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Maria theresa

Mathers, Petra

A chicken escapes from her home in an apartment building. She joins an opera and becomes a star.

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assertiveness, birds, careers, chicken, conflict resolution, decision making, independence, music, shelter

Young Bo spends the summer with his grandfather in the country and has a wonderful time. They walk, fish, and make things together. They celebrate Christmas together -- a very special summer Christmas!

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adventures, birds, christmas, conflict resolution, decision making, family, goal setting, grandparents, holidays, recreation, relaxation, seasons, summer, travel

Snowballs

Ehlert, Lois

Children wait for a big snowday to make their snow family. They create a dad, mom, boy, girl, baby, dog, and cat by using objects found around the house. When the sun comes out, the family melts away.

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animals, author's note, birds, cardinal, cat, clothing, critical thinking, decision making, dog, food, goal setting, nutrition, recipe, seasons, snow, spring, squirrel, sun, winter

All the colors of the earth

Hamanaka, Sheila

Children across the earth come in all different colors, and they are just like you and me!

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animals, bear, birds, bodies of water, cat, colors, eagle, feelings, friendship, happiness, learning, multicultural, nature, nonverbal communication, sea, verbal communication

The birds

McCrea, James//McCrea, Ruth

Two birds like to go sailing everyday until they realize their umbrella is taken during hottest hours of the day. They catch the thief and compromise in order to make everyone happy.

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birds, boat, compromise, conflict resolution, critical thinking, disappearance, friendship, reptiles, sun, transportation, turtle, verbal communication

Old black fly

Aylesworth, Jim

An old black fly bothers a crazy mixed-up family by flying around and interrupting every aspect of their lives. The fly progresses through the alphabet by landing first on an apple pie, a baby, cookies, then a dog.

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alphabet, animals, baby, birds, birthday, cat, clothing, concepts, death, dog, family, fly, food, grandparents, insects, nutrition, parents, parrot, seasons, sequence, summer

When violet died

Kantrowitz, Mildred

Saddened by her pet's death, Eva suddenly thinks of a way to make life go on forever.

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birds, coping, critical thinking, death, feelings, grief, pets, verbal communication

One duck, another duck

Pomerantz, Charlotte

An owl and his grandmother go to a pond. The owl practices counting ducks and swans up to ten.

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birds, counting, decision making, determination, duck, family, grandparents, learning, owl, sequence, swan

Five little ducks

Raffi

Five little ducks journey through life in this song. They go off on their own, and then come back with their own families.

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assertiveness, birds, change, counting, duck, family, growing up, music, rhyme, song

Hosie's alphabet

Baskin, Leonard

All the letters of the alphabet are associated with many different animals, birds, and insects.

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animals, birds, crow, eagle, fly, insects, mole, octopus, rhinoceros, spider, whale

Jeb scarecrow's pumpkin patch

Dillon, Jana

A scarecrow family is frustrated by the crows. See how young Jeb plans to scare them away.

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birds, conflict resolution, crow, decision making, goal setting, halloween, holidays, scarecrows, teasing, verbal communication, work

The legend of the veery bird

Hague, Kathleen

A shy boy with a stuttering problem loses his father. After he runs to the forest to get away, the keeper of the Forest helps him by giving the world a bird with a beautiful voice.

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assertiveness, birds, conflict resolution, critical thinking, death, decision making, feelings, folktale, grief, nonverbal communication, self esteem, shyness, stress management, stuttering, verbal communication

Rechenka's eggs

Polacco, Patricia

Babushka rescues an injured goose Rechenka. Because the goose accidentally breaks all of Babushka's paints and eggs, Rechenka pays Babushka back by laying eggs that win in the Easter Festival.

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birds, conflict resolution, decision making, determination, easter, food, friendship, goose, holidays, injury, nonverbal communication

Lenore's big break

Pearson, Susan

Lenore and her birds have a dream and no one is going to hold them back, not even those snickering girls at work.

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birds, dancing, dreams, pets, self esteem, stereotypes

Hawk, I'm your brother

Baylor, Byrd

Rudy Soto grew up wanting only to fly. He catches a young hawk and raises it as his brother. He catches it to fly with, but he learns the hawk's secret call and can fly in his mind.

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assertiveness, birds, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, dreams, goal setting, nature, nonverbal communication, pets, self esteem, siblings, stress management, verbal communication

Arnold of the ducks

Gerstein, Mordicai

A boy is taken from his home and dropped into a duck nest. He grows up thinking he is a duck. He eventually must struggle to regain his true identity.

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birds, bodies of water, differences, duck, family, fear, feelings, happiness, love, parents, self esteem, siblings, swamp, verbal communication

Around the corner

Showalter, Jean

Jimmy's duck goes on an adventure through town and the wilderness. Jimmy follows the duck as best he can until the duck flies away. Jimmy returns home to find his duck waiting there.

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birds, duck, exploration, loyalty, missing, surprises

The tale of the mandarin ducks

Paterson, Katherine

A duck is captured and taken by a cruel lord, but one of the servants saves the duck. The servant falls in love with another servant who protects her from the lord, and they get married.

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birds, conflict resolution, decision making, duck, family, japanese, love, marriage, multicultural, rescue, royalty

Bently and egg

Joyce, William

A frog becomes jealous of the egg laid by a close friend. He gradually learns to love the egg after saving it from a little boy.

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amphibians, birds, conflict resolution, decision making, duck, feelings, friendship, frog, jealousy, love, nonverbal communication, rescue, self esteem

The duck who loved puddles

Peliowski, Michael J.

Puddles the duck loves to splash in water. When the land becomes dry, he goes on a quest to find water. Puddles gets into trouble for using other people's water. Finally it rains and he is happy again.

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birds, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, duck, friendship, learning, play, rain, sharing, weather

Howard

Stevenson, James

Howard the duck misses his annual migration and spends the winter in New York City making friends.

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birds, decision making, duck, friendship, nature, seasons, shelter, stress management, winter

Cold little duck, duck, duck

Peters, Lisa

When a little duck comes back to soon for spring, he finds himself in the dead of winter. So the little duck imagines what it would be like if it were spring. To his surprise when he wakes the ice is melting and other ducks are around him.

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animals, bear, beetle, birds, bodies of water, cold, duck, flowers, ice, insects, letters, mistake, nonverbal communication, pond, rhyme, seasons, sounds, spring, swimming, winter, worm

Prince boghole

Haugaard, Erik Christian

Princes from all around want to marry the princess. The king promises his daughter to the prince that brings back the most wonderful bird.

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birds, celebration, conflict resolution, eagle, marriage, royalty, self esteem, song, stress management, verbal communication

Running fox the eagle hunter

Shannon, Terry

Running Fox is a young boy learning the customs of his people. His greatest desire is to catch an eagle and be looked upon as a man. When he finally catches an eagle, he knows he has become a man.

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acceptance, assertiveness, birds, change, eagle, family, goal setting, growing up, multicultural, native american, nature, self esteem, traditions

Dreamplace

Lyon, George Ella

A young girl talks of the way life was for the Indians. As she explores their homes she talks of their past and their present.

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birds, eagle, history, learning, multicultural, nonverbal communication, storytelling, verbal communication

Hetty and harriet

Oakley, Graham

Two young hens become dissatisfied with their boring lives and decide to find a new home. Their curiosity leads them on exciting and dangerous adventures, which eventually lead them back home.

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adventures, assertiveness, birds, boredom, chicken, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, exploration, friendship, independence, peer resistance, refusal skills, sharing, shelter, verbal communication

Mockingbird morning

Ryder, Joanne

A little girl wakes up to a mockingbird in her window and decides to go explore the mysteries of nature.

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birds, critical thinking, exploration, mockingbird, nature, nonverbal communication

The island-below-the-star

Rumford, James

Five brothers decide to go on an adventure to discover the Island-below-the-Star. They each have a love for something in nature. By using their talents and working together, the brothers overcome obstacles on their journey to the island.

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adventures, assertiveness, author's note, birds, boat, bodies of water, clouds, discovery, exploration, family, fish, fishing, food, goal setting, hawaiian, history, island, moon, multicultural, nature, nutrition, ocean, rain, siblings, stars, storm, sun, transportation, weather, wind

Journey cake, ho!!

Sawyer, Ruth

A family lives happily on a farm, but each must do an equal share of work. When food gets scarce, Johnny must leave. A round cake is packed with Johnny's things. When the cake falls out and rolls, it takes animals back to the farm.

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animals, birds, cow, duck, farm, feelings, food, happiness, money, moving, pig, sadness, sheep

Least of all

Purdy, Carol

Little Raven Hannah feels sad when she is not big enough to do anything on the farm. Then she teaches herself to read (something no one else in her family can do) and she becomes very happy.

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birds, family, farm, feelings, gender, happiness, nonverbal communication, raven, reading, religion, sadness, self esteem, siblings, verbal communication

Nothing at all!

Cazet, Denys

It's a morning on the farm with the animals waking for the day and the scarecrow quietly watching from the field. It's quiet on the farm until he gets a mouse inside of him.

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animals, birds, cat, chicken, cow, dog, farm, horse, morning, mouse, nutrition, scarecrows, sheep, verbal communication

Owl at home

Lobel, Arnold

This book contains five stories about Owl and his daily adventures - from inviting winter in to sit by the fire to thinking sad thoughts to make tear-water tea.

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assertiveness, birds, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, fear, feelings, goal setting, nature, nonverbal communication, owl, problem solving, refusal skills, sadness, seasons, verbal communication

The story about ping

Flack, Marjorie//Wiese, Kurt

To avoid getting a spanking for being the last duck to cross the bridge, Ping stayed overnight on the river bank. He loses his family and is captured by a little boy. He is held hostage on the little boy's boat. Finally the little boy sets Ping free and he is reunited with his family.

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assertiveness, birds, change, chinese, conflict resolution, coping, decision making, discipline, family, fear, feelings, goal setting, lost, multicultural, self esteem, shelter, transportation

The terrible troll-bird

D'Aulaire, Ingri//D'Aulaire, Edgar

Four brothers and sisters are sent to the woods to get firewood and encounter a troll-bird. This causes a lot of trouble and they have to kill it which brings even more trouble!

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assertiveness, birds, conflict resolution, critical thinking, death, decision making, family, fear, feelings, folktale, nature, siblings, stress management, woods

The happy owls

Piatti, Celestina

The birds alway fights, so they go to see the owls, who are always peaceful. The birds do not like the answer from the owls as to why they are always happy, so they go back to fighting.

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birds, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, differences, feelings, happiness, learning, nature, nonverbal communication, owl, seasons, verbal communication

The chick and the duckling

Ginsburg, Mirra

The chick does everything the duck does. The chick finds out the hard way that he is not a good swimmer and it saved by the duck. The chick never tries to swim again.

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birds, decision making, fear, feelings, friendship, rescue, safety

Who is the beast?

Baker, Keith

We take an adventure through this book looking for the beast. We meet many animals along the way to find out who the beast is.

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animals, birds, critical thinking, fish, jungle, monkey, plants, tiger

Come again, pelican

Freeman, Don

Ty learns about tides and fishing from his old friend, the Pelican. Ty loses a boot in the tide, but catches a fish in his boot. However, he loses that boot too. He gives his fish to the hungry pelican and the pelican gives Ty the lost boot.

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birds, bodies of water, clothing, creativity, curiosity, decision making, fish, friendship, hunger, learning, ocean, pelican, verbal communication

Raven: A trickster tale from the pacific northwest

MacDermott, Gerald

A raven flies into a dark world and wants to bring light to the people. He journeys to the house of the Sky Chief. After exploring he takes the sun in his mouth and places it in the sky giving light to the world.

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birds, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, folktale, helping, raven, sun, travel

Go tell aunt rhody

Aliki.

This illustrated version of the children's folk song tells about a goose that dies and is then used to stuff a feather bed.

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birds, death, folktale, goose, song

Farmer goff and his turkey sam

Schatell, Brian

Farmer Goff has a turkey that he wants to enter in the county fair turkey contest to win a blue ribbon. Sam the turkey likes Mrs. Goff's pie and eats it all the time. Farmer Goff is upset because his turkey will not win a blue ribbon at the fair. But in the end Farmer Goff and Sam still win a blue ribbon, but in the pie eating contest.

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assertiveness, birds, competition, fair, food, greed, nutrition, refusal skills, turkey

The apple bird

Wildsmith, Brian

A bird finds an apple, eats the whole thing and gets fat.

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birds, critical thinking, decision making, food, nonverbal communication, nutrition, overweight

Petunia's christmas

Duvoisin, Roger

Petunia is a goose that wants to save her friend from being eaten Christmas Day. She uses many resources to get this done.

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assertiveness, baby, birds, christmas, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, family, goal setting, goose, holidays, nonverbal communication, parents, seasons, wedding, winter

Dawn

Bang, Molly

Dawn's father tells her the story of his shipbuilding days, and how he met her mother. Her mother would weave the sails, and she makes her father promise to never look at her while she weaves.

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anger, birds, fairy, family, feelings, goal setting, goose, mythical, parents, ship

Pumpkin seeds

Yezback, Steven A.

David uses his nickles to buy a bag of pumpkin seeds. Willing to share his seeds, he offers some to everyone he meets, but only the pigeons want his pumpkin seeds.

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birds, happiness, kindness, manners, nonverbal communication, pigeon, running, self esteem, verbal communication

Dancers in the garden

Ryder, Joanne

A hummingbird moves from flower to flower while eating, drinking, and flying. After a full day of activities, the hummingbird falls asleep.

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birds, colors, flowers, food, garden, hummingbird, nonverbal communication, sleep

The wildlife 123: A nature counting book

Thornhill, Jan

Through the use of beautiful animals and wildlife, children learn how to count with numbers and words. The sequence is 1-20, 25, 50, 100, and 1000 Nature notes describe the animals in great deal at the end of the book.

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alphabet, animals, birds, counting, fish, insects, nature, numbers, sequence

Inch by inch

Lionni, Leo

An inch worm does not want to be eaten, so he tells the robin that he is useful because he can measure things. Later, he uses his brain to get out of a sticky situation.

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birds, conflict resolution, intelligence, robin, self esteem, uniqueness, verbal communication, worm

The owl and the pussy cat

Lear, Edward

An owl and a pussy cat fall in love and sail to an island to get married.

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animals, birds, boat, cat, island, love, marriage, owl

Fox in a box

Hurd, Edith Thacher

Joe decides to go hunting for a fox because he wants a pet. He catches one with the help of a lion. When Joe brings the fox home in a box, the fox isn't very happy. Joe returns him to the woods where the lion and the fox help him find an owl who will happily be his pet.

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animals, birds, feelings, fox, kindness, lion, neighbors, owl, pets, sadness, woods

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