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A home in the barn

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.

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

Santa from Cincinnati: How a little boy named Santa grew up to become the real thing

Barrett, Judi

Calus was born on Christmas Day at Cincinnati General Hospital, and as he grew up, he developed a love for toys. As a young boy, Calus began building toys with his dad and delivering them to other kids in his neighborhood on Christmas Eve. Soon, everyone wanted toys from Calus, and after going to college and meeting Claus, they moved to the North Pole and began manufacturing toys year-round.

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animals, birth, birthday, celebration, christmas, correspondence, growing up, holidays, new baby, parents, presents, reindeer, school, sledding, snow, technology, tools, toys, transportation, writing

Henry's first-moon birthday

Look, Lenore

Jenny is in charge of helping her grandmother prepare for the one-month birthday party of her baby brother, Henry. Henry's party is a Chinese celebration! Food and decorations are made to bring good luck, health, and happiness to Jenny's mother and brother. Each member of the family attends in celebration of Henry's first month of life.

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baby, birth, birthday, body parts, celebration, chinese, cleanliness, clothing, culture, drawing, family, feelings, food, grandparents, happiness, health, heritage, holidays, language, luck, moon, nutrition, onomatopoeia, parents, party, responsibilities, reunion, self esteem, siblings, traditions, verbal communication, writing

Home

Baker, Jeannie

From the day of her birth until the times of her adulthood, Tracy moves outside and inside her house experiencing important milestones. Through the same window scene, her neighborhood develops and matures with plants and animals. (A wordless book).

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accomplishment, author's note, birth, celebration, challenges, change, community, day, family, feelings, garden, growing up, gymnastics, happiness, neighbors, night, nonverbal communication, perspective, plants, seasons, sports, transportation, wedding

One small place in a tree

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.

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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

Old home day

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.

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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

Over the moon

Katz, Karen

A couple wait for a phone call that will tell them that their soon-to-be-adopted daughter is born. When they receive the call, they race to the airport to get the newborn child. The new family of mom, dad, and baby girl go to their loving home to get acquainted.

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adoption, airplane, anticipation, baby, birth, dreams, family, feelings, grandparents, happiness, love, moon, neighbors, parents, transportation, travel, verbal communication

Ocean seasons

Hirschi, Ron

Seasons change in the ocean much as they do on land: spring brings new plants and baby animals; summer oceans are aglow with sparkly plankton lights; and autumn winds blow across the open water. In winter, the humpback whales migrate to warmer waters, just as some land animals move to warmer climates. Learn about plants and animals that are joined through the mix of seasons, food webs and habitats beneath the waves. While set in the Pacific, similar changes occur in all the worldﾒs oceans.

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autumn, baby, birth, bodies of water, change, crab, crustaceans, fish, habitat, ocean, otter, plants, sea, seal, seasons, shrimp, spring, summer, whale, winter

A country far away

Gray, Nigel

This is a story comparing two young boys who live in Africa and the United States. Their lives are identical even though they live in different countries.

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african, america, bicycle, birth, celebration, comparisons, critical thinking, differences, friendship, geography, goal setting, growing up, maps, multicultural, school, soccer, sports, swimming, village

Silly chicken

Khan, Rukhsana

Rani is jealous of Amiﾒs affection for Bibi, a chicken. Rani finally learns how to lay an egg - much to the motherﾒs delight. However, when left alone one day, the chicken dies and Ami is sad. An egg from Bibi is found, which hatches a new baby chick.

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affection, animals, assertiveness, birth, chicken, death, decision making, dog, family, feelings, jealousy, loss, multicultural, pakistani, parents, sadness, self esteem, verbal communication

Turtle summer: A journal for my daughter

Monroe, Mary A.

A young mother writes a journal for her daughter. This scrapbook-journal explains the nesting cycle of loggerhead sea turtles and the natural life along the southeastern coast, including local shore birds, shells, and a sea turtle hospital.

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animals, baby, beach, birds, birth, bodies of water, family, injury, migration, nature, parents, reproduction, reptiles, sea, shells, storytelling, turtle

The most important gift of all

Conway, David

Ama wants to honor her newborn baby brother with a special gift, as is the custom of the people in her village. When Grandma Sisi suggests the gift of love Ama sets off in search of this important present, but how will she know when she has found it? This story celebrates a young girl's discovery of the most important gift of all.

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africa, african, animals, baby, birds, birth, celebration, clouds, community, critical thinking, discovery, dreams, family, giraffe, grandparents, lion, love, multicultural, parents, rain, siblings, stars, tree, village

Turtles in my sandbox

Curtis, Jennifer Keats

Imagine finding turtle eggs in your sandbox! When a mother diamondback terrapin lays eggs in a young girlﾒs sandbox, the girl becomes a ﾓturtle-sitterﾔ to help the babies safely hatch. She raises the teeny hatchlings until they become big enough to fend for themselves in the wild. Then, with the help of experts, she releases them. Along the way, she learns about these unique animals and that she has made an important contribution to their survival.

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baby, beach, birth, bodies of water, critical thinking, curiosity, discovery, excitement, exercise, family, feelings, nature, ocean, parents, protection, reptiles, research, swimming, turtle, uniqueness

Ollie

Dunrea, Oliver

An egg named Ollie does everything he can think of to keep from hatching. Two other geese want Ollie to hatch, but he refuses. Finally the geese tell him to not hatch. This gets Ollie motivated to hatch and break out of his shell.

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animals, birds, birth, farm, five senses, goose, mouse, peer resistance, pig, refusal skills, sheep

Hello baby!

Rockwell, Lizzy

It is such a special time when there's a new baby on the way. This little boy has been involved in his new sister's life since the beginning. He went to the doctor with his mommy and helped unpack baby clothes. When his baby sister is born, he is the happiest boy in the world!

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baby, bath, birth, body parts, clothing, doctor, excitement, family, feelings, grandparents, happiness, memories, numbers, parents, photograph, pregnancy, rhythm, sequence, siblings, surprises

Welcome dede!: An African naming ceremony

Onyefulu, Ifeoma

Amarlai has a new baby cousin and he can't wait for her to be given a name. A tradtional African name will tell people where she comes from and which child she is in the family.

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africa, african, baby, birth, celebration, ceremony, clothing, community, cooking, family, feelings, food, geography, giving, grandparents, happiness, hard work, language, maps, market, multicultural, parents, photograph, prayer, presents, traditions, village

I love you mary jane

Balian, Lorna

Mary Jane is a dog who is having a birthday party. All the kids from around the block come and bring presents. Mary Jane has a special present for the children -- she has puppies!

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animals, assertiveness, birth, birthday, dog, party, presents, verbal communication

Seashore story

Yashima, Taro

Come learn about the old legend of Urishima, which tells about the birth of the sun.

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beach, birth, bodies of water, critical thinking, japanese, multicultural, sea, storytelling, stress management, sun, teaching

Amelia's nine lives

Balian, Lorna

A little girl has the misfortune of losing her best friend, a cat named Amelia. Her friends and family try to help the little girl by giving her cats that look like Amelia. In the end, Amelia returns home with four kittens.

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animals, birth, cat, conflict resolution, family, friendship, kindness, loss, numbers, pets

Mrs. merriwether's musical cat

Purdy, Carol

Mrs. Merriwether gives piano lessons to neighborhood children. Their ordinary lives are transformed when a cat joins the piano lessons and helps keep the beat of the music. The cat even brings her three kittens to the lessons.

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animals, birth, cat, community, conflict resolution, goal setting, learning, music, neighbors, nonverbal communication, practice, rhythm, seasons, summer, surprises, verbal communication

Strega nona: Her story as told to Tomie dePaola

dePaola, Tomie

A little girl name Nona is born, and her Grandma Concetta says that she will teach her the ways of a strega who gives cures and advice on many things. Nona grows up and attends the convent school and the Academy of Stregas in the city. Nona eventually returns to the country to take her Grandma's place after she retires.

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birth, decision making, grandparents, health, illness, italian, language, magic, multicultural, school, secrets, storytelling

The spider who created the world

MacDonald, Amy

Nobb, the spider, needs a place to set her egg but the sun, moon, and cloud don't want her around. Her only friend, Air, offers her a place but Air can't hold an egg so Nobb uses her net to catch the sun, moon, and cloud and uses pieces of them to create a home for her egg. When she had created the world the egg hatched and from it came all the creatures of the world.

A web in the grass

Freschet, Bernice

A lonely spider spins a web in order to catch some food. The spider is careful not to be caught by a toad or an owl. She lays an egg sac and hundreds of spiderlings are produced. The babies, like their mother, spin webs and wait to capture food.

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amphibians, assertiveness, birds, birth, conflict resolution, food, insects, loneliness, nature, nonverbal communication, reproduction, spider

Christmas in the stable

Lindgren, Astrid

In this traditional story of the birth of Jesus, a child's imagination creates more modern images of the events.

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baby, birth, christmas, holidays, images, imagination, religion

The christmas donkey

McClure, Gillian

When news arrives that everyone has to return to the place where they were born to pay tax, a local donkey dealer sells all of his donkeys, including Arrod, a wild and proud donkey. Arrod believes only a king is good enough to have him, but he leads the way to Bethlehem when Joseph, a poor carpenter, and his pregnant wife, Mary, buys him.

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adventures, animals, baby, birth, christmas, donkey, family, feelings, happiness, holidays, lion, nonverbal communication, ox, parents, pride, relief, sheep, snake, travel, verbal communication

Horton hatches the egg

Seuss, Dr.

Horton the elephant is asked to sit on Mayzie's egg while she takes a break. He ends up sitting on it for a long time. After several seasons the egg hatches into an elephant bird. Horton takes the baby home with him.

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animals, birds, birth, determination, elephant, food, goal setting, helping, nutrition, refusal skills, responsibilities

Birthday presents

Rylant, Cynthia

The celebration of a little girl's birthday begins as soon as she is born. As each year passes, her personality, behavior, and presents change. Her parents celebrate the special moments of growing up by surrounding her with love, presents, and memories.

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animals, baby, birth, birthday, cat, celebration, conflict resolution, family, feelings, food, growing up, happiness, health, illness, love, moon, nonverbal communication, presents, sadness, sky, stars, toys, verbal communication

The baby dances

Henderson, Kathy

A baby is born and as she grows she learns to do many new things. As her brother watches her grow during her first year, he shares his observations. She sits, walks, runs, and finally dances as her brother looks on.

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accomplishment, activities, autumn, baby, birth, change, dancing, family, growing up, parents, poetry, rain, seasons, siblings, spring, summer, sun, walking, weather, winter

Big brother dustin

Carter, Alden R.

Dustin is so excited!His family is going to have a baby girl!Dustin's mom and dad teach him all about being a big brother. He even learns how to change diapers!When the baby finally arrives, Dustin shows what a great brother he is.

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baby, birth, child care, critical thinking, excitement, family, feelings, grandparents, happiness, hospital, love, new year, nonverbal communication, parents, siblings, verbal communication

Welcome with love

Overend, Jenni

The special day has arrived. A new baby has many siblings who are all very excited for the new addition to the family. Jack, his sisters Janie and Bea, Aunt Meg, Dad, and Anna the midwife are awaiting the home birth of mother's new baby. The family experiences a wonderful miracle as Mum delivers her new baby at home.

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animals, anticipation, australia, baby, birth, celebration, clothing, dog, excitement, family, feelings, happiness, health, listening, love, miracle, multicultural, new baby, nonverbal communication, parents, pregnancy, reproduction, siblings, support, teamwork, technology, telephone, walking, weather, wind

Who is ben?

Zolotow, Charlotte

On a dark night, Ben contemplates where he came from and where he will go after he dies.

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birth, death, faith, family, feelings, happiness, nonverbal communication, parents, peace, self esteem, verbal communication

Happy birthday

Harris, Robie H.

A child is born and loved from the very first day of his life. Though long and tiring, the day of birth is filled with hearing voices, seeing faces, and many more wonderful things.

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baby, birth, birthday, family, feelings, five senses, grandparents, happiness, holidays, nonverbal communication, parents, verbal communication

Changes

Browne, Anthony

A little boy is told by his father that things are going to change. The boy imagines the tea kettle growing a tail and other ridiculous things to explain what his father said. However, when his mother and father arrive home with a new baby he realizes what his father meant about things changing.

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baby, birth, change, conflict resolution, coping, decision making, family, imagination, parents, siblings

Tadpoles

James, Betsy

Growing up is an exciting process, especially for Molly and her brother, Darvy. Molly discovers frog eggs while she is at the pond and is allowed to bring them home until they develop into frogs. While Darvy experiences developmental changes of his own, he learns how to walk. In the end, Darvy teaches Molly an unexpected lesson.

Your body from head to toe

Roca, Nuria

Your body can do so many things. When you were born, you were only a baby. Then as you grew, you learned how to walk, eat, hear, taste, smell, see, and touch things. It is important to take care of your body so that it can continue to sense the world around you.

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animals, baby, balloon, bath, bicycle, birth, body image, body parts, bones, cat, cold, dog, exercise, family, five senses, flowers, food, glasses, grandparents, growing up, hearing, hygiene, instruments, listening, mouse, music, puppets, rabbit, self esteem, sight, sign language, smell, swimming, taste, teeth, touch, toys

Come back, salmon

Cone, Molly

Mr. King's fifth grade students work on a project to restore Pigeon Creek to its original beauty. They cannot believe the water was once clear and had fish. They learn about the life cycle of salmon, grow their own salmon, and release them into their now clear Pigeon Creek. The next fall they look for their salmon to return.

The dragon in the clock box

Craig, M. Jean

Joshua tapes up a clock box and tells his family that there is a dragon egg in it. The dragon is born and flies away immediately so that Joshua's family could never see it.

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birth, conflict resolution, dragons, family, fantasy, imagination, mythical, nonverbal communication, verbal communication

Gypsy

Seredy, Kate

Gypsy, a mother cat, has kittens. As she lays with her kittens, she remembers her past and thinks about what her kittens will go through.

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animals, birth, cat, change, decision making, family, goal setting, growing up, memories, nature, nonverbal communication, parents

Tracks in the sand

Leedy, Loreen

The life cycle of the sea turtle is described. It explains the turtle's instinct to dig holes in the sand and lay its eggs.

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birth, change, cycle, death, nature, reptiles, turtle

One lighthouse, one moon

Lobel, Anita

Nini the cat takes an exciting journey in which he discovers the concepts of color, days of the week, months of the year, and numbers. Nini sees a different colored pair of shoes each day of the week, explores a variety of activities during each month of the year, and counting the sights that surround the sea where he finally comes to one hundred stars and one moon lighting up the sky around the lighthouse.

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birth, boat, christmas, clothing, colors, Days of The Week, discovery, exploration, flag, fourth of july, goose, hanukkah, holidays, month, moon, numbers, pelican, sea, seagull, seasons, sequence, sky, stars, thanksgiving, valentine's day, whale

The keeping quilt

Polacco, Patricia

When a Russian family moves to America they decide that in order to keep their heritage, a quilt that has been added on to by generation after generation, will be their way of keeping them together.

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birth, birthday, clothing, conflict resolution, death, family, multicultural, nonverbal communication, prayer, quilt, russian, verbal communication, wedding

Christmas in the barn

Brown, Margaret Wise//Cooney, Barbara

The story of Christmas begins with Mary and Joseph being refused at the inn, so they experience the birth of a special baby in the barn.

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animals, barn, birth, christmas, conflict resolution, holidays, nonverbal communication, religion, rhyme, spiritual, storytelling, verbal communication

Petook

Houselander, Caryll

Petook, a rooster, experiences a period of depression after the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. He then learns the joy of Easter when a chick is born, representing Jesus' rebirth from the tomb. Petook develops an appreciation for life and Easter.

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assertiveness, birds, birth, chicken, conflict resolution, critical thinking, depression, easter, feelings, happiness, holidays, nonverbal communication, religion, self esteem, spiritual

Ponies of mykillengi

Anderson, Lonzo

Two children and their ponies get caught in a snow storm. There is also an earthquake and a volcano that prevent them from making it home. One pony is about to give birth and the two children help.

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animals, birth, conflict resolution, coping, critical thinking, decision making, helping, pets, pony, teamwork, weather

Waiting for noah

Oppenheim, Shulamith

A grandmother tells her grandson a story about the night he was born. She tells him about all the things she wanted to do with him when he was older.

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anticipation, birth, conflict resolution, decision making, family, grandparents, growing up, storytelling, verbal communication

Baby, come out!

Manushkin, Fran

Mrs. Tracy is pregnant and the baby does not want to come out. Everyone tries to tell the baby why she should come out. The baby does not want to come out until her Daddy says just the right thing.

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anticipation, baby, birth, conflict resolution, decision making, family, feelings, happiness, parents, pregnancy, refusal skills, self esteem, verbal communication

Arthur's pet business

Brown, Marc

Arthur's parents say he may have a puppy if he proves that he is responsible. Arthur decides to get a job pet sitting a neighbor's dog and eventually many pets. Finally when the neighbor comes home, she finds her dog and new puppies. She pays Arthur ten dollars and gives him one of the new puppies to care for himself.

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