Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University

On Noah's ark | by Brett, Jan

In preparation of the rains, Noah's granddaughter helps her family read the Ark and animals. Two-by-two the beautiful animals crowd into the Ark and she keeps herself busy making the animals comfortable hoping for the rains to stop.

Keywords: activities, animals, anticipation, birds, bodies of water, coping, determination, direction, dove, emotions, excitement, family, feelings, generations, grandparents, history, hope, preparation, rain, rainbow, religion, spiritual, stress management

Hurricane watch | by Branley, Franklyn M.

This informational text describes the relationship of air over land and oceans. When wind speed reaches 74 miles an hour, a tropical storm becomes a hurricane. Explains the sequence of weather events and how weather planes fly into the eye of a storm to take measurements of temperature, pressure, and precipitation. People prepare safely for the storm by securing homes, gathering supplies, and moving inland.

Keywords: bodies of water, careers, destruction, direction, earth, geography, hurricane, maps, nonfiction, numbers, ocean, preparation, prevention, radio, safety, satellite, science, sequence, storm, technology, television, weather, wind

The hallelujah flight | by Bildner, Phil

James Banning fixes up an old plane to fly across the country from California to New York. James' courage, and perseverance allows him to overcome many challenges during his 1932 trek across the United States (e.g., California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York).

Keywords: accomplishment, adventures, african american, airplane, anger, bias, biography, bodies of water, celebration, challenges, community, courage, crowd, day, determination, direction, discrimination, dreams, feelings, food, geography, hard work, helping, heroism, kindness, machines, maps, monument, mountains, multicultural, night, numbers, performance, prejudice, relationship, sky, storm, transportation, tree

The children of LIR | by MacGill-Callahan, Sheila

When King Lir's evil new wife becomes jealous of his children and turns them into swans, the two sets of twins must make new friends and problem solve to go back to their beloved father.

Keywords: animals, birds, celebration, dancing, direction, evil, family, folktale, friendship, happiness, ireland, light, magic, mountains, problem solving, royalty, siblings, song, swan, whale

The lighthouse cat | by Stainton, Sue

In an old lighthouse, the keeper strives to keep the twenty-four candles burning, by tending to them every half hour. He was lonely until the day he was nose to nose with a cat. They both tended to the lighthouse together. On a dark and stormy night, the rapid wind blew the candles out. The cat called for other cats to help light the lighthouse with their yellow bright eyes.

Keywords: animals, birds, boat, bodies of water, careers, cat, change, critical thinking, direction, feelings, food, happiness, lighthouse, nonverbal communication, rain, sea, seagull, storm, teamwork, transportation, weather

Subway | by Suen, Anastasia

The subway is underground uptown. People walk to it, hop on it, and ride it. Some play music, others watch out the windows. When it comes to stops, some get off, others continue to ride the subway until they reach their destination.

Keywords: direction, exercise, hopping, moving, music, night, nonverbal communication, rhyme, subway, symbols, transportation, travel, walking, weather, wind

La La Rose | by Ichikawa, Satomi

La La Rose and her girl, Clementine, are the best of friends. The do everything together! One day, their afternoon at the Luxembourg Gardens goes awry when La La Rose mistakenly gets left behind. She is forced to face the world alone and can only hope to be reunited with Clementine.

Keywords: animals, appreciation, birds, bodies of water, caring, conflict resolution, confusion, direction, dog, duck, exercise, family, garden, language, love, maps, missing, park, pigeon, play, playground, rabbit, toys, understanding, worry

Sun mother wakes the world: An Australian creation story | by Wolkstein, Diane

The indigenous people of Australia believe their ancestors created the world through the sun shining on all living things to wake them up, bringing them to life. Sun Mother then creates the Morning Sun and the Moon to watch over ther children living on Earth in this spiritual, emotional, and multicultural story of creation.

Keywords: aborigine, amphibians, animals, australian, beetle, birds, caterpillar, cave, celebration, cricket, direction, earth, emotions, emu, fear, folktale, frog, grub, happiness, insects, kangaroo, life, love, moon, multicultural, nonverbal communication, owl, plants, platypus, reptiles, self esteem, sky, sleep, snake, stars, sun, tree, understanding, verbal communication, walkabout, wind, wombat

Pizza | by Romay, Saturnino

Learn how to make pizza, then find the recipe for making pizza at the end of the story.

Keywords: cooking, direction, food, nutrition, recipe

Trucks: Whizz! zoom! rumble! | by Hubbell, Patricia

Trucks come in different sizes, shapes, and colors. They travel to different places on the map and in various directions. Trucks also have multiple uses and jobs.

Keywords: colors, community, direction, five senses, maps, moving, signs, sounds, toys, transportation, travel, truck, variety

Rocks! Rocks! Rocks! | by Wallace, Nancy Elizabeth

Buddy likes looking at and collecting rocks so Mama suggests they visit the local nature center. They hike the Blue Diamond Trail to five learning centers where they meet Roxie, a Rock Ridge Ranger. Buddy learns about bedrock, erosion, and how three types of rocks are formed. He finds out many surprising things about rocks, rocks, rocks!

Keywords: author's note, careers, collection, direction, food, geology, learning, nature, parents, rocks, school, shapes, sizes, travel, vocabulary, walking

Boats speeding! Sailing! Cruising! | by Hubbell, Patricia

Illustrations and rhyming text celebrate different kinds of boats and what they can do.

Keywords: airplane, animals, boat, careers, direction, ferry, fire, fishing, ice, lobster, penguin, radio, technology, toys, transportation, vocabulary, war, whale

Boom bah! | by Cummings, Phil

A mouse starts a musical trend by tapping a cup. Other animals join in and the music soon turns into a band. The band meets other animals with louder music and they join together to make a large orchestra of musical animals.

Keywords: animals, band, body parts, cat, communication, counting, cow, direction, dog, five senses, horse, instruments, mouse, numbers, pig, rhythm, rooster, sheep, sounds

Fledgling | by Blake, Robert

A fledgling spreads his wings and flies from a skyscraper for the first time. His flight leads him to an amusement park and subway. He gets lost and becomes scared. Will he ever find his way home?

Keywords: animals, baby, birds, conflict resolution, direction, fair, falcon, fear, feelings, hawk, home, park, perspective, relief, sky, subway, transportation

The tale i told sasha | by Willard, Nancy

Follow along in an adventure as a yellow ball rolls out of sight and into a place where all lost things are found. Discover a quiet, small, and plain house where its rooms run far and wide and adventure lurks in the shadows.

Keywords: adventures, animals, balloon, bee, beetle, birds, butterfly, colors, cow, direction, disappearance, discovery, fish, flowers, horse, images, imagination, insects, light, lost, maps, mythical, perspective, shadows, sheep, tiger

Lost!A story in string | by Fleischman, Paul

A grandmother tells the story of a mountain girl who is lost in a blizzard. As she tells this story to her granddaughter, she uses string to illustrate it. Even you can learn how to make the string pictures!

Keywords: body parts, conflict resolution, courage, creativity, critical thinking, decision making, direction, family, fear, games, grandparents, heroism, listening, lost, mountains, nonverbal communication, pretend, stars, storm, storytelling, verbal communication, walking, weather

Follow the road | by Tresselt, Alvin

The road travels through many settings and environments and goes in many directions. It travels over hills, through valleys, across train tracks, and around parks--all over the world!

Keywords: bus, car, direction, environment, farm, geography, nature, park, transportation, travel, truck

At the library | by Loomis, Christine

An exciting trip to the library takes you through many activities -- from looking for books, to checking the computer, to playing with blocks, to listening to fun stories. You will find so much at the library.

Keywords: books, computer, direction, family, friendship, grandparents, happiness, imagination, language, learning, library, patience, persistence, poetry, rhyme, science, technology, time, toys

Ten dirty pigs: An upside-down, turn-around bathtime counting book | by Roth, Carol

One dirty pig gets into the tub, but what happens when all ten pigs take a bath?See what happens when all ten are clean and you must turn the book around and upside-down to count again.

Keywords: animals, bath, body parts, cleanliness, clothing, cooperation, counting, direction, hygiene, nonverbal communication, numbers, pig, play, rhyme, sequence

As the crow flies: A first book of maps | by Hartman, Gail

The eagle has its favorite place to go, just like the rabbit, crow, horse, and seagull. All the animals do different things during their daily routines, but live in harmony under the same sky.

Keywords: activities, animals, birds, closeness, community, critical thinking, crow, day, direction, eagle, environment, geography, maps, moon, nonverbal communication, rabbit, self esteem

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