ella wears the lucky hat her grandmother gave her. Much to her dismay., Ella's lucky hat cause much teasing to come her way. In the end, through, it is Ella's lucky hat that saves the day when the bully gets into trouble and is forced to have a change of heart.

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acceptance, animals, bodies of water, bravery, bully, clothing, differences, elephant, embarrassment, family, feelings, friendship, grandparents, loneliness, luck, moving, ocean, parents, school, shyness, teasing, worry

Happy birthday to whooo? A baby animal riddle book

Fisher, Doris

Babies come in all different sizes and shapes. Some babies have fur and some have feathers. Some may be the only baby born or some might be born with 100 brothers and sisters! Some babies are big (23 feet) and some are little (the size of a jelly-bean)! Babies have their own special families too! Some have a mom and a dad; some have a mom or a dad; and some even live with their mom, aunts, and grandmothers!

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animals, baby, birds, birthday, camel, celebration, eagle, elephant, family, flamingo, giraffe, habitat, holidays, kangaroo, leopard, lion, owl, parents, riddle, sizes, skunk, whale

My even day

Fisher, Doris and Sneed, Dani

A sequel to One Odd Day, this time the young boy awakens to find that it is another strange day: everything is even! His mother has two heads, and a trip to the zoo is dealt with in an odd, but even-handed, manner.

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alligator, amphibians, animals, dog, elephant, family, food, frog, fruit, kangaroo, lion, lizard, math, mouse, numbers, octopus, parents, penguin, reptiles, rhyme, rhythm, snake, zoo

Paws, claws, hands, and feet

Hutmacher, Kimberly

We run, jump, hop and rest, just like the critters and creatures featured in Paws, Claws, Hands, and Feet. Go along on the exciting dream journey from morning to night, playing alongside squirrels, monkeys, kangaroos, and penguins. Finally, as the sun sets, snuggle beneath the covers and snooze, with recollections of animals at play.

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activities, adaptation, animals, birds, dreams, eagle, elephant, frog, habitat, kangaroo, lion, monkey, mouse, panda, penguin, spider, squirrel

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