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The diary of a church mouse

Oakley, Graham

Humphrey, a church mouse, makes a New Year's Resolution to write the story of his life. Instead he keeps a journal because he would not know what happens in the last chapter.

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animals, assertiveness, critical thinking, determination, goal setting, holidays, memories, mouse, new year, nonverbal communication, peer resistance, storytelling

Broderick

Ormondroyd, Edward

Broderick, the mouse, is determined to be famous, so he goes against his friends advice and becomes a famous surfer.

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animals, assertiveness, beach, careers, conflict resolution, determination, friendship, goal setting, mouse, peer resistance, play, self esteem, sports, swimming, verbal communication

School

McCully, Emily Arnold

A group of mice go to school and their little brother who is too young for school follows them.

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animals, conflict resolution, decision making, determination, family, imitation, mouse, nonverbal communication, school, siblings

Whistle for willie

Keats, Ezra Jack

Peter wants to learn how to whistle to make his dog, Willie, come.

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animals, challenges, conflict resolution, decision making, determination, discovery, dog, goal setting, learning, pets, self esteem

Beneath the ghost moon

Yolen, Jane

A colony of mice take revenge on the creepy-crawlers who tear up their Halloween costumes. They scare these mean creatures out of the farmyard so that they can live together in peace.

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animals, assertiveness, clothing, conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision making, destruction, farm, fear, goal setting, halloween, holidays, moon, mouse, night, nonverbal communication, peace

Elf owl

Buff, Mary//Buff, Conrad

Desert life is described through animals, plants, and the weather patterns. There is always a need for water in the desert.

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animals, conflict resolution, desert, environment, nature, nonverbal communication, nutrition, plants, stress management, survival, water, weather

Beautiful illustrations show a little girl, her dad, and several animals prepare for a rainstorm. After the rain stops, the animals come out of their shelters, and the girl and her dad go back outside to pick blueberries.

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animals, birds, deer, family, food, fox, horse, nutrition, parents, rabbit, rain, sounds, squirrel, weather

Little runner of the longhouse

Baker, Betty

Little Runner pretends that he is grown up like the other men of the tribe. He pretends to hunt and trade like his elders.

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animals, assertiveness, bodies of water, critical thinking, dancing, decision making, deer, family, games, multicultural, native american, parents, river, self esteem, snow, weather

The nest

Wildsmith, Brian

Two birds make a nest to hold their eggs from which the baby birds hatch.

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animals, birds, birth, deer, family, parents

Five little monkeys

Kepes, Juliet

Five mischievous monkeys are always playing tricks on the other animals in the jungle. After a trick is played on them, they change their ways and even manage to save their new friends from Terrible the Tiger.

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animals, conflict resolution, deception, friendship, jungle, lion, mischief, monkey, stress management, tiger, verbal communication

George and martha rise and shine

Marshall, James

A combination of five short stories about the adventures of two hippos, George and Martha.

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adventures, animals, deception, fear, feelings, friendship, helping, hippopotamus, nonverbal communication, play, self esteem, sleep, verbal communication

The lorax

Seuss, Dr.

Trees are being destroyed in a small town and the lorax tries to stop the business that uses the trees to make clothes. Finally, all the trees are gone and the animals are dying, so a young boy decides to plant trees all over town.

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animals, assertiveness, change, clothing, critical thinking, death, environment, feelings, goal setting, greed, loneliness, peer resistance, plants, refusal skills, stress management

Eeny meeny miney mole

Yolen, Jane

Eeny, Meeny, and Miney Mole live life underground and they have no idea what life up above is like. One day, Eeny burrows up above ground and discovers day, night, light, darkness, and the four seasons.

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animals, assertiveness, critical thinking, day, discovery, family, insects, mole, night, reptiles, seasons, self esteem, siblings, snake, spring, summer, verbal communication, winter, worm

Noah's square dance

Walton, Rick

The animals on Noah's Ark spent the night square dancing and having fun while Noah calls out the steps.

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animals, dancing, exercise, feelings, fun, happiness, music, nonverbal communication, rain, religion, rhyme, rhythm, stress management, verbal communication, weather

Tanya and emily in a dance for two

Gauch, Patricia Lee

Tanya, the smallest and wiggliest girl in her ballet class, and Emily, the talented newcomer, become friends and learn something from each other.

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animals, dancing, exercise, friendship, learning, play

Clap your hands

Cauley, Lorinda Bryan

Children and animals dance and play together as they clap their hands, stomp their feet, shake their arms, then take a seat.

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animals, dancing, exercise, friendship, jumping, play, rhyme

Fox in love

Marshall, Edward

Fox falls in love with many girls. He goes to the fair with each of them, but pretty soon they all find out he has other girlfriends. Because all of the girls are upset, he has to enter the dance contest with his sister and they win second place.

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animals, assertiveness, competition, conflict resolution, dancing, decision making, exercise, family, feelings, fox, frustration, goal setting, love, nonverbal communication, peer resistance, siblings

17 kings and 42 elephants

Mahy, Margaret

This book is done in Batik paintings and is a rhyming poem about kings and their animals marching through a jungle. They sing and dance enjoying each others company while moving along their merry way.

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animals, art, dancing, elephant, exercise, feelings, happiness, jungle, music, nature, nonverbal communication, royalty

Curious george flies a kite

Rey, Margaret

Curious George travels about the neighborhood getting into trouble. He decides to fly a kite and gets swept away. His owner saves him and his friend is happy that his kite is saved.

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animals, community, critical thinking, curiosity, decision making, mischief, monkey, play, recreation, verbal communication

Curious george

Rey, H.A.

Curious George, an African monkey, becomes quite adventurous as he travels on boats, to zoos, and many other places. After taking in the sights and getting into mischief, George is captured and must live at the zoo.

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accidents, animals, assertiveness, boat, curiosity, loneliness, mischief, monkey, refusal skills, self esteem, transportation, travel, verbal communication, zoo

George and martha back in town

Marshall, James

A series of stories about seven hippos who are best friends. The story depicts the trials and tribulations of their friendship.

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animals, assertiveness, conflict resolution, coping, critical thinking, curiosity, decision making, friendship, goal setting, hippopotamus, honesty, peer resistance, refusal skills, verbal communication

The rain door

Hoban, Russell

Harry goes through the rain door and meets a man and his horse, Lightening. They are chased by a thundering lion and the man sprays water on it to keep it away. They create a rain storm

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animals, coping, critical thinking, curiosity, decision making, folktale, horse, imagination, lion, rain, weather

Tillie and the wall

Lionni, Leo

Unlike the other mice, Tillie has always been curious about the wall they live next to. She imagines what could be on the other side of the wall and is determined to find out .

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animals, assertiveness, conflict resolution, critical thinking, curiosity, decision making, determination, exploration, goal setting, imagination, mouse, problem solving, shelter

Do not open

Turkle, Brinton

Miss Moody lives by the sea with her cat, Captain Kidd. She loves to collect objects left on the beach after a storm. One day she finds a bottle that says do not open. She opens it up and finds a terrible monster. She defeats the monster through quick thinking.

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animals, assertiveness, cat, collection, conflict resolution, curiosity, decision making, disobedience, fear, monsters, mystery, ocean, refusal skills, verbal communication, weather

Carmine the crow

Holder, Heide

Carmine is old and has little energy. He saves a swan and in return, she gives him magical stardust. He gives it all away to make others happy. In despair, he finds one more speck and he wishes to be young again.

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amphibians, animals, birds, conflict resolution, crow, feelings, frog, kindness, loneliness, magic, mouse, nonverbal communication, rabbit, sadness, verbal communication

Dinner at alberta's

Hoban, Russell

Arthur, the crocodile, lacks manners. Food falls out of his mouth, and he talks with his mouth full. He is invited to dinner at Alberta's house, so he tries to learn some table manners. He watches how Alberta eats and tries to eat the way she does.

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animals, crocodile, food, learning, manners, nutrition

The elephant's child

Kipling, Rudyard

A small elephant is very curious about the world around him. He asks many questions to many animals but no one takes the time to answer. One day he asks a crocodile who pulls on his short nose to make it a long trunk. The elephant is unhappy at first but then realizes the advantages of his new trunk. This is how the elephant got a long trunk.

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animals, change, critical thinking, crocodile, curiosity, elephant, feelings, giraffe, hippopotamus, kindness, monkey, reptiles, verbal communication

Doctor De Soto

Steig, William

Dr. De Soto, a dentist who is a mouse, confronts his most dangerous patient of all - a fox!

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animals, careers, critical thinking, dentist, fox, mouse, stress management, teeth

Sleepers

Khalsa, Dayal Kaur

A young girl will not go to sleep. She knows that people sleep other places and proceeds to go through them all. By the time she finishes, she is asleep herself.

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animals, assertiveness, bedtime, creativity, goal setting, refusal skills, self esteem, shelter, sleep, verbal communication

The gondolier of venice

Kraus, Robert

Gregory the mouse wants to help save Venice because it is sinking. Gregory rounds up his other gondelier friends and they put floats under the city. Then they tie it down to keep Venice afloat and still.

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animals, bodies of water, conflict resolution, creativity, critical thinking, decision making, friendship, italian, mouse, multicultural, problem solving, teamwork

If i ran the zoo

Seuss, Dr.

Young Gerald McGraw goes through the different changes he would make if her ran the zoo. He would add many new kinds of animals. Then everyone would think that he is the best zookeeper ever.

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animals, assertiveness, change, creativity, decision making, goal setting, imagination, zoo

Little bear's trousers

Hissey, Jane

Little Bear loses his trousers and goes all around the house asking his friends if they have them. Eventually he finds them and they all have a party.

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animals, bear, clothing, creativity, friendship, party

Scrambled eggs super!

Seuss, Dr.

Peter T. Hooper is bored of regular scrambled eggs. He goes on a search to gather different kinds of rare and exotic eggs from many different animals to make a better kind of scrambled eggs.

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adventures, animals, birds, boredom, conflict resolution, creativity, food, goal setting, imagination, nutrition, rhyme, travel

Fiddle-i-fee

Stanley, Diane

This nursery rhyme is about a little girl that gives a dinner party for her animal friends. She serves them dinner in her playhouse.

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animals, creativity, food, friendship, imagination, nutrition, party, play, rhyme, self esteem

I want a dog

Khalsa, Dayal Kaur

When her parents refuse to get her a dog, May creates an imaginary dog out of a roller skate.

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animals, assertiveness, conflict resolution, coping, creativity, critical thinking, determination, dog, family, goal setting, growing up, imagination, parents, play, responsibilities

Mouse soup

Lobel, Arnold

A mouse tricks a weasel into getting some ingredients he needs from other stories to make a delicious mouse soup.

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animals, assertiveness, conflict resolution, creativity, critical thinking, deception, decision making, food, imagination, mouse, nutrition, problem solving, weasel

Milton the early riser

Kraus, Robert

Milton wakes up earlier than his family and his friends. He tries to find things to do, and by the time everyone else wakes up, he is so tired he goes back to sleep.

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animals, creativity, critical thinking, curiosity, morning, panda, sleep

Conrad's castle

Shecter, Ben

Conrad builds a castle even though his friends are trying to do other things. The castle collapses so Conrad decides to rebuild it. Again, his friends try to get him to do other things, but Conrad completes his castle which stands this time.

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animals, assertiveness, creativity, curiosity, decision making, determination, dog, friendship

A very special house

Krauss, Ruth//Sendak, Maurice

A little boy uses his imagination to create a special place to visit.

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animals, companion, creativity, imagination, lion, mouse, play, shelter, storytelling, turtle, verbal communication

Frederick

Lionni, Leo

While the other mice are gathering corn, nuts, wheat and straw for the winter, Frederick gathers sun rays, colors, and words. The other mice think that Frederick is lazy, but during the long winter days, his words warm the other mice.

Zeke Pippin

Steig, William

Zeke is a young pig who has a natural talent for playing the harmonica. He discovers that it is magic and leaves home. After some thinking he goes back and finds that things are not as bad as he thought.

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animals, coyote, dog, magic, music, pig, sleep

Cowboy dreams

Khalsa, Dayal Kaur

A woman remembers her wish as a child to be a cowboy with a real horse. She recalls how she would pretend to be a cowboy and the cowboy songs she used to sing.

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animals, cowboys, horse, imagination, memories, nonverbal communication, pretend, song, stress management, wish

Little bunny on the move

McCarty, Peter

Where is Little Bunny going?Past the cow and the sheep, over the train tracks, and through the fence - but where will his trip end?

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animals, cow, family, nature, nonverbal communication, rabbit, sheep, train, transportation, travel, wilderness

The nursery collection

Hughes, Shirley

A Grandmother tells her granddaughter the story of the house beginning with great-great-great-great grandpa. Grandmother explains how the house was built, what food were grown to eat, and the ways of life throughout the years.

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animals, baby, change, cooperation, cow, family, farm, food, garden, grandparents, hard work, history, horse, memories, nutrition, parents, sheep, storytelling, verbal communication

The emperor's old clothes

Lasky, Kathryn

A farmer is on his way home from the market and discovers the emperor's old clothes along the road. He tries them on and feels wonderful!When he gets back to his farm and beloved animals, he discovers how hard it is to do his chores in his new clothes and finds it is better to just be himself and wear his regular clothes.

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animals, birds, clothing, contentment, cow, exercise, farm, feelings, food, goat, happiness, royalty, self esteem, sheep, walking

The big alfie out of doors storybook

Hughes, Shirley

Alfie enjoys the outdoors. He goes camping, plays on big trees, and just about anything one could imagine to do in the outdoors.

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animals, camping, cow, decision making, family, imagination, parents, play, sheep, siblings, verbal communication

Blueberry ramble

Hurd, Thacher

When its spring cleaning time, everyone joins in - even the mouse family. Baby mouse gets into mischief upsetting the cow. The mouse family goes on a picnic to get Baby away from home.

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animals, baby, cleanliness, cow, mouse, seasons, shelter, spring

Hattie and the fox

Fox, Mem

Hattie the hen sees a fox approaching her and the other animals. The fox attacks, and the cow scares the fox away with a loud moo. Then, the animals are silent for a long time.

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