Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University

Blue | by Seeger, Laura Vaccaro

A boy and his dog go through their lives together and experience different things associated with the color blue. Whether they are playing with blue butterflies or picking blue blueberries together, they love spending time with each other. One day, the boy’s dog passes away and, with time, he gets a new puppy to share his life with.

Keywords: activities, animals, baby, balloon, beach, birds, bodies of water, books, butterfly, cardinal, colors, companion, death, dog, feelings, insects, loss, play, rain, reading, relationship, running, sadness, sea, sledding, sleep, snow, transportation, wagon, weather

Mel fell | by Tabor, Corey R.

Today is Mel's first day out of the nest. She tells her siblings "See you soon!" and she jumps, flips, then spreads her wings to fall into the water. Mel catches a fat little fish in the water, then repeats the process flying upward past her neighbors: the snail, the spiders, the bees, and the squirrels. Mel's Mom cheers as Mel enters the nest to receive a big hug.

Keywords: affection, animals, ant, anticipation, arachnids, bee, birds, bodies of water, challenges, direction, fear, feelings, insects, kingfisher, mollusks, parents, persistence, siblings, snail, spider, squirrel

A home in the barn | by Brown, Margaret Wise

In the winter, it is too cold for the animals to be outside but the barn is warm. All the horses, cattle, mice, birds, and cats stay there together to keep away from the cold. Even though there are a lot of animals in the barn, they all get along and help to keep each other warm.

Keywords: african american, animals, author's note, baby, barn, birds, birth, bluejay, cardinal, cat, chicken, cold, cow, dog, farm, goat, horse, insects, mouse, multicultural, night, onomatopoeia, pig, pony, problem solving, rhyme, rhythm, sparrow, squirrel, time, wasp, winter

A new green day | by Portis, Antoinette

On one summer’s day, a girl is attentive to all the sights and sounds around her. Whether it’s the subtle noise of crickets at night or the loud boom of thunder during a storm, there are many things in the environment, big and small, that influence her experiences.

Keywords: adventures, amphibians, animals, appreciation, awareness, colors, comparison, cricket, day, earth, five senses, insects, lightning, mollusks, night, plants, play, rain, shadows, sight, snail, space, stars, stream, tadpole, weather, worm

Away | by Sher, Emil

Even though they do not get to spend a lot of time together, a mom and her daughter write to communicate with each other using sticky notes left around their house. Right now, the girl does not want to go to sleepaway camp and she is trying to find every reason not to go. Whether it’s her cat, Lester, needing her too much or her short haircut, she really does not want to go camping. In the end, she finally does, and she loves it!

Keywords: animals, argument, bug, calendar, camping, cat, communication, correspondence, Days of the Week, homework, insects, mosque, numbers, technology, television, time, trust, working mother, writing

Baby food | by Freymann, Saxton

Can you imagine how to make people food into animal art? Photographs portray baby animals like chicks, pups, and cubs made from different fruits and vegetables.

Keywords: animals, baby, body parts, colors, elephant, family, food, giraffe, insects, seal, turtle, vocabulary

Crickwing | by Cannon, Janell

Crickwing is different from all the other cockroaches. He likes to create sculptures and has a twisted wing. Crickwing is tired of being bullied by the bigger animals in the forest and mistakenly takes his anger out on the leaf-cutter ants, learning a valuable lesson in return.

Keywords: aggression, ambition, anger, animals, ant, anteater, apology, appearance, appreciation, art, behavior, bully, caring, challenges, change, conflict, conflict resolution, consequences, creativity, critical thinking, determination, differences, disability, environment, fear, feelings, forgiveness, friendship, frustration, habitat, helping, insects, kindness, learning, mistake, nature, problem solving, protection, resolution, revenge, sadness, science, self esteem, survival, teamwork, tiger, unselfish, worry

Armadilly chili | by Ketteman, Helen

Billie decides to make armadilly chili. She asks her friends to help her but they are all busy and do not want to help. After Billie makes the chili, all of her friends knock on her door. Billie will not let them eat because they wouldn't help. She soon realizes her chili is missing something: her friends!

The flower alphabet book | by Pallotta, Jerry

Meet Amaryllis to Zinnia and every flower in between. Learn the sequence of the alphabet from A to Z and new flowers too.

Keywords: alphabet, animals, bee, colors, flowers, fruit, garden, insects, plants, seasons, sequence, spring, sun

Summersaults | by Florian, Douglas

Through the use of many rhyming and descriptive words, each poem highlights good, bad, fun, and crazy times during the summer.

Keywords: bee, colors, flowers, fly, insects, nonverbal communication, poetry, rhyme, seasons, summer, swinging, tree, vocabulary

Zoopa: An animal alphabet | by Marino, Gianna

Check out this alphabet book surrounding a bowl of soup. Each page brings two more letters to the soup bowl accompanied by animals beginning with those letters. In the end, the bowl is full of letters and the table is covered in animals.

Keywords: alphabet, animals, ant, birds, butterfly, chipmunk, dog, elephant, food, frog, grasshopper, hedgehog, iguana, insects, koala, ladybug, monkey, nutrition, ostrich, pig, quail, rabbit, sequence, snake, turtle, unicorns, vulture, worm, yak, zebra

One small place in a tree | by Brenner, Barbara

A bear scratches the bark of a tree; beetles form small openings; a woodpecker eats the beetles; bacteria takes over the tree and a small hole is formed. Although the tree is dying, this small hole is still a home for many animals. Both living and dying trees are important as shelter and home to living organisms.

Keywords: aging, amphibians, animals, autumn, bear, beetle, birds, birth, bluebird, change, critical thinking, death, frog, home, insects, mouse, nature, nonverbal communication, rain, safety, seasons, snake, snow, spider, spring, squirrel, summer, tree, weather, wildlife, wind, winter, woodpecker

How groundhog's garden grew | by Cherry, Lynne

Little Groundhog was hungry. His friend Squirrel reminds him that it would not be nice to eat from someone else's garden; he offers to teach Groundhog how to grow food in his own garden. Groundhog learns that cooperation with the birds and insects around him will help meet their needs and help his garden grow. After planting, tending, and harvesting his garden, Groundhog has a feast with his friends.

Keywords: amphibians, animals, author's note, birds, bluebird, butterfly, cooperation, cycle, dragonfly, flowers, food, friendship, garden, goldfish, helping, hunger, insects, mole, nature, opossum, plants, praying mantis, reptiles, robin, seed, skunk, snake, squirrel, toad, turtle, vocabulary, winter, wren

Zoopa, an animal alphabet | by Marino, Gianna

Have you eer had alphabet soup? Take an inviting journey through the alphabet as various animals and insects appear with their corresponding letters in a bowl of soup. As the pages begin to fill, the challenge of finding the corresponding animals becomes more difficult in this wordless alphabet adventure

Keywords: alphabet, animals, ant, birds, butterfly, chipmunk, dog, elephant, food, frog, goat, grasshopper, hedgehog, iguana, insects, jellyfish, koala, ladybug, monkey, ostrich, pig, quail, rabbit, sequence, snake, turtle, unicorns, vocabulary, vulture, worm, yak, zebra

I took the moon for a walk | by Curtis, Carolyn

A young boy takes the moon for a walk and discovers the mysteries of the night. As he walks along he admires the bright refletion of the moon on the water and the changes that take place with the animals, the town and the environment. Hw then returns home to a restful sleep while the moon continues to shine brightly.

Keywords: adventures, animals, biking, birds, bodies of water, bridge, church, community, cow, dog, feelings, imagination, insects, ladybug, moon, moth, multicultural, night, owl, park, playground, rhyme, sleep, snail, walking, worm

The great fuzz frenzy | by Stevens, Janet & Grummel, Susan Stevens

When a dog drops a tennis ball into a Prairie Dog hold, it travels down, down, down to their home. Once they've overcome their fear, the Prairie Dogs begin to collect the fuzz from the ball to adorn themselves. When word of this gets out, more prairie dogs come in search of fuzz, and a fight begins. The fight is ended by the largest of the Prairie Dogs, Big Bark, as he takes all of the fuzz to adorn himself. Just as the prairie dogs are about to get mad at Big Bark, Eagle swoops down and picks him up by the fuzz to carry him off. Big Bark then uses his loud bark to scare the eagle and protect…

Keywords: acceptance, animals, ant, appreciation, birds, bully, community, dog, eagle, feelings, fight, imagination, insects, investigation, prairie dog, pretend

Chicka chicka 123 | by Martin, Bill Jr. & Sampson, Michael

Numbers 1 through 20 race to the top of the apple tree. Then they joined by 30,40, and so on until 90 reaches the top of the tree. Just as the fun is about to continue, bumblebees return to their tree and tell the letters to get out. The letters quikly scurry from the tree in reverse order leaving 10 at the top of the tree. 0 decides to be brave and leaps to join 10 at the top of the tree to make 100.

Keywords: bee, counting, insects, numbers, rhyme, sequence, tree

Look what I see! Where can I be? With my animal friends | by Michels, Dia L.

Each day of the week, a baby and her family visit the various places animals live. She sees a variety of animals and which types live in which areas.

Keywords: animals, baby, barn, butterfly, Days of the Week, dog, dolphin, family, farm, goat, horse, iguana, insects, photograph, sight, sleep, wilderness, zoo

The shape of me and other stuff | by Seuss, Dr.

Read and explore the uniqueness of everything around us. Everything and everyone has their own shape and we should be proud of the one we have.

Keywords: balloon, bee, bicycle, boat, camel, clothing, colors, comparisons, differences, elephant, fire, fish, flowers, horse, imagination, insects, machines, mice, mountains, poetry, shapes, ship, spider, uniqueness, water

The spider who never gave up | by Flores, Travis

Sparkey the spider tries hard to overcome his inability to spin a web. With encouragement from his mom and his friends and a strong will to never give up, Sparkey finally achieves his goal of spinning the perfect web. Read about the real life struggle of Sparky, as he tries one medicine after another in hope of beating Cystic Fibrosis.

Keywords: author's note, bravery, challenges, determination, diseases, dreams, encouragement, family, feelings, insects, parents, pride, self confidence, spider, trust

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