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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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Smith, Lane
The Big Pets
A little girl explores the mysterious dreamworld where small children play with their big pets, which range from cats and dogs to snakes and crickets.
added Nov 6, 2009
Skills featured:
Print Motivation, Vocabulary
Presentation Notes: In our dreams, anything is possible, and children love to enter that realm of make-believe. Fortunately for them, Lane Smith writes and illustrates unapologetically of the fantastical. This story... read more
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Nobisso, Josephine
The Numbers Dance : A Counting Comedy
Numerals one through ten divide up by their respective dance styles of classical, boogie, and western line dancing, until their competition ends in tolerance.
added Nov 6, 2009
Skills featured:
Phonological Sensitivity, Vocabulary
Presentation Notes: Numbers come alive in Josephine Nobisso's clever and entertaining book. The numbers 1 to 10 put on a show, each page boasting a different style of dance from waltz to line dance. Nobisso uses... 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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Rylant, Cynthia
Long Night Moon
Text and illustrations depict the varied seasonal full moons that change and assume personalities of their own throughout the year.
added Oct 30, 2009
Skills featured:
Print Motivation, Vocabulary
Presentation Notes: As with the seasons, the moon is ever-changing, continually bringing new life and meaning. In Cynthia Rylant's hauntingly poetic book, twelve moons are given names and crystallized with delic... read more
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Ditchfield, Christin.
Shwatsit! : No One Knows Just What it Means
As Baby points at everything in sight, she has just one thing to say: 'Shwatsit!' But what on earth does it mean? Finally, her older brother solves the mystery while watching her try to reach for her teddy bear--Publisher.
Appears on the following book lists:
 New Picture Books
added Oct 30, 2009
Skills featured:
Vocabulary
Presentation Notes: Have you ever known a baby to use one favorite word or sound that could mean anything and everything? That's exactly how Baby Sister seems to use the word "shwatsit." Isn't that... read more
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Lithgow, John
I Got Two Dogs
A song celebrating two dogs that are as different as they could be, and both well-loved by their owner.
added Oct 22, 2009
Skills featured:
Phonological Sensitivity, Vocabulary
Presentation Notes: Looking for a book with a snappy rhythmic text and lots of opportunities for audience participation? Try I Got Two Dogs. Your listeners can watch the text for the letters OOOOOOOOOOOOOO and howl ... 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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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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Plourde, Lynn.
Grandpappy Snippy Snappies
When things go wrong around his farm Grandpappy sets them right with a snap of his suspenders, but Grandmammy is in trouble and the suspenders are all worn out.
Appears on the following book lists:
New Picture Books 2009 05-06
added Oct 15, 2009
Skills featured:
Phonological Sensitivity, Print Awareness, Vocabulary
Presentation Notes: In a story that fairly pops off the page, Lynn Plourde takes children on a journey with Grandpappy, a man who snippy snappies his suspenders all the day. Such behavior releases cows stuck i... read more
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MacDonald, Suse.
Shape By Shape
Turn the die-cut pages to discover colorful shapes, which come together to reveal a creature from long ago.
Appears on the following book lists:
Favorites for Toddlers
New Picture Books 2009 07-08
added Oct 9, 2009
Skills featured:
Print Motivation, Vocabulary
Presentation Notes: Reminiscent of Go Away, Big Green Monster!, the die-cut pages in this book reveal, step-by-step, a surprise ending. Children will love guessing what animal is being created with basic shapes and ... read more
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Roth, Carol
All Aboard to Work - Choo-Choo!
Animal mothers and fathers with various professions take the train to work and return at the end of the day to spend time with their children.
Appears on the following book lists:
Things That Go
New Picture Books
added Oct 2, 2009
Skills featured:
Phonological Sensitivity, Vocabulary
Presentation Notes: All aboard! With each new passenger boarding the work-bound train comes a brief, yet rhythmic, description of various professions. Ask questions like "what is this bear's job?" and "what is this d... read more
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Milton, Giles
Call Me Gorgeous!
Who is the mysterious creature described...? See if you can guess. -- Flap.
Appears on the following book lists:
New Picture Books 2009 07-08
added Oct 1, 2009
Skills featured:
Print Awareness, Vocabulary
Presentation Notes: Calling in animals of all kinds, every beautiful page of this book is a chance for children to identify animal names and body parts, reinforcing their vocabulary. The simple, bold and large-print... 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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Lorig, Steffanie
Such a Silly Baby!
Rhyming text and illustrations follow the adventures of a baby who on excursions to the zoo, the circus, or the farm manages to get switched with an animal.
added Sep 19, 2009
Skills featured:
Phonological Sensitivity, Vocabulary
Presentation Notes: If your listeners like to chime in with ever-longer repetitive phrases, they will love speaking for the silly baby, who learns something new every time he gets lost: Yee haw, snort snort, oink oi... read more
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Wax, Wendy (Wendy Anne)
Even Firefighters Go to the Potty
From firefighters to zookeepers, toddlers can discover where each person has gone despite their busy day--to the potty! With fun gatefold flaps, this hilarious story teaches children that everyone needs to take time to go to the potty.
added Sep 5, 2009
Skills featured:
Print Awareness, Vocabulary
Presentation Notes: Clang! Clang! Where did the firetruck driver go? To the potty! Invite your listeners to join you in saying “to the potty” when you inquire about the whereabouts of each missing worker... 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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Numberman, Neil.
Do Not Build a Frankenstein!
A boy warns his new neighbors of the trouble that comes with building a monster, including having to move to a different town in hopes of escaping his creation.
Appears on the following book lists:
New Picture Books 2009 07-08
added Sep 2, 2009
Skills featured:
Print Motivation, Vocabulary
Presentation Notes: The title says it all! Building a Frankenstein causes one young boy to lose all of his friends, pets, toys, even his privacy. This book is an excellent choice for developing early literacy skills beca... read more
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Fitzkee, Jeremy.
One Two Three Me
Unexpected rhymes such as half/giraffe and towel/owl show the silly sounds of everyday words.
added Aug 20, 2009
Skills featured:
Print Motivation, Vocabulary
Presentation Notes: With its quirky illustrations, simple text and clever wordplay, this book is a surefire storytime hit. Children love to guess the “punchlines” in this story, and the rhymes and pictures will help the... read more
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Rueda, Claudia
Let's Play in the Forest While the Wolf is Not Around
In this adaptation of the traditional French and Latin American song, animals play in the forest while a scary wolf slowly dresses and becomes hungrier and hungrier.
Appears on the following book lists:
Word Patterns
added Aug 14, 2009
Skills featured:
Print Motivation, Vocabulary
Presentation Notes: Even though the wolf gets bigger, hungrier and scarier on every page in this story, children will find out that the scary wolf is not so scary, after all. With its clean pages, simple drawings an... read more
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