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Harris, Trudy.
The Clock Struck One : A Time-Telling Tale
Rhyming text expands on the nursery rhyme Hickory Dickory Dock, as a cat chases the mouse up the clock, followed by other animals, until midnight arrives and the tired creatures fall asleep. Includes facts about clocks and basic information about telling time.
added Nov 18, 2009
Skills featured:
Narrative Skills, Print Motivation
Presentation Notes: Here’s a new twist on a familiar Mother Goose story filled with rhyming words and a funny narrative. Follow along from one o’clock when the mouse runs up the clock to twelve o’c... read more
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Chessa, Francesca
Holly's Red Boots
Holly wants to play in the snow and needs her red books, so she and her cat Jasper search the house for anything red.
added Nov 12, 2009
Skills featured:
Narrative Skills, Vocabulary
Presentation Notes: Vividly illustrated, Holly’s Red Boots gives you plenty of opportunities to identify colors and objects as you help Holly hunt for her raingear. You can heighten the drama by turning the page very S-... read more
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Kimpton, Diana
The Lamb-a-Roo
When motherless Lamb and childless Kangaroo find and adopt each other, they come to realize that their awkward differences are not nearly as important as their love for each other.
added Nov 6, 2009
Skills featured:
Narrative Skills
Presentation Notes: Little orphaned Lamb is thrilled to meet a joeyless kangaroo. The two form an instant attachment, but Lamb finds it's not easy being green, or in his case, furry and earthbound. Will his ma-a... read more
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Leuck, Laura.
For Just One Day
After guessing the identity of each animal before turning the page, the reader pretends to be a porcupine, bear, crocodile, and bumblebee.
Appears on the following book lists:
 New Picture Books
added Nov 5, 2009
Skills featured:
Narrative Skills, Phonological Sensitivity
Presentation Notes: If you could be anything at all for just one day, what would you be? For one imaginative child, the world is full of possibilities from bear to bunny from crocodile to butterfly. Chil... read more
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Haseley, Dennis
Photographer Mole
The work of Mole the photographer is cherished by his neighbors, but he decides that he must take a trip to discover the something that is missing in his photographs.
added Nov 5, 2009
Skills featured:
Narrative Skills, Vocabulary
Presentation Notes: When children look at old photographs, they almost always notice something: nobody's smiling! Author Dennis Haseley takes his audience back to the early 1900s to tell the story of a highly-sk... read more
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Anthony, Michelle
My First Signs
Each page focuses on one word, showing a photo of an adult to model the sign. Beside it is a photo of a baby making the sign to ease parents' identification of the sign as young hands might make it. Facing these photographs is an illustration of the object, as well as a touch-and-feel!
Appears on the following book lists:
New Picture Books
added Oct 22, 2009
Skills featured:
Narrative Skills, Vocabulary
Presentation Notes: Narrative skills enable us to describe things and talk about events and tell stories. They are enhanced when children can apply a book to their lives. My First Signs teaches them the sign languag... read more
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Ellery, Amanda.
If I Were a Jungle Animal
While playing baseball, a boy wonders what it would be like to be different jungle animals.
Appears on the following book lists:
Librarian Favorites
New Picture Books 2009 05-06
added Oct 21, 2009
Skills featured:
Narrative Skills, Print Awareness
Presentation Notes: "Morton! Pay attention out there!" There isn't always a lot of action in right field during Little League baseball games, so it's hard for Morton not to let his mind wander. He ... read more
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Tafuri, Nancy.
The Big Storm : a Very Soggy Counting Book
Ten animals find shelter in a hill hollow one by one, but when the storm is over, a rumbling tells them there is still danger afoot.
Appears on the following book lists:
Concepts - 123 - Counting Books
added Oct 16, 2009
Skills featured:
Narrative Skills, Vocabulary
Presentation Notes: The animals of the forest flee to a dry cave during a rainstorm. Little do they know what else may be in this warm, dry cave! The text of this book has a nice, repetitive phrase that children will lat... read more
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Parenteau, Shirley.
Bears On Chairs
Four chairs. Four adorable bears. All is well until Big Brown Bear shows up -- what a stare -- and wants a seat. Can these clever bears put their heads together (among other things) and make space for one more?
Appears on the following book lists:
New Picture Books
added Oct 7, 2009
Skills featured:
Narrative Skills, Phonological Sensitivity
Presentation Notes: Like the recent favorite Orange, Pear, Apple, Bear, Bears on Chairs takes a small number of simple rhyming words and cooks up a masterpiece. We meet four small bears who cli... read more
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Ditchfield, Christin
Cowlick!
A fanciful account of how two boys get cowlicks in their hair as they sleep.
added Oct 7, 2009
Skills featured:
Narrative Skills, Phonological Sensitivity
Presentation Notes: To find the definition of a cowlick, refer to the Merriam-Webster dictionary: "a lock or tuft of hair growing in a different direction from the rest of the hair." To find the true meani... read more
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Deacon, Alexis
Beegu
A small creature from space finds no welcome on Earth, until she meets a group of children on a playground.
added Oct 6, 2009
Skills featured:
Narrative Skills, Print Awareness
Presentation Notes: If a martian landed on Earth, how would she survive? In a modern-day retelling of The Ugly Duckling, Alexis Deacon's Beegu must face the world alone, trying desperately to be understoo... read more
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McAllister, Angela
Brave Bitsy and the Bear
A small toy rabbit and a large woodland bear come to each other's rescue during the winter.
added Oct 6, 2009
Skills featured:
Narrative Skills, Print Motivation
Presentation Notes: Toy mouse Bitsy and her friend Bear become unlikely allies in Angela McAllister's lovely tale of loyalty and friendship. Bear brings Bitsy back to her home and Bitsy makes sure that Bear is w... read more
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Andreasen, Dan
The Treasure Bath
A wordless picture book in which a young boy explores a creature-filled world beneath the bubbles in his bathtub.
Appears on the following book lists:
New Picture Books
added Sep 30, 2009
Skills featured:
Narrative Skills, Print Motivation
Presentation Notes: Making a cake can get messy. The unnamed boy in this book splatters batter all over himself and his mom gives him a bath. The adventure begins when this little boy imagines what happens underwater. Th... read more
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McGhee, Alison
Always
A loyal dog promises to protect his young mistress and her home from any danger.
Appears on the following book lists:
New Picture Books 2009 05-06
added Sep 19, 2009
Skills featured:
Narrative Skills, Vocabulary
Presentation Notes: You won’t ALWAYS have to explain the unusual words in this book, but you probably should discuss a few of them, like avalanche and intruders, divert and meteors, the first time you read thi... read more
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Andreae, Giles
Giraffes Can't Dance
Gerald the giraffe is too clumsy to dance with all the other animals at the Jungle Dance, until he finds the right music.
added Sep 19, 2009 Other formats available
Skills featured:
Narrative Skills, Phonological Sensitivity
Presentation Notes: As someone who can’t dance herself, I loved the message that anyone can dance once they find the music that’s right for them. The rhyming text adds to the overall rhythm-enhancing, ph... read more
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Hubery, Julia
A Friend for All Seasons
Robbie the Raccoon and his friends love Father Oak and worry that he is sick when his leaves begin to turn color and fall off, but Robbie's mother explains what the change means and helps him plant some acorns as a sign of hope for spring.
added Sep 17, 2009
Skills featured:
Narrative Skills, Print Motivation
Presentation Notes: Old Father Oak's leaves are falling. Is he crying? Robbie the Raccoon enlists the help of his friends to "hug our hugest hug and sing our happiest song!" Julia Hubery's story fo... read more
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Gay, Marie-Louise.
When Stella Was Very Very Small
Marie-Louise Gay has gone back in time to answer the questions often asked by the children who read and love her 'Stella' books. Where does Stella get her wild ideas? How big is Stella's imagination? What did Stella look like when she was small? How did Stella come to be the big sister to Sam? Although Gay didn't know what she would find when she started to explore Stella's childhood, she soon realized that when Stella was very small, she saw the world in her own unique way -- with wonder--Jacket.
Appears on the following book lists:
New Picture Books 2009 07-08
added Sep 5, 2009
Skills featured:
Narrative Skills, Vocabulary
Presentation Notes: Stella’s world delights the senses, with wonderful art, luscious onomatoepeia (ferocious, slithering, buzzed), and the universal story of a child’s world changing as she grows. Compelling illustratio... read more
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Luthardt, Kevin.
Flying
A boy's simple questions about why he cannot fly lead to an imaginative journey with his father.
added Aug 7, 2009
Skills featured:
Narrative Skills, Print Awareness
Presentation Notes: In this simply worded story, a young boy asks his father the classic question: “why?” Many of the pages of this book are wordless, which invites children to use their imagination to tell their own ve... read more
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Ransom, Candice F., 1952-
The Old Blue Pickup Truck
As a girl and her father run errands in their old blue pickup, she discovers how many different ways they can use their truck.
Appears on the following book lists:
New Picture Books 2009 05-06
added Aug 7, 2009
Skills featured:
Narrative Skills, Print Motivation
Presentation Notes: In this story of a girl and her father running errands in their pickup truck, dialogical reading is a great way to get children involved. Although this quiet book has simple prose, there is a lot... read more
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Bynum, Janie
Kiki's Blankie
Kiki the monkey has many daring adventures with her polka-dot blankie, but when it sails away without her and lands above a sleeping crocodile, she may not be brave enough to come to the rescue.
Appears on the following book lists:
New Picture Books 2009 05-06
added Jul 11, 2009
Skills featured:
Narrative Skills
Presentation Notes: Kiki’s story jumps off the page and into your heart, promoting narrative skills two ways: 1) Preschoolers know what it’s like to have a blanket or toy that helps them be brave, and 2) They have a ... read more
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