Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University

Goose's story | by Best, Cari

A young girl and her dog care for an injured goose with one leg. They encourage her to learn to walk, swim, and fly. When they goose leaves for winter, they search for her everyday. A year later the goose returns with a mate and with seven baby geese.

Keywords: accidents, animals, change, colors, differences, dog, fear, feelings, fly, fox, friendship, goose, growing up, injury, learning, loneliness, migration, month, parents, pond, raccoon, rain, robin, sadness, seasons, spring, swimming, teaching

Hurricanes | by Erlbach, Arlene

This informational text describes how tropical disturbances become a tropical storm, then a hurricane. Compares and contrasts hurricanes and tornadoes, including watches and warnings. Learn how storms are predicted and monitored. Photographs show the storm with an eye. Hurricanes have different names across the world.

Keywords: careers, central america, china, clouds, comparisons, cyclone, earth, gender, geography, history, hurricane, index, india, maps, month, multicultural, nonfiction, numbers, photograph, prediction, science, seasons, sequence, storm, technology, tornado, typhoon, united states, vocabulary, weather, wind

Nutshell library | by Sendak, Maurice

A set of four tiny books, each presenting its own individual message, cleverly, through the use of rhyme, illustrations, numbers and the alphabet.

Keywords: alligator, alphabet, apathy, autumn, behavior, calendar, caring, counting, decision making, feelings, misbehavior, month, nonverbal communication, numbers, seasons, stress management, summer, variety, winter

My kindergarten | by Wells, Rosemary

Kindergarten is no longer a mystery, thanks to Emily who illustrates the lessons and activities in Miss Cribbageﾒs classroom. Many concepts are explored in this kindergarten classroom. Poems, songs, and activities keep the lessons light-hearted and enjoyable.

Keywords: african american, alphabet, art, calendar, celebration, colors, critical thinking, dancing, Days of The Week, decision making, exercise, flowers, hanukkah, hebrew, holidays, kwanzaa, latin, letters, library, maps, math, money, month, moon, multicultural, museum, music, photograph, poetry, politics, rain, school, science, self esteem, sequence, snow, song, temperature, valentine's day, weather, wind

A new improved Santa | by Wolff, Patricia

Santa is determined to become a new and improved Santa. He changes his hair, loses weight, and changes his clothing style. The children are not happy with his changes; they want the old Santa back.

Jump into January: A journey around the year. | by Blackstone, Stella

The twelve months are packed with much action! Discover all twelve months and the four seasons while looking for the items and details in the illustrations. People demonstrate all of what makes the entire year so special, starting with January, of course!

Keywords: alliteration, boat, bus, fair, fun, garden, jumping, month, rain, sand, school, sea, sequence, snow, transportation, tree, verbal communication, vocabulary, weather, wind

Little sister and the Month brothers | by Schenk de Regniers, Beatrice

A retelling of the Slavic folktale in which the Month brothers' magic helps Little Sister fulfill seemingly impossible tasks, Her tasks prove the undoing of her greedy stepmother and stepsister.

Keywords: animals, author's note, comparisons, cow, fable, feelings, flowers, food, hard work, month, peace, resentment, responsibilities, royalty, seasons, siblings, stepmother

Snow pumpkin | by Schaefer, Carole Lexa

Lily and Gram can't believe how much snow has fallen in October. Lily and her friend, Jesse, have a wonderful time rolling around in the snow and building a snowman. When they run out of snow for the snowman's head, Lily and Jesse go to Gram's vegetable patch and find a snow pumpkin with a face. The snowman eventually melts, but the pumpkin remains smiling on Gram and Jesse's window sill.

Keywords: african american, asian american, autumn, conflict resolution, decision making, exercise, family, feelings, friendship, garden, goal setting, grandparents, halloween, happiness, holidays, month, multicultural, nonverbal communication, park, play, running, sadness, seasons, sleep, snow, sun, verbal communication, walking, weather, winter

A kitten's year | by Day, Nancy Raines

A kitten explores her environment during her first year of life. She uses her senses to absorb the surroundings and playfully interacts with the world around her. Month after month the kitten grows and develops into a cat.

Keywords: animals, autumn, cat, christmas, curiosity, feelings, flowers, halloween, holidays, month, nonverbal communication, seasons, sequence, spring, summer, thanksgiving, time, toys, winter

A year of beasts | by Wolff, Ashley

Let's view a monthly listing of animals around a farm.

Keywords: animals, autumn, beaver, cow, deer, farm, fox, mice, month, porcupine, rabbit, raccoon, seasons, sequence, skunk, spring, squirrel, summer, winter, woodchuck

One lighthouse, one moon | by 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.

Keywords: 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

Days of the blackbird: A tale of northern italy | by dePaola, Tomie

Gemma and her father, Duke Gemma, love to sit in their courtyard where birds of all colors decorate the trees and sing beautiful songs. When her father becomes ill, Gemma realizes that the only hope for her father's recovery comes from the bird songs. Unfortunately, it is winter and all of the birds fly south, all except the Duke's favorite bird, La Colomba. La Colomba withstands the cold wind and snow in order to sing the Duke back to health.

Keywords: author's note, birds, blackbird, colors, family, hope, illness, italian, month, multicultural, music, seasons

Why rat comes first | by Yen, Clara

Jade King invites all of the animals in the land to his palace. When only 12 animals arrive, he decides to honor each within the 12 years of the calendar cycle. This explains the story behind the Chinese Zodiac and why the rat comes first.

Keywords: animals, calendar, celebration, chinese, cycle, month, multicultural, rat, royalty, sequence

One wolf howls | by Cohn, Scotti

The months of the year and the numbers 1 through 12 are used in rhyming text to introduce children to the behavior of wolves in natural settings.

Keywords: activities, adaptation, animals, author's note, family, hunting, math, month, numbers, seasons, weather, wolf

In november | by Rylant, Cynthia

In November the air is chilly. The earth and all of it's animals and people begin to prepare for winter. Animals begin to sleep more and make warm homes for themselves. Friends and family gather together to celebrate Thanksgiving. Enyoy the sites, sounds, and activities of November.

Keywords: animals, birds, cardinal, cat, celebration, cold, cow, dog, family, fire, five senses, food, giving, hearing, hibernation, holidays, horse, month, mouse, nonverbal communication, seasons, smell, snow, stars, taste, thanksgiving, travel, tree, weather, winter

What a wonderful day to be a cow | by Lesser, Carolyn

For each month, an animal is featured at the farm with an explanation of why it is wonderful to be there.

Keywords: animals, autumn, birds, chicken, cow, farm, horse, month, seasons, self esteem, sequence, spring, summer, winter

How do you say it today, jesse bear? | by Carlstrom, Nancy White

For Jesse Bear, every month has a fun activity or holiday to celebrate. From January to December, Jesse Bear wishes his family and friends many special moments.

Keywords: animals, bear, christmas, easter, family, feelings, flowers, fourth of july, halloween, holidays, kite, love, month, parade, seasons, thanksgiving, valentine's day, verbal communication

Spring: An alphabet acrostic | by Schnur, Steven

Each page brings a purple word and colorful picture of springtime. When read vertically, the first letters of the word form an alphabetic acrostic, from kites to eggs, hopscotch to parade, springtime is worth enjoying.

Keywords: activities, alphabet, animals, baby, baseball, cat, chicken, cow, frog, month, nonverbal communication, parade, seasons, sports, spring, stress management, summer, verbal communication

Timothy Cox will not change his socks | by Kinerk, Robert

A young boy, Timothy Cox, decides to go without changing his socks for a month. As the smell from his socks begins to grow, the entire community gets involved in trying to get him to change his socks. Timothy creatively avoids getting caught for the whole month. He aviods the fire fighters with their hoses and even a scout troop! When the month has come to an end, he keeps the socks in a cabinet as a trophy in his determination to stick to his word and not change his socks.

Keywords: animals, community, cooperation, decision making, determination, doctor, dog, family, fantasy, fire engine, five senses, helicopter, month, neighbors, parents, peer resistance, rabbit, rhyme, school, skunk, sleep, smell, transportation, vocabulary

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