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Hi, pizza man!

Walter, Virginia

A young girl waits anxiously for the pizza man to arrive. While she waits, her mother asks her how she would greet the delivery boy if he were a woman, cat, dog, duck, cow, snake, or dinosaur.

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animals, anticipation, birds, cat, cow, dinosaur, dog, duck, food, manners, nutrition, reptiles, snake, verbal communication

Hip, a turtle from Slowjamz Swamp, and Hop, a rabbit from Breakbeat Meadow, both love to rap. Hip raps very slowly, and Hop raps very slowly. Animals of Slowjamz Swamp and Breakbeat Meadow don't socialize until one day Hip and Hop meet each other when they see a sign for a rapping contest. In this twist of the fable Tortoise and the Hare, Hip and Hop bring the animals of the swamp and meadow together through their performance.

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animals, communication, comparisons, competition, conflict resolution, cooperation, creativity, dancing, decision making, fable, friendship, peer resistance, performance, problem solving, rabbit, reptiles, rhyme, turtle

How groundhog's garden grew

Cherry, Lynne

Little Groundhog is hungry. His friend Squirrel reminds him that it would not be nice to eat from someone else's garden, so 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 to grow. After planting, tending, and harvesting his garden, Groundhog has a feast with his friends.

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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

How, hippo!

Brown, Marcia

A little hippo's mother teaches him to talk. Anytime he was with his mother he was not afraid, but one day he went to play alone and a crocodile grabbed him. When the little hippo shouted, his mother rescued him.

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animals, conflict resolution, crocodile, decision making, family, fear, feelings, hippopotamus, parents, reptiles, rescue, safety, verbal communication

I need a snake

Jonell, Lynne//Mathers, Petra

Robbie tries to convince his mommy to get him a pet snake. His mommy tries to discourage Robbie many times. He eventually finds an good solution to please himself and his mom.

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decision making, family, imagination, parents, pets, pretend, problem solving, reptiles, snake, verbal communication

I took my frog to the library

Kimmel, Eric A.

Bridgett has many unusual animals as pets. Each day she tries to take a different animal to the library with her. Each animal creates a mess in one way or another.

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animals, birds, chaos, chicken, elephant, frog, giraffe, library, listening, mischief, nonverbal communication, pelican, pets, reptiles, snake

I wanna iguana

Orloff, Karen Kaufman

A little boy wants an iguana, but first he has to convince his mother that he is responsible enough to have it. Through a series of letters written between the boy and his mother, they both provide reasons to support whether or not he should get the iguana. They decide that the boy may have the iguana on a trial basis to prove he will take care of it.

I'd really like to eat a child

Donnio, Sylviane

One morning, Achilles the crocodile decides that he wants nothing more than to eat a child. His parents try everything to get Achilles to change his mind, but he refuses. He fails his mission and hunger winds up getting the best of him.

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animals, bodies of water, cooking, crocodile, disobedience, family, food, growing up, hunger, moon, morning, night, obedience, problem solving, reptiles, sizes, sun, teeth

If a dolphin were a fish

Wlodarski, Loran

A dolphin imagines that she is a fish, a turtle, a bird, an octopus, a shark, and a manatee. Learn how special she really is and how special each of her other sea animal friends are too.

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acceptance, author's note, birds, bodies of water, dolphin, fish, habitat, hearing, ocean, octopus, reptiles, shark, smell, turtle

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

In the small, small night

Kurtz, Jane

A young boy moves to America from Ghana. He is worried about forgetting his past. Thanks to his mother, he is able to go back to the world he once knew.

Inside-outside dinosaurs

Munro, Roxie

Enjoy a giant dinosaur, a flying reptile, a dinosaur with plates and spikes on its body, and even a baby dinosaur cracking out of their shells. There is a ferocious dinosaur that eats meat and vegetarian dinosaurs that hide from carnivores. Look inside the dinosaurs and you'll see a dynamic view of eight dinosaur skeletons. Look outside the dinosaurs and you'll see sweeping paintings of these creatures as they once lived on our planet.

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adaptation, archeology, author's note, body parts, bones, comparisons, dinosaur, extinction, history, nonfiction, reptiles, rocks, swamp, teeth, tree

It came from the swamp

Rubel, Nicole

Alfie, the alligator, gets knocked out during a baseball game. When he recovers, he cannot remember who he is. Alfie flees from his friends and finds refuge with humans. He finally gets hit in the head again and comes to his senses.

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alligator, baseball, change, exercise, fear, feelings, forgetful, friendship, games, illness, nonverbal communication, play, reptiles, sports, verbal communication

Jimmy's boa and the big splash birthday bash

Noble, Trinka Hakes

Jimmy takes his goldfish and boa constrictor to Sealand for a birthday party with his friends. Chaos occurs when the goldfish falls in the whale's tank. Jimmy's party ends up in the tank, and they have a blast with the seals and penguins.

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animals, assertiveness, birds, birthday, holidays, party, penguin, presents, reptiles, rescue, seal, shark, snake, verbal communication, whale

Jimmy's boa bounces back

Noble, Trinka Hakes

Maggie tells Jimmy that his Boa constricter was at her mother's Garden Club meeting. She goes through a huge story about what happened because of this snake.

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adventures, attention, conflict resolution, family, friendship, nonverbal communication, parents, reptiles, snake, storytelling, verbal communication

Johnny crow's party

Brooke, L. Leslie

Johnny crow has a bunch of animals that gather in his garden. They have many rhyming adventures.

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adventures, animals, bear, birds, camel, crow, duck, eagle, garden, giraffe, kangaroo, mole, porcupine, reptiles, rhyme, seal, sheep, snake

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

Katy no-pocket

Payne, Emmy

Katy Kangaroo does not have a pocket in which to carry her son, so she asks different animals to help her. She finally goes into the city and finds a man with an apron.

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animals, birds, clothing, critical thinking, crocodile, decision making, family, growing up, kangaroo, lion, monkey, owl, parents, reptiles, shelter, tortoise, verbal communication

Kindergarten diary

Portis, Antoinette

It is September and time for Annalina to start school. On September 1, Annalina says she doesn't want to got to kindergarten. On September 2nd, Annalina has to look nice on her first day of school. On September, she meets her teacher Ms. Duffy. For each day of the month, Annalina experiences many new things in kindergarten. By September 30, the entry in Annalina's diary says "We are room 2K. We are fine!" --and too busy to write any more!

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alligator, alphabet, animals, ball, birthday, body parts, calendar, careers, celebration, change, clothing, counting, cow, fear, feelings, fractions, growing up, jump rope, jumping, mollusks, month, numbers, party, play, playground, recess, reptile, reptiles, school, sequence, snail, space, storytelling, tortoise, writing

Lady monster has a plan

Blance, Ellen // Cook, Ann

Monster and the little boy have too many pets. They try to build a house for all of them, but they need help. Lady monster and the little girl come to help and they all cooperate to build the animal house.

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accomplishment, amphibians, animals, birds, cat, communication, conflict resolution, cooperation, critical thinking, dog, frog, goal setting, helping, monsters, nonverbal communication, parakeet, pets, reptiles, shelter, tools, turtle

Lake of the big snake

Olaleye, Isaac

Two boys outwit a hungry snake in an African rain forest village.

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africa, animals, argument, bodies of water, chores, conflict resolution, disobedience, family, fear, feelings, forest, friendship, lake, multicultural, nigerian, parents, play, reptiles, responsibilities, snake, stress management, teamwork, village

Lazy lion

Hadithi, Mwenye & Kennaway, Adrienne

Lazy lion orders everyone to build him a house, but he is not satisfied with it. When a big rain comes, all the other animals go into the house that was built for the lion to keep dry. This is why lions must roam the earth.

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aardvark, african, animals, ant, assertiveness, badger, bee, birds, conflict resolution, critical thinking, crocodile, decision making, folktale, geography, goal setting, insects, laziness, lion, rain, refusal skills, reptiles, shelter, teamwork, weather

Leaping lizards

Murphy, J. Stuart

Through rhyme and rhythm, this story focuses on counting skills by 5s and 10s. The lizards are set for a show to begin. However, snake cannot find all of the lizards! One by one, five by five, and ten by ten, the reptiles begin to arrive by air, sea, car and bicycle. The finale includes a fifty leaping lizards show!

Let's find it!

Arnold, Katya

An assortment of environmental themes, such as a park, a street scene, a garden, a pond, a beach and a forest are used as background to identify plants and animals. Words are used to label and identify different plants and aniamls in our environment.

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animals, beach, birds, bodies of water, cat, critical thinking, crow, dog, environment, exploration, flowers, forest, garden, goal setting, grasshopper, hummingbird, insects, ladybug, nature, nonverbal communication, osprey, park, parrot, pets, plants, pond, reptiles, sea, snake, sparrow, tree

Listen to the desert

Mora, Pat

With a combination of lyrics in English and Spanish, this poem describes different sounds of the desert. Each page describes new sounds for a frog, coyote, rain, wind, and snake.

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amphibians, animals, coyote, desert, five senses, frog, language, lyrics, multicultural, poetry, rain, reptiles, snake, sounds, spanish, weather, wind

Look look look

Hoban, Tana

Animals, flowers, food, and instruments have different textures. A small part of each object is seen first then the whole picture comes into view when you turn the page. (A Wordless Book)

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animals, art, cat, critical thinking, dog, elephant, five senses, flowers, food, instruments, reptiles, sheep, smell, touch, turtle

Lyle and the birthday party

Waber, Bernard

Lyle, the crocodile, lives with the Primms who are preparing to celebrate Joshua's birthday. Lyle is jealous because he wants a party too. After Lyle does good deeds for others who are sick, the Primms throw him a party.

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birthday, celebration, conflict resolution, crocodile, decision making, feelings, helping, holidays, illness, jealousy, nonverbal communication, party, reptiles, self esteem, verbal communication

Lyle at the office

Waber, Bernard

Lyle, the crocodile, possesses incredible people skills. Sometime this gift can cause problems.

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assertiveness, conflict resolution, crocodile, friendship, fun, halloween, holidays, kindness, refusal skills, reptiles, self esteem, stress management, verbal communication

Lyle, lyle crocodile

Waber, Bernard

A crocodile named Lyle has a big impact on those he meets in his community. One day, a member of his family loses his job. In the end this bad event is turned around into a job well done by everyone.

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animals, baby, car, careers, change, child care, community, coping, crocodile, dog, exercise, family, feelings, food, friendship, ghosts, halloween, happiness, holidays, loss, monsters, mythical, nonverbal communication, nutrition, refusal skills, reptiles, sadness, self esteem, stress management, teamwork, transportation, walking, witches

Mama don't allow

Hurd, Thacher

Miles gets a saxophone for his birthday. He loves to practice the saxophone, but his family won't let him because of the awful sounds he makes. The only ones who appreciated his music are the alligators.

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alligator, birthday, celebration, conflict resolution, family, instruments, music, noise, parents, presents, reptiles

Mice twice

Low, Joseph

A cat gets hungry and askes a mouse over to eat for dinner. Mouse brings a dog with her. The mouse and the cat try to outsmart each other but the mouse wins in the end.

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alligator, animals, cat, dog, friendship, mischief, mouse, reptiles, surprises

Mice, morels & monkey business: Likely lessons from Aesop's Fables

Wormell, Christopher

Character building lessons are presented in a condensed version of Aesop's Fables. Bright illustrations and simple explanations of these famed lessons present self development messages that range from Be prepared to Be careful what you wish for.

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acceptance, animals, ant, awareness, birds, boar, bull, camel, cat, conflict resolution, courage, crab, crane, critical thinking, crow, deception, decision making, deer, determination, dog, dolphin, eagle, fable, fly, fox, friendship, frog, grasshopper, identity, lion, monkey, mouse, nonverbal communication, peacock, peer resistance, reptiles, sheep, turtle, verbal communication, wolf

Miss Bindergarten celebrates the 100th day of kindergarten

Slate, Joseph

Miss Bindergarten and her class have lots of fun preparing for the 100th day of kindergarten. Everyone must bring 100 of some wonderful, one-hundred-full thing! Watch as everyone prepares their special thing and find out what Miss Bindergarten does for the 100th day.

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accomplishment, alligator, amphibians, animals, anticipation, beaver, celebration, chimpanzee, chipmunk, creativity, elephant, excitement, frog, goldfish, hippopotamus, iguana, lion, nonverbal communication, pig, reptiles, rhinoceros, uniqueness, zebra

Mouse count

Walsh, Ellen Stoll

Ten mice were playing in a field until a hungry snake comes by to collect them into a jar to eat. The mice outsmart the snake by tipping the jar and getting free.

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animals, assertiveness, critical thinking, deception, escape, food, hunger, mouse, nutrition, play, problem solving, reptiles, snake

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

My little sister ate one hare

Grossman, Bill

A little girl can eat almost anything -- except her peas!An excellent counting book for young children.

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amphibians, animals, ant, bat, counting, family, food, frog, hare, hunger, insects, lizard, mouse, nonverbal communication, numbers, nutrition, poetry, reptiles, rhyme, sequence, siblings

My river

Halpern, Shari

Creatures of a river tell how they need and use the river. The river is important to everyone.

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amphibians, animals, birds, bodies of water, duck, frog, reptiles, river, sharing, turtle

Natalie spitzer's turtles

Willner-Pardo, Gina

Jess is afraid of losing her best friend Molly, because there is a new girl in her class. Jess becomes close with the new girl's turtles. It's not too long until Jess learns what a true friend is and that you can have more than one.

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animals, fear, feelings, friendship, happiness, jealousy, play, reptiles, sadness, school, turtle

No fighting no biting!

Minarik, Else Holmelund

Rosa and Willy are constantly fighting and annoying cousin Joan. So Joan tells the kids a story about two little alligators that were always fighting and how each time they were almost eaten by a big alligator because they were not paying attention.

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alligator, appreciation, conflict resolution, cooperation, decision making, family, fight, nonverbal communication, peer resistance, problem solving, refusal skills, reptiles, siblings, storytelling, stress management

No nap for benjamin badger

Carlstrom, Nancy White

Benjamin Badger is two years old going on three. He does not believe he needs to take a nap anymore. Mama Badger explains to Benjamin that everyone needs time to slow down and rest. While Mama Badger is explaining to Benjamin about who sleeps, Benjamin falls asleep.

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amphibians, animals, badger, butterfly, conflict resolution, dragonfly, family, frog, insects, parents, relaxation, reptiles, sleep, spider, turtle, verbal communication, worm

Octavia and her purple ink cloud

Rathmell, Donna//Rathmell, Doreen

Octavia Octopus and her sea-animal friends love playing camouflage games to practice how they would hide from a ﾓbig, hungry creature.ﾔ Octavia, however, just cannot seem to get her colors right when she tries to shoot her purple ink cloud. What happens when the big, hungry shark shows up looking for his dinner? Learn your basic colors along with the camouflage techniques of various sea animals, and you'll be on your way to being a marine biologist!

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accomplishment, bodies of water, careers, feelings, fish, friendship, frustration, ocean, octopus, plants, practice, protection, relief, reptiles, stress management, turtle

Old granny and the bean thief

Defelice, Cynthia

Granny loves her beans any way she can get them. A mischievous thief steals Granny's beans three nights in a row. She embarks on a journey to tell the sheriff about the thief. Along the way she makes several friends. They help Granny stop the thief in a very unique fashion.

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alligator, animals, bodies of water, cactus, community, conflict resolution, cooking, cow, critical thinking, desert, family, fantasy, food, grandparents, nutrition, pond, raccoon, reptiles, snake

Old turtle

Wood, Douglas

This is a tale of the animal's and nature's search for God, and later man's search for God. Through the eyes of God's other creations, we are shown God's unending love and eternal presence in our lives, and we are reminded that we were put on earth to be stewards for the earth and messengers of God's love.

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animals, communication, conflict resolution, discovery, diversity, god, nature, religion, reptiles, spiritual, turtle

On Meadowview Street

Coles, Henry

Caroline and her family move into a new house on Meadowview street. Much to Caroline's dismay, there is no meadow on Meadowview Street. After Caroline's hard work to create a wild life preserve in her own backyard, there is now a meadow on Meadowview Street, a new home to many.

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ambition, amphibians, animals, bat, bee, beetle, birds, bodies of water, butterfly, dragonfly, family, flowers, home, hummingbird, insects, mouse, moving, nature, neighbors, parents, plants, pond, reptiles, rescue, spider, swallow, teamwork, tree, turtle, wildlife, wren

Once upon a time and grandma

Blegvad, Lenore

Grandma takes Emma and Luke to visit the house she once lived in when she was a little girl named Norrie. Grandma tells Emma and Luke the kinds of things Norrie used to do. When Emma and Luke have difficulty believing Grandma was Norrie, she proves it to them.

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activities, art, bedtime, dancing, exercise, family, food, games, generations, grandparents, history, jumping, memory, music, nutrition, play, playground, reptiles, seasons, siblings, sleep, spring, summer, toys, transportation, turtle, winter

One dragon's dream

Pavey, Peter

A dragon dreams about various animals. Counting is made fun through the drawings and rhyming words of a dragon's dream.

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amphibians, animals, birds, counting, dragons, dreams, elephant, frog, kangaroo, mythical, nonverbal communication, reptiles, rhyme, seal, sequence, storks, tiger, turkey, turtle

One odd day

Fisher, Doris//Sneed, Dani

A young boy awakens to find everything around him is ﾓodd.ﾔ He has one shoe, his shirt has three sleeves, and his dog has five legs. Things are crazy at school when he stares at a calendar with only odd days. Will his odd day end when he goes to bed that night?

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animals, calendar, confusion, family, fear, feelings, numbers, parents, reptiles, rhyme, rhythm, turtle

One of each

Hoberman, Mary Ann

Oliver Tolliver lives alone in his one little house that has just one of everything. He thinks he is happy until he discovers that having more to share with friends is even better!

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